This is what I needed to wake me up yesterday morning: a short spot for the latest fragrance release from surf-lifestyle brand Roxy, Roxy Love. If anyone knows the music, please comment!
Bertrand Duchaufour hired by L’Artisan
Perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour has been hired by niche line L'Artisan Parfumeur, but he will not be the “house nose”. He will be in “in charge of creating bespoke fragrances and of other olfactory projects for the brand”. L'Artisan will continue to use a variety of outside perfumers to develop new fragrances, and Duchaufour will continue to work for other brands as well. (via osmoz)
Duchaufour's past creations for L'Artisan include…
Filles des Iles Floral Solaire, Parfums de Nicolai Eau Turquoise ~ perfume reviews
According to my local weather forecast, it is currently “46°F Feels Like 39°F”. I can vouch for the “feels like” part — it is darned cold and dreary for May. I considered just staying in bed, but instead I thought I’d spray on a bit of the tropics today…
First up, Floral Solaire (or Golden Floral), the fourth release from niche line Filles des Iles. Filles des Iles is the latest venture from the same team that brought us the strikingly unconventional fragrance Dinner by Bobo — remember that one? It was once described, somewhere (sorry I can’t remember where), as meat served by a sweaty waiter. This time around, they’re doing rather conventional tropical florals, which presumably have more widespread appeal. Floral Solaire, developed by perfumer Celine Ellena, is described as “an expressive, teasing and fascinating scent”, and features notes of cedrat, star fruit, tropical breeze, passion fruit, lily, tiara, orchid, flamboyant, amber, benzoin, soft sand, musk and vanilla.
Tropical floral is probably not my favorite category to begin with…
Caron!
For anyone else needing a little perfume porn on this Monday morning (I, for one, am having a very hard time waking up today) here is a short film from Caron introducing their latest vintage reissue, Montaigne. Includes some great shots of the interior of Caron's boutique on Avenue Montaigne in Paris. In French, 2 1/2 minutes.
Update: video is no longer available, sorry!
The Posh Peasant ~ new niche and hand-decanted perfume retailer
The Posh Peasant is a new online retailer of niche fragrances (lines include Teo Cabanel, AromaM, Lily Lambert, Sage Machado, Keiko Mecheri, Filles des Iles & more) and hand-decanted fragrances (from Bond no. 9, Frederic Malle, Serge Lutens & more). Look for more lines, including Dawn Spencer Hurwitz & Michael Storer, to be added shortly.
To celebrate their online debut, The Posh Peasant is currently running two specials…