Guerlain will launch Oud Essentiel, a new limited distribution unisex fragrance. Oud Essentiel joins the Les Absolus d’Orient series, and follows 2016’s Ambre Éternel…
Guerlain Muguet 2017 ~ new perfume
Guerlain has launched their annual limited edition version of Muguet. The fragrance celebrates the May Day tradition of offering sprigs of lily of the valley to loved ones…
Guerlain L’Homme Ideal Sport ~ new fragrance
Guerlain will launch L’Homme Idéal Sport, a new flanker to 2014’s L’Homme Idéal, in May. L’Homme Idéal Sport follows 2015’s L’Homme Idéal Cologne…
New & upcoming perfume books for 2017
New and upcoming perfume books for 2017: The Art of Flavor: Practices and Principles for Creating Delicious Food by Mandy Aftel and Daniel Patterson, Smothering the Savage and An Imperfect Mimic by Avery Gilbert, Eisenberg Originals: The Golden Years of Fashion, Jewelry, and Fragrance, 1920s-1950s by Sharon Schwartz and Laura Sutton, Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture by Catherine Maxwell, Le roman des Guerlain by Élisabeth de Feydeau.
The Art of Flavor: Practices and Principles for Creating Delicious Food
A second book from chef Daniel Patterson and perfumer Mandy Aftel of Aftelier…
Guerlain Mon Guerlain ~ perfume review
tl;dr — a diet gourmand; meh.
Perfumistas as a group tend towards Guerlain-worship, and why shouldn’t they? Jicky, Shalimar, Après L’Ondée, L’Heure Bleue, Mitsouko, Chamade, Vetiver: these are excellent good reasons. But the respect accorded the Guerlain brand by perfumistas today, in 2017, continues to puzzle me. It isn’t like Guerlain hasn’t made anything worth smelling since their glory days, but my guess is that if you took all the brand’s output in the modern era (let’s say, 1990 and beyond) and you released it under some other, less illustrious brand name, that brand would get considerably less attention from avid fragrance fans…