Luckyscent has added three more fragrances from the Profumum line:
Ambra Aurea (shown): “Pure, deep amber at its luxurious best…Less sweet and less playful than Profumum’s Fiori d’ambra, Ambra Aurea is a classic amber with a bit of powder and a quiet sexiness.”
Victrix: “An uplifting scent…”
But it’s not all Chanel No 5. Alongside fine fragrances, the functional market — scents for products such as detergents, shampoo and candles — forms a large part of the perfumer’s work. “We’re not mad scientists holed up in a lab,” says [Claudine] De Vogel, who sits at a desk, albeit one covered in vials, bottles and smelling strips.
— from How do I become... a perfumer?, in today's UK Times Online.
We try not to stray very far from our subject matter around here, but when a member of your family publishes a book (a real book!) that would seem to justify a little subject straying. Otherwise Normal People: Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening is about, well, competitive rose gardening (and insofar as roses are used to make perfume, it is at least tangentially related)…
A few weeks ago I was at the grocery store, and my checker was a sweet, indie-rocker type with blond, shaggy hair, a fully-tattooed forearm, and a pierced eyebrow. As she moved her arms to load my grocery bag, a waft of Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue drifted over. My heart leapt. I’m not a huge fan of Light Blue, but I loved smelling perfume in public. “You smell great!” I said. “It’s not too much?” the cashier asked.
I live in a neighborhood in Portland, Oregon with probably the most vegans and biodiesel-fueled cars per capita anywhere in the world. Running through the neo-hippie is a strong vein of rocker, too, leading to dread-locked white girls with scarlet lipstick, lunchboxes as purses, and bottles of kombucha. The older generation of Portlanders has a higher portion of ex-Grateful Dead followers supplemented by more financially secure Portlanders driving Priuses, designing gardens of native plants, and adopting babies from China. Don’t get me wrong: I wouldn’t live anywhere else. It’s just that most of these people don’t care about perfume — or worse, they actively dislike it…
Tauer Perfumes will launch a new fragrance, Rêverie au jardin, next month:
The head notes are very green and fresh- lavender (high altitude mountain lavender from France, galbanum and fir balm with bergamot and rose absolute from Bulgaria softening the herbaceous lavender. They lead over to a musky, fresh heart note…