 My 2009 Halloween Shopping ListMarilyn Miglin Fo-Ti-TiengThe Body Shop Love Etc.Fall Fragrances: Cornucopia of Dark FruitsL'Occitane Labdanum de Séville, Mimosa de l'EstérelRobert Piguet FuturKate Moss VintageFrapin L'HumanistePatriotic Bestseller Perfumes: DiscussFaguenat, Faganat...Fug?Sniffing Rich Orientals in ParisL'Artisan Parfumeur Havana Vanille Dolce & Gabbana Rose The OneGuerlain Idylle - Part 1Guerlain Idylle - Part 2Kat Von D Saint & SinnerCalvin Klein CK Free for MenMariah Carey ForeverWienerBlut KlubwasserPrada L'Eau AmbréeSerge Lutens Fille en AiguillesBritney Spears Circus FantasyYves Saint Laurent ParisienneIdole d'ArmaniGuerlain Aqua Allegoria Tiaré-Blossom, Cherry BlossomHermès Eau d'Orange Verte, Eau de Pamplemousse Rose, Eau de Gentiane BlancheParfums de Nicolaï Weekend à DeauvilleSerge Lutens Fourreau NoirEssential FaithPenhaligon's Anthology: Eau de Verveine, Extract of Limes, Gardenia, Night Scented StockMac Naked Honey & AfricanimalChopard CascadeLancôme Hypnôse SensesJuliette Has a Gun Midnight OudNarciso Rodriguez EssenceQueen Latifah QueenBenefit Laugh With Me LeeLee, There's Something About Sofia, My Place Or Yours GinaThe Body Shop White Musk White Hot SummerRochas Eau SensuelleL'Artisan Parfumeur Côte d'AmourChloe Eau de ParfumGuerlain Les Fleurs du Guildo: An Early 19th Century Precursor of Marine ScentsLush VanillaryByredo Bal d'AfriqueZadig & Voltaire Tome 1 La Pureté - Part 1Zadig & Voltaire Tome 1 La Pureté - Part 2Guerlain MuguetGuerlain Muguet (en français)Spring Notes: Lily of the Valley & DiorChanel Cristalle Eau VerteChristian Dior Escale à PondichéryFrédéric Malle Géranium pour MonsieurGobin-Daudé Sous Le BuisRoger et Gallet Bois d'OrangeMontale Patchouli LeavesStetson All AmericanStephen Jones by Comme des GarçonsGivenchy Harvest 2008: Ange ou Démon Jasmin Sambac, Amarige Ylang Ylang, Very Irresistible Rose Damascena, Organza Fleur d'OrangerYves Saint Laurent La Nuit de l'HommeYves Saint Laurent l'HommeThe Sex Factor in Men's FragrancesNina Ricci Love by NinaHermès Kelly Calèche EDPAnnick Goutal Un Matin d'OrageGuerlain La Petite Robe NoireSerge Lutens Nuit de CellophaneParfums MDCI Péché CardinalHermès Vanille Galante - Part 1Hermès Vanille Galante - Part 2
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 Here is part 2 of the gallery of photos showcasing the chocolate dresses that were created for the Salon du Chocolat 2009 in Paris. I have followed the organization of the exhibition spread over 3 separate podiums. Here was Group 1Group 2 today...  Nestlé France SA, Coralie Robert. Inspired by Nutcracker, Tchaikovski
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The preamble. What you saw when you entered the salon (among other things). A hostess from the brand Côte d'Or was distributing samples. I didn't try those because they are easy to find in supermarkets. But as you can see, the mood was welcoming.
Parisians don't just eat their chocolate in silence, they talk about it and would stand there with their chocolate in the mouth then in the air exchanging remarks and looking like they were tasting with their brains, which is actually what takes place.
Last week Paris held its annual Salon du Chocolat, a mega fair for chocolate lovers and professionals founded by Sylvie Douce and François Jeantet. The 2009 vintage was its 15th edition. Being a global affair, it will soon take place in New York city as the Chocolate Show on October 30 - November 1, 2009. Then Shanghai, Tokyo, Moscow and Madrid will follow. One of the highlights of this annual cacao folly (featuring also the complementary vanilla and other treats) is the lineup of fashion creations made out of chocolate. This year the central theme of inspiration was Opera. There were daily catwalk shows. It is a way to display local craftsmanship and attract crowds who are always sensitive to spectacular entries. There were oohs and aahs and the occasional biting comment from the ever demanding Parisians who could not taste the chocolate-turned-into-dresses but could nevertheless try to ascertain the level of difficulty of the different designs. A funny comment came from someone who admired a dress as being the real deal and then concluded that some of the other creators by comparison were just crooks who wanted to make you believe that they had done anything special. Today I am listing group 1 of the chocolate-y fashion garments. There will be two more, the way they were organized at the show. I will also be posting more pictures in an upcoming post to show some of the latest chocolate trends at the Salon and there will be giveaways of goodies that I hand-picked, courtesy of TSS for people living in northern climes because otherwise you will end up with a pool of chocolate and flower petals...  It was hard to tell whether the material had been dipped in chocolate or whether it was all chocolate. Chocolats Pralus, Marithé + François Girbaud.
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 A Worth coat, 1889 from "The Opulent Era-Fashions of Worth, Doucet and Pingat"
by Elizabeth Ann Coleman
For people happening to be in Paris on October 13, 2009 there will be a conference in French organized by the Osmothèque on legendary couturier Charles Frederick Worth entitled "Worth, a Man of Fashion, a Man of Perfumes" at the Galerie de Nicolaï. Here's the invitation in French, "Notre prochaine conférence aura lieu le Mardi 13 Octobre 2009 à 18h30 sur le thème:
« Worth, un homme de mode, un monde de parfums »
Par Chantal Trubert - Tollu...
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 Australian niche perfumery Libertine Parfumerie have opened their second store in Brisbane. The boutique is co-directed by Nick Smart, Jason Carlton and Joel Morehu-Barlow whose goal it is to bring exclusive niche perfumery to their country. The trio also heads a niche distribution company named Agence de Parfum. Nick Smart said, "Libertine Parfumerie, coupled with agence de parfum, are dedicated to filling a void for niche perfume houses in the Australian market. "
"Some of the most coveted fragrances in the world are created by niche perfumeries and until now, Australians have had only limited if any access to such high-end brands.
"With the exception of a handful of stores, niche perfumery has not been well represented in Australia and we felt it was time to overcome this and give Australians the opportunity to learn about some of the rarer, prestige fragrances on the market," he said...
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NEW YORK, September 21,
2009 -- The Paris-based CREED royal perfume house has signed
a lease to open a 400 square foot boutique in the landmark building at 794
Madison Avenue on the northwest corner of 67th Street in New York City in time
to serve its American clientele for the 2009 holiday season. It will be
CREED's only stand-alone store in America. Among the more than 40 CREED
fragrances and other goods the store will offer men and women will be
Windsor, the fragrance CREED made for the Duke of Windsor in
1936...
Continue reading "Creed Opens Store in New York City Right on Time for the Holidays 2009 {Fragrance News} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}" »
 Jean Patou offers the opportunity for one of the nicest perfume promenades to be taken on the internet. Their website takes a historic perspective on the itinerary of the brand. The design is trailed with flowers on which you click to access more information. A host of historic pictures gives flesh to a name that has graced the bottles of Joy, 1000, Sira des Indes, Normandie, Vacances and so many more, some which are utterly forgotten like the cocktail range: Cocktail Dry, Cocktail Sweet, Cocktail Bitter Sweet. They were modern enough to be the initiators of the early sun tan oil and "beach fragrance" Huile de Chaldée (1927). The house perfumers are honored with mentions and an in-house genealogy.
 Eiphur Perfume Hutte is apparently a perfumery that sells smell-alikes in Beijing, China. In a variation of the decanting perfume business, here the fragrances are sold by the milliliter from topsy-turvy bottles at a bar. You can purchase vials or perfume bottles in the store too. The pottery fragrance bottles are completely wild. The shopper appreciated finding scents by CK and Hugo Boss for a fraction of the going prices...
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 A new Guerlain museum is in the making. To begin to discover it, there is an exhibition which should delight Guerlain collectors and followers which opened on June 27, 2009 in the city of Eu near Dieppe in the Normandy region called " Du Bousillé...au musée Sylvie Guerlain". It will run until September 6, 2009. The goal of this exhibition is to reveal to the public both the works of local glassmakers who would use leftovers from molten glass to practice during their breaks and to offer a first look at the reportedly fabulous Guerlain collection of Sylvie Guerlain a descendant of the family of perfumers. The link to glass-making is more generally meaningful also because it is in this region between Rouen and Amiens in the vallée de la Bresle that is located La Glass Vallée (Glass Valley), the world leader in the production of luxury flacons. The site covers 80% of the global production of fragrance bottles in the sector of luxury...  The place for the temporary Guerlain exhibit
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 Perfumer Jean Kerléo will offer a lecture entitled " La rose dans tous ses états" (The Rose in All its States) on June 6th, 2009 from 2:30 pm to 5 pm at the Osmothèque in Versailles . The topic is the rose material, the varietals used in perfumery (from Morocco, Grasse, Bulgaria...), the processes of extraction, its fine-fragrance incarnations etc. The conference includes practical smelling sessions. Le 6 juin 2009, le parfumeur Jean Kerléo, auteur de 1000 de Patou, Sublime et fondateur de l'Osmothèque, donnera une conférence intitulée " La rose dans tous ses états"...
Continue reading "La Rose Dans Tous Ses Etats by Jean Kerleo June 6th 2009 at the Osmotheque {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}" »
 Singer, night-club franchise owner and self-described creator of the modern disco night scene Régine has launched a new fragrance twenty years after her debut perfume which bore the name Regine's. The new scent is titled Zoa after a song on her repertoire from 1966 and subtitled Night Perfume... 
Continue reading "Parfums Regine's Zoa Night Perfume (2009) - Regine Meetup at Colette on June 13th, 2009 {New Perfume} {Celebrity Fragrance} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}" »
 Jazz composer Laurent Assoulen is giving a concert at the Théâtre du Châtelet on June 8, 2009 at 9 pm which is at once a musical event and an olfactory one. Perfumer Guillaume Flavigny (Balmain Ambre Gris, La Môme, Dali Little Kiss, Charriol...) of Givaudan is the nose behind the fragrance compositions that establish a system of Baudelairean correspondences with the music. Rimbaud's synesthetic poetry is evoked as well. You can book a ticket here.
 Parfums de Nicolaï will host and give a talk entitled " Nicolaï créateur de parfum" on the history of the brand and their work in particular on home fragrances which can be discovered in their line Ambiance Nicolaï following this year's theme in the 2009 cycle of conferences sponsored by the Osmothèque. The talk will be offered by both husband-and-wife team Jean-Louis Michau and Patricia de Nicolaï, founders of the perfume house....
Continue reading "Conference about Parfums de Nicolaï & Home Fragrance on May 12, 2009 {Scented Paths & Fragrant Adresses}" »
 Like each year the Lilac Festival of Rochester takes place and with it comes the year's vintage edition of the perfume Highland Lilac of Rochester created in 1967 under the impulse of Dan Morgan. The fragrance was reintroduced in 2003. It is dubbed an American classic and reportedly was presented to a number of first ladies. Lilac does not yield its perfume by classic methods of extraction and so its bouquet must be recreated as an illusion, but in this case it appears that the perfumers at IFF attempt to reproduce each year's particular notes.... 
Continue reading "Highland Lilac of Rochester: The 2009 Harvest Edition {Fragrance News} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}" »
 Christophe Laudamiel is expected in Boston, MA on Monday May 11, 2009 to give a talk entitled Perfuming at the dawn of the 21st Century on the pervasiveness of scent technologies in our lives, our biological olfactory makeup and on how to have a better grasp of those issues....
Continue reading "Perfumer Christophe Laudamiel to give Conference in Boston on May 11, 2009 {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}" »
 Today was the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Kew Gardens in London. As an illustration of these historic lawns, there is a beautiful photo gallery of the gardens that can be contemplated here. But beyond the beauty of the gardens, some serious botanical conservation work is in progress, which has far-reaching global implications. The goal is no less than saving life on earth...
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 Guerlain will open its 12th standalone store in July 2009 in Le Marais district in Paris. As noted previously, this artistic neighborhood has recently slowly evolved into being one of the noteworthy perfume-shopping centers of the French capital city. Guerlain, as it happens, will be next to the new Diptyque boutique which opened last year. Bobbi Brown just opened a boutique on the same street. The new destination will be located at: 10, rue des Francs-Bourgeois 75004 Paris Via Madame FigaroPhoto credit: Wikimedia - Rue des Francs-Bourgeois going towards the Place des Vosges.
 I am so glad. Guerlain have finally revamped their website! I used to visit it episodically wishing each time to see some improvement, then ceased frequenting it because it was not very practical, and now it's happened. I could not quite understand why in the context of luxury brands proposing sophisticated websites, why on earth Guerlain seemed not to care about their online presence. The previous website was very static merely acting as a catalogue, not even a comprehensive one at that. Things have changed as you can see by visiting the new destination (in French, English, Japanese and Chinese) at Guerlain. The site looks stylish. It offers information even about their exclusive niche fragrance lines; they give a number of perfume-applying tips, perfume workshop information, fragrance consultations, historical outlines on their creators, associated artists, raw materials etc. You can even register to have your own space there and receive advance notices about new releases. It's still not an e-commerce site though...
  On June 11 and 12 2009, for two special days, Perfume Expo America in New York City, The selective beauty convention for the Americas, will open its doors to the wider public of perfume and beauty lovers. The organizers of the event have reserved 100 VIP invitations for The Scented Salamander / mimifroufrou.com readers, so please don't hesitate to register online here to claim your invite if you are interested in attending workshops, live perfume labs, perfumers' conferences and sampling new beauty cosmetics products. Deadline for online registration is May 30th. Added/ you need to print out this invitation on top of registering to receive a VIP badge onsite.
The debate on naturals in fragrance and flavor, which calls to mind the kind of cultural fracture that appeared in 17th century France in the battle of the Ancients against the Moderns, will be conducted this time by Rochelle Bloom and Mandy Aftel. This event is called, "A Conversation Between
Rochelle Bloom, President of The Fragrance Foundation and Mandy Aftel
on NATURALS in FRAGRANCE & FLAVOR. [It will be] followed by a cocktail reception
catered by Olives' Chef Todd English and sponsored by Robertet. This
event will take place on April 23rd from 6-7:30 PM in The Wine Room at
Olives Restaurant at The W, Union Square. This is a ticketed event -
$35, and seating is limited. RSVP with Credit Card info please, your
card will be charged at the door.
This is one of several events that coordinate with the opening of the exhibit - Living Perfume: The Natural Alchemy of Mandy Aftel, opening to the public on April 18th and running through Mother's Day - May 11th at renowned retailer, Henri Bendel."
 The 14th edition of China Beauty Expo, a major beauty and perfume trade show is going to take place in Shanghai from May 18 to May 20, 2009. China represents an emerging market in which cosmetics and fragrance brands are keen on investing although the latter category reportedly requires more of a cultural overhaul to get more widely adopted by the Chinese...
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 Mandy Aftel, the best, most active proselyte of natural perfumery, renowned as the purist, modern American pioneer of an ancient and rediscovered craft will have an exhibition at Bendel's in New York City devoted to her body of work entitled Living Perfume: The Natural Alchemy of Mandy Aftel April 18 - May 11, 2009. It will also showcase artifacts from her collection of rare books and prints and feature her activities as a perfumer, author and teacher. "This
interactive and historic exhibit will showcase the extraordinary
materials that bring to life the art and science of natural perfume. It
will be created and installed using the responsible design principles
of sustainable materials and eco-friendly sourcing, and draw its
inspiration from the natural world where natural fragrance originates."...
Continue reading "Mandy Aftel Living Perfume Exhibition April 18 - May 11, 2009 + New Perfume Lumiere (2009) {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses} {New Fragrance}" »
 Parfumerie Générale, a niche perfumery founded and led by perfumer Pierre Guillaume, will now be showcased in a brick-and-mortar store in Paris, France called Aépure from April 2009. Update: it is not the first flagship store of the brand as the announcement seemed to imply a bit ambiguously, just another selling point for PG that is going to open soon...
Continue reading "Parfumerie Generale Will Be Carried by Aepure - Update {Fragrance News} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}" »
 For those planning to be in New York City on March 14th 2009, you will have an opportunity to meet with Bond No. 9 founder Laurice Rahme on the occasion of the launch of Brooklyn. Bond No.
9 Proudly Announces Brooklyn, the Eau de Parfum
Laurice
Rahme to Premiere New Brooklyn Scent
Capturing
the Vibe of the Edgy New Brooklyn
Founder
and CEO of Bond No. 9 New York, Laurice Rahme, introduces you to her latest
fragrance creation with a very special personal appearance and bottle signing
at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York...
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 Today starts the Christie's auction of the YSL & Pierre Bergé's Collection at the Grand Palais in Paris. To view the artifacts online, you can visit Christie's website. With regard to perfume, it is well-known that Yves Saint Laurent took inspiration from an inro from his personal collection to design the flacon of Opium. A famous perfume-related object is listed for the auction: the Marcel Duchamp Belle Haleine flacon estimated at between $1,260,676 - $1,891,014. Antique Chinese incense burners are also part of the auction. A book was recently released in its French version in February 2009 covering the topic of this exceptional private collection, Les paradis secrets d'Yves Saint Laurent et de Pierre Bergé, also available from today Feb 23, 2009 in English, The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, by the same author, Robert Murphy. More generally speaking, it will escape no one's attention that browsing the collection is an opportunity to better understand YSL's pursuit of elegance, refinement, and beauty as transposed to the worlds of fashion and perfume. 
 The Osmothèque, the Versailles-based French conservatory of perfumes is organizing a special guided tour of the exhibition Sous L'Empire des Crinolines ( see pictures of the exhibition here) at the Musée Galliera on March 6, 2009 at 3:15 pm. Patricia de Nicolaï, the director of the Osmothèque, will bring a selection of fragrances that visitors will be able to discover at the end of the visit...
Continue reading "Osmotheque Visit at Musee Galliera: Crinolines & Perfumes {Scented Paths & Fragrant Adresses}" »
 A fascinating exhibition on the Treasures of the Black Death will open on February 19, 2009 and run until May 10, 2009 at the Wallace Collection in London. As the plague raged in 14th century Europe, Jewish communities were used as scapegoats and forced to leave town or even massacred. When expelled they had the time to bury their possessions carefully in the hope of retrieving their belongings when they would come back, seemingly leaving everything behind them. In a black death treasure found in Erfurt, east of Frankfurt, a 650 years old medieval perfume bottle that would have been carried on a waist chain was found. L'Oréal scientists attempted to analyze the remnants of the scent...
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 Columnist Ian Belcher imparts the gist of his experience learning to blend essential oils in Languedoc in a 17th century convent. The essences are even distilled on location, in an area full of plant varietals that will be further expanded thanks to a 100 € investment sum and will include reconstituted medieval therapeutic gardens.
"Theory comes first, practice later. It's technical stuff so pay attention at
the back. Well-balanced perfume smacks your nostrils three times: a "light,
fleeting" top note, "subtle, lingering" middle note and "heavy, lasting"
bass note. And unlike modern synthetic concoctions, wild-flower oils talk to
three parts of your brain: the intellectual left, creative right and
instinctive central limbic...
Continue reading "Perfume Apprenticing in a 17th Century Convent in Languedoc {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}" »
 All photos in the post © A.K./The Scented Salamander
A. K. sent us some pictures taken from the new fashion exhibition in Paris entitled Sous L'Empire des Crinolines (Under The Influence of Crinolines). They were taken during a private viewing on inauguration night, with a cell-phone, which gives you an instantaneous reportage quality and casts on the gowns a crystalline light and opaline-like finish, adding to the sense of distance in time while turning them into never-before-seen modern snapshots of antique fashion, taken on the quick. In that era, the famous perfumers of the day were Guerlain, Coudray, L.T. Piver, Lubin, Houbigant, Gellé Frères... But beyond a short-list of names, we have a passage from La Curée (The Kill) by Emile Zola (translation by Brian Nelson) which beautifully conveys some of the atmosphere and habitual practices in the arenas of fashion and perfume under the Second Empire in Paris as character Maxime visits the great couturier of the second empire, Worms (the fictionalized character of Charles Frederick Worth).  Summer gowns
In fact fashion and perfume here seem to become one under Zola's pen, whose writing as usual offers uncanny evocative power based on and prepared beforehand by meticulous ethnographic research (he would routinely note down in his notebooks the smells he encountered in his literally, fieldwork trips). One should also note that the fashions of the time were said to have become so
ostentatious that an observer reported that it had become nearly
impossible to distinguish an honest bourgeoise woman from a peripatetician
based on their outfits alone. Scented Quote of the Day from Emile Zola: "This quaint little creature (Maxime), who during his English lessons read the prospectuses which his perfumer sent him every Friday, could have delivered a brilliant lecture on the fashions of Parisian high society, customers and purveyors included, at an age when country urchins are too shy to look their housemaids in the face. Often, on his way home from school, he would bring back in his tilbury a bonnet, a box of soap, or a piece of jewelry which his stepmother had ordered the day before. He always had a strip of musk-scented lace in his pockets...
Continue reading "Cell-Phone Pictures from an Exhibition: Beautiful Milkescent Crinolines {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses} {Scented Quote of the Day, From Emile Zola}" »
 The Musée Galliera in Paris is organizing a fashion exhibition devoted to sartorial tastes during the French second empire (1852-1870) and to its central indulgence, for women, the crinoline. The exhibit is titled Sous l'Empire des Crinolines (Under the Influence of Crinolines) and will run from November 29, 2008 to April 26, 2009. One reason why it might be interesting for perfume aficionados to visit this exhibition is of course because the era is a period of expansion for the perfume house of Guerlain, which then managed to secure the patronage of the empress Eugénie thanks to its Eau de Cologne Impériale whose therapeutic virtues were said to alleviate her migraines. It is still available today...
Continue reading "Fashion Exhibition on the Second Empire, 1852-1870: Sous L'Empire des Crinolines {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}" »
 Ancient cognac-makers more recently turned perfume-makers, Frapin, have now opened a dedicated website to showcase their fragrances, four to this day, at Parfums Frapin. The perfumery branch of the business is thus given more of an independent identity although the references to the family estate's wine-growing smells and traditional know-how abound in their perfumes. The debut perfume of the brand, Frapin 1270 has also been re-packaged to homogenize the look of the collection.
 The Osmothèque in Versailles is organizing an exceptional conference entitled A La Recherche Des Parfums Perdus (In Search of Long-Lost Fragrances), which will take place on Sunday November 9th, 2008 from 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris. It takes place in the context of the Salon International du Patrimoine Culturel or International Heritage Show. Perfumer Emmanuelle Giron, an Osmothèque member and perfumer from Fruitaflor, will present and allow the audience to sample more than 10 perfumery rarities brought out from the archives of this institution which dedicates its action to preserving and recreating long-lost vintage fragrances...
Continue reading "Conference on Long-Lost Perfumes by the Osmotheque - Olfactory Workshop for Kids on Traditional Artisan Professions {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}" »
 Fragrance specialist Roja Dove has established a partnership with World Duty Free, a chain of airport duty-free perfumeries, to help you select the right perfume for yourself whenever traveling abroad. Be it on your way to Rome or Cape Town or Tokyo (10 destinations are listed) and according to your fundamental taste plus the occasion of the moment (business, romance or pleasure), you can check Roja Dove's recommendations on this fragrance wizard...
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 Breakdancers, 1986 © PYMCA via Fashion V Sport
The Victoria & Albert Museum in London is organizing an exhibition on fashion and sports called Fashion V Sport which started on the 5th of August 2008 and will run until the 4th of January 2009. Within it, sensory artist Sissel Tolaas has set up an olfactory thread that runs through the exhibit, creating a second invisible exhibition entitled Bodisme only discernable to the nose, thus developing further her work on human body odor. The scent installations on display are to be found in each of the four sections of the exhibition: "DARE A 'clean' sweaty body without bacterial interaction
DISPLAY A sweaty body overlaid with deodorant/ artificial smells
PLAY A sweaty body's unique 'smell fingerprint' that carries natural
messages in pheromones, bacterial interaction,
DESIRE A custom-made simulated body smell as a base scent with added
molecules on top to communicate the desired message"...
Continue reading "Olfactory Bodisme Exhibition at the V & A {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses} {Perfume Ads}" »
 This could be a post in a sub-category of our celebrity page called "Celebrity Roses". Tomorrow on October 17th 2008 will be officially baptized and presented for the first time to the public the Rose Molinard, a rose developed over more than 7 years by the Roseraies Delbard to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the Molinard perfumery in 2009... 
Continue reading "A Rose Molinard for the Perfumery's 160th Anniversary & Another One for Le Prince Jardinier {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}" »
 Fragrance aficionados will be delighted to learn that Serge Lutens has opened a new official site for the brand at http://www.sergelutens.com. It showcases a number of interesting, never-seen-before pictures, quotes, a short expressionist film that was selected for the Cannes festival in 1974, and last but not least a reorganization of the Lutens catalog of perfumes into three categories: flacons de table (the bell-jars); flacons beiges (the eaux de parfum); flacons noirs (the eaux de parfum haute concentration). The latter perfumes were thought by Serge Lutens himself to perform best at a higher concentration. The Collection Beige and Collection Noire in particular structure this universe as they offer the color theme for the new place...
Continue reading "New Official Serge Lutens Site {Fragrance News} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}" »
 Lovers of perfumes - especially rose perfumes - and opera can attend an event at niche boutique Aedes in New York City on October 2, 2008 from 4:30 pm to 7 pm. The unveiling of the new duo of scents by Amouage titled Lyric for women and men, inspired in part by the inflections of the lyric-spinto soprano's voice, will take place in the presence of Amouage CEO David Crickmore and the house's artistic director Christopher Chong (see his interview on TSS). Cocktails and Hors d'oeuvre will be served. Address: 9 Christopher Street, New York, NY 10014 RSVP: aedes@aedes.com
 After publishing a commentary to an article on reportedly the first niche perfumery founded in Romania, TSS received an update from the owner of another niche fragrance store located in Bucharest Madison Perfumery explaining that their business had been established before the more recent La Maison des Parfums, that is in 2007. In fact, the owner of the latter business is a former patron of Madison Perfumery. As once can see, the perfumery scene is evolving fast in the capital city of Romania. The pictures of the Madison Perfumery boutique look wonderful. I think that Bucharest is teaching us some lessons in perfumery decoration and premium customer experience. From the owner Madeleine Florescu a former marketing executive for Kanebo USA, "Our portfolio includes names such as Annick Goutal, Creed, Clive
Christian, Parfumerie Generale and Nasomatto, and starting September I will add
Bond No 9 and Puredistance"...
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 We announced the other day that the house of Guerlain was taking to the street for their new perfume, Guerlain Homme. The jungle display at Opéra Garnier for the new Guerlain Homme looked nice but the atmosphere was flat. The only emotional reaction the event elicited in me was a smile after I heard, several times over, the line from the Guerlain Homme commercial by Jean-Paul Goude booming across the street: " pour l'animal qui dort en vous" " for the animal that sleeps in you". Contrasted with the sedate ambience and the unconcerned or weary airs of the tourists resting on the steps of the opéra, many of them white-haired, it was rather amusing. This attempt to reach out to urbanites where they are to be found, on the street, seemed to be marred by a lack of staff support from Guerlain. If the decoration was pleasing to the eye and the Goude commercial well-visible and audible from a distance, the impact on passers-by seemed minimal. A couple of fragrance models were supposed to cover the large stretch of sidewalk girding the front of the opera house and they were huddled together in exactly the same spot joking between themselves while spraying almost absent-mindedly on strips of paper without offering any eye contact to their consenting victims. The lack of conviction was palpable. There were no Mojitos in sight to refresh potential customers and I realized after leaving the scene that the air smelled of nothing... 
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 During four days, Paris is hosting a full-scale open-air jungle promotional event organized by perfume house Guerlain in two very different areas of the capital city to celebrate the launch of their new Guerlain Homme. If advertising for the cologne has been quite present so far in department stores and Guerlain boutiques decorated with rainforest walls and rolling counters complete with a cascading green floral arrangement suggesting a corner of the Amazonian forest, artificial icecubes in a bold square glass, silvery Mojito shaker, didactic pictures of ingredients, blotters, and the fragrance itself, all this posted at strategic corners, it is now exceptionally lavish. By going to both the modernist setting of the Esplanade de la Défense (11-12 September 2008) and to the more classical one of Opéra Garnier (12-13 September), Guerlain seem to be positioning themselves to say that in the 21st century they are at ease both with modernity and tradition, civilization and wildness...
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 Niche perfumer Stéphanie de Saint-Aignan opened her first standalone boutique in the Marais neighborhood this summer 2008. Good choice! The Marais is certainly the area of Paris in which I have smelled the most numerous niche-perfume trails. She is not the only one to have recently decided to locate her perfumery there (see Diptyque, The Different Company) which makes that quarter even more one of the must-perfume-circuits-to-tour for perfumistas. Address: Boutique du Marais 26, rue de Poitou 75003 Paris Tel: 01 42 24 07 99
 Although the new Paco Rabanne 1 Million fragrance for men is already available at Sephora in France, the publicity campaign in the UK is only just kicking off. Yes, I know, we already showed you the TV commercial and I have a great-looking advert somewhere in my files to boot, but let's take things more slowly for a minute, shall we? At least, this is what an early chapter of the campaign imagined for the British market reveals with the setting-up of a micro-website dedicated to making you feel great about yourself, in other words to feel like a 1-Million-Dollar man. How so? The creative focus here is on " opening the doors to virtual celebrity", to anyone willing to play the game. As you know, to attain celebrity is the new idea paradisiacal ideal of the early 21st century, an impression not disproved by the inflation of celebrity perfume launches... 
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Spermodel and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issues' frequent feature girl Marisa Miller has been selected to be the new Victoria's Secret Angel. She will also be the spokesmodel for their new fragrance Very Sexy Dare when it launches on September 16, 2008 at the Victoria's Secret Herald Square store in New York City. Via Aceshowbiz
 Please take note and mark your calendars! Here are some wonderful news! Donna Karan have decided to permanently reintroduce several of their iconic fragrances that had become nearly impossible to find and then only at astronomical prices. The new collection housed in similar flacons is simply titled Donna Karan The Fragrance Collection. Chaos won't be a ghost of the past anymore nor Donna Karan Signature nor Fuel for Men. If Black Cashmere and the Essence Collection ( Lavender, Jasmine, Labdanum, Wenge) are slightly less phantasmal, they too had become quite elusive...
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 This summer the Château de Versailles is organizing a nocturnal revelry rivaling with the festive past of the French court at the time of Louis the XIV th. And just like in the 17th and 18th centuries, the grounds are open to the public. Les Grandes Eaux Nocturnes (Great Nocturnal Fountain Waters) started on July 26th and will continue to be performed on Saturdays August 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2008 from 9: 30 pm to 11: 30 pm. Additionally, a "Parcours du Roi" (King's Itinerary) is offered from 6: 30 pm to 9 pm to visit the royal apartments at Versailles as the sun downs. Fragrance lovers will be glad to know that part of the spectacle has been entrusted to perfumer Francis Kurkdjian who has recreated some of the scents that permeated the air at the time of the splendor of Versailles... 
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 For nature-lovers and strollers, a new edition of the temporary garden has been landscaped on the cobblestones of the capital city of France right in front of the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, complete with a pond. The garden this year illustrates the theme of biodiversity in the city and will be in place until August 17th 2008. There will even be a mini-golf set up when the Paris-Plage program starts in a few days. For more details and pictures please go to L'Hôtel de ville au vert. For an interview with landscaper Martine Lambert, please go here... 
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Artist Biliana Velkova has something to say about celebrity fragrances, whose impact on pop culture she recognizes by organizing an exhibition called Breathless at the Jeffrey Boone Gallery in Vancouver. All the trappings of a celeb's launch are here except for the jus itself and the celeb herself or himself. What is the point exactly?.....
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The Different Company has opened a new boutique in the Marais neighborhood in Paris. The whole district which dates back to the 17th century and today offers an arty flavor is fast becoming yet another perfumista's haven in the French capital city. A new Diptyque store recently opened there too. The brand has also revamped their website.
The picture shown here features the new perfume Sublime Balkiss in the window display. More about it anon. New address: The Different Company
10, rue Ferdinand Duval
75004 Paris
Métro Saint Paul
Tel: 01- 42-78-19-34
Open from Tuesday to Saturday, 12 pm - 19:30 pm (private appointments upon request)
 Diptyque has now opened a new boutique in the Marais neighborhood on the right bank not far from the place des Vosges. The first historic standalone for the brand is located on boulevard Saint-Germain in a quiet area that is a little off the different centers of the hub on this Parisian artery. Le Marais is slowly becoming another significant center of perfume shopping and olfactory hedonism in Paris......
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A Visit to the Exhibition "Marie-Antoinette" in Paris by Guest Contributor Pauline “Moving” is the word that best describes the overall feeling I retained after I visited the exhibition “Marie-Antoinette” currently on view (until 30 June 2008) at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais in Paris.
Although much has been written about the life of the last queen of France (1755-1793) and her private quarters can be visited at the Château de Versailles, it was the first time that I have had the opportunity to experience so palpably actual everyday objects that were seen, used and worn by Marie-Antoinette. The fate of the young Austrian archduchess - who was born in 1755 - was sealed when she was only 9 years old when her mother, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, decided to conclude a political marriage alliance with the heir of the throne of France. She was married in 1770 at age 15 to the Dauphin, the future Louis XVI, and became queen at the age of 20........ The lunch set used by Marie Theresa empress of Austria, the mother of Marie-Antoinette. She had 16 children with Francis I Holy Roman Emperor and Duke of Lorraine.
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The University of Sunderland is organizing an olfactory exhibition on Extinct & Impossible Smells. Fully embracing the idea that there exist no good or bad smells, the recreated scents include classic seductive smells like that of the hair of Cleopatra but also more repulsive ones - at least morally - like that of the smell in the atmosphere after the drop-out of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, which is a rather clean abstraction of the smell of human suffering, mangled bodies, and consequent genetic sicknesses that it created. One can wonder if they had proposed the smell of the forest not far from the gas chambers and bodies burning at Auschwitz if that would not have met with some public outcry. One fears that there might be an element of "olfactory voyeurism" and spectacle involved at the same time that it temperates the original violence of the reality by only alluding to it in order to make it tolerable.
More neutrally-connoted smells and requiring even more of an effort of representation is found for example in the possibility of sniffing the "surface of the sun", "It is hard to sum up. It is an atmospheric smell, like walking into a room when the sun has been pouring in," says Blackson. "It gives a freshness, a sun kissed feel with a bit of metal. If you can say something smells hot, this is it."
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On April 19, 2008, at 20: 30 pm a show entitled Il Profumo della Belle Epoque will take place in Rome, Italy. It is dedicated to recapturing the olfactory atmosphere of the Belle Epoque as experienced by spectators sitting in the atmosphere of a Parisian café in the 1890s, witnessing the boulevardiers getting émus, scenes of everyday life while listening to music and above all, smelling the perfumes of the Belle Epoque, "an era in which even words and gestures were scented"......
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Bernard Pommier, the organizer of the beauty and perfume event to take place in New York City, Perfume Expo America, has released the information that 80 % of the available exhibit space has been sold and that slots are still open. One of PXA's missions is to assist in bringing emerging brands to the industry's attention, but not just that apparently. See early list of attendees.....
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The Huntington in San Marino, California is organizing an exhibition about the historical role Joséphine de Beauharnais played in developing the cultivation of modern roses in Europe through her passion for them. It is titled La Rose Impériale: The Development of Modern Roses. The show takes place as part of the 100th anniversary of the rose garden at The Huntington. Rose lovers will be able to see these: “ ...110 rare illustrated herbals and rose books, including a first edition of Pierre-Joseph Redouté’s glorious multivolume work, Les Roses (1817-24)...... (Image is from from Redouté's album)
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The musée Christian Dior in Granville is organizing an exhibition on dandies called Dandysmes 1808-2008, which will take place between May 1st and September 21 st 2008. It celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of writer Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808-1889) who wrote a book on this fascinating topic entitled Du dandysme et de Georges Brummel...... (Barbey d'Aurevilly pictured on the right)
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Camille Goutal, the daughter of Annick Goutal who co-creates the brand's perfumes with Isabelle Doyen, will be the guest of honor at a reception at perfumery Aedes in New York City on April 3rd, 2008, 6-8 pm. You are invited to join in for a preview of Les Orientalistes. Please RSVP at: Aedes at Aedes dot com
On a separate note, we just realized that the new perfumes as they are organized in the coffret compose the word "AME" (soul).
Sylvie Daumain, a perfume specialist, loves two things in life: Paris and Perfumes. Sounds familiar? She has now decided to offer a new service for people who are less familiar with the City of Lights than she is. We know that many perfumistas feel it is a must at some point in their lives to go visit Paris the Mecca of perfumes and it can be helpful to be introduced to a new universe by a guide and one passionate about fragrances at that. Her company called Détour des Sens (deh-toor-deh-saunce) or "Senses in a Roundabout Way") proposes you to take a walk around Paris and to listen to how the city was glamorized and interpreted through the work of perfumers and their creations.....
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Le Labo in Daikanyama
Le Labo, the independent creative perfumery with a Jacobin mindset set up by two French ex-marketing exec (see our Q & A) in New York city is continuing its global expansion by inaugurating both in-store spaces and stand-alone stores in key urban parts of world, i.e. fashion capitals. They recently inaugurated some counter space at Colette, Paris, a store at Liberty in London and have now a new store in Tokyo, Japan. The design is clean, industrial, minimalist, in tune with Le Labo concept, that of offering perfumes mixed straight from the lab with as little chichi as possible, except for the indulgence of seeing one's name printed on the bottle label.......
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Odalisk by Seb Janiak © Pauline/The Scented Salamander
I have the great pleasure of introducing our new contributor, Pauline. She is based in Paris, enjoys fragrance but is even more interested in beauty and cultural topics in general and will write on these from time to time. Today, she reports in words and pictures on the current Opium Express exhibition by Yves Saint Laurent in Paris which runs until January 19, 2008. "Taking the Opium Express" by Pauline, Guest Contributor
To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Yves Saint Laurent's most famous perfume, Opium, an exhibition or “espace ephémère” (lit. ephemeral space) as the French call it was created in the heart of the Marais neighborhood in Paris in order to rediscover this sensual fragrance through an artistic and sensory itinerary, meant to be taken at a leisurely pace. The exhibit proves to be a succession of unforeseen surprises and sensory delights. One is invited along the way to slide open the drawers of a mysterious curios cabinet and discover their exotic contents, sip fragrant tea in the tea room, and even take a relaxing massage. Opium was inspired by Yves Saint Laurent's numerous travels to Morocco, Japan, China, Mongolia, India and Turkey and these multi-cultural sources of inspiration form the theme of the “Opium Express” exhibit.......
"Yves Saint Laurent by Artus" © Pauline/The Scented Salamander
Please come visit the exhibit! © Pauline/The Scented Salamander
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 What will be doing on Valentine's Day 2008? Here's an idea; why not go to the sniff-dating event organized by the Dana Centre at the Science Museum in London, UK? "We each have smells we find attractive and others we don’t. Is it possible to sniff out your ideal partner? Perfumer and aroma scientist George Dodd will lead you through this sniff-dating event."
When? February 14, 2008, 19:00-21:00 at the Dana Centre. You can book your tickets here.
A beautiful exhibition called Les Années Folles (1919-1929) can currently be seen at the Musée Galliera de la Mode de la Ville de Paris. It offers a retrospective on the fashion and beauty culture of the Roaring Twenties showing the progressive emancipation of the feminine body. The era saw the birth of the garçonne and a host of convenient symbols of emancipation such as smoking in public, driving a car, wearing short dresses and short hair, signs that hardly masked the fact that the right to vote was still denied to women in France and would be until 1944. In the US, thanks to the suffragette movement, national women's vote was established earlier, by 1920. The first country in the world to grant women the official right to vote was actually New Zealand in 1893.......
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More information about the goals and attendees of this trade event available after the jump, courtesy of PXA's press release........
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WWD reports that Guerlain have opened their first freestanding boutique in the US earlier this week. It is located on the ground floor of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Another US-based boutique is scheduled to open in the spring of 2008.
The art of Perfumery in the 1920s is being duly paid homage to at the international level, from Paris to Tokyo this season. In Tokyo, Shiseido Co. is organizing an exhibit titled " Romance and Fragrance" on perfume bottles and fashion plates by George Barbier, a famous illustrator from the art deco period alongside artists like Erté or Iribe. Barbier contributed illustrations to a book on fragrance entitled The Romance of Perfume by Richard Le Gallienne in 1928, from which the title of the exhibit is borrowed although the plates on show will be from two other works of his, Le Bonheur du Jour and Falbalas and Fanfreluches........
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As reported earlier, the niche perfume house Divine founded by Yvon Mouchel in 1986, which initially opened in Dinard in Brittany then recently secured a display area at the Bon Marché in Paris has now inaugurated a luxurious flagship store rue Scribe in the neighborhood of the Opéra in the capital city. The house offers a collection of six fragrances focusing on quality: " DIVINE, L'Ame Soeur, L'Infante, L'Inspiratrice, L'Homme Sage, L'Homme de Coeur".......
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 Experts in the art of happening and urban theatricality, Comme des Garçons have set up a temporary store to preview their new perfume 888 inspired by the smell of gold. It is located 5 Burlington Arcade, London W1. The show runs for about four more days and then the shop will close. 888 will be officially launched in March of 2008. Read more......
Symine Salimpour who designed Shiloh together with perfumer Michel Roudnitska cordially invites you to the Hors Là Monde Trunk Show at Henri Bendel's,
Londoners or visitors to London eager to learn more about the history of fragrance can attend a talk offered by expert Roja Dove at the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Lecture Theatre on the 14th of December 2007 at 7:15 pm. Tickets available online.
"Roja Dove, Maestro of Fragrance and the world’s only Professeur des Parfums reveals the stories behind great couture perfume creations including Diorissimo for Christian Dior, L’air du Temps by Nina Ricci and Balenciaga’s Le Dix......"
(via Design Taxi)
Fruits & Passion, a fine perfume and body-care line originating from Canada and now implanted at the international level through its franchised network, has released two new perfumes for men called Numéro 001 and Numéro 002 in its F/P Homme collection. Numéro 001 is green, fresh, aromatic and is dedicated to the adventurous man. It is described as being easy to wear and embodying some of his typical traits such as being natural, full of energy, and young at heart......
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Cathy Guetta sera au Sephora de l'Avenue des Champs-Elysées le 7 décembre 2007 à 16h 30 très précises pour vous dédicacer ses parfums, Ibiza for Men et Ibiza for Women de Ibiza Parfums. Son mari, le DJ David Guetta sera là également pour créer un peu d'ambiance.
You are Cordially invited to the Tsi ~ La Trunk Show
November 26th through December 1st
Monday - Friday 10am-8pm Saturday 9am-8pm
712 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10019 Model Annie Morton and long time friend Natalie Szapowalo founded Tsi ~ La to create pure and natural products beneficial to your overall well-being. Working in the fashion and beauty industry for many years and drawing on knowledge from their extensive studies in natural health sciences and aromatherapy has enabled them to work side by side with renowned natural perfumers and cosmetic chemists to create this “Green Luxury” product line. Tsi~La, (pronounced chee-la), is the abridged version of the word “atsilvsgi”, meaning “flower” in Cherokee.
Tsi~La is the essence of nature – a marriage of organic freshness and pure plant botanicals. You can read more information about the Tsi~La perfumes here
The Comité Français du Parfum (CFP) has set up a new website on the occasion of a perfume promotion campaign called Le Parfum, Quelques Gouttes de Luxe, which features in particular a series of video interviews with personalities from the fragrance world (click on "Parfum et Inspiration"). They are Vanessa Seward, artistic director at Azzaro, Jean-Paul Guerlain, Annick Ménardo, Jean-Claude Ellena, Mathilde Laurent, Dominique Ropion, Sophie L'Abbé, Jean-Michel Duriez, Lolita Lempicka, and Jacques Polge.........
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7,5 ml and 15 ml of pure perfume, 105 € or US $ 152 and 165 € or US $ 238 Vero Kern is the founder and perfumer of .Vero.Profumo. a Zurich-based independent perfume house. Kern was trained in Paris in the classical tradition of French perfumery. She is also well known as the close friend and collaborator of other Swiss indie perfumer Andy Tauer, whom we have had the pleasure of welcoming on this blog for an interview in the past. Vero Kern currently offers a collection of three perfumes called Rubj, Onda, and Kiki. They are now available, in extraits de parfums versions, directly from her visually arresting website, which has been revamped as a shopping site.......
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Parfums de Nicolaï have revamped their website, which now offers more content, illustrations, and a more sophisticated design. It is a commercial website in both French and English and you can order directly from them. They have several upcoming new perfumes and scented home products, including a new line called Les Magnifiques (The Magnificent Ones).
 We recently happened on the site of a young Hungarian perfumer named Zsolt Zolyomi. We asked him if he could tell us a bit more about himself and his brand, Parfums Zsolt Zolyomi. We were interested in knowing what perfumes he had created as we saw that he had been involved in several projects that typically included social events.
It turns out that he is currently hard at work setting up a perfume store in Budapest and being very conscious that this is an area of cultural appreciation that remains to be developed in Hungary, he is directing his efforts in this direction at the moment. His avowed goal is to reconnect with the roots of modern Western perfumery in Hungary, which famously took place in the 14th century with the creation of the Eau de la Reine de Hongrie, a rosemary-based perfume and lotion reputed to have rejuvenated Elizabeth of Kujavia (1305-1380). Apart from that, his style, what we like to think of as a poetico-realistic style nurtured by nostalgia and memories of happiness but not exclusively, perhaps a little bit à la Christopher Brosius in the US, seems to be a strong one at the moment in his work. We are certainly looking forward to smelling a Hungarian summer in the countryside ......
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Ormonde Jayne has just opened her new online boutique destined to international shoppers. No dire need anymore to go on a pilgrimage to London. From the press communication, "All customers will receive a complimentary sample of an Ormonde Jayne perfume and packages will arrive on your doorstep in glossy white boxes embossed with the OJ logo with products nestled in antique gold shagreen paper. Look out for the new Sample Programme containing all ten fragrances housed in a velvet and satin pouch designed particularly for our clients who can't make it to our Old Bond Street perfumery.......
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Scent Systems, an artisan perfume brand which we mentioned before, will now have its collection of fragrances available at the brand new store of Dublin-based designer John Rocha, located in central London. Both perfumistas and fashionistas can now visit the new address at: 15a Dover Street
London W1
More information available on the John Rocha website. The Scent Systems bespoke service remains located at their studio address in Bloomsbury. Gift vouchers for this service are available from their website. (Source: Scent Systems press release)
Symrise is organizing an exhibition dedicated to the better understanding of contemporary fragrance culture in Russia called The Future of Fragrance in Russia or alternatively, A Taste of Russia. According to Perfumer & Flavorist Now, For women, floral-fruity scents are traditionally popular, while chypre and floriental fragrances are just emerging. Consumers tend to prefer citrus notes for the freshness they impart, while fruity notes are a “must.” Conversely, women tend to dislike rich, opulent, classical and excessively heavy scents.......
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Etat Libre d'Orange is preparing to launch a new perfume this Saturday September 22 2007 and this time it is inspired by a celebrity, Spanish actress Rossy de Palma. The jus is called Eau de Protection in reference to its attributed talismanic properties. Rossy de Palma who is perhaps best known for her role in Almodovar's film, Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, has also recently been behind the camera for a creative publicity movie for Aignier done in the French new wave style.........
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The internet is not yet scented, but it might very well be one day in the not-so-distant future. Meanwhile perfume brands like Yves Saint Laurent are becoming more and more present on the world wide web.........
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The Jo Malone brand is expanding its international presence with the opening in a few days - and after Cannes - of a new boutique in Paris, rue Saint-Honoré. Next, another boutique will open in Lyon. Boutique Jo Malone Paris, 326, rue Saint-Honoré, 75001.
Boutique Jo Malone Lyon (ouverture en octobre), 95, rue du Président-Edouard-Herriot, 69002.
Boutique Jo Malone Cannes, 25, rue d’Antibes, 06400. .......
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Laurice Rahme to Celebrate the Debut of the First Retail Eaux de Parfum of
Bond No. 9’s Saks Fifth Avenue for Her and Saks Fifth Avenue for Him
President and CEO of Bond No. 9, Laurice Rahme, introduces you to her latest fragrance creation with a very special personal appearance and bottle signing at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City WHEN: Saturday, September 15, 2007
12PM- 5PM WHERE: Saks Fifth Avenue Bond No. 9 counter, First Floor Cosmetics and Fragrances 611 Fifth Avenue @ 50th Street You can read our reviews of Bond No.9 Saks For Her and Saks For Him. We noticed that Saks love them so much that they call them DNA For Her and DNA For Him on their website, in reference to the idea that their DNA was perfectly captured.
Parfum Madhva, Salon Divinessence (press release)
Two places worthy of visiting for the perfumista are the new Divine boutique in Paris and come December, the Salon Divinessence in Paris also that will hold court on the 8th and 9th of 2007. Divine perfumes, which originally hail from Brittany and were recently only available in Paris at the Bon Marché are now enshrined in a new boutique, whose manager and owner is the wife of the founder of the brand, Yvon Mouchel. Its address is: 3, rue Scribe
75009 Paris
Tel: 01 40 06 03 14 ............
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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......
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Marc Jacobs, as part of their advertising campaign to promote their upcoming new fragrance called Daisy, have set up a website with playful interactive tools. The perfume will debut in August and is aimed at young women.....
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 Fragrance Conspiracy presents itself on its business card as an alternative distributor of rare perfumes, the ones in particular created by artistic director Rami Mekdachi a former musician who is now well-known for having a knack in bringing out the soul and personality of a place and translating it into perfumes......
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François Joyaux, who used to be best known as a specialist of political sciences and Asia (cf. La Nouvelle Question d'Extrême-Orient), has become a renowned rose expert and author. He has already written several books on the topic including his latest one bearing the title Les Roses de l'Impératrice: la rosomanie au temps de Joséphine (The Roses of the Empress: rose mania in the times of Joséphine), in which he studies the rose craze in the society of the First Empire which reflected itself in all aspects of culture and society from architectural ornamentation to rose collecting. Joséphine de Beauharnais in particular is famous for having developed a unique collection of roses in the greenhouses at Malmaison, which were drawn very precisely by artist Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) and published in a book of prints called Les Roses (1817-1824)....... Rosa Gallica Charles de Mills
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The Russian news agency Regnum has announced that a new perfume museum has opened its doors yesterday in the ancient capital of the tsars in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. It is located on the territory of the Severnoe Siyanie (Aurora Borealis) perfume manufactory plant. The collection comprises unique artifacts of the art of perfumery from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, cosmetics from the revolutionary and war periods, samples of fine Soviet perfumes, including legendary ones.....
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Perfumery workshops as well as perfume tourism are becoming increasingly popular in France. Following this trend, the InterContinental Paris Le Grand Hôtel is organizing an exhibition and event about perfumes called Parfums d'Eté or Summer Scents that will run next month from July 2nd to the 30th.......
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Bruno Jamais Restaurant Club, a New York retaurant in the Upper East Side is a place where celebrities like to mingle and has already attracted the likes of "...Bill Clinton, Peter Cook, Billy Baldwin, Chazz Palminteri, Chris Noth, Fat Joe, The Gastineau Girls, Spike Lee, Kim Cattral, and Fergie, the Duchess of York, Joan Rivers, and Cindy Adams." They are offering female readers of The Scented Salamander the exciting opportunity to drink, dine, and dance in style for 50% off on Sunday nights ! We were precisely reading an article about Everybody Eats There and thinking about some analogies with perfume-wearing by celebs; but more on that later......
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I saw that Opus Oils had created a fragrance for Rouge Beauty. For the sake of cataloguing fragrance destinations, here is their address in the French Quarter in New Orleans, next to Hove and French Bourbon (I plan to review some of the latter's scents in a bit by the way): 901 Chartres Street
New Orleans, LA 70116
(French Quarter)
Tel: 504-528-8686
The French Embassy and the Alliance Française in Bangkok, Thailand are organizing an exhibition on Art & Perfume called Senseless Essences that will take place from June 27 to July 25 2007 at the Gaysorn Plaza........
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Gail Gordon together with her sister Suzan Theriault have opened a new beauty spot in Rockland, Maine called Harbor Beauty Bar. The main concept here is to offer beauty products and fragrances as you would showcase jewelry and to do so in sea-resort towns. The owners are natives of Rockland. They plan to open another boutique in the future in Newport, Rhode Island. Their new sanctuary carries some carefully selected fragrances and beauty products, including men's beauty products. Source: Press release
The Musée Christian Dior à Granville is organizing a new exhibition celebrating the 60 years of the fashion house and the 10 years of the museum. The exhibit is called 60 Années Hautes En Couleur (60 Colorful Years). It will run from May 13 to September 23 2007 (the information is not yet up on the site).....
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Around the time of the 60th Cannes Cinema Festival (16-27 mai 2007), Jo Malone will open a new boutique on the 10th of May 2007 near the Croisette. People are invited to discover the joys of "fragrance combining"and their best-seller, Lime Basil and Mandarin.
Address: 25, rue d'Antibes. Source: Au Féminin
 Perfume designer Stéphanie de Saint-Aignan now has a website through which one can contact her. Each year, she puts out a new collection. However, if one becomes dearly attached to a particular fragrance, one can use the coupon found with each purchased bottle and register. This gives you the possibility to order copies of the fragrance at any time in the future as long as the brand is alive.
www.stephaniedesaintaignan.com Source: Nicolas Olczyk
 This is a picture of a perfume vial salvaged from the Titanic. It will be exhibited at the Ontario Science Center for the exhibition called The Artifact Exhibition. It is described as "a perfume vial from Adolphe Saalfeld, a perfume maker from Manchester who was heading to New York [in 1912]to take advantage of the booming perfume market,"........
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Starting in May of 2007, Guerlain will inaugurate a new series of perfumery workshops that will be open to the public. There will be workshops for adults called Les Contes Parfumés (Perfumed Tales) where 10 people at a time will be initiated to the history of Guerlain and to the creation of a perfume.....
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 The Musée International de la Parfumerie de Grasse will reopen in early 2008 after having closed in December of 2005 to conduct its renovation project. The new museum will have doubled its size to 3000 m2 and will be organized around three locations: the Hôtel Morel-Amic, an 18th century building, the Pélissier building, and the existing museum. The architect for the project is Frédéric Joung.The ARMIP (Association for the International Perfume Museum), led by perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena, has contributed to the project. The permanent collection will be curated by Marie-Christine Grasse. Source: Cosmetic News
 Galeries Lafayettes in Paris is organizing two exhibitions inspired by the vegetal world called Jungle D'Eden (Jungle of Eden) and Les Paradis Artificiels (Artificial Paradises). Attractions in the first exhibition include a flower bar where one will be able to taste edible flowers and cocktails mixing flowers and fruits.....
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 L'Osmothèque, a unique perfume conservatory located in Versailles, France, is organizing a cycle of conferences dedicated to the lay person's better understanding of the essential components of a perfume. Here is the full calendar for those of you who will be in Paris at those dates: [Le 7 MARS 2007 à 18 H exceptionnellement un MERCREDI :
« LES PRODUITS NATURELS » par Mme Monique RÉMY.
« LES PRODUITS ANIMAUX » par M. Christian RÉMY.
Fondateurs des « Laboratoires de matières premières Naturelles Monique RÉMY ».]
Le MARDI 24 AVRIL 2007 à 18 H :
« LES PRODUITS DE SYNTHESE » par M. Jacques VAILLANT.
Directeur Technique Société « QUEST International »......
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 Artisan perfumer Laurie Stern now has a retail website for her brand of natural botanical perfumes, Velvet & Sweet Pea's Purrfumery: "Hearkening back to ancient apothecary and romantic aesthetics, all of Velvet & Sweet Pea's Purrfumery's natural, botanical perfumes unleash a multi- sensory experience for the wearer. Delicate scents are hand blended in small caches using the most precious floral essences and extraordinary oils, such as narcissus flower and violet leaf....
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 Evody is a new Parisian niche perfumery located between Saint-Michel and Odéon in the Latin Quarter that has opened at the beginning of December 2006. The name Evody is borrowed from the Bible and refers to a woman who is said to have been always on a quest for new perfumes. It is managed by a mother and daughter team, Régine and Cérine Droin. They bring in their experience of selective perfumery and were encouraged to open the boutique by Sylvaine Delacourte, the artistic director of Guerlain......
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President and founder of the New York perfume house Bond No 9 Laurice Rahmé will be making a public appearance at Saks Fifth Avenue on Saturday 10 March 2007 from 12 to 5 pm to promote their 28th fragrance called Bryant Park. "Gifts will also be handed out to loyal customers and Ms. Rahmé will be on hand to chat and sign your favorite Bond bottle!" Picture is of Laurice Rahmé in the fab Bond-Mobil.
Aedes is organizing an event with Camille Goutal, the daughter of Annick Goutal and now owner of the Annick Goutal Parfums. She also works with in-house perfumer Isabelle Doyen to compose the perfumes in their line.....
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 I received an update from Dior regarding the availability of Diorama (1949) and Diorling (1963). Although these perfumes do not seem to be listed on their official website, I was sent the information that you can purchase them through the Dior boutique located on Avenue Montaigne in Paris.....
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Annick Goutal has opened her re-styled boutique 14, rue de Castiglione in Paris with a new "boudoir" section. It now offers a Beauty Institute service on the 2nd floor as well as sells jewelry by designer France Thierard and stationery by Marie-Papier besides their perfume line....
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 I had the opportunity to speak with a rep from Nina Ricci, a charming and very helpful young man by the way, and the following is the complementary information I was given. According to Nina Ricci, the possibility of purchasing the classic fragrances Coeur Joie (1946), Fille d'Eve (1952), Capricci (1961), and Farouche (1974) has always remained. The way the system works is that you need to custom-order them unless the very select perfumery you address yourself to happens to have the scent you are looking for....
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 Hi-
I really enjoy your blog--I think you are doing something unique and interesting. A real pleasure to read.
I have two questions for you that may be easy for you to answer.
First, where is the Parfums de Rosine boutique in Paris; I have been told that it's in the Palais Royal, but never found it. And I have never seen the Rosines anywhere in Paris except at a Foire in the Tuileries last year, of Saveurs et Senteurs. But no one there knew where to find the Rosines in Paris either.
Also, I have been reading some of the French perfume boards, and keep seeing mention of an Amber fragrance "de chez Ecuador" and I absolutely cannot figure out what this is. Can you help?
Many many thanks,
All best
Camille Camille, many thanks for your letter, here is my answer to your query:.....
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 I have realized there are so many interesting niche and even very niche perfume brands and stores out there that need to have the spotlight on them more that I have decided to compile a specialized directory of niche perfumeries (both of the brands themselves and of the stores carrying those niche perfume brands). Eventually I will add the big perfume houses but since these are better known I'll leave them until later.
It's also a way for me to finally organize more systematically what I had started doing by creating a "Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses" resource....
Photo of Colonial Drug in Cambridge, MA by The Scented Salamander
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 Romano Ricci, the grandson of the founder of the Nina Ricci brand has created a new fragrance line called Juliette Has A Gun. The first two scents, Lady Vengeance and Miss Charming will bow in December 2006 and will be available for purchase in the high-end concept Parisian store Colette...
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 Sephora Champs-Elysées will host a Serge Lutens perfume event this Thursday October 28 2006 at 18 h. It is dedicated to the promotions of Chypre Rouge and Fumerie Turque, the latter in a limited edition for the export line. Please note that Serge Lutens will NOT attend the event...
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 A new perfume museum, the Annette Green Perfume Museum opened in downtown Los Angeles on 17 October 2006. Its fund is made up of a collection of 1, 600 fragrance bottles collected by the emeritus president of the New York-based Fragrance Foundation. This new permanent collection succeeds to the Annette Green Museum at the Fragrance Foundation previously opened in 1999 which is considered to be the first fragrance museum in the US. The originality of the new museum is that it looks at perfume history as closely interrelated with that of fashion. It is located at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising...
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