Indie line Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has launched the Giverny in Bloom collection, a new series for the Denver Art Museum exhibit In Bloom: Painting Flowers in the Age of Impressionism. The fragrances include Giverny In Bloom, La Danse des Bleus et des Violettes, l’Opera des Rouges et des Roses and Le Jardin Vert…
Independent perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz recently announced the launch of Fleuriste,* a carnation-centered “modern floral with just a few nods to the classical style.” Regular readers at Now Smell This very likely know that I have a special fondness for rose fragrances, but I love other florals, too — violet, iris, and yes, carnation. Therefore I was naturally interested in Fleuriste, which includes notes of rose leaves, carnation, neroli, jasmine, rose and ambergris.
Fleuriste begins with a breath of chilled air and crisp greenery, as though you had just opened the door of the refrigerated display case in a florist’s shop. There’s a hint of moisture that lasts for a while, as though the flowers were misted with cool water…
Indie line Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has launched Fleuriste, a new carnation fragrance…
In late 2014 independent perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz released her Brilliant Collection, a quartet of fragrances inspired by an exhibition of Cartier jewelry at the Denver Art Museum. I’ve been sampling the four Brilliant scents this week, and while I could go on and on about this interesting analogy between jewels and perfumes, and the language we use to describe both, I’ll try to stay on topic by sharing my thoughts on my two favorites from the collection.
Jacinthe de Sapphir was created to evoke “a densely blue, gorgeous hyacinth in the ground” and was “inspired by the Queen of Romania Sapphire, one of the famed Cartier jewels.” It has a composition of violet leaf, galbanum, bergamot and hyacinth; rose de mai, narcissus and tuberose; and tolu balsam, Peru balsam, vetiver, styrax and civet. As promised by Hurwitz, this fragrance evolves from “dewy” to “luscious and earthy.” It opens with a stemmy-green burst of galbanum that only gradually fades into a bouquet of floral notes…
Indie line Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has launched the Brilliant Collection, a quartet of fragrances for the Denver Art Museum’s Brilliant: Cartier in the 20th Century exhibit. The collection explores “the effect of gemstones (translated into perfume) inspired by Cartier and some of the famous personages who donned those fabulous jewels”…