Sylvie Ganter, formerly of Hermès Parfums, Fresh and past President of Selective Beauty and her former colleague (and significant other) Christophe Cervasel are blending business with pleasure,with the debut a new fragrance concept that was ten years in the making –Atelier Cologne. Atelier adds a new chapter to a 300 year old story. Sillage. Historically, eau de colognes are created with the lowest percentage of pure perfume …
If you build it they will come. And they did, from every country in the world. From its beginning in the 1980s as a one floor purveyor of Cartier watches and Playboy mugs catering to strictly Japanese tourists, Takashimaya was transformed into a cutting edge respite of global style on New …
For many Americans, their impression of the Moulin Rouge comes from the 2001 movie by Baz Luhrmann. In that movie a group of bohemians lived and died around the iconic windmill that stands for the fin de siècle establishment that created the Can-Can. For the 120th anniversary of the Moulin Rouge, Gerald Ghislain was approached to …
When it comes to the independent perfumer community, there is a group of talented artists who create interesting fragrances time and again. Dawn Spencer Hurwitz is one of the members of that group for me and her latest release Bancha rewards my assessment. Although the name did not prepare me for the fragrance I would eventually …
Before they were your favorite 'noses', perfumers like Jean-Claude Ellena, Mark Buxton, Francis Kurkdjian, Isabelle Doyen were students. We thought it would be fascinating to interview an emerging perfumer, one with a fresh 21st century perspective and share what its like to be an American olfactive student abroad . Its with great pleasure we introduce Alexander (Alex) Lee, an Asian-American student …
