January 14, 2010
About Us
Michelyn Camen is the Publisher, Editor in Chief and Art Director of www.cafleurebon.com, a Fragrance Curator for http://ahalife.com, the Editor-at-Large for www.Fashiontribes.com and a Contributor to www.stylecaster.com/.
She is formerly an Editor for Fragrantica, the Fragrance Editor for Uptown Social, a Senior Contributor for Sniffapalooza Magazine, the New in Niche Columnist for Basenotes, the Managing Director for BeautynewsNYC and the former publicist for www.luckyscent.com and Scent Bar, Los Angeles.
Michelyn has been awarded Brandweek Magazine Marketer of the Year, Ad Age Magazine 100 and is a two time recipient of License Magazine's '40 under 40'.
After two decades in the corporate world, she slipped off her powersuit to pursue her own business as a journalist and a marketing consultant. Over the past seven years, Michelyn's articles and interviews on perfumery, style, beauty and pop culture have appeared in major print magazines, newspapers and on online fragrance and beauty sites. She is best known for her in-depth and intimate interviews with independent, emerging and established perfumers and influencers. Many of her interviews have been the first exposure for her subjects to a global audience.
In 2006, she was the first American to interview Olivier Creed in fifteen years, as well as the first e-zine writer in the USA thereafter to interview Maurice Roucel, Calice Becker, Rochelle Bloom of the Fragrance Foundation, Kilian Hennessy, Jean-Claude Ellena, Bertrand Duchaufour, Thierry Wasser, Francis Kurkdjian, Michel Roudnitska, Romano Ricci, Ralf Schweiger, Mandy Aftel, Camille Goutal, Neil Morris, Christopher Brosius, Rodrigo Flores-Roux, Pierre Guillaume, Mark Buxton, Geza Schoen, Rochelle Bloom, Keiko Mecheri, Jessica September Buchanan, Sylvie Ganter, and Yann Vasnier.
As an advocate of fine qualitative fragrance, diversity and collaborative intelligence, she launched www.cafleurebon.com in 2010 (translated from French, this phrase has a dual meaning; this smells good and a more obscure one… as an affirmation of a good idea). It is her goal to create a "scented salon", where natural and traditional perfumers and owners of fragrance companies, poets, chefs, painters, students, writers, bloggers, posters, dancers, and retailers can gather and share their thoughts about the world of the fifth sense- without politics but with one important collective understanding; we must embrace and support the art of fine fragrance in the 21st century.
CaFleureBon secured four Fragrance Foundation finalist spots for Editorial Excellence within 12 months of its start up; the first blog in FiFi history to be honored in all available categories. CaFleureBon is a 2011 Basenotes.net finalist for Best Perfume Blog.
Michelyn is married to Managing Director of CaFleureBon Didier Cholay, and is the co-owner of Sens Unik, a fine fragrance and beauty sales agency representing niche American and European brands and is the owner of Fifthsensenyc Ltd., a marketing, branding and communications company . She is a consultant to global luxury, fashion, media, beauty and fragrance companies. Follow her on Twitter @fifthsensenyc , friend her on Facebook @Michelyn Camen and become a fan of CafleureBon on Facebook.
Mark Behnke is Managing Editor for www.cafleurebon.com
Mark is the New in Niche Columnist for Basenotes and the Men's Style Editor for FashionTribes , and a former Contributor for Fragrantica. Mark was drawn to perfume through his training as a chemist. He started off fascinated with the nature of the chemistry but over time grew an even greater admiration for the artistry behind the chemistry of perfume making. Mark believes a great perfume is not a function of which House produces it as long as the passion to create is there in the perfumers behind the scent. Mark is able to apply a scientific method to his reviews while illuminating the artistry underlying all of the best fragrances. Friend Mark on twitter@sommetroman and Facebook @ Mark Behnke.
Mark received a Fifi Finalist 2011 for Editorial Excellence/ Men's Coverage for his review of Creed Aventus, and was the only blogger to achieve this position.
Tama Blough is for www.cafleurebon.com
Tama is a property management professional by trade, an artist, quiltmaker, singer, perfumista, photographer and writer for fun. Seeing her mother’s little black bottle of Joy at an early age sparked a life-long interest, if not obsession, with perfume and scent. Contributing to CaFleureBon is her first foray into perfume writing, although she has been published in other areas and has hosted on Now Smell This. She is also the organizer of the semi-annual S.F. Sniff, which is a lot of fun, and gaining popularity in the San Francisco Bay Area. Friend Tama on Facebook @Tama Blough
Michel Roudnitska is Honorary Contributor for www.cafleurebon.com
M. Roudnistka is a renowned perfumer,photographer, artist, activist, environmentalist and Co Founder of www.art-et-parfum.com.
He lives in Cabris, France and oversees the Edmond Roudnitska Foundation, friend him on Facebook @Michel Roudnitska
Sergey Borisov is a Contributor for www.cafleurebon.com
Sergey is a Physics graduate who has also been on television as a host. He is now a creative director at his own advertising agency in Siberia. Sergey is a free-lance perfume journalist and blogger in Russian magazines such as G.Q. and Vogue to name a few. Friend him on FaceBook @sergey borisov
Olga always had more than one way of putting the words “smell” and “love” in one sentence. As a child, she was intrigued by grown-up perfumes and routinely fell asleep hugging her mother’s sweater; then in her youth she took comfort in the aroma of apple cinnamon tea as she longed for her husband to return while traveling. Thanks to modern Internet technologies, Olga can teach college courses online and indulge herself in fine perfumery from the comfort of her own home in coastal Oregon. Friend Olga on FaceBook @Olga Rowe
Mary Beth Devine is a Contributor for www.cafleurebon.com
Mary Beth started her interest in sniffing and collecting fragrances on a trip to Brussels some 30 years ago. Rather than a mere rabbit hole, it has become a bottomless pit as she now claims a collection large enough to strike fear in the hearts of all during a fire inspection. When not asking 'Do you smell that?” Mary Beth earns her keep as a civilian employee for a local law enforcement agency. Friend Mary Beth on Facebook @Mary Beth Devine
Neil Sternberg is a Contributor for www.cafleurebon.com
Neil is an organic chemist turned science editor turned computer programmer turned blogger/perfumista. He has been in love with scent his entire life. Neil has been in love with natural odors since childhood, when he caught stinkbugs in his back yard in Kansas. He has been fascinated by aroma chemicals since he discovered that certain lab odors could evoke nostalgic emotions as reliably as a song. He hangs out on Basenotes and Il Mondo di Odori under the handle Redneck Perfumisto, and on his own WordPress blog under the name cologniac. Friend him on Facebook @Neil Sternberg and follow him on twitter @cologniac
Elise Pearlstine is a Contributor for www.cafleurebon.com
Elise has been learning about and creating natural perfumes since about 2004. Elise has participated in three perfume projects with the Natural Perfumers Guild and is the Perfumer and nose for her line of Belly Flowers. She considers herself an Outlaw Perfumer, indie, completely natural and totally unique. Elise’s love of natural ingredients is an instinctive draw to the natural world as reflected in her doctoral degree in wildlife ecology. She gets outside as much as possible to pursue her interests in birdwatching, photography, gardening and walking her two rescue dogs. The outdoors provides an ongoing inspiration to her perfume creation and a strong grounding in music also enhances her approach to creating natural perfumes. Elise's other activities include writing about perfumery, plants, the natural fragrances in her blog. Friend Elise on Facebook @Elise Pearlstine
Jasia Julia Neilson is a Contributor for www.cafleurebon.com
Jasia is a Danish perfumista. Raised in Copenhagen, she trained to be an opera singer in Germany and lived for some years in London before going back to her native country. Due to an allergy, to some extend affecting her sense of smell, and Denmark lacking behind on all things fragrant, she only truly discovered the wonderful world of fragrance abroad aged 20 at the hands of a wonderful friend (and a helpful doctor), and has never looked back since. She loves the fine arts, sharing her thoughts on fragrance and believes that all great perfumes have a soundtrack. Friend Jasia on Facebook @Jasia Julia Neilson
John Reasinger is a Contributor for www.cafleurebon.com
Hailing from southwestern PA, but a citizen of the world, John has a background in Literature (especially Classical Literature and Mythology), Nutrition Science and Herbalism. A student of all things arcane and ancient, he has turned his attention to the world of Perfumes and is a freelance writer and fragrance collector who speaks and reads Ancient Greek, Spanish and Latin. From the first whiffs of his mother's CHANEL No5 Eau de Cologne, as a small boy, he knew that perfume was true magic (powerful, invisible and divine) and has set forth on a lifelong journey to understand this magic and become one with the Universe through scent. After extensive travels around the country, and the life of a true gypsy, he has returned to his ancestral homeland to dovetail his knowledge, experiences and his love of perfume. Friend John on Facebook @John Reasinger
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