Simon Constantine of Lush's sister company, B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful, talks about his new fragrances, Breath of God, Inhale & Exhale. Includes some interesting footage of the harvesting of raw materials, including sandalwood, neroli and rose.
Update: this video has been removed from YouTube, sorry!
The "Holiday" issue of Details magazine stinks.
I mean that quite literally. It reeks. It is pungent with odor. This is because the magazine is stuffed with ads for cologne or perfume or parfum or whatever you call the stuff desperate guys swab on their bodies in the hopes of getting lucky.
— Columnist Peter Carlson of the Washington Post in Pungent Details: All It Needs Is an Atomizer. He'd better stay away from Allure.
At Coco of Bruntsfield in Edinburgh, Rebecca Knights-Kerswell’s bold and dramatic confections are fragrance-led. “One of the girls who works with me has a background in perfumery, so, for example, we made a jasmine chocolate that tastes as wonderful as it smells,” she says.
— From Food detective: The rich list in the UK Times Online (go to page 2, and look for the "Handmade chocolates" section).
As a special holiday project, Lancôme asked jeweler Temple St. Clair to design “a piece of jewelry inspired by the lushly romantic Mille & Une Roses” fragrance…
I'll start with a disclaimer: this is not a list of the 100 Best Perfumes Of All Time, but rather, a list of 100 fragrances that anyone seriously interested in perfume should try. Put another way, it is meant to encompass a broad range of perfumes, good, bad, pretty, ugly, mainstream, niche, etc, and to provide a sort of general introduction to the subject of modern perfumery.
Some fragrances are included because they are Great Fragrances, others are here because they are so popular that it seems to me that you ought to know about them, still others, because they've spawned so many imitators that you ought to try the fragrance that inspired the trend. A few are here just because they are so weird or interesting or wonderful that they shouldn't be missed, and a few more, just because I adore them, and think everyone else should too, although many of my favorites are not on the list.
Like any such list, it is wildly idiosyncratic…
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