I met Kelly Jones Podorsek at Sniffapalooza a few years ago and we began talking about perfume and about the collection of wine inspired fragrances she was creating . I am a wine snob and like Paul Giamatti, in the movie Sideways, “I am not drinking any f’ing Merlot”. But I will wear it as a perfume.
I think that there is no fragrance I’ve tried that is not connected to some image in my mind. it is summer in all its glory and The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats poetry evokes many fragrances…but one special perfume by Diptyique
I wasn’t expecting a new Vero Profumo until next year. Imagine my delight when Ms. Kern told me in January at the Elements Showcase she was almost done with a new fragrance that would be ready for this fall. So ahead of schedule her seventh fragrance Mito will be available in September.
Five writers from CaFleureBon interpret Open Sky Untitled S01E01 as a piece of art. Five very different interpretations from Mark Behnke, Tama Blough, John Reasinger, Valerie Vitale, and Neil Sternberg.
Ys Uzac is a Swiss brand of fragrances started in 2011 by classical cellist Vincent Micotti. The line consists of four perfumes, Metaboles, Lale, Monodie, and Pohadka. Dressed in fancy packaging and simple, attractive bottles, the line is pleasing to the eye, and, as I found out, to the nose as well.
M. Wasser truly does use oud differently as it is much more a member of the ensemble in all three of the fragrances in the Les Deserts d’Orient collection. Instead of overwhelming the other notes it defers to them adding its unique quality to illuminate the usual with the unusual.
