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Top 10 Spring Fragrances 2010

Posted by Robin on 30 April 2010 335 Comments

Spring! Finally. It isn’t summer, but it’s almost summer, and if, like me, you detest the cold, that’s very nearly the best thing about it. The absolute best thing, of course, is the flowers. My list is heavily weighted towards the “pretty floral” fragrance category, and it’s also heavily weighted towards niche, and expensive. Sorry, it just worked out that way. Hopefully, my fellow bloggers did a better job on the diversity front: see Bois de Jasmin, Grain de Musc, Perfume Posse and Perfume Smellin’ Things for more top 10 lists. Meantime, here’s mine:

CB I Hate Perfume Black March: the smell of spring, and the perfect thing to wear on a warm, rainy April day, although there’s something about it that can tend towards the melancholy. If you can’t afford it, you can make do with Demeter Dirt — someone called Black March the high def version of Dirt, and that’s apt…

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LesNez Turtle Vetiver Exercise No. 1 ~ fragrance review

Posted by Robin on 25 February 2009 23 Comments

Les Nez Turtle Vetiver fragrance

I said yesterday that I hadn't swooned over a new fragrance in some time (see Vanille Galante), but I left one out: Turtle Vetiver, from LesNez. It's their latest scent from perfumer Isabelle Doyen, and it was developed as part of the Turtle (“anarchic”) salon:

TURTLE is an open and chaotic network of diverse but interconnecting ideas, people, projects, events, and venues linked by American filmmaker, Michael H Shamberg. Perfumer Isabelle Doyen’s contribution is a Vetiver EdT which she makes in small quantities and constantly changing formulas.

You can read more about the Turtle project here, but I'll skip right ahead to Turtle Vetiver, or more specifically, Turtle Vetiver Exercise No. 1…

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LesNEZ Manoumalia, Jean-Louis Scherrer Miss Scherrer ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 22 December 2008 15 Comments

LesNEZ Manoumalia perfumeLesNEZ will launch Manoumalia in January. The new fragrance was developed by perfumer Sandrine Videault, and was inspired by a trip Videault took to Wallis, in the South Pacific, to learn about the use of fragrance materials in the island's “olfactive culture”. Wallisians use scented materials as decoration…

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The Unicorn Spell by LesNEZ ~ fragrance review

Posted by Robin on 3 November 2006 20 Comments

The Unicorn Spell by LesNEZ

The Unicorn Spell is one of the three debut fragrances from LesNEZ, a new niche perfume brand founded by René Schifferle. The scents were developed in collaboration with perfumer Isabelle Doyen, best known for her work with Annick Goutal. LesNEZ is one of those lines that doesn’t like to disclose fragrance notes (I hate that!) so we’ll have to lead off with Isabelle Doyen’s description of The Unicorn Spell:

If by dawn still linger on your skin mixed scents of leaves, frost and violet blooms, and that relentless yearning for stellar sights, you will know that, at night, you felt the milky breath of a unicorn…

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LesNEZ: new line of fragrances

Posted by Robin on 2 October 2006 11 Comments

LesNez fragrance

LesNEZ is a new indie perfume house established by René Schifferle. The brand debuts with three fragrances, all developed with perfumer Isabelle Doyen:

The Unicorn Spell is a green floral with a focus on violet…

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