Summer is only eight days away, what the season has in store we can’t be sure— but we know what we will be wafting. Summertime is a great chance to grab a glass of something cold, read a trashy book, park under a tree, find a favorite patch of lawn, or try out a porch swing.
Amsterdam.
Well, no hash or marijuana odour here. The city smells of sea, greenery and rain – I`d say Trefle Pur by Atelier Colognes would fit Amsterdam.
I was vacationing on Koh Samui island when my dear editor Michelyn asked to me to name the cities I have visited and the scents they evoke. Sydney, Amsterdam, Paris, Moscow, New Delhi, Bangkok, Mumbai, Florence…. All aboard my Diorella scented
magic carpet
In 2003, in partnership with Shiseido, Olivia Giacobetti opened a boutique in Paris named IUNX with twelve fragrances and a working lily pond inside the store. From all accounts I can gather on that store it was modernistic and sleek in style…..and probably destined to fail, which it did. By 2006 Shiseido was pulling out and the lily pond was being drained. The people who had a chance to try the fragrances spoke highly of them and I thought my opportunity to try them was gone. It is obvious that IUNX was a personal passion because she has taken the opportunity to resurrect it in a more modest reincarnation. Mme. Gicobetti has had a successful relationship with the Hotel Costes in Paris. It is there that IUNX has quietly made its return. I am going to focus on two of the four IUNX fragrances available, No. 8 Eau Baptiste and No. 9 Eau Blanche which are orange blossom and iris centered respectively.
There are few perfumers who have a signature style. One is is Olivia Giacobetti. Mme. Giacobetti also has an undeniable architecture to her fragrances, that of sheerness in beauty.Mme. Gicobetti returns with three new ‘green’ fragrances for Honore des Pres dubbed the “We Love NY” collection. The fragrances are packaged in that most disposable of New York City commodities the take-away coffee cup. While the packaging around this collection could be termed disposable, or common, the fragrances inside are not. Mme. Giacobetti’s We Love NY collection for Honore des Pres accurately captures many of the more pleasant smells of New York City and if one is up for an unusual olfactory tour your first step should be to acquire these fragrances
As the temperature climbs we put away our heavy orientals and chypres and reach for fragrances that blossom on our skins. Frederic Malle Editions de Parfums En Passant For me, spring means the green of growing things and the early flowers that go with that. Surrounding my house are lilacs and my all-time favorite lilac fragrance …
