I don’t like to read press releases, before I did read Mr. Marvelous’s I just read the name and could not surpress thoughts of the Billy Crystal skits on Saturday Night Live. So I peeked and was more confused. I smelled the ghost of the Poete Maudit-Paul Verlaine and a stanza from Claire de Lune.
Then there are the very infrequent times when I get something which treads the rose garden path but finds a way to display the rose slightly differently and like the best artists within a genre add their own nuance to the oeuvre. Richard Fraysse, the in-house nose for Caron, has done that with the new Caron fountain fragrance Delire de Roses.
Hi, Shelley! It’s a pleasure doing a ‘behind the bottle’ with you, finally. I’ve enjoyed sampling your work, and your latest, botanical l’Emblem Rouge, I find particularly delightful! First, though, there are so many things I long to ask you, they buzz about in my head like a swarm of wayward bees.
Sharif is a unisex perfume of a sophisticated elegance that attracts attention to the person who wears it, like the radiant light of a person’s character attracts the attention of all those present Sharif means « noble man» in the Arabic language, not by lineage.
This fall Acqua di Parma will introduce a new fragrance in its Le Nobili collection: Gelsomino Nobile, the fragrance centers around an exclusive and highly unique species of Jasmine grown only in the Calabria region of Italy
. Why, pray tell, do I love scent so much?It is the idea that beauty itself has some kind of hold on us, and that the closer we get to this almost nonexistent abstraction of beauty, the more intensely we are bound thoughts such as these, are inspired in me by Olivier Creed’s latest gift to the fragrant world –White Flowers
