The 19th of May is the day is a day I will never forget. It was a first time I`ve been in Sanctis Sancta – headquarter of Chanel LLC in
Paris suburbs. With a group of beauty editors of Russian fashion magazines I was invited to presentation of new Chanel perfume – №19 Poudre and my private interview with the great Christopher Sheldrake
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
