Out of Africa: A Scent Journey by Pierre Bénard of Osmoart
Pierre Bernard travels to Africa and learns and shares the secrets of scent in the culture of Djibouti women. Please contact Pierre to donate for this effort
NEW FRAGRANCE REVIEWS Seven Surprising New Summer/Sport Scents
One of the things that usually irk me about most mass market designer scents is the inevitable wave of innumerable flankers and seasonal releases that follow. This summer, however, I was very pleased to find quite a few very well made ones. Sport and summer epithets do not necessarily mean bad…as you will see
NEW FRAGRANCE REVIEW DSH Perfumes The YSL Retrospective Collection: Style is Eternal
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has undertaken her second project with the Denver Art Museum. For this latest project Ms. Hurwitz has a more contemporary muse, Yves St. Laurent. The exhibit is called “Yves St. Laurent: The Retrospective” and runs through July 8, 2012 at the Denver Art Museum.
FRAGRANCE REVIEW: Happ & Stahns’ 1922 Lily Sanguine: An Essay in Quiet Opulence
Every year when the winners of the Fragrance Foundation awards (FiFis) are released, I hold my breath. This year I am happy to say that many deserving perfumes received awards. One, in particular, that deserved acclaim was 1922 Lily Sanguine which won for Specialty Brand (women’s) fragrance of the year (Anthropologie).
NEW FRAGRANCE REVIEW: Xerjoff Sospiro Collection + MiN New York Draw
Most perfume houses would be content with producing one good collection of six perfumes a year. Clearly Xerjoff does not subscribe to that kind of thinking as hard on the heels of the excellent Oud Stars Collection we have another six fragrance collection called Sospiro.