If you’re a fan of high-end, luxury cosmetics, you’ve most likely heard of Terry de Gunzburg: makeup artist to photographers like Helmut Newton and Irving Penn, creative director of Yves Saint Laurent Beauté (and inventor of the Touche Eclat highlighter-concealer), founder of the eponymous By Terry makeup line. Gunzburg launched her first fragrance collection last year, and it recently arrived in the United States.

Gunzburg has said, “I wanted to reconnect with perfumes from the beginning of the century, like those of Guerlain and Robert Piguet — they were extravagant experiences. That’s not to say mine are dusty old fragrances. They’re contemporary — clean but not watery, opulent but not heavy.”¹ I’ve been sampling her five fragrances one by one; today I’ll cover two of them, Parti Pris and Ombre Mercure…

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