Denyse Beaulieu of the Grain de Musc blog will be teaching a 3-day course titled ‘Decoding Fragrance’ at the London College of Fashion this coming June:
The course, designed and given by the Paris-based fragrance writer Denyse Beaulieu with the input of master perfumers…
As I write this review, the temperature in Seattle is nearing 70 degrees; it hasn’t been so warm here since last October. Fueled by optimism, I’m taking my spring shirts, even short-sleeved shirts, out of storage, and I’m “rousing” my spring and summer perfumes from their winter hibernation closet. (Come March, I need a break from heavy oudh, musk and wood fragrances.)
I’ve also been having a recurring “scent fantasy”: I’m sitting in the middle of a bright citrus grove, and the trees are full of ripe lemons, oranges and limes (and since it’s a fantasy, some orange trees are in full bloom as well). One citrus cologne that helps me conjure this scene is the recently reissued Penhaligon’s Extract of Limes — an old favorite of mine.
Extract of Limes was created in 1963 and disappeared sometime in the Nineties; it’s now part of Penhaligon’s 2009 Anthology Collection…
Laboratorio Olfattivo is a new niche line from the Rome-based niche perfume store of the same name. They debut with four fragrances:
Alambar ~ by perfumer Enrico Buccella. “This fragrance is Enrico’s tribute to an icon and its amber-scented world…
A video promo for the new Voyage d'Hermès fragrance.
Graphic artist Reed Seifer has introduced Spray to Forget, a limited edition fragrance launched in conjunction with the Armory Show held earlier this month in New York City…