One of the great pleasures in spending so much time in the scented world is watching promising young perfumers creating both mainstream brief-led client work and more idiosyncratic, personal formulae that perhaps reveal more detailed intent and desire. I’m going to do something a little different in this piece and discuss two beautiful scents both created by Marie Salamagne, a dynamic and intriguing perfumer whose work I have been following. One is the enigmatic Alaïa Paris, Azzedine Alaïa’s debut scent that launched in June and Mimosa & Cardamom, a graceful must-have new scent from Jo Malone London launching in September.

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