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Fragrant Readings Archive
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 Jean-Claude Bulins has been making the famous Diptyque candles for nearly 20 years. Journalist Catherine Saint-Jean invites us on a tour of the candle factory located in Argenteuil. Diptyque candles are usually produced in batches of 1250 units, except for some bestsellers like their new Maquis (2500) or some of their classics like Figuier and Baies (each produced in batches of 5000 copies). We learn that due to the high amount of natural oils used in the candles, each new scent needs to have a specific wax formula designed to accommodate the physical properties of the perfume mix and it does not always work, like for Musc. Read more in Madame Figaro.....
 Perfume critic Luca Turin writes a monthly column in NZZ Folio. This time he turns his attention to Etat Libre d'Orange and gives it two thumbs up. His favorite from the line or at least the one he thinks is the most interesting? The controversial Sécrétions Magnifiques.
The masterpiece is, in my opinion, Lie’s Sécrétions Magnifiques, helpfully illustrated on the website by a schoolboy drawing of an ejaculating penis. What he has done is revolutionary: he has used a nitrile as a main note in a fine fragrance. In plain language, he has put a loud note of harbor bilge in an elegant floral and made it fly.
Read more..... Photo from magrini.net
 Publisher Assouline is offering a luxury edition of one of its bestselling books (it is sold out on their site), Chanel, a set of three volumes each dedicated to a different area of Chanel's creative life. The set includes books on fashion, jewelry, and perfume.
"Inspired by the classic Chanel bag and made at the couture house's Parisian atelier, this quilted slipcase contains a limited edition boxed set of Chanel books profiling three important components of the historic company of Madame Gabrielle Chanel: fahion, jewelry and perfume. Each book numbers 80 pages and measures 6 x 8½"."
It retails for $550 on Vivre.
Vogue Magazine, Sephora, and the BNF (Bibliothèque Nationale de France/French National Library) have partnered up to organize an exhibition called Vogue en Beauté on fashion photography that includes a hundred works by the likes of Man Ray, Guy Bourdin, Helmut Newton, Peter Lindbergh, Mario Testino. It covers the period from 1920 to 2007......
Continue reading "Vogue en Beauté: Exhibition & Book by Georges Vigarello {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses} {Fragrant Reading}" »
Duo of authors Luigi Cristiano and Gianni De Martino have written a book entitled Viaggi e Profumi (Urra, 2007) (Travels and Perfumes). It is a descriptive and sensualist travelogue through space and even time in quest of iconic natural essences produced in specific world-renowned locales. Gianni De Martino is a writer and journalist from Milan who has written another book about the fifth sense entitled Odori: entrate in contato con il quinto senso......
Continue reading "Viaggi e Profumi by Luigi Cristiano & Gianni de Martino {Fragrant Reading} {Fragrant Shopping}" »
For your reading convenience I am posting the links to three articles I wrote last year about some of the best summer fragrances under the sun. Since then, new perfumes have their way into my mental list of such carefree delightful companions, although I must say that deep down I think you can wear any fragrance that you wish at any time of the year. But still, some summery criteria might not be completely irrelevant. At any rate, lists of perfume suggestions are fun to read and to play with and so I have dug out the articles from the bowels of the blog:.......
Continue reading "Best Summer Fragrances in 3 Parts {Fragrant Readings}" »
 • Camille Goutal of Parfums Annick Goutal has announced that they have a series of three new perfumes in the making. The scents are slated to launch in the fall of 2007 and are created by Isabelle Doyen and Camille Goutal. Read the interview of Camille Goutal (in French) in L'Express......
Continue reading "News Flash: Upcoming Annick Goutal & Lorenzo Villoresi Perfumes {The 5th Sense in the News}" »
 There is a short interview (in French) of nose Philippe Bousseton of Takasago in Au Féminin. He answers questions about perfume trends this spring. Conclusion? The florals are back! His favorite perfume? Magie Noire de Lancôme. For more, please read on: Interview de Philippe Bousseton The interview is part of a dossier on spring perfumes 2007.
Perfumer Christopher Brosius of CB I Hate Perfume has a book coming out, which bears the title Scent: Mysteries of Perfume and The Smell of Happiness. The author is widely known for his work as a realistic and psychological perfumer. He was the founder of the Demeter line of perfumes, which offers a library of scents based on the search of simple yet unusual olfactory facets of our world once seen bottled, from Between The Sheets to Dirt to Wet Garden and Sushi.......
Continue reading "A New Book On Perfume By Christopher Brosius {Fragrant Reading} {Fragrant Shopping} {Scented Quote of the Day}" »
Yaffa Assouline asks: What is perfume to you? Serge Lutens: One doesn't make perfume uniquely from raw materials. A perfume is a composition of the mind, it's a personal experience, unexpected. It's not created in accord with society - it should be something that expresses a different view......
Continue reading "Scented Quote of the Day, From Serge Lutens & {Fragrant Readings} Interviews of Serge Lutens, Mathilde Laurent, & Dennis Papithis" »
Check out Tony Burfield's very interesting column about the state of today's perfumery. "In fact, the art of perfumery could now be declared dead at this point, to be replaced by an expensive piece of computer software." Perfumers and the 40th IFRA Amendment on Basenotes.
 Osmoz has a very interesting series of interviews of some of the new generation of perfume designers. They have interviewed Le Labo, Céline Ellena, Juliette Has A Gun, Aurélien Guichard, Stéphanie de Saint Aignan, Etat Libre d'Orange, Marie Salamagne, and Frank Völkl. Who's Next?
 Mario Girard has an article on vetiver perfumes, their history, and the use of the different types of vetivers in perfumery with comments by perfumer Nathalie Lorson who recently created Encre Noire by Lalique. Parfums: Fou de Vétiver He also interviews Guerlain Fragrances artistic director Sylvaine Delacourte La femme derrière les parfums Guerlain Source: La Presse via Cyberpresse
 The Washington Post has published an article about the details of the creation or rather re-creation of M.A. Sillage de la Reine (please see my review of the fragrance), the perfume of Marie Antoinette, by Francis Kukrdjian, an enterprise conducted together with historian Elisabeth de Feydeau:
"When Francis Kurkdjian, one of France's premier perfumers, set out to re-create a fragrance of Marie Antoinette, his greatest fear was that it would stink. After all, he reasoned, the 21st-century nose might have little tolerance for the potent potions that the famous queen and her royal court used to mask the smells of their opulent but odiferous 18th-century environs at the Chateau de Versailles..... I just wanted to point out that although the article lays stress on the idea that Marie Antoinette wore heavy perfumes, she is also often credited for introducing a fashion for light or perhaps, if we were to be cautious, lighter floral perfumes given the cultural context of that time. Also, Marie Antoinette did not introduce bathrooms at Versailles. Louis XIV had already one built in 1665 although he preferred to use cologne rather than water to clean himself. Traces of Marie Antoinette, Caught in a Phial of Perfume Photo: Jean-Marc Manai
J'Adore J'Adore -- An Article by Melanie Adrian Growing into a new scent was much like changing favourite colors or genres of music. Although a seemingly insignificant adjustment not perceptible to most, for me, the change in perfume marked an important shift in life.
I was in Paris, of all places, and happened by a Sephora store when I encountered The Scent. Quite an accident of fate, I happened to smell j’adore as I was generally perusing perfumes. Not because of the allure of the bottle – which still doesn’t seem like the most ingenious design idea (and is wholly unpractical for the traveler with its long neck whose top constantly comes off). It was the scent, pure and simple, that lured me: the strength of the floral without the lurid sweetness of the petals and its magnificent undertone, only darkening with time, that gives it both its independence and rebelliousness, strength and spontaneity.....
Continue reading "My Holy Grail Scent: J'Adore by Dior - An Article by Melanie Adrian {Fragrant Reading}" »
Fragrant Readings Archive
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