Learn how they make a Gilded Lily cocktail at the Alembic Bar in San Francisco, and listen to Ineke Ruhland talk about her latest fragrance, Ineke Gilded Lily. About 5 minutes long.
Perfume meet & greet: Ineke in Santa Monica
Ineke Ruhland of niche house Ineke will be at the Grand Opening of the Santa Monica Nordstrom to introduce her fragrance line:
I’m really excited to have the Ineke perfume line sold at Nordstrom for the very first time…
Ineke Gilded Lily ~ new perfume
Niche line Ineke will launch Gilded Lily, the seventh fragrance in their alphabetical series, in September:
When Ineke read about the amazing scent of the Goldband Lily of Japan (lilium auratum), she felt compelled to order a few for her garden to study their fragrance. This note became the heart of Gilded Lily…
Holiday fragrance gifts 2009, part 5
Ineke Field Notes from Paris ~ fragrance review
San Francisco-based Ineke has just released Field Notes from Paris, their sixth fragrance. Field Notes from Paris is a perfect bookend to my year’s perfume reviews; like February’s John Varvatos Artisan (the first 2009 perfume release I enjoyed), Field Notes from Paris is an immediately likeable — and interesting — orange blossom-centered fragrance.
I’ve struggled to describe Field Notes from Paris’s effect, so I’ll use a “piano” to help me. Since orange blossom is ‘active’ throughout Field Notes from Paris’s development, think of it as the piano’s sustain pedal. Now imagine the other 10 listed fragrance notes (bergamot, coriander seed, tobacco flower, tobacco leaf, patchouli, cedar, tonka bean, leather, beeswax, vanilla) as piano keys: middle C up to A. Hold down the sustain pedal (orange blossom) and begin playing an uncomplicated tune using the ten piano keys (perhaps a melody by John Cage?) The musical notes, blending together, producing moments of beauty, moments of dissonance, are like Field Notes from Paris’s fragrance notes…