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May 30, 2006

Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses: "Scent is Life" Exhibition

•An exciting new exhibition, which bears the title "Scent is Life" has opened and will be running through July 1 at the Esther M. Klein Gallery in Philadephia. The exhibition features 16 interractive installations incorporating 106 scents. Organizers, namely, perfumer Christopher Brosius of CB I Hate Perfume, the Monell Chemical Senses Center and the Esther M. Klein Gallery want people to become more aware of the role of smell in their lives and of the power of the fifth sense. One part of the exhibit is called "Autobiography" and showcases vials containing evocative scents such as Melting Snow, Crayon, Old Fur Coat, Doll Head, and Mitten. Another section called "Interpretation" regroups three different types of lillies scents to illustrate the significance of context and memory associations. There is a field of lillies, a perfume centered around lilly, and finally, an arrangement of lillies at a funeral. There is also an installation called "Pink Box Smells Green"; visitors are invited to put their heads into a box the color of bubble-gum and inhale the scent of freshly cut grass. The experience proves out to be slightly disorienting. There is also a section called "Day at the Beach". In it, people are given the opportunity to sniff scents such as Car Interior, Asphalt, Boardwalk, and Seashell.

Source: Article by Joann Loviglio, Associated Press Newswires, 29 May 2006.

Photo Credit: Esther M. Klein Gallery

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Fragrance News: Major Fragrance Launch of Nina by Nina Ricci (updated)

Nina Ricci will launch a new women's fragrance this summer called Nina. The fragrance is touted as the brand's single most important release in 10 years.

Nina was composed by noses Olivier Cresp and Jacques Cavallier of Firmenich with the Asian consumer in mind. The brand hopes to strengthen its position in the international fragrance market and in particular in Asia.

"Notes include lemon, apple, peony and praline over a base of apple wood and white cedar and musk. The juice comes in a raspberry-pink tinted apple-shaped glass bottle topped with silver leaves around the cap, designed by French agency LOVE. "

(updated 5/31/2006) Escentual offers a pic of the flacon as well as a more detailed description of the notes: "TOP NOTES: Calabrese Lemon and Lime Caipirinha. MIDDLE NOTES: Red Toffee Apple, Vanilla Infusion, Moonflower and Peony Petals. BASE NOTES: Apple Tree Wood, Cotton Musk and White Cedar."

The fragrance will be introduced in France in July and will roll out to international markets in September and the US in 2007. Nina will be distributed in edt concentration: 30ml for 29 Euros, 50 ml for 45 Euros, and 80 ml for 55 Euros.

Sources: Article by Oonagh Phillips for Cosmetic News, 30 May 2006, Escentual, and WWD 10 June 2006.

Photo credit: Escentual.co.uk

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May 31, 2006

Fragrance News: New Internet "Reality Show" on Perfume-Making on Made By Blog

I just visited Marina's perfume blog, Perfume-Smellin' Things, and learned that Made by Blog has undertaken the project to create two perfumes for two of my fellow-bloggers, namely Katie from Scentzilla! and Marina from Perfume-Smellin' Things.

If you felt frustrated that you won't be able to follow the episodes of the new British reality TV show focusing on perfume-making over 6 months which is set to start next week on Living TV in the UK, you might instead elect to follow the different stages of the perfume creation process in the blogosphere.

The blog's readers will be allowed to participate as informal evaluators of the 2 perfumes in progress as samples of the trial fragrances will be put on sale on the Made by Blog website. Clement Gavarry and Laurent Le Guernec, both of IFF, are the two perfumers entrusted with the tasks. No limits will be put on cost nor time.

Nobi Shioya, the instigator of the project, wishes to offer some creative space to the perfumers and sees this as an opportunity for them to create outside of the logic of the mass-market. He is also interested in breaching the gap between the secluded and rarefied world of the big perfume industry and the individual consummer.

In this case, the only constraints set on them will be those set by Katie's and Marina's dreams of an ideal fragrance for themselves. The question is, from which side will the perfumers, in final analysis, get more pressure? From the mass-market or from the educated, picky noses of Marina and Katie? I am sure that their dialogues will prove to be fascinating.

Stay tuned...

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Crown Perfumery Maréchale 90 {Perfume Review}

Maréchale 90 is the modern 1994 reformulation of the original Eau à la Maréchale created in 1669 for la Maréchale d'Aumont wife of Antoine d'Aumont. Her name is also attached to a powdery concoction for hair and wigs called "Poudre à la Maréchale" which she created herself. It is reported that the air in the salons was heavily perfumed with this powder covering many an aristocrat's head. References to this preparation can be found in 19th century French literature where it designates a face powder as well. According to the Société Française des Parfumeurs, this perfumed powder originally comprised orris, coriander, clove, calamus root, and sedge...