Niche line La Parfumerie Moderne has launched Belles Rives, a new fragrance inspired by the Beau-Rivage Palace in Lausanne…
La Parfumerie Moderne No Sport & Cuir X ~ fragrance reviews
The fortune in the cookie with tonight’s take-out ginger beef reads, “An interesting sports opportunity is in your future.” And yet, tonight’s post-ginger beef activity is to review two La Parfumerie Moderne fragrances, one of which is called No Sport. I’ll go with the perfume for now and hope that my near future doesn’t come with athletic gear.
Marc-Antoine Corticchiato, the nose behind Parfum d’Empire, developed both No Sport and Cuir X. No Sport was named for Winston Churchill’s supposed reply when asked the secret of a long life. “No sports,” he said, “just whisky and cigars…”
La Parfumerie Moderne Desarmant ~ fragrance review
Lavender cologne reminds me of wash day or scented tissues. Tuberose makes me feel I’m wearing silk panties and fishnet stockings. Lilac reminds me of the silver-haired lady who arranged flowers at church.
We all have flowers we love to smell in nature but avoid in fragrances. Lavender, tuberose and lilac always are given revered spots in my garden…but not in my perfume cabinet.
La Parfumerie Moderne (founded by Philippe Neirinck in concert with Parfum d’Empire perfumer Marc-Antoine Corticchiato) recently launched Désarmant,1 a lilac scent…
La Parfumerie Moderne Annees Folles ~ fragrance review
This week I tried Années Folles, the fourth fragrance from niche line La Parfumerie Moderne. Années Folles includes notes of lavender, thyme, nutmeg, geranium, tonka bean, benzoin and patchouli, and according to La Parfumerie Moderne, it “swings like a mysterious aromatic melody on a warm pulsating amber rythm [sic]. The powdry [sic] and woody insouciance wake of a festive atmosphere calls the tune until dawn from the open windows of this proud hotel overlooking the Mediterranean.”
Awkward phrasing and misspellings aside (why, oh why, can’t perfume brands ever hire decent translators or proofreaders?), this description lured me in. There’s the name, for one thing: “années folles,” or “crazy years,” is a common French appellation for the 1920s. I love lavender and ambery-powdery scents. And as for hotels on the Mediterranean, I looked at the photo on the La Parfumerie Moderne website for a minute and then did a quick and lucky search to identify it: it’s the Hôtel Belles-Rives, in Juan-le-Pins on the French Riviera. The author F. Scott Fitzgerald stayed at the Hôtel Belles-Rives, another tie-in to the Roaring Twenties. So how could I resist…
La Parfumerie Moderne Annees Folles ~ new perfume
Niche line La Parfumerie Moderne has launched their fourth fragrance, Années Folles…