Demeter has launched Orange Rim Cleaner, a new limited edition fragrance created for Irish artist Alan Phelan…
Expensive stuff that smells more or less like perfume
Artists can draw or paint or snap pictures—or make films and videos and installations—that talk, directly and with force, about almost anything that humans can think about. Artists can go for the wildly scatological or the emphatically political; they can craft experiences that work below the belt or speak to our most abstract mental capacities; they can please, but they can also enrage or disgust. Whereas most perfumers make expensive stuff that smells more or less like perfume.
— Art critic Blake Gopnik, from NY Museum Stages First ‘Scent’ Exhibit at the Daily Beast, a long discussion of Chandler Burr's upcoming exhibit, The Art of Scent at The Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. The exhibit opens a week from Tuesday.
Jul et Mad Terrasse a St Germain ~ fragrance review
Terrasse à St Germain is the second fragrance in the “Histoire d’Amour” trio from new niche line Jul et Mad, meant to evoke “a veritable ‘coup de foudre‘ between two souls on the terrace of a Parisian café.” It is described as “a floral woody musk” with notes of grapefruit, tangerine, rhubarb; freesia, lotus flower, blue rose; musk, sandalwood, and Indonesian patchouli. It was developed for Jul et Mad by perfumer Dorothée Piot.
I reviewed Jul et Mad’s Stilettos on Lex when the line was first launched: its powdery plum-violet composition was right up my alley. Terrasse à St Germain feels more contemporary and more unisex, but it’s similarly sophisticated. Don’t be scared by the inclusion of grapefruit and tangerine in the top notes: the fragrance’s fruity opening includes plenty of tart rhubarb with just a little candied citrus. The fruit and the floral phase that slowly emerges after it both feel cool and very slightly metallic, as though they were sprinkled in silver dust. The freesia and the rose are soft and pretty, but they never dominate enough to turn Terrasse à St Germain into a strictly feminine fragrance…
My journey began in Paris
Lyn Harris of Miller Harris talks about her new fragrances for British retailer Marks & Spencer.
L’Occitane Magical Leaves / Feuilles Magiques ~ new fragrance
L’Occitane has launched Magical Leaves / Feuilles Magiques, a new limited edition fragrance collection…