The Ge Garden in Yangzhou, courtesy of the National China Garden Foundation In a display of soft cultural power, the Washington Post reports that China will foot a 100 million bill to construct the new National China Garden in...
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Diptyque Co-Creates Fragrance Installation with Italian Artist Felice Limosani at Milan Design Week 2017 - April 4-9 {Fragrance News} {Home Fragrance} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}
Sablier by Diptyque Marks The Passage of Time in Milan for First Time French niche perfume house Diptyque is participating for the first time of its brand history to Milan Design Week 2017, which takes place from April 4...
Liquides Imaginaires Fleuve Tendre Redraws a 17th Century French Road Map for Love (2017) {New Fragrance} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}
Liquides Imaginaires, a niche perfume label founded by designer Philippe di Méo, is introducing a new opus in April 2017 called Fleuve Tendre an Eau Imaginaire, which is inspired by a classical work of French literature, La Clélie: histoire...
Scent and Symbolism: Perfumed Objects and Images, New Exhibition in Memphis, Tennessee {Fragrance News} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}
Perfume Flacon with Ring, ca. 1820, Switzerland. Gold, enamel, and garnet. Umi-Mori Art Museum; 2010 © Courtesy picture New Memphis Art Exhibit "Scent and Symbolism: Perfumed Objects and Images" The Dixon Gallery & Gardens in Memphis, Tennesse is organising...
Scents of the Luxembourg Garden in Paris during the Fall // Part I {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses} {Paris Street Photography}
Vue du théâtre des marionnettes du Luxembourg © CHANT WAGNER 2016 Scents of the Luxembourg Garden in Paris during the Fall On a sunny October afternoon, trees - and below them - flâneurs, were bathed in golden light, so...
Parle Moi de Parfum, a New, Paris-Grasse Made Alternative Perfume Label Founded by the Almairac Family {New Perfumes} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}
Courtesy picture Parle Moi de Parfum © Roberta Valerio Eight New Eaux de Parfum by Parle Moi de Parfum This September 2016, a new, independent perfume house has opened in Paris called Parle Moi de Parfum, a name which...
Gellé Frères Parfumeurs Est. 1826 to Start a New Life in the 21st Century {Fragrance News} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}
Gellé Frères Parfumeurs Est. 1826 to Start a New Life in the 21st Century An ancient, 19th century French perfume and cosmetics house, Gellé Frères, will reopen its doors to customers from mid-November 2016 on avenue de l'Opéra in...
Frédéric Malle & Carlos Benaïm to Give Talk at Harvard Graduate School of Design {Fragrance News} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}
Carlos Benaïm (on the left) and Frédéric Malle (on the right) © Courtesy picture Fragrance artistic director Frédéric Malle of Editions de Parfums and perfumer Carlos Benaïm of IFF will offer a joint-talk on perfume design at the Graduate...
The Nose & The Eye: Speed-Smelling Paintings by Jean-Honoré Fragonard {Scented Thoughts} {Perfume Shorts} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}
Smelling Paintings © 2015 Chant Wagner On Saturday October 3, 2015 took place an innovative interactive experiment at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris involving both the senses of sight and smell. On the occasion of the Nuit Blanche,...
Blitzed Brits: Exhibition on WWII Smells Opens at IWM North {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}
An interactive, sensory exhibit entitled Horrible Histories: Blitzed Brits marks the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII. It includes installations in which some of the typical distressing smells of WWII in Great Britain are wafting anew all whirling...
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...
Saks Fifth Avenue Creates Fast Best Known List in Fragrance Library Form {Fragrance News} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}
Saks Fifth Avenue have inaugurated a novel perfume concept store called the Fragrance Library which is a cross between a bestseller list à la New York Times - except it's a bestviewed list also - and a Who's Who...
The Apocalypse Project + Givaudan Create T.E.M.P.S {Fragrance News} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}
Conceptual artist Catherine Young has partnered with leading fragrance company Givaudan to create a series of 8 perfumes entitled The Ephemeral Marvels Perfume Store (T.E.M.P.S), which is inspired by the idea that global climate is bound to disturb the...
Ordering a Customized Perfume at Stéphanie de Bruijn's {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}
A young French woman called Florence is seen ordering her customized perfume at Stéphanie de Bruijn's Parisian perfumery Parfum sur Mesure......
New Exhibition in Grasse Looks at History of Beauty in the Bathroom {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}
Transforming the Mundane & the Quotidian into Knowledge & Art The Musée International de la Parfumerie (MIP) in Grasse has inaugurated a new exhibition on the history of hygiene and beauty entitled Bains, Bulles et Beautés: une histoire de...