Perfumistas will want to take note of two special events hosted by the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program in Washington, DC this coming February:
The Art of Fragrance (In Collaboration with the Embassy of France With Sparkling Wine Toast) with Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez, Friday, 5 February at 6:45 pm:
Tonight, we cut through the usual perfume-babble to illuminate the art of fragrance…
On Saturday, I had a lovely day sniffing with a group of perfumistas in DC. March has already covered the proceedings on Perfume Posse, so I’m just going to highlight a few things I hadn’t smelled before.
The star of the day (pardon the pun) for me was the limited edition Thierry Mugler Angel La Part des Anges. I am most emphatically not an Angel fan, but this was incredibly compelling — I walked around with the test strip glued to my nose for some time. I wanted to drink it as much as I wanted to smell it, fittingly enough given that it was developed with the Rémy Martin cognac house. I can’t do anything like a proper review as I didn’t try it on skin (and of course could not get a sample) but I should think this is a must-smell for Angel fans, or even Angel almost-fans. It is sweet and fruity over beautifully deep, mellow wood, and vaguely reminiscent of some of the fruity woods scents by Serge Lutens…
SAUMA [Design as Cultural Interface] presents fifteen innovative contemporary design works from Finland. The exhibition includes an olfactory installation by visual artist Hilda Kozári, who in collaboration with Parisian perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour has created perfumes to represent three cities: Helsinki, Budapest, and Paris…