Say $425 dropped into your lap, and you had to spend it on perfume. What would you buy? If you want to smell like a sharply cut ice-white diamond splashing rainbows of light, you might want to consider Ormonde Jayne White Gold Extrait.
Perfumer Geza Schoen developed White Gold, and it’s the third in Ormonde Jayne’s Gold trilogy…
It’s Renegades Friday (and the last day of November). Our community project for today: wear a perfume by one of the Project Renegades perfumers (Mark Buxton, Bertrand Duchaufour or Geza Schoen), if you have one.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I’m off-season, in the lovely warm weather floral Neela Vermeire Créations Pichola from Bertrand Duchaufour…
German magazine and publishing house Mare has launched Eau du Levant, a new fragrance developed by perfumer Geza Schön…
Feminista is a new fragrance from Ulrike Hager and Helmut Hartl of Hero’s Journey Travel Agency. The scent was inspired by (and has a role in) the new Margarethe von Trotta movie, Forget About Nick…
Let me state the obvious to anyone who has ever read my posts: I am not a chemist! If you are, and have more scientific information on what follows, don’t be shy about commenting (I won’t take offense).
Escentric Molecules’ latest creations, Molecule 041 and Escentric 042, are about the aroma chemical Javanol — a sandalwood-type molecule prepared from turpentine obtained from pine trees.3 Molecule 04 is “just” Javanol (diluted, of course); Escentric 04 is a more complex composition built around Javanol.
I can’t smell Javanol…