Juliet’s statue and tomb in Verona, Italy is strewn with thousands of letters asking for advice on love; no one writes to Romeo. She is the symbol of love, of eternal youth and the all too fleeting nature of Spring and no perfumer captures Juliet as brillliantly as Alexandra Balahoutis.
Ellen Covey’s Cafe V is a spicy coffee fragrance and a homage to Seattle’s neighborhood cafes. From the first inhale, Olga Rowe connects Cafe V to Bob Dylan and his famous song One More Cup of Coffee
“This is not a needle, I am not going to poke you.” said Dawn Spencer Hurwitz putting on me the tiniest amount of her Special Formula X. This is how my smell and tell fragrance consultation started. A few minutes later the entire large counter of her Essence Studio was covered by bottles one of which was Cardamom and Khyphi.
Still far away from Winter holiday season, I won’t want a vanilla that is boozy, sweet, and redolent of scraping out a vanilla pod for my holiday baking. I want a Perfect Vanilla, by Sarah Horowitz-Thran, for a Fall day that would somehow remind me of a scary story which ended well.
I was not surprised that the Olympic Orchids Sonnet XVII is a fragrance that is green and woody, close to nature and redolent of a walk in the forest – a forest that is as dark and moist as is the passion between Neruda and Matilde
Marina Tsvetaeva had a complicated life;and a tragic death by suicide August 31,1941. I am thinking about a different period in Marina Tsvetaeva’s life and poetry connecting this time with the smells of Autumn and Fall perfume.
