A bargain: Caron Pour Un Homme, in a gift set with 125 ml each Eau de Toilette and After Shave. $47.90 at Beauty Encounter.
The luxury alternative: Caron Pour Un Homme in a “limited numbered edition of 300 sumptuous Baccarat solid crystal bottles…”
Miller Harris flagship boutique ~ shopping for perfume in London
Miller Harris scents are widely available nowadays, but for the limited editions and other specialities, you need to visit one of the Miller Harris stores.
The flagship London store is on Bruton Street, Mayfair, next door but one to Berkeley Square (where the fictional Bertie Wooster lived with Jeeves).
The shop can be identified by its bright yellow awning, patterned with the trademark Miller Harris design. This awning has a secondary benefit — inside the shop, it feels as if the sun is beaming in, even on a dull, wet March afternoon.
The front of the shop is dedicated to fragrance, candles and bath & body products. There are urns, from which Lyn Harris’s selected single-note oils — Rose Absolute, Sage Dalmation and Mandarin Green — can be dispensed…
Miller Harris Fleurs de Bois ~ new fragrance
Next up from British niche line Miller Harris will be Fleurs de Bois, a new addition to the classic line. Fleurs de Bois was “inspired by an English garden with dewy grass, fresh rain and floral notes”, and will debut in May.
The fragrance notes include galbanum, grass, lemon, green mandarin…
Remarkably similar to making perfume
I’ve been on a bit of a tea journey recently, creating my own blends to sell in a new cafe at the back of my fragrance shop. Getting the taste right has been remarkably similar to making perfume – combining the elements to get just the right mix. In my view, the tea itself should be the main event; it should never be drowned out by other aromatic additions.
— Perfumer Lyn Harris of Miller Harris talks about blending teas in Make tea to a tea at the UK Times Online.
Jean Desprez Bal a Versailles and Miller Harris L’Air de Rien ~ fragrance review
Surprise of surprises. When I first smelled Miller Harris L’Air de Rien, a fragrance named “air of nothing” and made for the breathy-voiced, hippie-chic Jane Birkin, the last thing I expected to think of was Jean Desprez Bal à Versailles, a scent purportedly made of over 300 ingredients and whose bottle features 17th-century ladies in pastel dresses. But from their shared sweet neroli beginning down to their saddle leather, musk, and dirty stable dry down, Bal à Versailles and L’Air de Rien smell to me like twins separated at birth and raised in different homes…