The Stairway for the Dead - L'Escalier pour les morts © 2015 Chantal-Hélène Wagner In a landscape dedicated to the dead, the living can look strange and at times, ghost-like......
February 2015 Archives
Déclaration L'Eau (2014): Boyfriend Cologne {Perfume Review & Musings}
I had to stick a thumb up after a couple of seconds into the development of last year's Déclaration L'Eau, in the abstract direction of perfumer Mathilde Laurent - kudos to reappropriating one of her most famed fragrance accords,...
Youth in Paris - Chillaxing {Paris Photo}
Chillaxing © 2015 Chantal-Hélène Wagner Maybe "Hip Hop" is not the best descriptor for these guys' style of dressing - a flavor of hip-hop? It's interesting to spot the youth culture currents in the city......
Juliette Has a Gun Gentlewoman (2015) {New Fragrance}
Photos © Sonia Sieff (reworked for illustrative purposes by TSS due to a technical constraint) French niche brand Juliette Has a Gun launched a new fragrance called Gentlewoman described as a "Gentleman's cologne" dedicated to women......
Armani Privé Pivoine Suzhou (2015) {New Fragrance}
Armani Privé have introduced a new fragrance baptized Pivoine Suzhou in Les Eaux collection, which is said to be their first perfume inspired by the gardens of Asia......
Karl Lagerfeld Femme (2014): Cold Magnolias {Perfume Review & Musings}
© Courtesy picture Unexpectedly, Karl Lagerfeld Femme opens on what the French would call a "lessivielle" note meaning strongly suggestive of detergent cleanliness and powder. This seems a bit of an overstatement, even if the note is popular. Does...
Fragrances of the World 2015 by Michael Edwards Release their Annual Vintage {Fragrance News} {Fragrant Reading}
© Courtesy picture Fragrances of the World 2015 by Michael Edwards is out in its 31st edition, a compendium of old and new perfume launches as available in the markets, indexed and classified with an aim to ease the...
Chanel Misia (2015) {New Perfume}
© Courtesy picture Chanel Misia by Chanel is the newest addition to Les Exclusifs range of fragrances meant to offer some of the most refined fragrance concepts of the fashion house since 2006......
Demeter Mountain Air (2015) {New Fragrance}
Demeter have captured one new ambiant smell and it's that of the Alaskan atmosphere with the scent called Mountain Air......
Bath & Body Works Love & Sunshine (2015) {New Fragrance}
Bath and Body Works launched a new fragrance this month called Love and Sunshine - the tag line is "Smell the Happy!"......
L'Occitane Iris Bleu & Iris Blanc (2015) {New Fragrance}
L'Occitane are launching a new addition to the Collection de Grasse begun in 2013 called Iris Bleu & Iris Blanc, a resulting composition from a new partnership with an iris grower in the region of Grasse, who has been...
AERIN Rose de Grasse (2015) {New Perfume} {Rose Notebook}
AERIN have launched a new perfume called Rose de Grasse which marks the debut of a new library of scents entitled the Premier Collection......
Fragonard Opens a Second Perfume Museum in Paris {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses} {Fragrance News}
The current Fragonard Museum in Paris / Courtesy picture © Fragonard The perfume house of Fragonard will open a new, larger perfume museum building from June 2015 in Paris. It already opened one in 1983 on rue Scribe, which...
Jo Malone Incense & Cedrat Intense Cologne (2015): Great Bones Don't Lie {Perfume Review & Musings} {New Fragrance}
Courtesy picture © Jo Malone Incense & Cedrat Intense Cologne by Jo Malone is presented as a new fragrance benefiting for the first time from the technology of NaturePrint™ in order to be able to forgo using the genuine...
Roger & Gallet Launch EDP Version of Fleur de Figuier (2015) {New Perfume}
Roger & Gallet are launching a new concentration and version of Fleur de Figuier (2013), which evolves from an Eau Fraîche into a more sophisticated Fleur de Figuier Eau de Parfum......