The Winner of Infiore Parfum Solids “Good Things Come in Small Packages” Draw
My brain is besieged with incendiary images of young, newly-wed Fay’s erotic frustration in the story Saffron [Little Birds, by Anais Nin].
In Fiore Parfums Solides: Good Things in Small Packages + Saffron of Kashmir Parfum Solide Draw
In Fiore’s Parfums Solides are lovingly cosseted, presented in burnished golden- brass colored weighty metal mirrored compacts, engraved with the classic In Fiore logo.
Elegant and unfussy, each contains a labor of love:
NEW FRAGRANCE REVIEW: (Sort Of) Zaharoff Pour Homme: Welcome Back George!
Now that I’ve had some time to fully wear and enjoy Zaharoff pour Homme I realized what I like about it so much is it is an easy-wearing fragrance without being boring. What I call a Swiss Army Knife fragrance, wearable for any occasion great choice for a man who only wants to own one bottle of fragrance
NEW FRAGRANCE REVIEW: Carner Barcelona Cuirs ‘Leather-palooza’
Carner Barcelona Cuirs was the single best new fragrance I hadn’t tried before at Elements Showcase. Sara Carner enlisted perfumer Sonia Constant to create a fragrance, “redolent with nostalgia for a bygone era of artisan ateliers, where pipesmoke filled the air fusing with the scent of finely tanned leather.”
REDRAW: The Winner of Olfactive Studio Reader Choice Draw
A trend that has sprung up over the past few years is new perfume lines driven by one person’s singular vision. The latest example of this comes from Celine Verleure and her new line of perfume Olfactive Studio.
NEW FRAGRANCE: Olfactive Studio Autoportrait, Still Life, and Chambre Noire: “Photos in Perfumery” + Reader’s Choice Draw
Celine Verleure brought together three perfumers and three photographers along with an Internet community to create the three fragrances in the Olfactive Studio’s portfolio;.despite my skepticism about a process that had so much input it seems like in the end three very good fragrances were produced and I have enjoyed wearing all three of them