From the French Summer Tea collection at Mariage Frères, Violetta: "...a new black tea, flowery like a Parisian folly, heady like the summer in which to drink it – iced – all season long. Floral notes, fresh and sensual: white flowers and spring time violet, clear and sprightly." 160g in a black glass jar with measuring cap and a pack of envelope filters, €40.
You need to be passionate; it is a vocation, or a calling, to want to move people through enchanting fragrances. It’s a job 24/7; you only switch off when you have a cold or when you are really very tired. But an inspiration can capture you any time. And you must be able to always raise the bar and especially listen so that you can interpret a real olfactory melody. Knowing and loving different cultures, travelling to be 'contaminated' by new and different senses and sensibilities. Those candidates who make it will always be those that have something more than just a good sense of smell.
— Calice Becker on what it takes to become a perfumer. Read more at The woman behind some of the world’s most famous fragrances on how to smell your way to the top at Vogue Australia.
At last, you find a fragrance that you can’t wait to put on in the morning. It’s fresh but interesting, light but present. It smells like you and how you want to feel every day. One morning, you spritz the last from your bottle and hie to the store to buy a replacement, and….it isn’t there. The fragrance is no longer being made.
What now? Here are the steps I’d follow to get my hands on more of my Holy Grail…
The spot for Aqua Kenzo.
