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Aedes de Venustas: an interview with Karl Bradl

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Aedes de Venustas is well known to fans of niche fragrances. The West Village boutique was founded by Karl Bradl and Robert Gerstner in 1995, and I when I dream about owning my own fragrance boutique, as I do from time to time, in my mind it looks pretty much exactly like what they have created at Aedes. I asked Karl to tell me how he became involved in fragrance retail, and how he, Robert, and store manager Miguel keep up with the competition.

How did you first become interested in fragrance?
My fascination with fragrance started when my mom gave me a bottle of Rothchild for Christmas in the early 80's. I was so much into the scent …

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New fragrances and candles

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Brazilian artist Romero Britto will expand his fragrance collection this November with Britto Azul, featuring notes of orange sorbet, lemoncello, apple blossom, ginger, white musk and white birch. (via Women's Wear Daily) 

Coming in September: a boxed trio of candles from Diptyque, including the scents Baies, Feuille de Lavande, and Figuier. (via postcard from Diptyque)

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Comptoir Sud Pacifique Aqua Motu fragrance review

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Aqua Motu by Comptoir Sud Pacifique

In honor of my recent return from what was probably my last beach vacation of the summer, today I am wearing Aqua Motu by Comptoir Sud Pacifique. Aqua Motu was originally released under the name Motu in 1992, and I believe the fragrance was reformulated when it was renamed. The notes for the current version are helychrisum, marine notes, lily of the valley, warm sand, and kelp.

I have never been a big fan of marine fragrances, but I adore Aqua Motu. It smells absolutely nothing like the mid-Atlantic beach where I now spend my summer vacations, and truth be told, it probably doesn’t really smell like an actual beach anywhere. All the same, in a way that I can’t exactly explain, it is an almost perfect, filtered-by-memory olfactory snapshot of the beach in La Jolla where I used to live…

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