Happy Friday (the 13th). Our community project for today: Old School Niche…wear a perfume from L’Artisan Parfumeur, Diptyque or Frederic Malle. Double bonus points if the fragrance was released before 2010! What did you pick?
As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you aren’t participating.
I’m wearing L’Artisan Parfumeur Passage d’Enfer (1999; Olivia Giacobetti)…
New at first-in-fragrance (DE): Olfactive Studio Panorama.
New at nordstrom: Dolce & Gabbana Dolce Floral Drops.
Jean Patou will launch a third trio of fragrance reissues in their Collection Héritage: Vacances, Colony and L’Heure Attendue. Previous releases include Chaldée, Eau de Patou, Patou pour Homme, Deux Amours, Que Sais-je? and Adieu Sagesse…
Marc Jacobs will launch Mod Noir, a new fragrance for women, in June. Like the designer’s first fragrance, Marc Jacobs for Women, Mod Noir centers on gardenia…
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before…
In late 2014, niche line Frapin launched Nevermore, a new fragrance inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven.” I love any reference to Poe, and Frapin’s characterization of Nevermore as a “spicy woody metallic rose” appealed to me, so I looked forward to trying it and writing about it here.
Nevermore was developed for Frapin by perfumer Anne-Sophie Behaghel, and its composition includes notes of black pepper, nutmeg, floralozone and aldehydes; rose oxide, rose de mai, rose damascena and “bonded wine”; saffron, Atlas cedar and amber wood. Its concept is inspired by the legendary “Poe toaster,” a mysterious figure who for several decades visited Poe’s Baltimore resting place annually on the writer’s birthday (January 19) and left a bottle of Cognac and three roses…