A New Year’s Note from the Editor: Plus ça change plus c’est la même chose
What to expect in 2012..the unexpected. Changes help us grow and also to reflect on the past. As we move forward…
CaFleureBon Happy New Year 2012: Our Perfume Resolutions + Constant Craving Contest
Every year 45% of Americans make at least one New Year’s Resolution. Studies show that most are broken within six weeks. Perfumistas are different , we are a deteremined lot, so the Team at CaFleureBon have compiled our own. What are your perfume resolutions?
It’s New Year’s Eve! Let’s Pop Some Perfumed Champagne! + Bubbly Draw
When it comes to fragrance that is as lively as my bottle of Veuve Clicquot Grande Dame there are two I like quite a bit. Interestingly they share the same home bases, France and California, as my favorite bubbly.
2011 in Review: 25 to Remember This Year By; Mona di Orio, Bertrand Duchaufour, and Pierre Guillaume Lead The Way
As the end of the year arrives it is time to look back over all that the last twelve months have produced and list the best of the year. In 2011, I tested 471 new releases and reviewed 207 of them. Even those numbers didn’t allow me to test half of the new releases for the year. The fast and furious nature of these releases makes it difficult for anyone to truly have a handle on everything that came out in any given year. That being said out of those new fragrances I did try there were some pretty amazing releases.
NEW FRAGRANCE REVIEW: Czech & Speake Vetiver Vert “For A Green Man”
As we entered the fall I heard a rumor that Czech and Speake was going to be adding their first new fragrance since 2003 and it was going to be a vetiver based fragrance. As we moved further into the fall some of the UK based members of the internet forums got a chance to try Vetiver Vert and the verdict was it was good and in some of those early tester’s words it was spectacular.
The Two Winners of CaFleureBon Behind the Bottle Making Scents of Art Basel 2011
We began the project with our medtiation’s on gardens in a historic and mythical sense. Gardens have long symbolized notions of luxury, status/privilege, freedom, sexuality, and fertility. Centered around this brief the Standard Spa Miami was asked to fill out a perfume profile envisioning what type of garden would best represent the property