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2011 / Browsing by date: November 2011

Holiday fragrance gifts 2011, part 3

Posted by Robin on 30 November 2011 22 Comments

Our series of holiday gift posts continues; today we’ve got more travel sizes, coffrets and roll-ons. If you missed them, here are links to part 1 (scented body products) and part 2 (travel sizes & coffrets). Coming up next: home fragrance.

Atelier Cologne Discovery set, Orange Sanguine

From Atelier Cologne, a “discovery set” in the Orange Sanguine fragrance: “Enclosed in an elegant Venetian blue gift box and tied with our signature aubergine leather ribbon” with Orange Sanguine Petite Cologne ( 30 ml) plus an Orange Sanguine Soap, a leather case, a miniature funnel and a sample pack. $65 at Neiman Marcus…

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Judith Leiber Topaz ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 30 November 2011 21 Comments

Judith Leiber Topaz

Handbag & accessories designer Judith Leiber has launched Topaz, a new ‘modern floriental’ fragrance for women who ‘want to leave a signature’…

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Natural perfumery courses in the UK

Posted by Robin on 30 November 2011 Leave a Comment

UK-based perfumer Alec Lawless of Essentially Me will be teaching two natural perfumery courses over a series of dates in 2012. The courses are taught at Essentially Me’s workshop near Stroud in the Cotswolds…

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Mauboussin Rose ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 30 November 2011 13 Comments

Mauboussin Rose

Mauboussin will follow last year’s Mauboussin Pour Elle with Mauboussin Rose, a new ‘sparkling and fresh’ fruity floral for women, in January…

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Sniffing at Sensorium ~ out of the bottle

Posted by Alyssa on 29 November 2011 26 Comments

Sephora Sensorium

I’ll be honest. I didn’t expect much from Sensorium. The promotional materials announced that the exhibit was “presented by” Sephora with “magic by” flavor and fragrance company Firmenich. That info, and the tagline “lucid dreams from the sensory world” suggested a barrage of the usual perfume PR nonsense. When I arrived at the small storefront in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, I nearly balked at paying the $15 entrance fee, but what I saw inside was a fascinating range of efforts to inspire and educate potential consumers and an excellent snapshot of the mainstream perfume industry’s challenges and internal divisions.1

The exhibit was divided into six small galleries. The first was a long narrow hallway. One wall featured a well-researched timeline of perfume history highlights. On the other wall was an interesting mix of tradition and technology. Raw materials like vetiver and pink pepper were on hand to see and smell, but there was also a video about the use of molecular compounds (“How do we use molecules to make a fragrance?” asks a husky-voiced female narrator. “It’s like a dance.”) and vitrines featuring fake and real diamond necklaces (“Can you tell the difference?”) and fake and real sugar (“Which do you prefer?”) intended to help viewers ponder the nature of synthetics. The two definitions of “perfumer” on display didn’t shy away from science: 1) “A modern-day wizard who conjures emotions with molecules,” 2) “A hybrid bio-chemist and fine artist trained in the esoteric knowledge of crafting a perfume.”

In the second gallery I donned headphones in a dark, padded room (they call it a “sensory deprivation booth”) and listened to anosmics talk about how losing their sense of smell has diminished their lives…

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