"Taken" ~ "Prise" © 2015 Chantal-Hélène Wagner The Pont des Arts yesterday on Valentine's Day 2015. It used to be that you could see through the bridge grids when the "love locks" were fewer and farther between......
February 2015 Archives
Looking Together in the Same Direction {Paris Photo}
The Cutest Couple on Le Pont des Arts on Valentine's Day 2015 © Chantal-Hélène Wagner Comment after the jump......
What a Perfume Can Teach You About Love {Scented Thoughts}
Voyage de noces à l'hôtel des Alpes © Jacques-Henri Lartigue It might be overly ambitious to start a treatise on love as experienced through our interactions with perfume. A more modest attempt would be to recount how a most...
Aedes de Venustas Palissandre d'Or (2015) {New Perfume}
New York based niche perfume house and boutique Aedes de Venustas will launch their fifth opus from May 2015 called Palissandre d'Or......
Do You Need to Smell Good to Seduce? is New French Book by Scientist Roland Salesse {Fragrant Reading}
Last May 2014, was held a colloquium on Olfactive Creation, La Création Olfactive, at the Sorbonne university in Paris of which French agronomist, as well as molecular and cellular biology specialist Roland Salesse was one of the organizers and...
Symrise to Help Harvest a More Modern Provençal Lavender {Fragrance News}
Courtesy picture © Symrise German global fragrance supply company Symrise have announced they have partnered with French Research Institute CRIEPPAM to help create a sustainable, energy-efficient and improved quality of lavender essential oil in the midst of a looming...
Tired Kid ~ Enfant Fatigué {Paris Photo}
Tired Kid ~ Enfant Fatigué © 2015 Chantal-Hélène Wagner I think this little guy had had enough of parental shopping, already......
DKNY My NY (2014) - The Smell of New, Upbeat - & Old, Retro New York {Perfume Review & Musings}
My NY by DKNY - the youth label of Donna Karan - is a very up-to-date and upbeat fruity chypre spiked with ethyl maltol, modern, cleaned-up patchouli and green galbanum, which manages at the same time to smell more...
3 States of Magnolia Trees {Paris Photo}
© 2013 Chantal-Hélène Wagner These Magnolia trees on a discreet Paris street smelled of jasmine green tea and lemon. The scent was not very pronounced but you could catch whiffs of it from time to time, delicately perfuming their...
Nina Ricci Les Délices de Nina (2015): Sugar is the Opium of the People {Perfume Review & Musings}
The first accords of Les Délices de Nina replace the perfume in the context of the original (2006) while inviting you to step into an eminently satisfying buttery sensation. It is about conveying the sense that the perfume is...
Woman on the Phone {Paris Photo}
Woman on the Phone © 2015 Chantal-Hélène Wagner This woman instead of talking on the phone while walking, like almost everyone else, had retreated to a corner of the street and de facto reconstituted half of a telephone booth,...
Perfumer Olivier Polge on the Eve of the Launch of Misia {The 5th Sense in the News}
© Danny Ghitis for the New York Times On the eve of the launch of Misia by Chanel, his first fragrance for the fashion house, in-house perfumer Olivier Polge, who is set to succeed his father, exchanged some ideas...
Bleu de Chanel, The Film by James Gray with Gaspard Ulliel (2015) {Perfume Images & Ads}
Chanel have released their brand new movie about Bleu de Chanel featuring French actor Gaspard Ulliel and shot by director James Gray......
Woman on a Bike {Paris Photo}
Woman on a Bike © 2015 Chantal-Hélène Wagner What attracted my eye in this case is that I could not make out what was going on exactly in the semi-darkness - I had also been looking at a source...
Yves Rocher Launch 3 Natural Men's Perfumes (2015) {New Perfumes} {Men's Colognes}
French masstige beauty giant Yves Rocher are staying true to their R & D in natural, bio cosmetics with a new collection of three men's perfumes inflected by natural essences in the Nature Homme range: Bois de Gaïac et...