Parfums Berdoues will introduce a new composition inspired by Africa in 2017 called Maasaï Mara, named after one of Africa's largest wildlife reserves located in South-West Kenya......
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12 Best New Festive Perfume Bottles & Scents for the Holidays // Christmas Gift Guide {Fragrance List} {Perfume Reviews}
12 Best New Festive Perfume Bottles & Scents for the Holidays // Christmas Gift Guide Esteban Tonka Noir The French, germanopratin*, niche brand is issuing a black beauty of a bottle named Tonka Noir. The jus it contains, Tonka (2006),...
We Cherry-Pick Three Neo-Natural Perfumes for Eco-Conscious Fragrance Lovers {Perfume Reviews} {Green Products} {Perfume List}
We Cherry-Pick Three Neo-Natural Perfumes for Eco-Conscious Fragrance Lovers As a perfume blogger, I have a strong bent towards natural beauty products, and to a lesser extent, but still noticeable, one for natural perfumery. I love reading about natural...
Five Best Life-Saver Perfume Notes for Summer ≈ Rhubarb, Vetiver, Licorice, Oud and Chypre {Scented Thoughts} {Perfume List
Just Summer - Stalks & Bars © CHANT WAGNER 2016 Five Unexpected Summertime Olfactory Life-Savers ≈ Rhubarb, Vetiver, Licorice, Oud and Chypre When it's almost too hot to wear perfume, but then you think that perhaps perfumery could help...
How I Re-Established my Relationship with Perfumes this Summer, in 7 States of Mind & Scented Eurêkas {Scented Thoughts} {Perfume List}
Macadam & Flowers © CHANT WAGNER 2016 How I Re-Established my Relationship with Perfumes this Summer, in 7 States of Mind & Scented Eurêkas Here are my bullet points of perfume wisdom: • Randomness ....of discoveries Taking a break...
Want to Waft of a Wahine ? Recapturing the « Noa Noa of Tahiti » - Homage to Paul Gauguin {Perfume Review & Musings}
Want to Waft of a Wahine ? Recapturing the « Noa Noa of Tahiti » - Homage to Paul Gauguin I once held a heavy silver signet ring with rounded lines in my hand. It depicted what looked like...
5 Heavenly Things I Smelled When I Wasn't Looking, This Week {Perfume List}
5 Heavenly Things I Smelled When I Wasn't Looking, This Week One of the best ways to smell a fragrance, we believe, is just to let go. By this we mean to let go of the will - a...
Most Famous & Least Famous Perfumes by Eight Perfumers {Perfume List}
Navigating the Perfume Market The burden of niche perfumery more often than not is that the main thinking head for the house will be stuck at one level of perfume creation in the industry, that of her or his house....
31 Perfumes for 13 Best Summer Movies {Scented Thoughts} {Fragrance List}
"Au milieu de l'hiver, j'apprenais enfin qu'il y avait en moi un été invincible." - Albert Camus "In the middle of winter, I was finally learning that in me lived an invincible summer." - Albert Camus (Our translation) The...
12 Bitters for Summer - The 2015 Heat Wave Edition {Perfume List}
© 1947 Robert Doisneau In France today, we're back to summer of 1947 in terms of temperature highs, the national weather report announced. When the summer heat forms a mantle of atmospherically enveloping mink fur, we think there is...
Stop & Smell the Legumes: When Perfumery Loves All-Things Vegetable {Fragrance List}
Via Wikimedia Digging Up Vegetables for Perfumery I am using on purpose the image of rooty vegetables getting dug up from the soil. I think that in several cases - Demeter is one of them - the olfactory throught...
Best Fragrances for Coachella & Music Festivals {Perfume List} {Paris Photo} {Fashion Notes}
Coachella - The View from Paris © 2015 Chantal-Hélène Wagner How To Escape the Mass-Marketing of Coachella? That is the Question As I was perusing slideshows on Coachella street style, I have to say that in 2015 I come...
Orange-Colored Perfumes for a New Year {Ask Chantal-Hélène} {Paris Photo} {Perfume List}
Family Diptych I - © 2014 Chantal-Hélène Wagner The idea for this perfume article was born not because "Orange is the New Black," a TV series I haven't watched and don't intend to, but because the color orange has...
TSS Perfume Holiday Gift Guide 2014 - Part Three: Extraits for Xmas & Chanel Les Extraits {Ask Chantal-Hélène} {Perfume List} {Perfume Short (Reviews)}
When it comes to choosing a perfume gift for the Holidays, a question you might ask yourself is, is it time to offer the most luxurious version of a fragrance composition? Will people appreciate it? The flacons are minute;...
TSS Perfume Holiday Gift Guide 2014 - Part Two: The Manly, Rugged Edition {Ask Chantal-Hélène} {Perfume List} {Men's Colognes}
Need Ideas? In this part two of our gift guide - and before looming shipping deadlines make it impossible to buy cologne on the Internet - we look at fragrances that represent masculinity in its most obvious, manly and rugged...