French niche line By Kilian will launch Black Phantom – Memento Mori, a new unisex fragrance…
By Kilian Straight to Heaven Extreme & Good Girl Gone Bad Extreme ~ new fragrances
French niche line By Kilian has launched Straight to Heaven Extreme and Good Girl Gone Bad Extreme…
You belong to the cause
The ad for Zadig & Voltaire This is Her! and This is Him!; then below the jump, perfumers Sidonie Lancesseur, Michel Almairac, Nathalie Lorson and Aurélien Guichard talk about the fragrances.
Zadig & Voltaire This is Her! and This is Him! ~ new fragrances
French ready-to-wear line Zadig & Voltaire will launch This is Her! and This is Him! in September…
Jul et Mad Les White (Nea, Nin-Shar & Garuda) ~ short fragrance reviews
Jul et Mad recently launched Les White, a trio of fragrances inspired by ‘distant locales and long-ago civilizations’. I’ve been a fan of this niche brand since Jul et Mad released its debut trio three years ago, so I was naturally curious about these new perfumes that venture beyond France and New York in their inspirations.
Néa is meant to evoke the opulence of the “Golden Age in Byzance,” with notes of date, davana, pomegranate, palm leaf, black pepper, jasmine, rose, plum, patchouli, cashmeran, vanilla, benzoin, caramel, tonka bean, ambroxan and musk. It was developed for Jul et Mad by perfumer Luca Maffei. Néa starts with the date note, and it’s chewy-sweet but not overwhelmingly so…