Missouri native Shawn Maher celebrates the 1904 World’s Fair that his grandparents attended – the largest and most expensive ever dreamt up – with a new fragrance, Chatillon Lux 1904, that marries coffee and cardamom with woods, jasmine and some surprisingly bright fruit notes
Teo Cabanel Ca Boum by Patrice Revillard evokes perfect day at the beach, chasing the last sunrays of the summer as we head into fall
With its irreverent minimalist message but with well thought, beautifully composed and multi-layered fragrances that spoke their stories articulate and clear, Der Duft, founded by Anselm Skogstad was the house that I recommend most often to my online “perfume-pen- pals” when asked what’s cool, hip, new and exciting in the perfume world.
Oud Seven by Matière Première composed by Aurelien Guichard symbolizes the 7 raw materials that accompany Oud Assam Bangladesh, its flagship ingredient
Appropriately to a fragrance that celebrates friendship, the flirtiness of Anamacara by Parfums Dusita composed by Pissara Umavijani does not escalate to eroticism, Anamacara was created for the Facebook group Eau my Soul
The muses for DSH Perfumes Don’t Explain the new Women’s Artist fragrance are the iconic Billie Holiday and CaFleureBon award winning Deputy Editor Ida Meister. DSH Perfumes Don’t Explain by Dawn Spencer Hurwitz is a dream “umami” gardenia that took over three years to compose
