With a unique numerical date 1/11/11 (there will be only two more like in this century —11/11/11 and 12/12/12) the spiritualists and the numerologists are predicting everything from UFO sightings over Moscow to the start of the countdown to Armegaddon on 12/12/12.
Monthly Contributor Emmanuelle Varron
1.) Visit NYC
2.) Find a wonderful job in the perfume industry
3.) Fall in love with a man wearing an unknown scent
4.) Go back to the Garnier Opéra de Paris, after 19 years
5.) Find some room for my 71 bottles of perfume
6.) Taste Chef Thierry Marx’s cooking at the soon-to-be-opened Mandarin Oriental Paris
7.) Adding "Absolue pour le Soir" by Maison Francis Kurkdjian and "1740" by Histoire de Parfums to my personal collection
8.) Read all Dan Fante's novels
9.) Explore Bertrand Duchaufour's new creations for Frapin and L'Artisan Parfumeur
10.) Write a novel
11.) France to be crowned (finally) Rugby world champions
Senior Editor Ida Meister
1.) New DSH delights!
2.) Indie gone wild
3.) Watching new perfumers bloom
4.) The exponential growth of natural perfumery
5.) Demise of one-upmanship
6.) Writing about my passions
7.) Promoting harmony in the Perfumed World
8.) Deriving pleasure from everything!
9.) More from Mandy 😉
10.) Duchaufour discoveries
11.) Fresh jus, Maurice?
Guest Contributor Jarvis Chen (Picture courtesy of Travis Lynn Kelley)
1.) A pilgrimage to the Osmotheque at Versailles
2.) The ultimate storage solution for my out of control perfume collection
3.) More perfumes with high quality naturals
4.) Getting, reading, and cooking from a copy of La Cuisine des Nez, a French book presenting recipes from 26 top perfumers
5.) An end to ridiculously overpriced limited edition packaging
6.) More careful collecting and curating on my part
7.) More outlaw fragrance from independent perfumers who have the will and skill to create without regard to IFRA
8.) A sophisticated discourse of perfume criticism; one that can talk about perfume as art and not just commercial product
9.) More opportunities to meet and converse with perfumers who I admire
10.) Sharing beautiful fragrances with friends and fellow perfumistas
11.) More gorgeous fragrances from my favorite perfumers. Their compositions lend beauty to the “smelltrack” of my life
Monthly Contributor Lamont Prince
1.) First Wedding Anniversary
2.) Grandson Nino
3.) Working With Team CaFleureBon
4.) Klang und Duft column
5.) Interviewing Miller et Bertaux
6.) Interviewing Silvio Levi
7.) New Comme des Garcons
8.) Synthetic Avant-Garde Cutting Edge Fragrances
9.) My new music album Tarred and Feathered
10.) CaFleureBon rated Number One on Wikio!
11.) Rock Dominance because my custom made guitar amplifier goes to eleven! “It’s one louder.”
Monthly Contributor Mario T. Lopez
1.) The release of Jean-Claude Ellena’s book, “Journal d’un Parfumeur” in English
2.) The release of Cartier de Lune
3.) Seeing YOSH Sombre Negra carried by Barney’s
4.) Less launches, so I can have the time to explore new releases
5.) New perfumes fromYosh Han
6.) Finding balance between my job and my ability to further pursue my passion for perfumes
7.) New fragrances from Alessandro Gualtieri of Nasomatto
8.) A collaboration of Jean-Claude Ellena and Celine Ellena
9.) Curbing my fragrance purchases to only three or four a year
10.) Anything new from DelRae Roth of Parfums DelRae
11.) End “No Fragrances” policies
Managing Editor Mark Behnke
1.) “The Art of Scent 1889-2011” exhibit, curated by Chandler Burr, at The Museum of Art and Design in New York this November
2.) Sidonie Lancesseur’s By Kilian Incense Oud
3.) Aurelien Guichard’s first new fragrance for Robert Piguet in 40 years, Douglas Hannant de Robert Piguet
4.) Bertrand Duchaufour’s Frapin Wings of Desire or the rumored Parfums MDCI fragrance
5.) Mathilde Laurent’s Cartier Les Heures
6.) Continued success of small brick and mortar perfume stores like MiN New York
7.) The next Natural Perfumers Guild group project
8.) Meeting my friends in fragrance at Sniffapalooza
9.) The unknown perfume by the unknown perfumer who I have never heard of
10.) The continuing influence of niche aesthetics on mainstream fragrance
11.) CaFleureBon’s first birthday
Editor-in-Chief Michelyn Camen
1.) More Duchaufour– especially the “rice and ink” fragrance he mentioned in our L'Artisan Parfumeur LIVE FROM NY!!! Interview
2.) Pax Perfumus, we are a small community…..be respectful of others’ point of views
3.) Vanille Insensee by Atelier Cologne
4.) Cherchez les Femmes: I would love to interview Isabel Doyen, Calice Becker, Sylvaine Delacourte, Christine Nagel, and Mathilde Laurent
5.) Amouage Library Collection Opus V
6.) Anya McCoy’s Next Natural Perfumers Guild Internet Project
7.) Indie-Go Girls: New fragrances from Dawn Spencer Hurwitz (aka dawn dear), Ayala Sender, Jessica September Buchanan, Laurie Erickson, Keiko Mecheri, JoAnne Bassett, Amanda Feeley, Mandy Aftel, Charna Ethier, Vero Kern and Liz Zorn (yes 11)
8.) Fragrant Findings: A year of scented curations for www.ahalife.com
9.) Mini Me: Oh , how I would love to see Xerjoff in 8mL mini flacons, especially the Murano flacons in Homme and Elle (wishing on a Shooting Star)
10.) Escentric 04 by Geza Schoen
11.) 2011 is the Year in Paris (then Grasse) with M. CaFleureBon!!!!! The chance to meet his family and my friends-in-fragrance (Phillipe, Reine, Leslie, Michael, Emmanuelle Varron, Denyse Beaulieu, Michel Roudnitska, Etienne de Swardt, Mark Buxton, Bertrand Duchaufour and Pierre Guillaume)
Monthly Contributor Sergey Borisov
1.) Revival of Grand Vintage Perfumes ala Houbigant’s re-launch of Fougere Royale
2.) Osmotheque should be eligible to travel abroad and gain popularity worldwide
3.) New Chanel Exclusif perfume from Jacques Polge and Christopher Sheldrake
4.) New Bertrand Duchaufour and Mathilde Laurent perfumes, whatever the brand
5.) The moment the pendulum swings back from Perfume simplicity to complexity
6.) New accord ideas around my favorites; tuberose, leather, and vetiver
7.) More natural ingredients in perfumes
8.) Less new launches, around a hundred a year sounds right
9.) My participation in perfume events
10.) My two-day fragrant vacation in Grasse (I have been anticipating this for such a long time)
11.) There should be other perfumers gaining recognition in 2011-perfumers deserve it most
Monthly Contributor Vanessa Musson
1.) Greater availability of carded samples in store. A quick squirt of a tester – the so-called “spray and pray” method of scent selection – shouldn’t be encouraged, as it can make for hasty sales, repented at leisure.
2.) A decant supplies company based in Europe. The US-based ones are great, but the shipping bumps up the price considerably!
3.) Adverts containing note listings, or at least a broad indication of the style of the scent, beyond hints conferred by the model alone, as in: “something Keira Knightley would wear on a train”.
4.) Roja Dove’s Perfume Diaries Exhibition and associated lectures on perfume-related topics. All over again, please!
5.) Converting more of my friends and family to perfume. It’s a slow and steady war of attrition, which I do believe I am winning. : – )
6.) More honesty on Ebay. I think I may have just got scammed…
7.) More luck swapping away the albatross bottles in my collection that continue to haunt me.
8.) The ever deepening virtual sorority of perfume bloggers
9.) More blind sniffing dates with perfumistas in Europe, the States, or wherever my travels take me.
10.) Fewer flankers – and if there must be any more muted pink glazed Stella flankers, can we please start a McCartney series now? McCartney In Three Peony, whatever.
11.) A new laptop – or netbook, even – I think I need Intel’s finest core to have any hope of keeping up with developments in the fumosphere…
No better way to celebrate this MYSTICAL and MAGICAL Day then with an awesome GLOBAL draw of 11 PERFUMED PRIZES. Leave a comment onsite regarding what you are looking forward to in 2011. The draw is random. Specifying a prize isn’t necessary, but is fine!!! Draw ends Thursday January 13, 2011 at 1 am and 11 seconds EST.
Courtesy of Xjeroff: a 50ml flacon Shooting Star in silk pouch of Kobe!!!!!
Courtesy of Anya’s Garden: 3.5 oz of Light 3.5 oz of Amberess
Courtesy of Dawn Spencer Hurwitz of DSH Perfumes: (CaFleureBon awarded DSH for Perfumer of the Year 2010, Five Best Scents of 2010, and Best Flacon 2010) one Mata Hari 5ml , one 5 ml antique flacon cafe noir extract and one 5ml antique flacon cimabue extract
Courtesy of Atelier Cologne: (CaFleureBon Best New Concept of 2010 and Best Scent) One Trèfle Pur soap and one Oolang Infini soap
Courtesy of Geza Schoen: Three 15ml decants of (CaFleureBon's Best Vetiver of 2010) escentric 03