French niche line The Different Company has launched Oud For Love, the second in the “Collection Excessive” series that began with last year’s Oud Shamash…
The Different Company Pure Virgin ~ perfume review
Update: Pure Virgin has been renamed Pure eVe.
It seems like just yesterday that perfumistas were adjusting to the idea of L’Eau Serge Lutens — a resolutely clean, “fresh from the laundry” fragrance from the master of the heady floral and the spicy oriental. Sure, everybody else is making them, but people didn’t expect it from Serge Lutens. Pure Virgin, the latest from The Different Company, has similar inspirations — “a simple and comfortable perfume” is how they put it — but it’s perhaps not such a leap from some of the brand’s relatively light fragrances…
The Different Company Oud Shamash ~ new fragrance
French niche house The Different Company has launched Oud Shamash:
A spiritual journey to the heart of the Far East…
Top 10 Spring Fragrances 2011
Blech. Despite being born a May baby, I have never been a fan of spring. I’m sure it’s different in the other parts of the world, but every year, people above the 39th parallel in Europe and North America stand on street corners at this time of year, leaning at a 75 degree angle into gusting drizzle, and insist: “It wasn’t like this last year!” Trust me, it was. The mud, the wind, the Easter snow or hailstorm, the false hope of that one giddy day near April Fool’s when the sun shone and the warm breezes blew, like in a laundry detergent commercial, before the rain and gray chill returned — it all happened last year. I am not a pessimist. It is merely that I believe in the motto of mothers everywhere: let’s not get worked up here. Crazed displays of Birkenstock sandals and patio furniture will only end in tears. I support measured celebrations of spring’s small pleasures. For one, it is ramp season. Perhaps you have received your tax return. The road salt has melted away and you can go to 2D movies without being subjected to aliens, robots or robotic aliens. And it is time for some of your freshest, prettiest, newest fragrances to grace the air.
Composing a Top 10 for this most uncertain of seasons, I have tried not to dwell on lost favorites or the flood of recent scents I’ve missed. Jean Patou Vacances, Gobin-Daudé Sève Exquise, and L’Artisan Jacinthe des Bois are all gone and it somehow felt irresponsible to include them in the list. I have vintage samples of the many spring classics that have been damaged or ruined by reformulation — Balmain Vent Vert, Caron Violette Précieuse, the silver fluidity of Diorissimo, the mysterious smoky-green of Worth Je Reviens, the original Dior Fahrenheit’s honeysuckle-and-wet-blacktop — and I use them sparingly and despairingly. I have not tried MDCI Un Coeur en Mai, Byredo La Tulipe, ElizabethW Magnolia or CB I Hate Perfume Wild Pansy and am trying to convince myself that I don’t need to do so. With no further excuses, my Top 10 of Spring…
The Different Company Pure Virgin ~ new fragrance
The Different Company has launched Pure Virgin, a new musky floral unisex fragrance:
Pure Virgin is born from a simple idea: create a simple…