Eau d’Italie released Bois d’Ombrie* in 2006 — and I loved it. I was going to buy a bottle but something terrible happened and I didn’t want to associate the perfume with personal sadness. A smell can attach itself like glue, or a leech, to an event and its associated feelings.
Years sped by (and many hundreds of perfumes, too); Bois d’Ombrie was left behind…
Eau d’Italie’s Altaia brand has launched Wonder of You, a new unisex fragrance…
I think many of us have a box or bowl of perfume samples that we’ve tried once or twice, weren’t quite sure about and plan to try again someday — the “purgatory basket,” as Robin dubbed it years ago. I can never resist trying rose-inspired fragrances, even ones that I have a sneaking suspicion I might not actually like, so I inevitably end up with more than a few semi-forgotten rose samples rattling around my desk.
Here are brief reviews of four scents I recently plucked from sample limbo and gave another wearing…
Italian niche line Eau d’Italie has launched Easy To Love, a new fragrance…
Marina Serale and Sebastián Alvarez Murena of Eau d’Italie have launched Purple Land, a new fragrance under the Altaia brand name…