Indie perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has launched the YSL Retrospective Collection, six new fragrances created in collaboration with the Denver Art Museum and inspired by their exhibit Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective. The fragrances are Ligne Trapéze, The Beat Look, Le Smoking, Euphorisme d’Opium, La Vie en Rose and Ma Plus Belle Histoire d’Amour…
Indie line Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has launched Guimauve de Soie, a new fragrance for women…
Something about natural perfumes is so appealing. I envision a greenhouse with a long table heaped with blossoms. On another table, glass panes crush grease-laden tuberose flowers. A perfumer — always a woman with flowing hair and the witch-like quality of knowing the perfect herb for every ailment — dispenses jewel-toned liquids drop by drop into lead glass bottles. If love potions exist, surely they are made by natural perfumers.
Of course, that’s just my overly active imagination. I know little about natural fragrances, and I haven’t developed much of a nose for them. My brief experience has shown natural perfumes to feel more “telescoped” and dense. I haven’t encountered one that’s a sillage monster — I doubt you’d get kicked off an elevator if you wore most natural fragrances — and they don’t tend to last as long as a department store fragrance.
So I was curious to take Aftelier Secret Garden, an all-natural fragrance, and Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Pandora, a 97.5% natural fragrance, for a test drive. Would they smell too, well, wimpy? Short answer: no…
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has launched Vanille Botanique, a new natural perfume:
Rich, decadent vintage style vanilla perfume; all botanical…
Indie brand Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has launched Pandora, a new fragrance for women:
The “Beautiful Evil” is a quote from the story of Pandora as told by the Greek, Hesiod…