Indie natural house Aftelier has launched Sepia, a new unisex fragrance…
Post-Easter 2012 contest at Tauer Perfumes
Tauer Perfumes is giving away three bottles of perfume from the Tauer Parfums or Tableau de Parfums line. Go comment on the Tauer blog to win!
OK. There we go again. The Easter bunny is a free rabbit again and happy because the Easter job is done. It has become sort of a tradition to celebrate this with a little draw.
Mary Greenwell Plum ~ fragrance review
One morning last week I lay on the acupuncturist’s table, stuck like a pomander, trying to identify the familiar yet elusive note that carries Mary Greenwell Plum. It wasn’t plum — that much I knew. Maybe it was the lobotomizing New Age music or maybe the needle planted smack in the middle of my forehead, but the answer came to me all at once: Smuckers. Smuckers grape jelly, to be precise.
Mary Greenwell Plum hit the market in October 2010 and quickly became a must-sample fragrance. It had a lot of promising features: its perfumer was François Robert, accomplished nose and descendant of the legendary Guy Robert and Henri Robert; it was a chypre; and it was hard to find.
Mary Greenwell is a British makeup artist who made her start prepping a teenaged Brooke Shields for a Francesco Scavullo photo shoot…
She always gets what she wants
British singer Florrie Arnold (face and voice) for Nina Ricci's new Nina Fantasy.
The Monday Mail ~ help Lee find a new perfume
Today we’re helping Lee. She says every perfume she tries ends up “going to sugar” in the dry down, and she wants our help finding something dry — nothing fruity, nothing amber-y, nothing sugar-y and definitely nothing powdery. She is open to fragrances geared towards either gender, and she’s love to find something under $100.
Here is what we know about Lee:
She’s in her late 30s.
She works in science, but in an office, not a lab.
If she could make a California Girl perfume, it would smell like hiking through the grassy, sage and California laurel hills of Marin County on a hot day, then down through the wet redwoods, pine sap and black earth of Mt. Tamalpais, then coming out at last through the gardens of Stinson Beach to the beach itself with its cold breeze off the ocean.
Lee likes earthy and vegetal smells: wet dirt, sun-heated rock, brick, lumberyards, sage, grass, lime, tomato leaves, campfires. She loves salty fragrances…