French niche line The Different Company has launched Into The White, a new limited edition floral fragrance…
L’Artisan Parfumeur Bana Banana ~ fragrance review
L’Artisan Parfumeur is an old friend. I’ve owned bottles of Ananas Fizz (discontinued), Mûre et Musc (original version), L’Eau de L’Artisan, Passage d’Enfer, L’Eau d’Ambre, Dzongkha, Séville à l’Aube, Traversée du Bosphore, Dzing!, Timbuktu, Méchant Loup and Bois Farine, not to mention amber balls and candles. When I saw the ads for the new Bana Banana,* with their antique botanical illustrations of banana plants, I was primed to BUY…
L’Artisan Parfumeur Bana Banana ~ new fragrance
L’Artisan Parfumeur will launch Bana Banana this month. Bana Banana was inspired by an unreleased Jean Laporte fragrance from the 1970s…
Fragonard Verveine ~ fragrance review
This year, French perfume company Fragonard is celebrating verbena with the release of Verveine.* Much of Fragonard’s PR has to do with Verveine’s perfumer:
Céline Ellena envisioned a magical formula…. Verveine is closely tied to the cycle of nature and the daily life of a perfumer who searches for inspiration in her plant garden. The perfumer drew inspiration from the plant’s natural environment to create three worlds of scents to describe it: sun, earth, and water…
The Different Company Pure Virgin ~ perfume review
Update: Pure Virgin has been renamed Pure eVe.
It seems like just yesterday that perfumistas were adjusting to the idea of L’Eau Serge Lutens — a resolutely clean, “fresh from the laundry” fragrance from the master of the heady floral and the spicy oriental. Sure, everybody else is making them, but people didn’t expect it from Serge Lutens. Pure Virgin, the latest from The Different Company, has similar inspirations — “a simple and comfortable perfume” is how they put it — but it’s perhaps not such a leap from some of the brand’s relatively light fragrances…