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Esxence 2023: AMIRIUS — wood, wood, and wood again ~ Interviews ~ Fragrantica
AMIRIUS is a perfume brand created in 2020 in France, but dedicated to the East, exotic and alluring. I was able to get acquainted with the fragrances of the brand, which from the moment they were added to Fragrantica base, attracted me with their visual design (bottles with wooden caps and wooden boxes) and their creator Mehdi Zinoune at Esxence 2023. We discussed three of them, the ones I liked the most, and talked about Mehdi's journey to creating his own brand.
Clive Christian Blonde Amber: A Glorious Mess of Booze, Bitters, Resins & Petals ~ Fragrance Reviews ~ Fragrantica
Clive Christian’s new Blonde Amber scent smells like a complete mess at first, chaotic in arrangement, overabundant to the point of anxious and ugly with its contradictory directions and lack of organisation. Bitterness strikes you first, followed by a speedy cascade of sweet, sour, syrupy, boozy, resinous, petal-perfumed, and animalic. A supernova of too many good things. It’s hard to analyse.
Armani Indigo Tanzanite: For Those Who Like Their Patchouli Dark
Armani’s new patchouli fragrance Indigo Tanzanite is a superlative example of how slight permutations to classic patchouli templates can still result in something new, worthwhile, and exciting in fragrance. It opens rich, dark, and focused, cavernous in its evocation of space and thick in its expression of humid jungle air, almost sludgy and gooey with density. All of its characteristic facets are there – dark chocolate, freshly turned soil, wet leaves, and cherry syrup.
Laura Ashley No.1: The Queen of English Style and Her Fragrance
In 2019, Gucci launched of fragrances. Their antique-styled white glass bottles left me wondering where I'd seen something like this before. The rounded top of the cap and the flower garlands reminded me of something familiar. Two years later, the print on Gucci Flora Gorgeous Gardenia bottle brought back some vague memories.
Amber Chromatic - The New Extrait From Maison Crivelli
Maison Crivelli is preparing to unveil a new item for after the summer, named Ambre Chromatique. It's the 3rd opus of the series of Extraits, initiated with Hibiscus Mahajad and Patchouli Magnetik. For this new extract, Thibaud Crivelli is once again collaborating with perfumer Quentin Bisch (Givaudan), aiming to bring a faceted score that revisits the amber accord, a great classic in perfumery.
Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire Eau de Parfum Intense
Sandra Raičević Petrović Executive Editor, Writer and Designer Sandrina started her work on Fragrantica from the very beginning of the site. She has strongly participated in building the content as a perfume connoisseur and writer and has been responsible for the majority of the articles and encyclopedia records at Fragrantica, while nurturing communication with the brands.
Rose as A Symbol and Perfume Material
The title "The Name of the Rose" arose almost by accident and suited me because the rose as a symbolic figure is so full of meanings that it has almost no meaning: the rose is mystical and the tender rose lived no longer than the rose; the war of the Red and White Roses; Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose; Rosicrucians; a rose by any other name would smell as sweet; rosa fresca aulentissima. The title, as intended, confuses the reader.
The Lush and Precious Anthem by Manos Gerakinis Parfums ~ Fragrance Reviews ~ Fragrantica
by Elena Vosnaki ( 2 comments ) The Greek perfume house Manos Gerakinis Parfums, in its eight years of business presence, has successfully put Greece on the international map of perfumery with global points of sale in 13 countries, including the USA, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Qatar, the Czech Republic, and Poland.
Desire and Seduction of Red Perfumes
by Ítalo Pereira ( 14 comments ) Love is red. Jealousy is green. My eyes are green. But they are so dark green that in the photograph, they come out black. My secret is to have green eyes and no one to know. ~Clarice Lispector (Translated by Italo Pereira) One of the most used colors in the history of humanity is red. Since ancient times, red pigments have been tirelessly sought after due to their rarity and the difficulty and rarity of obtaining them.
BANDIT and BANDIT SUPRÊME by ROBERT PIGUET: Perfumes for Fearless Women
by Alex (Sane-Witch) Osipov ( 2 comments ) Bandit belongs to the great old guard in the world of fragrance, it is one of those scents without which the history of perfumery would have been... well, somehow different. Even before I got the chance to familiarize myself with Bandit, I had been aware that it was the signature fragrance of Maya Plisetskaya and Edith Piaf. These associations are both demanding and imperative.
A Kiss from a Rose By Kilian: Thorns and Roses
by Elena Prokofeva ( 1 comments ) My favorite rose by By Kilian is the white, frosted rose of Roses on Ice, like a frozen river, with mermaid's locks and sharp juniper iced in it. The Liquors line is different from all other By Kilian fragrances. Love by Kilian Rose and Oud By Kilian from 2019 is another perfume with a clear rose solo. Its roses are abundant, grand, oily, with sweet grains of cane sugar stuck at the edges of their petals, laid on a soft pillow of sweet woody notes.
Bienaimé Warms Our Hearts With Jours Heureux ~ Niche Perfumery ~ Fragrantica
by Sophie Normand ( 1 comments ) In these troubled times, where the war in Ukraine weighs on everyone, just as we were slowly climbing out of the darkness of the Covid crisis, nothing beats the comfort of powdery scents with a vintage spirit when it comes to olfactive support.
Mal-Aimé, The Perfume of Weeds
by John Biebel ( 4 comments ) It's funny how you come across anomalies in the perfume world. As I was getting up to speed with all the releases from last year, I ended up ordering a bottle of Mal-Aimé by Parfum d'Empire. This is a fragrance house I've admired for a long time. They've created some works of art, many of which have flown just under the radar but incorporating just enough weirdness to make them groundbreaking and legitimately strange.
Cannes 2021: HFC Paris Dancing Queen Launch ~ Art Books Events ~ Fragrantica
Haute Fragrance Company HFC held an exclusive launch event at Hotel Martinez in Cannes. One of the new releases is an addition to the Magic Collection. Also present was the creator behind the new fragrance called Dancing Queen, perfumer Vincent Ricord. Grasse-born into a family of perfumers, Ricord is the name behind the Original Collection, Black Collection, and Magic Collection for HFC Paris.
Carolina Herrera Good Girl Superstars and Bad Boy Superstars
by Sandra Raičević Petrović ( 10 comments ) The shiny glam of the upcoming holidays is complemented by glittery limited editions from the house of Carolina Herrera. The new duo of popular fragrances Good Girl and Bad Boy received collector's bottles covered with silver sequins, perfectly dressed for the celebration. The new limited editions follow the launch of a special collector's bottle covered with Swarovski crystals, which is made to celebrate 40 years of the brand.
BeautyWorld Middle East 2021: Five Decades of CPL Aromas
Chris Pickthall, CEO of CPL Aromas, explained to me all the features so that Fragrantica readers could become more familiar with the brand, after Christian Provenzano invited me to their exhibition stand. Now, I have to admit that before the meeting, I had a very limited knowledge about the perfume company, CPL Aromas.
Christian Louboutin LoubiWorld Intense Fragrance Collection: Loubicharme, Loubiluna, and Loubiprince
Christian Louboutin makes another impressive step, offering the newest LoubiWorld Intense fragrance collection, inspired by the places he visited, people he met, and the richness of different cultures. The newest trilogy arrives in very attractive flacons that follow the LoubiWorld line by the design, while the details are bold, eye-catching, and gold.
Tesore d'Oriente Reviews: Matcha Green Tea, Thalasso Therapy, Mirra, & Legno di Guajaco ~ Fragrance Reviews ~ Fragrantica
by Elena Vosnaki ( 3 comments ) Little-sung brands often have a way of surprising us. When they're great value for money, they become even more surprising. The Tesori d'Oriente brand, as one such case, began in 2004 and is populating its portfolio with newer editions all the time. We have already reviewed a few fragrances in our Tesori d'Oriente: White Musk, Hammam and Fiore del Dragone fragrance reviews article and interest from readers was such that a part 2 was deemed necessary.
Bellagio Pour Femme Eau de Parfum
Milanese perfume company Diamond Fragrances International launches its first fragrance for the Bellagio line. BELLAGIO EAU DE PARFUM is a feminine fragrance inspired by the beauty of Como lake. Bellagio is located on Lake Como, upon the cape of the triangular land mass that divides the lake in two. "There is a place in the depths of our soul where sooner or later we all return: it has the name of Bellagio, a precious pearl on the branch of Lake Como.
Interview with Jakub Pietrynka, Founder of JMP Artisan Perfumes
by Maciej Kolankowski ( 4 comments ) JMP Artisan Perfumes is a young Polish independent perfume brand created by Jakub Pietrynka, a self-taught perfumer. Two debut fragrances, Endless Forest and Mossy Soil — released as part of a collection called Duftart* — saw the light of day in 2019. A year later, the range expanded with Delusion and Eccentricity, released as the Composite** collection.
Très French Teo Cabanel: New Century Muguet
by Sergey Borisov ( 6 comments ) Surprisingly, the perfume house Teo Cabanel has never emphasized the fact that the brand was founded in 1893. The information about the Parisian chemist Theodore Cabanel and his wife Meloe is on their official website if you search, but it is not placed on the main page or in the brand name, like "Teo Cabanel 1893." Commendable modesty for a family brand with a century's worth of history.
News of Pacollection: Blossom Me, Dandy Me and Major Me
by Sandra Raičević Petrović ( 1 comments ) Pacollection by Paco Rabanne appeared in 2019, it was created under the guidance of the brand’s creative director Julien Dossena. The bottles of the Pacollection are unbreakable, soft, and flexible, with a "minimum design for maximum expression." PACO RABANNE PACOLLECTION: BLOSSOM ME "Blossom Me by Marie Salamagne is an ingenue who exudes pure insouciance.
Montblanc Explorer VS Explorer Ultra Blue: Two Sides of the Aquatic Coin
As I attempted to explore in this Fragrantica article, the aquatic/oceanic genre (more or less synonyms of the same olfactory idea) does indeed take its inspiration from the sea (salty, transparent, vivacious) but has mounted its own note conventions (soapy florals, metallic woods, cottoned musks) that may not necessarily jump out as obvious choices to those unfamiliar with perfumery tradition.
Albizia Phaedon Review
by Sergey Borisov ( 2 comments ) I was looking forward to smelling the new fragrance, Albizia Phaedon, announced on Fragrantica in February 2021, with great anticipation. Blooming albizia with pink fluffy flowers of a magical look, which makes you want to touch them, struck me in Nice during the World Perfumery Congress 2015. This is when I became another fan of the flowers in our editorial office.
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