It’s great to be a natural perfumer in America. The spirit of entrepreneurship is very strong; my own last name, which means “God’s jester” in German so I named the company based on the true meaning of my last name
For the tenth Hermessence fragrance Jean-Claude Ellena chose to mix two woods one very familiar in sandalwood and one not so familiar in massoia. Santal Massoia explores all of the nuances around a common chemical component in many perfumes, lactones.
Monsillage is the Montreal-based perfumery of perfumer Isabelle Michaud. This house is one of my most pleasant discoveries of 2011. One of our loyal readers sent me samples of the first four fragrances by Mme Michasud and Aviation Club was my favorite of those first four. After that review published Mme Michaud asked me if I would like to try her newest perfume Vol 870 YUL-CDG.
Ragna Rostad- Ruffner wants to warm our darkest days [and longest nights!], and I’d say she’s accomplished just that in her newest perfume- her limited edition seasonal offering, Solstice Rose 11.
I decided to explore the perfumes of my youth to see if we could prove Thomas Wolfe wrong and “go home again”.
I only revisited fragrances I wore into my mid-twenties. Scents I wore later on do not seem to have the emotional impact of some of these earlier scents, are generally easier to obtain in some form, and are fragrances I have either already dismissed or still wear.
then the next day I wore my classic Roger & Gallet Jean Marie Farina and when I wear a classic Eau de Cologne I go crazy with application and spray it everywhere. I began to think that maybe I needed to give Eau Monumentale another chance but this time applying it with more than one spray. So out of the fragrant Recycle Bin Eau Monumental came and much spritzing later a very different opinion on this fragrance.
