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Ex Idolo – Thirty Three
Thirty-three is a fragrance built around a vintage oud – distilled in 1980 and aged until its release in 2014. It is also the only modern perfume to use a significant amount of wild harvested Chinese oud oil and natural Chinese rose oil to build scent profile. A surprisingly soft and velvety fragrance. Ex…
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E. Coudray – Nohiba
This is a classic. Originally titled Black Tulip this scent was created in 1924 and worn by the legendary dancer Josephine Baker in her glory days as the darling of the Paris demi-monde of the 1920’s. Nohiba is a spicy blend of galbanum, Incense, Geranium, Incense, Labdanum, Rose, musk and amber. E. Coudray Nohiba…
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Linari – Acqua Santa
Fruity notes of Sicilian bergamot and cassis with irresistibly warm and spicy accords of coriander, Javanese patchouli and green leaves that are captively surrounded by a floral bouquet of finest rose petals, wild jasmine, precious ylang ylang, cyclamen and lily of the valley. Aspects of sweet caramel intertwine with musk, tonka bean and delicate cedarwood…
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Aedes de Venustus – Iris Nazarena
The fiestc perfumery in Manhattan, in fact in the USA, Aedes de Venustus (Temple Of Beauty) is the go to store for luxury fragrance (think Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Anniston so on and so forth). Launching their own eponymous perfume collection has been a dream come true for the owners and they have already produced…
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Byredo – 1996 Inez and Vinoodh
A collaboration between Byredo’s Ben Gorham and renowned Fashion and Art Photographers Inez and Vinoodh, ‘1996’ was originally conceived as a private edition, a Christmas gift for their closest friends and colleagues. However, what began as a very personal creative project, took on a life of its own as social media began buzzing with hymns…
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Juliet Has A Gun – Lady Vengeance
No other perfumer can combine the darker roses and patchouli with quite the sensual touch of Romano Ricci. Lady Vengeance is a velvet glove – erotic, inviting and slightly dangerous. Ambroxan – a wonderful ingredients that combines the polar opposites of green and ambery notes is the secret weapon, over–layed by Turkish roses and the…
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Caron – Pour Un Homme de Caron
This was the first fragrance ever to be created exclusively for men and is as relevant today as it was in the year of its creation – 1934! This is lavender but not as we know it – minty cool Provencal lavender. The scent evokes driving though Provence in an open topped sportscar, it smells…
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Frederic Malle – Carnal Flower
The reinvention of the tuberose – Frederic transported this heady flower into the 21st century for the modern woman to enjoy. Carnal Flower was actually named after his aunt – the actress Candice Bergen – she was in a film called Carnal Knowledge with Jack Nicholson which was about the sexual mores of the decade.…
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Thameen – Moon of Baroda
This is a wonderful new British brand and Moon of Baroda is the Jewel in the Crown. This is an original construct in that it is circular rather than the traditional pyramid. The top note is the best Lebanese cedarwood that I have ever come across – it is warm and dry and you can…
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Eclectic Fragrance
Fragrance is a world of many choices, so we have decided to present you with our selection – for both men and women – of timeless scents, scents that will be as relevant in the next 10 years as they have been for the last 50. That’s not to say that any one is better…
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Frederic Malle: 5 Years of Liberty
The synergy of environment with product is something many purveyors aspire to but a goal that few actually achieve. With French Parfumeur Frédéric Malle, it was a ‘dream’ that five years ago became a reality when his disparately enigmatic range of scents found their home in Liberty London. We say home, and in this sense…
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INVICTUS by Paco Rabanne
Men’s fragrance has become all the more a competitive segment with a significant increase in the variety of fragrant options and our (mens) increasing collective understanding of fragrance. Gone are the days where you could categorise the majority of male consumers within the remit of the ten leading scents; todays man is much more selectively…
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Blue Series by Comme des Garcons Parfums
There is something about the Comme des Garcons Parfums that despite their variety of ingredient, packaging and theme bears an undercurrent of strategic fragrance construction that even a more untrained nose can recognise. They favour incense based scent, this much is true, but the fact remains that each CDG scent is as disparate as they…
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UNSCENT: Communicating Art Perfumery
The 21st – 24th March 2013 saw Fragments of the emerging olfactory scene, present the international olfactory scene of Art Perfumery with installations and project rooms, in the historic surroundings of Palazzo Morando in via S. Andrea 6, in the heart of Milan’s fashion district. The name of the event, by using its negative form, seeks…
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