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Pont des Arts A Ce Soir & A Chaque Instant ~ fragrance reviews

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There’s new perfume house in town: Pont des Arts. Some of you might be groaning, and I don’t blame you. It’s hard enough to keep up with promising releases from houses we already know and love. Stop it with the new brands already!

That said, Pont des Arts bears watching. Its first offering is a manageable three fragrances including an oriental, a floral chypre and a fresh woody citrus. Even more intriguing, perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour developed the oriental, À Ce Soir, and the floral chypre, À Chaque Instant…

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Friday scent of the day 11/30

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It’s Renegades Friday (and the last day of November). Our community project for today: wear a perfume by one of the Project Renegades perfumers (Mark Buxton, Bertrand Duchaufour or Geza Schoen), if you have one.

What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.

I’m off-season, in the lovely warm weather floral Neela Vermeire Créations Pichola from Bertrand Duchaufour…

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Neela Vermeire Creations Rahele ~ fragrance review

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You know how you only need to see a few square inches to know that a painting is a Van Gogh? Or read a paragraph to know a story is by Hemingway? Perfume brands can have a distinctive style, too. It’s wonderful when an artist has a “voice.” On the other hand, can a style become limiting — or even boring? For perfume, how do you avoid the olfactory equivalent of playing the same tune, but in a different register?

Neela Vermeire Créations’ fragrances have a definite voice: spice, a creamy density, a love of incense, wood and rose…

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Neela Vermeire Creations Niral ~ fragrance review

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Niral is the newest fragrance from Neela Vermeire Créations,1 a Paris-based niche house offering “French contemporary classic perfumes with an Eastern heritage.” Each fragrance from this line tells a cross-cultural tale, and Niral is inspired by British silk expert and industrialist Sir Thomas Wardle and “his immense contribution to the promotion of Indian wild silk trade from Bengal and Kashmir to Europe,” particularly his innovations in dyeing tussar silk.

Niral was developed by perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour and it includes notes of iris, tea, pink pepper, rose, green wine lees,2 cabreuva, angelica seed, ambrette seed, cardamom, leather, magnolia, jasmine, sandalwood and cedar. Its name comes from a Hindu word meaning “unique, calm, serene,” and it does feel serene, in a very elegant way…

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