Fragrant Readings Archives

 Perusing the virtual book aisles yields the information that there is going to be a bountiful crop of fragrance books in the upcoming months. If you like perfume as well as to sit by the fireplace, all at the same...

 A new book on perfume will be introduced on September 29, 2011 entitled Parfums Mythiques authored by beauty writer Marie-Bénédicte Gauthier. The tome is devoted to covering the history of 65 legendary perfumes including Arpège, L'Air du temps, Eau sauvage,...

In-house perfumer for Hermès Jean-Claude Ellena is on a whirlwind tour in Asia to promote his latest composition, Un Jardin sur le Toit (A Garden on a Roof Top), whose light and transparent yet rich and variegated texture seems...

 In-house perfumer for luxury brand Hermès Jean-Claude Ellena, the author more recently of Terre d'Hermès, Voyage d'Hermès, Eau Claire des Merveilles and Hermessence Iris Ukiyoé, but also of Bulgari Eau Parfumée au Thé Vert et Cartier Déclaration, among others, is...

  OsMoz.com, the educational arm of Firmenich, have published a guide book to perfumed Paris called Paris Parfum: le guide du parfum à Paris. The tome includes "legendary, confidential or secret addresses" but also the history of the "most beautiful brands...

 Roman Kaiser, whose name is associated with the Scent Trek program at Givaudan and extensive headspace data collecting has published his third book following The Scent of Orchids (1993) and Meaningful Scents Around the World (2006.) It is entitled Scent...

 Like each year, fragrance industry expert Michael Edwards will release the latest edition of Fragrances of the World also nicknamed "The Fragrance Bible" in January of 2011.Continuing to expand the references found in the guidebook, 850 new perfumes have been...

 First Impressions Among the crop of new perfume books this fall, L'Herbier Parfumé: histoires humaines des plantes à parfums by Freddy Ghozland and Xavier Fernandez with a preface by Elizabeth de Feydeau, will be one of your best bets for a...

Perfumers are more often than not asked to translate the vision of a fashion designer into liquid meaning. In a reverse exercise hosted by French magazine L'Express, 5 perfumers - Jean-Claude Ellena, Thierry Wasser, Francis Kukdjian, Fabrice Pellegrin and François...

L'Air de Rien (As if Nothing was the Matter) by Miller Harris was launched in 2006 as a bespoke fragrance for Franco-British actress and songstress Jane Birkin. This year, a flanker was issued called Un Petit Rien, which is really...

Hint Fashion Magazine has a Q & A with Chanel perfumer Jacques Polge who speaks about Egoïste and the more recent Bleu. The nose does not hesitate to quality his latest creation as being on the sedate side, contrasting it...

An article in WWD this morning reminded me I had purchased the new book by Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones entitled Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry some time ago. Interestingly for a book devoted to...

This was such a good read! I have been meaning to repost this (non-fiction) piece written in 4 parts about the experience of being a fragrance model. Since there are always new readers, I hope that those who have not...

Quintessentially Publishing Ltd have released a new book on perfume comprising 9 chapters and 212 pages covering this history of 40 brands, both designer and niche ones. The book entitled Quintessentially Perfume is a collection of interviews and articles by...