Neela Vermeire Créations is a new Paris-based niche line exploring the history of India through three fragrances, Trayee, Mohur and Bombay Bling. All three scents were developed by perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour…
Make us smell more attractive
Perfumes have been used by people for thousands of years and the prevailing view has been that this was to mask our natural body odour to make us smell more attractive. In fact, what we have found is there is a strong individual interaction between perfume and body odour. People choose fragrances to complement their own odour.
— Dr Jan Havlicek of Charles University in Prague, quoted in Choice of fragrance 'influenced by our body odour' at the Telegraph.
Lazy weekend poll ~ bargains!
Name your favorite (scented) cheap thrills — perfumes, fragranced body or hair products, candles, and etc and etc.
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Christian Dior Patchouli Imperial ~ new fragrance
Christian Dior has launched Patchouli Impérial, a new addition to the La Collection Privée Christian Dior series…
Krigler English Promenade 19 and Chateau Krigler 12 ~ perfume reviews
Since the recent relaunch of its fragrance line, Krigler has positioned itself as a multi-generational, historic perfume house, with connections to both the Roaring Twenties and the golden age of Hollywood. It’s a good bet that quite a few serious perfume shoppers are drawn to one of these eras or the other, and while they have no interest in the latest fragrance licensed by a contemporary pop singer or reality-television personality, they may be curious about the perfumes worn by classic screen stars.
English Promenade 19, originally released in 1919, includes notes of orange blossom, fresh grapefruit, sweet white musk, oriental neroli and ylang-ylang. It was inspired by the French Riviera, where Krigler was based in the 1910s and 1920s — more specifically, it seems to refer to the Promenade des Anglais, a walkway along the Mediterranean in Nice. According to Krigler, English Promenade was purchased and worn by Audrey Hepburn while she was filming “Roman Holiday” in Rome with Gregory Peck.
I don’t know how faithful English Promenade 19 is to the formulation of 1919 or the early 1950s, when Audrey would have been wearing it, but it’s not quite what I expected…