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Which would you rather smell like…

Posted by Robin on 25 April 2008 4 Comments

My grandfather had a garage where he parked his Citroën. I remember it was woody, a haunting odour, he had some geraniums in there drying over the winter. It was near the airport. It’s hard to describe but I loved that odour.

— Perfumer Christophe Laudamiel on an odor from his youth that fascinated him. From Marian Bendeth's Interview with Les Christophs at Basenotes, which won Best Fragrance Editorial - Broadcast or Web at the Canadian Fragrance Awards.

On first whiff, the vanilla notes come charging at you like an out-of-control Mr. Soft Cone truck. Imagine that truck crashing into a Kool-Aid stand and you have this fragrance in a nutshell.

— From Sniff Test: Baby Phat Fabulosity, at the National Post.

If There Ever Was ~ an exhibition of extinct and impossible smells

Posted by Robin on 22 April 2008 9 Comments

The Reg Vardy Gallery at the University of Sunderland, Tyne & Wear, England, will host If There Ever Was: an exhibition of extinct and impossible smells:

In his book of essays entitled, Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, the physician Lewis Thomas wrote, “The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking itself.” And it is with this appreciation of smell as comparable to thought and interpretation that the exhibition If There Ever Was considers scent as integral to the perception of abstraction and representation…

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The smell of the global economy

Posted by Robin on 17 January 2008 13 Comments

Truth is, the global economy can sometimes stink.

So the World Economic Forum is targeting the noses of the 2,400 global leaders at the group's 38th annual meeting next week in Davos, Switzerland. Perfume-pumping machines in the main conference halls will spray eight specially created fragrances such as Artemis and Lavender Fields to relieve any unpleasant aromas that settle on delegates, who include Chevron Corp. Chief Executive Officer David O'Reilly, JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

— Perfumer Christophe Laudamiel creates 8 new fragrances to scent the World Economic Forum. Read more in Davos Aromas Deodorize Subprime Stench, Charm Dimon, Kissinger at Bloomberg.com.

Michael Kors Island & Island Capri ~ perfume review

Posted by Robin on 10 January 2008 46 Comments

Michael Kors Island fragrance

Michael Kors, who is reportedly “island-obsessed” (he grew up on Long Island and seems to be constantly jetting off to one or another island paradise), launched Island, his third fragrance for women, in 2005. He noted at the time that…

The first fragrance [that would be Michael] was all about intense indulgence. This one's all about casual living — you can wear it to the gym, or you can wear it to a black-tie event”. (via Women's Wear Daily, 12/3/2004)

Island was developed by perfumers Christophe Laudamiel and Loc Dong, and the notes are a good indicator of what is to come (and they aren't always): Kauai waterfalls, oxygenated water, Chinese kiwi, hydroponic honeysuckle, parrot tulip, champaca flowers, ginger lily, shimmering Bulgarian rose, stephanotis, white bark accord, Galapagos driftwood and rice fields. It sounds like a fresh ozonic-aquatic scent, and it is…

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Humiecki & Graef Skarb ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 17 November 2007 17 Comments

Humiecki & Graef SkarbThe first offering from niche line Humiecki & Graef is Skarb, a new fragrance for men named for the Polish word for treasure:

No other than the famous perfumer Christophe Laudamiel himself, prize winning ‘enfant terrible’ of the perfume industry…

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