New Niche Fragrance Review: Diptyque Eau Moheli- Ylang-Ylang Redux
For the summer release of 2013 Diptyque chose to go with ylang-ylang as the floral in the middle and to commission perfumer Olivier Pescheux to create Eau Moheli.
Niche Fragrance Reviews: Hayari Parfums Paris Broderie, Goldy & Only for Her + Couture Makes A Comeback Full Bottle Draw
The fashion House of Hayari-Paris was started in 2009 by Nabil Hayari, releasing designs that were meant to reflect the glamour of Hollywood. These three fragrances; Goldy, Broderie, and Only for Her, are Hayari’s first foray into perfumes, and they sparkle and shine with the same luxury and beauty as their dress and fashion designs
One Year Later: The West Coast Perfume Boom – From Sisterhood to Community
Last May, I wrote an article introducing the Perfume Sisterhood of the West Coast, a group of women who had hopes of making the West Coast a recognized force in perfumery. It has been an eventful year, and I wanted to examine the year gone by to the present and see how far we have come in such a short period.
Niche Fragrance Review: Amouage Fate Man & Fate Woman- Olfactory Entropy (UPDATED 6/12)
When I received the new pair of fragrances from Amouage called Fate Man and Fate Woman, after spraying them on, I was reminded of entropy. The Creative Director at Amouage, Christopher Chong, is also thinking about the way things fall apart as he describes this pair of fragrances as “the end of the first cycle of the Amouage narrative”.
New Fragrance Review: Aedes de Venustas Iris Nazarena by Ralf Schwieger- Gold, Blue, and Grey
Sometimes a fragrance is so exquisite and uniquely itself that my desire to rush in and write about it comes to a delightful pause and I get to live with the fragrance in a kind of suspended time, waiting to see where it will take me, and that’s exactly how Aedes de Venustas Iris Nazarena revealed itself.
New Niche Fragrance Reviews: Amouage Beloved Man & Opus VII- Introspection Through Fragrance
The complexity of an Amouage fragrance extends beyond its physical structure. Creative Director Christopher Chong is the Sigmund Freud of perfumery as he liquifies the human condition. Amouage has recently introduced two new fragrances, the new special edition Beloved Man and the latest installment to the Library Collection, the soul-stirring Opus VII.