The cold weather version of our summer reading poll: tell us about a great book to curl up with on a frosty winter night, and what fragrance we should wear while reading it.
Need more additions to your list? You can also check out last year’s winter reading poll…
Tauer Perfumes will launch PHI — Une Rose de Kandahar later this month. PHI joins the Collectibles series, which also includes Zeta…
We like to work with perfumers who have a creative style that corresponds to our vision and who are fun to work with simply because we spend so much time developing scents that you might as well have fun doing it and that means not approaching it as a project but approaching it as an emotion that you’re trying to put in a bottle. What makes a good perfumer is his or her talent to associate their creativity with something that is very technical, which is the mastery of chemical ingredients, it’s something very technical, very precise, that needs to be servicing the role of a creative story or an emotion and a good perfumer is someone who is able to fill in that gap.
— From An interview with Edouard Roschi, Co-Founder, Le Labo, at True To Me Too.
The weather has suddenly turned cool and windy here in the northeast, so it’s the perfect time for me to upgrade my skincare for extra moisture and protection — and if I can work a good-smelling product or two into my regimen, then all the better! Natural perfumer Mandy Aftel of Aftelier has just released a new Organic Ylang Face Elixir, which I’ve been sampling this week. It contains organic ylang ylang, a creamy floral blended with bright pink grapefruit and blood orange, both known for their toning and softening properties, in a base of seven organic oils (rice bran, sweet almond, apricot kernel, camellia, grapeseed, squalene and rose hip seed).
When I first became seriously interested in fragrance, and I was smelling as many perfumes as I could in order to define what I liked, I realized that ylang ylang was (and is) one of my favorite floral notes…