Each perfumer and perfume designer is an artist, with a canvas of their own. Our interpretation of that which inspires us, no mater how similar will be a true original. Even when given the same ingredients, we each put our own personal fingerprint on it making it unique in its own.”-Kim Spadaro
If you’re a music fan you are well aware of the phenomenon of “finding” lost recordings of musicians. While this is common in the music business we now have an example in the perfume business as A Lab On Fire releases Sweet Dreams 2003. The artist having his “lost” fragrance unearthed is Thierry Wasser.
It was not uncommon for couples to lay in newly plowed fields on Beltane who wanted to conceive. I have selected and briefly review seven perfumes that capture and bring to life these aspects.
When I first read that Dita Von Teese was launching a perfume, I was thrilled. This was a celebrity scent I could get behind. The material I read enforced my desire to try the scent, because she refused to produce a standard vanillic fruity-floral.
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has announced her fifth collaboration with the Denver Art Museum; six perfumes that honor Yves St Laurent creative career as one of the greatest influencers in the world of fashion, culture and perfume.
There are many ways of discovering a new perfume love. There are all the easy, the obvious love-at-first-sniff- ones; but how about the ones that you refuse to recognize are meant for you, those that take their time, or turn your nose upon, only to discover that you were oh-so-wrong
