I have boxes where I put my different projects, but I have thousands of different fragrances either nearly finished or at the starting point. It’s like when you’re solving a puzzle or when you’re making a dress or even a painting. I’m quite inspired by painting. A painter can start his painting,leave it for a month and then go back.
— Perfumer Aliénor Massenet on the creation process. Read more in Q&A With Aliénor Massenet, Senior Perfumer Of Symrise at Forbes.
Roger & Gallet has launched a new quartet of fragrances for men: L’Homme Menthe, L’Homme Cèdre, L’Homme Vétyver and L’Homme Patchouli…
Earlier this month, I dove into the new fragrance line Hermetica. This week I took a step back to revisit Memo, Hermetica’s older “sibling” brand, and I sampled two fragrances that I hadn’t tried before — one new, one old, both developed for Memo by perfumer Aliénor Massenet.
The new release is Winter Palace, summarized as “Tea and Fire.” Its composition includes notes of grapefruit, dry amber wood, bergamot, benzoin, cistus labdanum, orange, styrax, tolu, vanilla, red tea, musk, tonka bean, lemon, maté and Gurjum balsam. Winter Palace has joined Memo’s “Artland” collection…
Hermetica is a new niche fragrance line that launched in 2018; it offers “a collection of molecular fragrances inspired by the ancient practice of alchemy” and was founded by John and Clara Molloy (the duo behind Memo and Floraïku), who decided to “create a revolutionary collection by not choosing between natural ingredients or synthetic molecules but using a combination of the two.” Additionally, Hermetica seems to be claiming the fragrances’ alcohol-free base as another innovation.
I’m no chemist, but I’m raising my eyebrows for a few reasons…
Karl Lagerfeld has launched Fleur d’Orchidée and Bois de Cèdre, the third duo in the Les Parfums Matières collection…