L’Artisan Parfumeur is a fragrance house of over 40 years that appears to have the honour of the title, “first niche perfumery.” Apparently, chemist Jean Laporte started up the endeavor after successfully meeting a challenge to create a banana scented fragrance to match a costume of the same fruit for some gala event, and subsequently…
BLV Notte Pour Homme by Bvlgari
BLV Notte Pour Homme is an oriental amber woody fragrance launched in 2004, and Alberto Morillas is the nose. No surprise, then, that it’s a good quality concoction, as Morillas is the great master behind some fantastic smells from the likes of YSL, Carolina Herrera, Kilian, and more. Sadly, I think this one has been…
Brazilian Crush Cheirosa ’62 Body Mist
Yes, there is a fragrance to match one of my favourite creams, ever – the infamous Sol de Janiero Bum Bum cream. I procured a travel kit that comes with a little tub of the cream (this is actually my third purchase), some moisturizing shower cream gel (which I imagine is great to use when…
ZARA/Jo Malone Energetically New York & Fashionably London
Today I’m going to focus on two fragrances I got from one of the Jo Malone – Zara collaborations – the Vibrant Cities Collection, I believe it’s called. I was almost going to buy the whole box set – all 30 ml bottles of fragrances representing Dubai, Venice, Madrid, Tokyo, Shanghai, and the two I…
Six Fragrances from the Clean Reserve Collection
Clean Perfume, which you can find on cleanbeauty.com, is an American company founded in 2003 by Randi Shinder. I’ve never personally been one to want simply to smell of any type of cleaning agent, so as these fragrances were originally inspired by the simple beauty in a bar of fragrant soap, I was never interested….
Florabotanica by Balenciaga
This post dives into the designer sphere with an interesting gem from Balenciaga. When I think Balenciaga, it’s the slouchy, rocker-look City Bag that comes to mind. As it turns out, they may have done a good thing here with perfume, too, by employing perfumers Olivier Polge and Jean-Christophe Herault to create this floral green…