Farmacia SS. Annunziata dal 1561’s Fiore di Riso: Laughter or Arborio? + What’s In a Name Draw

Here I sit, willing and foaming at the mouth to share my delight in the newest fragrant release from a very old Firenze brand: Fiore di Riso
Farmacia SS. Annunziata dal 1561 has been said to have been housed in St. Nicholas’ Benedictine monastery for years and years, for Heaven’s sake.

So, why should you want to smell Fiore Di Riso?
It is a glorious bridge between classic and contemporary, that’s why.

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Marie Saint-Pierre B and C: Canadian Fashion Turned Fragrant + Luckyscent Draw

It is always an interesting process to see a haute couture design aesthetic rendered as a fragrance. What will the perfumer and designer come up with to represent the fashion in a fragrant way? Working with Evelyn El Koubi to create her first two signature fragrances Marie Saint-Pierre chose to break her strong but feminine aesthetic in half. B is a strong spicy unisex fragrance and C is a floral enticing feminine fragrance.

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Why I Smell: or How I Learned To Love My Amygdala

“Why I smell “is more than a love paean to our primordial brain-
It is the very fabric of my life, and has given me the ability to render strange gifts into utilitarian, life-saving, even exquisitely pleasurable moments.
We don’t get to choose our gifts in life- no matter how paltry or odd they may be.
I don’t think I smelled because I wanted to, at first; I think I had to.

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