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Perfume in the news: Christophe Laudamiel, Dawn Spencer Hurwitz

Posted by Robin on 12 January 2007 7 Comments

What he excels at is bold, steely, transparent accords that feel like architect sketches for a penthouse flat flying in earth orbit. One third of the fragrances in the box are in this manner. Another third are lavish, classical set-pieces in period dress, all of them good. The remaining third are literal depictions, the best being a cobbler’s shop (Atelier Grimal), a wonderful, bitter leather accord, and another, depressingly entitled Human Existence, which contains the biggest, most fecal dose of civet in living memory .

— Luca Turin on Christophe Laudamiel's perfumes for the Thierry Mugler's Le Parfum coffret, in this month's NZZ Folio.

"Every once in a while you'll find someone who's trying to wear a fragrance that's not really great for their skin because they liked it on a friend or it reminds them of their mother," she said. "They're trying to wear a fragrance that's really wrong, so I try to very delicately tell them I can help them."

— Dawn Spencer Hurwitz on wearing the wrong perfume for your skin type, in an interview with CBS4 in Denver.

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  1. Anonymous says:
    12 January 2007 at 10:17 am

    Thank you for posting the Luca Turin link. I wish he weren't so dismissive of the book and the movie, but I enjoyed his comments on the Coffret scents. I've had the chance to smell a selection of them, and I agree with his description of the “melancholy milky-powdery heliotrope note” of Aura (although it remind me of Apres l'Ondee).

    I would purchase individual bottles of Virgin No. 1 and Nuit Napolitaine, if that were possible. Both are beautiful and I could imagine myself wearing them. I was also very intrigued by Sea, the best “marine” scent I've ever smelled.

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  2. Anonymous says:
    12 January 2007 at 11:44 am

    Sounds like they could sell quite a few of them individually if they chose too. Will be interesting to see what happens next…the only one that I've hear rumors about being sold on its own is Aura.

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  3. Anonymous says:
    12 January 2007 at 2:40 pm

    Whoops, meant to say that Aura does *not* remind me of Apres L'Ondee. I liked it, though… not as much as Virgin No. 1, but I liked it.

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  4. Anonymous says:
    12 January 2007 at 3:56 pm

    I really loved this month's article. I don't really mind Dr. Turin's dismissal/dislike of the book and film. Shrug. Not everyone can get into historical romances (I mean romance like the genre Dumas wrote in, not the Harlequin/Danielle Steel romance books.) I was curious about the coffret anyhow, but now I'm dying of the curiosity. Ach, that price tag! Hopefully the rumormill is correct, and Aura will actually be sold seperately :) A gal can dream, right?

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  5. Anonymous says:
    12 January 2007 at 4:36 pm

    K, I haven't tried any of them either…we can dream together!

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  6. Anonymous says:
    12 January 2007 at 6:58 pm

    “…Human Existence, which contains the biggest, most fecal dose of civet in living memory.”

    I don't know if anyone else thought this funny, but I actually laughed out loud (which really doesn't happen that often)! It's hysterical! I received my bottle of Rose Poivree by The Different Company in the mail yesterday and I absolutely LOVE it. I can't think of a fragrance with more civit than this other than Muscs Koublai Khan, which I also adore just as much…if not a bit more. I'll have to sample this “Human Existence” and I'll probably become obsessed with it until I do.

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  7. Anonymous says:
    13 January 2007 at 10:46 am

    I thought it was funny too!

    I like civet in small amounts, even sometimes in concentration (Jicky), but the TDC just didn't work for me all, not sure why.

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