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Up for grabs: Aedes de Venustas Signature

Posted by Robin on 8 May 2012 235 Comments — Comments are closed

Aedes de Venustas Eau de Parfum

What is it: A 100 ml bottle of Aedes de Venustas Signature, used for testing only (it is mostly full).

How do I get it: For a chance to win, leave a comment telling me that you live in the US. Also, please tell me about your favorite unisex perfume.

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Top 10 Spring Fragrances 2012

Posted by Kevin on 4 May 2012 63 Comments

Spring in the Pacific Northwest is a transitional season — there are chilly days and warm days, a dry day (or two), and then there’s…RAIN…all types of rain — sprinkles, showers, ‘horizontal’ umbrella-proof rain, deluges, sometimes all in the space of one exciting hour. What separates spring from fall, another season with multiple personalities, are the fragrant flowers that bloom in spring: plum and cherry; narcissus; wintersweet; scented azaleas, camellias and witch hazels; lilacs; daphnes; hyacinths; and my favorite — wallflowers. For my springtime perfume choices, I (mostly) skip spring flowers in a bottle — no perfume matches the aromas of real plants blooming all around me. My spring favorites, most of them new discoveries and, as yet, un-reviewed, are a varied lot.

Ah…the smell of gasoline on a warm afternoon! Histoires de Parfums Pétroleum reminds me of lawn mower fumes mingling with the scents of flowers and cut grass. It makes me drowsy (in a good way). And speaking of grass (and roots) I’ll add LesNez Turtle Vetiver Front to my spring favorites list; it’s a rich and warm vetiver that works in any season (like a “perfume-scarf,” it blunts the chill on cold days and, conversely, it accentuates the heat of a warm day when you want that “baking” feeling).

As one bakes, one sweats, and I’m one of those people who likes a hot-and-bothered-smelling perfume on occasion (we’re talking ‘clean’ sweat — grapefruit, vetiver, cedar — no overwhelming cumin). In this clean-dirty category, I’ll put Kinski (with its marijuana and vetiver notes) and the éminence grise of modern perspiration perfumery: Cartier Déclaration…

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Aedes de Venustas Signature Eau de Parfum ~ fragrance review

Posted by Kevin on 3 May 2012 32 Comments

Aedes de Venustas Signature Eau de Parfum

Ever since it opened shop in New York City, Aedes de Venustas has had a special place in my perfume-loving heart. I remember the old days when I’d anxiously await the arrival of the always-beautiful Aedes de Venustas catalogues and then figure out what perfume(s) and soaps and candles I couldn’t live without (the intervening 17 years have taught me I can live without just about everything!) I introduced “legions” to the store and online boutique by saying, around birthday-time and Christmas (in wording that varied): “A present for ME? There’s no need! Weeeeell, I love just about everything at (you guessed it) Aedes de Venustas.” Now Aedes de Venustas has launched a new fragrance called Aedes de Venustas Signature Eau de Parfum (not to be confused with the L’Artisan Parfumeur Aedes de Venustas fragrance.)

Bertrand Duchaufour, the perfumer of L’Artisan Parfumeur’s Aedes de Venustas, developed Aedes de Venustas Signature, too; it has fragrance notes of rhubarb, tomato leaf, red currant, green apple, honeysuckle, vetiver, hazelnut and incense.

Aedes de Venustas Signature begins with a tangy, green/fruit accord: a “hot,” rough tomato leaf scent combined with musky currant, a quick burst of apple, and rhubarb. Let’s stop right here and talk “rhubarb”…

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Aedes de Venustas Signature Eau de Parfum ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 28 March 2012 21 Comments

Aedes de Venustas Eau de Parfum

West Village niche perfume boutique Aedes de Venustas has launched an eponymous fragrance under their own brand name. A prior fragrance, also called Aedes de Venustas, was made for the L’Artisan Parfumeur label. The new chypre scent was developed by perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour, who also did the fragrance for L’Artisan…

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Perfume meet & greet: Bertrand Duchaufour in New York City

Posted by Robin on 22 September 2010 11 Comments

Perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour will be making three appearances in New York City next month to introduce his latest perfumes for Penhaligon’s and L’Artisan Parfumeur…

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