Frank Los Angeles has launched Frank No. 1, a new fragrance for men…
Aedes de Venustas Copal Azur ~ new fragrance
West Village niche perfume boutique Aedes de Venustas will launch Copal Azur, the brand’s fourth fragrance…
Naomi Goodsir Or du Serail ~ fragrance review
It seems the more you throw into a perfume formula the less you smell (as in individual fragrance notes). Looking over the Naomi Goodsir Or du Sérail ingredients list (apple, orange, mango, coconut, honey, rum, tobacco, clary sage, maté, amber, davana, beeswax, cocoa, geranium, ylang ylang, oak, cedar, vanilla, labdanum, musk)…then sniffing Or du Sérail…bears this theory out. Most of those notes just blend in.
I’d love to have a magical machine; I’d place a perfume in the Per/Fume-Separator and order it: “Remove cocoa!” “Delete maté!” “Obliterate beeswax!” It would be interesting to see what notes do make a discernible difference in a scent…
Penhaligon’s Trade Routes Collection ~ new fragrances
Penhaligon’s will launch the Trade Routes Collection, with three fragrances inspired by “the luxurious and decadent commodities which were traded through London’s historic docks at the turn of the 19th Century”: Empressa, Levantium and Lothair…
Naomi Goodsir Or du Serail ~ new fragrance
Australian designer Naomi Goodsir has launched Or du Sérail, the brand’s third fragrance…