When Miriam Vareldzis sent me her seven fragrance collection for her new label 40notes Perfume I was reminded of the famous “too many notes” exchange from the movie Amadeus. Ms. Vareldzis uses just the right amount of notes to achieve the right balance in all seven of these perfume oils in her debut collection.
I remember when my guess was that Jersey would be a sport cologne and Michelyn hoped for a vanilla. No one thought of lavender, but we were bot half right. Originally Jersey was named Project Bender…
Contributor Claudia Kroyier and Managing Editor Mark Behnke suggested that it did not seem fair for the first responders to do all the heavy lifting for “what’s behind the picture frame” and give away clues for some to copy. So we now add a twist. What are our ten top cities where the blog is widely read?
La Femme Bleue is a limited edition of 1,000 bottles meant to coincide with the Giorgio Armani Spring/Summer 2011 collection of the same name.Despite the name La Femme Bleue is a distinctly shared fragrance.
Sometimes I wish that I could just recuse myself from judging a scent. Maybe I should just go back to my lab issuing my self-important pronouncements as a molecular Moses You see, the scent that Pardon most reminds me of, doesn’t even smell like Pardon. In truth, their greatest shared value is simply that they’re equally enigmatic.
Perfume is about impermanence; it is about something fleeting, volatile, there-and-not-there. There is also an authentic sparseness – pare things down to their essence, but keep the poetry- Mandy Aftel
