Parfums de Nicolaï has launched Patchouli Homme / Patchouli Intense:
“Patchouli is a material of great importance in the perfumer’s palette. It plays as first violin in the orchestra…”
The ozonic scent of salty air
Sofia’s world is largely a dark and silent one. As a blind and deaf child of 9, her sense of smell is one of the few means by which she can interpret the landscape. And what she is smelling today, on a small, laminated square, is the seaside. The ozonic scent of salty air, wet sand, seaweed and ocean spray has been replicated and impregnated on to a scrap of paper.
— From Communicating with children using smells at the UK Times Online.
Olivier Polge wins International Fragrance Prize
Perfumer Olivier Polge has won the 2009 International Fragrance Prize / Prix International du Parfum (formerly the Prix François Coty). The prize is awarded for artistic achievements in the field of perfumery. (via cosmeticnews)
Polge’s recent creations include Burberry The Beat, Davidoff Hot Water, Diesel Only The Brave, Jil Sander Jil…
D.S. & Durga 1538 Rheims, Smoked Amber, East MidEast and Royal Purpure ~ fragrance reviews
Brooklyn-based perfumers D.S. & Durga were hired to create four new fragrances for Anthropologie. People who like their fragrances light, bright and “modern” may find these perfumes too heavy and “retro,” but I have a taste for ‘liquor-y’, natural-smelling, artisanal fragrances of this type. I was pleasantly surprised that Anthropologie chose perfumes that match the vintage/quirky style of its clothes, furniture and house wares.
1538 Rheims
(iris, ginger lily, patchouli, musk)
Judging from the reactions here at Now Smell This, patchouli is a love-it-or-hate-it perfume oil, so let me start by saying 1538 Rheims is basically an invigorating patchouli fragrance. 1538 Rheims presents resinous, dense patchouli — not modern, cleaned-up, re-configured patchouli…
Shiseido Zen Concentrated ~ new fragrance
Shiseido will launch Zen Concentrated for women, a new limited edition flanker for the 2007 version of Shiseido Zen. It follows Zen White and Zen for Men, both released this year…