Chloé will launch Atelier des Fleurs, a new collection of nine feminine fragrances: Cedrus, Herba Mimosa, Hibiscus Abelmoschus, Jasminum Sambac, Lavanda, Magnolia Alba, Neroli, Rosa Damascena and Verbena…
Tuesday scent of the day 8/27
Tuesday and Pots de Creme Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Hermès Eau Claire des Merveilles. Tea the moment is Mariage Frères French Breakfast.
Reminder: 8/30 is National Slinky Day…
I smell everything
A spot for Le Couvent des Minimes Hattaï, Heliaca, Lysandra, Nubica and Saïga. Then below the jump, perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena talks about the brand and the collection.
Le Couvent des Minimes Les Parfums Singulieres ~ new fragrances
Le Couvent des Minimes has introduced Les Eaux de Parfum Singulières, a new collection of fragrances under the creative direction of perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena. The five “portraits of nature”— Hattaï, Heliaca, Lysandra, Nubica and Saïga — were inspired by the voyages of botanist Louis Feuillée…
That is happiness
It’s definitely not darkness and the opposition to darkness is light and lightness, so I think it’s shining, solar ingredients. It could be Tiaré flowers or frangipani flowers. When we are in Grasse and we are doing the harvesting of the rose in May, it’s early in the morning, at seven o’clock. You see the fields, you see the small church, you see the people picking up the flowers, the wind is blowing, the sky is blue: That is happiness.
— Perfumer Olivier Cresp on what happiness smells like. Read more at Heartbreak Smells Like Patchouli at The Cut.