One word, more than any other, makes my stomach fall when we are talking about perfume. That word is “reformulated”. There were already a couple flankers of both Silences and Jacomo de Jacomo, and this is to be expected when something sells so well. Now we have Silences Eau de Parfum Sublime and Jacomo de Jacomo Original to consider.
The elizabethW line of perfumes is the brainchild of former architect-turned-perfumer Albert Nichols. He named the perfumery after his great-grandmother, who founded a ranch in the Sierra Nevadas. The aromas of the countryside created a love of fragrance; a passion Mr. Nichols was able to bring to life with elizabethW.
As a follow-up to my experience at Robertet with their raw materials and my review of Atelier Cologne Rose Anonyme and Vetiver Fatal I wanted to close the loop so to speak. To do this I went Behind the Bottle with Robertet Senior Perfumer Jerome Epinette and asked him about the raw materials he used to create these fragrances.
I believe the Atleier Cologne collection are a sort of light and dark, yin and yang kind of collection. For Rose Anonyme and Vetiver Fatal I believe perfumer Jerome Epinette has created one of each.
The latest release from Comme des Garcons is called Amazingreen and let me say this up front it is a good fragrance and for someone who has never tried a CdG perfume it might be incredible.
This was my first time being invited to see a perfume laboratory operation and be able to ask all of the science geeky questions which crowd my overheated mind. On a Monday in early July I visited Robertet and learned about fragrant fractions without having to worry about the lowest common denominator.
