A video promo for the new exhibit Making Scents: The Art and Passion of Fragrance at Longwood Gardens.
Includes a brief apearance by perfumer Olivier Polge, who developed the garden's new perfume, Always in Bloom.
Sweet Anthem fragrances now in Eau de Parfum
Seattle-based indie line Sweet Anthem has launched a new line of Eau de Parfums. Twenty of the line’s existing fragrances, previously available only in oil-based perfume extract, can be found in the new 60 ml vintage atomizer bottles for $85 each…
Hidden things of great value
Roger Turpening has made a career of searching for hidden things of great value, many of them deep underground and traded on commodities exchanges. Now he is applying his seismic imaging skills in pursuit of another kind of oil, one that grows in trees.
— From On the Trail of Sandalwood Oil at Science Daily, with many thanks to Ruth for the link!
Strange Invisible Perfumes Essence of IX ~ fragrance review
I don’t drink much (anymore) and maybe (or maybe not?) that’s why I’m such a sucker for booze notes in perfume. Stuff like this…
She commissioned a twelfth-generation master distiller, also located in Napa, to produce an exquisite batch of French oak essence for the perfume. One of the defining alchemical accomplishments of the composition, the oak essence was triple distilled in old European copper stills from a wine called ‘Esprit de cognac’ which is aged in French oak barrels.1
…gets my attention, and add in rose, white sage, black currant, wild honey and lavender (ok, in all truth I can often do without lavender) and you’ve got something I’d like to try. The ‘she’ in the quote above is Alexandra Balahoutis, of indie botanical line Strange Invisible Perfumes, and the perfume is Essence of IX, a limited edition project in collaboration with California winery Colgin Cellars.
Essence of IX opens quite boozy (really, maybe it’s just the alcohol) and herbal, and it’s slightly medicinal to boot…
Longwood Gardens Always in Bloom ~ new perfume
In conjunction with their exhibit Making Scents: The Art and Passion of Fragrance, Longwood Gardens has launched Always in Bloom, a new fragrance for women:
Designed by 2009 International Fragrance prize winner Olivier Polge…