My first exposure to Adam’s unique style of 100% natural perfumery was last year, during Mystery of Musk, a web project sponsored by the Natural Perfumers Guild. This year, in the NPG’s Brave New Scents project, Adam once again wowed me with a new EDP, Hermes.
If you went to High School in the US it is very likely Aldous Huxley’s 1931 novel Brave New World made it on to your summer reading list at some point. The idea of a World State tightly controlled and seemingly idyllic until touched by a bit of “savagery” is one of the great novels …
Natural Perfume Editor Ida Meister reviews three of the Brave New Scents in The Natural Perfumers Guild internet project.
The young man suddenly realized that perfumes – said by the Party to smell like All Good Things – smelled like nothing. The old man shook his head.
“Perfumes don’t smell like this any more. They can’t. But they did.”
The young man held up the vial.
“What’s in it?”
“Only natural things.”
O wonder! O brave new world! That has such people in it! ~ Miranda in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”. The NPG use 21st century technolgy to move past traditional natural aromatics. Cafleurebon will join 5 blogs but will review all 10 brave new scents!
Being a healer, artist, alchemist, and artisan perfumer I utilize the plant energy and impart my inner knowing in creating all natural perfume.
