An unexpected yet expertise-wise understandable rapprochement between France and Uzbekistan has taken place in the sphere of perfume-making. Perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour who is well-known as a nose working both for the niche and designer markets, but especially for the former...
October 2012 Archives
Esteban Belle au Parfum de Oud (2012): Western Oud Time-Travels to the 70s {Perfume Review & Musings}
Femme Amazigh / Amazigh Woman by Emile Lecomte-Vernet, 1870 You could not mistake Belle au Parfum de Oud for anything but an Oriental. It plays upon a palette of deep, warm and coded notes as surely as an Orientalist...
Madonna Truth or Dare Naked (2012) {New Perfume} {Celebrity Fragrance}
Madonna will launch a new flanker to her debut scent Truth or Dare from December 2012 called Truth or Dare by Madonna Naked. Yes, that last word had to be in there. And as you might or might not have guessed,...
Brad Pitt is the Voice of Chanel No.5 {Perfume Images & Adverts}
Chanel No.5 Extrait / Photographe / Photographer : Daniel JOUANNEAU - Didier ROY/ Courtesy picture Chanel After having been announced as the new face of No.5 by Chanel, actor Brad Pitt is first revealed in action as a questioning man asking...
Bond No.9 New York Musk (2012) {New Perfume}
A new perfume by Bond No. 9 will be launched from November 2012 in their Notes Series called New York Musk . The collection is dedicated to "serious connoisseurs", those who would look at the manner in which a traditional perfumery material...
Atelier Cologne Sous le Toit de Paris Fêtes 100 Years of Galeries Lafayette Coupola (2012) {New Perfume}
Atelier Cologne are launching a new perfume this fall of 2012 meant to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the coupola of Parisian department store Galeries Lafayette. The fragrance is named Sous le Toit de Paris (Under the Roof of Paris),...
Serge Lutens Une Voix Noire (2012): Mood Ingredients Borrowed from Music {Perfume Review & Musings}
Une Voix Noire is a dark and spicy gardenia, which could have been called « Black Gardenia », if deemed appropriate. But that would have been possibly un-PC. This is a composition signed by perfumer Christopher Sheldrake and artistic...
Scented Quote of the Day, From John Dyer:
"How erring oft the judgment in its hate Or fond desire! Those slow-descending showers, Those hovering fogs, that bathe our growing vales... ...
Acqua di Parma Iris Nobile Sublime (2012) {New Perfume}
Italian niche brand Acqua di Parma have launched a new version of iris Nobile called Nobile Iris Sublime which lays the accent on the luxury material Iris Pallida.A cursory smelling session reveals a rooty iris managing to escape its usually distinguishable...
Chapter 1 of the Chanel No.5 Story as Retold on the Internet {Perfume Images & Ads}
Dab on perfume wherever you want to be kissed, Coco Chanel used to say Chanel released the first chapter of the No.5 saga as retold on the internet in 2012. The filmed narrative takes on a historical dimension, illustrated as it...
Brad Pitt to Give New Life to Chanel No.5 in Film Directed by Joe Wright {Perfume Images & Ads} {Celebrity Perfume}
The build-up to the launch of the new advertising campaign for Chanel No. 5 has officially started with a sneak-peek this morning in WWD. Brad Pitt had been announced earlier as the new face of the legendary fragrance -- and...
Hilarious & Blunt Russian Interview on Perfume Reveals National Fascination for Crime and Stark Social Reality {The 5th Sense in the News}
This must be one of the most hilarious interviews on perfume we have ever had the pleasure of reading. Moskovskie Novosti interviewed Aleksandr Korotenko, the founder of fragrance company Parade of Stars. No, this is not a celebrity perfume venture...
Sandalwood & Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion & Culture by James McHugh {New Book - Fragrant Readings}
James McHugh did his PhD in Indian and Sanskrit Studies at Harvard University - where we first heard about his research - and is currently an assistant professor at the University of Southern California. He is interested in the intersection...
Salvador Dali Le Roy Soleil Extrême Flaunts Extreme Powers of Seduction (2012) {New Perfume} {Men's Cologne}
Salvador Dali are introducing a new flanker to Le Roy Soleil for women (1995) and Le Roy Soleil for men (1998) called Le Roy Soleil Extrême from October 2012.Inspired by Dali's eponymous watercolor, an homage to the Sun King...
Koto Parfums Hello Kitty Party (2012) {New Perfume}
The Hello-Kitty franchise has added a new perfume to their collection with Hello Kitty Party. In France, it is targeting a children audience while in the US, it playfully panders to "the young at heart". These scents can actually be very...