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The Monday Mail ~ help Rae find a new perfume
This week, we're (hopefully) helping Rae. She's a student in her 20s, studying arts and design in a large city. Here are a few more details about her:
She says she usually strikes people as older than her age.
She is interested in all fields of art: music, performance arts, photography, literature.
She wears muted colors much of the time, but owns more dress shirts and blouses than T-shirts, and can pull off a red lipstick any time of the day.
Rae is looking for a calm and soothing fragrance…
Essence by Porsche Design ~ new fragrance
Porsche Design Group, a subsidiary of Porsche AG that focuses on men's accessories, will launch their first fragrance, Essence by Porsche Design, this October in conjunction with Azzaro (whose perfume business is in turn owned by Clarins):
One molecule — Artical, from International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) — was the starting point for The Essence by Porsche Design's fresh aromatic woody juice…
Liz Zorn is now Soivohle’ ~ new fragrances
Indie perfumer Liz Zorn, formerly doing business as Zz's Petals, has renamed her perfume business Soivohle', and has launched several new fragrances:
BOV-08-N (Blood Orange & Vetiver) ~ “Spicy, green and warm. With a hint of smoke and wood. The paring of Blood Orange and Vetiver is like a match made in heaven.”
VVL-08-N (Vanillaville) ~ “A rustic, smoky vanilla, with the essence of pipe tobacco and leather. Notes include Almond, Tonka, Tarragon, Birch Tar and Coffee.”…
Perfumer’s gardens
I am walking behind Serge Lutens, the creative director of Christian Dior in the 1960s and 1970s, and perfumer to Shiseido since the 1980s, as he shows me around his garden in Marrakech. Immaculately clad, despite the 30°C Moroccan heat, in a tailored black suit, Lutens, 66, occasionally darts off the path into the dappled greenery, emerging minutes later with a flower or seeds for me to smell. 'This garden has a personality that doesn't want to expose itself,' he says in his thoughtful, poetic manner. 'Except for the palm trees, everything else grows in the shade. The garden and I are similar. I wouldn't like to be too public and this is not a public garden. Every time I walk around here I discover something I don't know, because the garden grows itself.'
— From Grow your own perfume in the Telegraph, in which columnist Liz Hancock looks at gardens grown by Serge Lutens, George Dodd of Scent Systems, Edmond Roudnitksa and Michel Roudnitska.