Huitieme Art Parfums: Pierre Guillaume Gets Experimental (Part 1)+ Draw

My experience is that all of the Huitieme Art Parfums fragrances are “linear”. Usually that is a word one doesn’t want associated with their fragrance. In this case I think M. Guillaume will relish this. In many ways all of the fragrances in this line are examples of what phyto-perfumery can be in the most basic sense. I liken it to what a painter must feel like when they hear a new oil color is available. All of a sudden the creative opportunities are widened. Each of these fragrances is meant to show what phyto-perfumery can do.

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Havana by Natural Perfumer Lisa Fong for Artemisia Natural Perfume: Oh, La Paloma!

Artemisia Natural Perfume is an independent perfume house in Oakland California that specializes in using the finest natural elements to create evocative, sophisticated, sometimes quirky, always different perfumes that tell stories on the skin, melding with each wearer’s unique chemistry to subtly change into scents that draw you inward into scent memories and, beyond, into internal dream spaces…. I believe it is the thoughtfulness that went into creating these scents that manages to suggest to the wearer inner questions or perhaps inner reminders of their own uniqueness and a sense of gentle reverence. My particular favorite of the moment is a scent perfect for fall, a warm spicy floral called Havana.

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New Fragrance: Traversée du Bosphore by L’Artisan Parfumeur: “Duchaufour’s Turkish Delight”

Traversée du Bosphore Eau de Parfum will debut in the USA in November, as Master Perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour crosses the Bosphorous to Instanbul to compose a fragrance that promises to be addictive…an Orientalist painting come to life. According to the press release, the fragrance was inspired by M. Duchaufour's journey where he observed," men sit around in …

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