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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."
Read more.....
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........
Continue reading "Perfume Expo America, May 12-14 2008 {Fragrance News} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}" »
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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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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