Etat Libre D’Orange Like This Tilda Swinton- “Celebuscents” Should Smell Like This

May 20, 2010July 1, 2010

As Rossy de Palma before her, the choice of Ms. Swinton is a good fit with Etat Libre D’Orange. Owner Etienne de Swardt brought in perfumer Mathilde Bijaoui in to help shape Ms. Swinton’s vision into a fragrance. Her inspiration for the fragrance comes from the love sonnet “Like This”, by Sufi poet Rumi…If anyone wants to know what “spirit” is,

Or what “God’s fragrance” means,

Lean your head toward him or her.

Keep your face there close.

Like This.

Christine Nagel’s English Garden: Jo Malone English Pear and Freesia

May 20, 2010May 21, 2010

Jo Malone English Pear & Freesia is the new fragrance for Fall 2010, inspired by one of the last great English Romantic poets, John Keats, and one of the most perfect short poems in English literature – ‘To Autumn’ – the fleeting moment of “mists and mellow fruitfulness” when the last days of summer are edged with fresh, …

Laboratorio Olfattivo Fragrances -21st Century Alchemy

May 18, 2010July 1, 2010

An olfactive laboratory is where you imagine the mad scientists of perfumery performing alchemy; mixing potent concoctions of raw materials in beakers, dressed in white lab coats. Perhaps there is an explosion or two. In my mind’s eye I see frenetic perfumers, with gleaming eyes, adding a pinch of ambergris, a dollop of rose absolue, a soupcon of …

Bertrand Duchaufour’s Penhaligon’s Orange Blossom- Here Comes the Sun

May 16, 2010July 7, 2010

Over the past six months, perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour has created three startlingly original floral fragrances. Beginning with his “corrupted floral oriental” Penhaligon’s Amaranthine. Amaranthine was a fragrance that delved into all the dark and private places that a floral fragrance can go (amusingly dubbed “Amaranthigh” by many because of the sensuality it oozed). The second in this …

Excerpts: Mary J. Blige and Carol’s Daughter Partner on New Fragrance

April 30, 2010May 1, 2010

Photo credit; Steven Sullivan According to a New York Times survey,12 million American women suffer from depression.The numbers are probably higher. The report, based on a review of recent studies, said the factors placing women at greater risk for depression included physical and sexual abuse, and poverty, Who are these women? They are your sister, your …

1000 Flowers Reglisse Noire-Olfactory Black Jujubes

April 29, 2010November 7, 2010

There is that moment when you hear the music from a new band or read a book by a new author that you believe you’re looking at the beginning of a beautiful future for the artist. When it comes to perfume that experience comes along less frequently. Although the current climate which has become …