CB I Hate Perfume, a Brooklyn-based perfume house, has introduced three new scents:
November,
Gingerbread, a December-only limited edition that appears annually and
Walking in the Air, a home fragrance which recreates the pure scent of snow soon to be turned into an absolute by the perfumer who started wearing it himself.
About November, a composition mingling the typical smells of an American autumn, from pumpkin pie to hickory woods to fallen leaves to golden apples, its creator
Christopher Brosius writes in his blog,
"I
think my November perfume is finished. I made a few small adjustments
to it this afternoon so will know tomorrow for certain. It wound up
being a much more complex perfume than I had intended but that is often
the way. The scent is also rather unusual for me - it's sweet. Still,
it's a very delicate sweetness that speaks more of autumn leaves,
hickory smoke, golden apples and the spices of a pumpkin pie than
anything heavy or cloying. I can't really make a cloying perfume...
As
i said, November is a very complex scent. It's main note is Pumpkin
Pie blended with the scents of the autumn woods, fallen leaves,
bonfires and delicious apples - all of these scents are quite complex
in themselves. November has a lovely soft lush quality on the skin
which to my surprise I greatly enjoy - normally I myself am drawn to
greener things. But since I wear every scent I make while I'm working
on it, I've been wearing a lot of November lately and am very pleased
with its effect."...
Continue reading "CB I Hate Perfume November, Gingerbread, Walking in the Air (2009): Smells of Fall & Winter {New Perfumes} - Mango, Outside {Hasty-Reviews}" »
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