Australian botanical brand Aesop will launch Othertopias, a new trio of unisex fragrances: Erémia, Miraceti and Karst…
Jardines en el Aire
[Barnabé] Fillion, a renowned scent designer who has worked with top brands like Aēsop, Paul Smith, and Comme des Garçons, recently collaborated in a multicultural project that has “distilled” some of the plants that grow around the run-down buildings in this underprivileged neighborhood where some of its 18,000 residents come from Asia, Africa and South America. Children from the neighborhood’s Candelaria Educational and Social Association worked on identifying and collecting the plants and sending them by mail to Fillion.
— Jardines en el Aire is a limited edition fragrance for the Tres Barrios-Amate neighborhood, in the Spanish city of Seville. Read more in French perfumer ‘distils’ the scent of one of Seville’s poorest neighborhoods at El País.
Aesop Rozu ~ new fragrance
Australian botanical brand Aesop will launch Rōzu, a new fragrance that aims to capture the life cycle of the rose. Rōzu was inspired by French architect and designer Charlotte Perriand…
Anicka Yi Biography ~ new fragrances
Artist Anicka Yi will launch Biography, a trio of fragrances, in November. Shigenobu Twilight, Radical Hopelessness and Beyond Skin were inspired by radical female figures and developed in collaboration with perfumer Barnabé Fillion…
Aesop Hwyl ~ fragrance review
The backstory of Aesop’s latest fragrance, Hwyl, is a hodgepodge (to which I’ll contribute). Hwyl is a Welsh word (pronounced, rapidly: WHO-will); according to the Oxford English dictionary, it means “a stirring feeling of emotional motivation and energy.” Yet, Hwyl’s perfumer, Barnabé Fillion, when asked by Philippa Morgan in Vogue Arabia, “How would you describe Hwyl in one sentence?” responded “The silence and verdancy of an ancient Japanese forest, and the wind in the canopy.” Hwyl reminds ME of India — the scent of altars and old-style Ayurvedic apothecaries. To each his own…