Cacharel will launch Anaïs Anaïs Premier Délice, a new fragrance for women. Anaïs Anaïs Premier Délice is a flanker to the brand’s classic 1978 perfume, Anaïs Anaïs…
L’Artisan Parfumeur Caligna ~ fragrance review
When acquaintances who want to know more about perfume ask me for recommendations, I often suggest a visit to a L’Artisan Parfumeur counter. L’Artisan was the first “niche” fragrance house I ever experienced, back in the 1990s, and it’s still one of my favorites. Lately I’ve been watching with interest as L’Artisan has been highlighting certain long-standing aspects of its brand identity, perhaps re-asserting its rightful place in an increasingly crowded market. Since late 2012, for example, the company has been “telling the story of French perfumery” with its “Grasse Collection” of candles, scented gloves, and — starting now, with Caligna — fragrances.
Caligna “draws inspiration from the spiritual home of fragrance” — the countryside around Grasse — and its name reportedly comes from the word meaning “to court” or “to flirt” in the Provençal dialect. L’Artisan describes Caligna as “a woody, aromatic fragrance” with notes of clary sage, fig, jasmine marmalade accord, lentisc (the shrub that produces mastic resin) and pine needles; it was developed by perfumer Dora Baghriche-Arnaud.
All of Caligna’s notes are inspired by the landscape and vegetation of Provence, and it’s a refreshing take on the region, free of any clichéd lavender-sachet associations…
L’Artisan Parfumeur Caligna ~ new fragrance
French niche line L’Artisan Parfumeur will launch Caligna, a new woody aromatic fragrance. Caligna will be fronted by dancer Gudrun Ghesquière…
Olfactive Studio Still Life ~ fragrance review
As you may have gathered from some of my past posts, I get touchy when arbitrary (or inaccurate) analogies are drawn between perfume and the visual arts. However, Olfactive Studio’s collaboration between photographers and perfumers is specific and yet open-ended enough to leave breathing room for everyone involved. Each fragrance is inspired by a photograph and is given a term from the photographic arts. Lately I’ve been sampling Still Life, which was prompted by a photograph by Frédéric Lebain (above, cropped).
Lebain’s still-life photograph shows an arrangement of three photographic prints of mirrored disco balls surrounded by a dusting of confetti. It contains images-within-an-image, and it could be a self-referential meditation on photography’s two-dimensional representations of a three-dimensional world; it’s playful and cerebral at the same time. Still Life, the fragrance, was developed by perfumer Dora Arnaud. It’s a woody citrus with notes of yuzu, elemi, pink pepper, black pepper, Sichuan pepper, star anise, galbanum, dark rum, cedarwood and ambrox…
Olfactive Studio Still Life, Autoportrait & Chambre Noire ~ new fragrances
French niche line Olfactive Studio debuts with three fragrances: Still Life, Autoportrait and Chambre Noire.
Olfactive Studio is an encounter between contemporary artistic photography and perfumery; between the eye and the nose…