German jewelry designer Saskia Diez has launched Gold and Silver, two new fragrances developed by perfumer Geza Shoen…
Biehl Parfumkunstwerke gs03 ~ new fragrance
Niche line Biehl Parfumkunstwerke has launched gs03 (aka Cologne Reloaded 3.0), a new fragrance developed by perfumer Geza Schoen…
Anat Fritz Tzora ~ new fragrance
Berlin-based knitwear designer Anat Fritz has launched Tzora…
Ormonde Jayne Four Corners of the Earth Collection ~ new fragrances
British niche line Ormonde Jayne will launch the Four Corners of the Earth Collection next month. The set includes Montabaco, Tsarina, Nawab of Oudh and Qi. All four fragrances were developed by perfumer Geza Schoen…
Wallpaper/Steidl Paper Passion & CB I Hate Perfume In The Library: Perfumes for Booklovers ~ fragrance reviews
Before wearing Paper Passion1 I sniffed a lot of books and paper. I sat in front of my bookshelves and wedged my nostrils between many pages. I don’t think contemporary paper has much scent; what I did smell on occasion (especially in art books) was a mild chemical odor (inks?) I did get a definite aroma from watercolor papers — the scent of wet animal fur. Finally, I sniffed a falling-apart edition of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time that was printed in the 1980s (I’m saving the wreck because the pages might make a neat lampshade or “collage” screen); the rough pages were not printed on archival paper (they’ve yellowed and become brittle). Sniffing the Proust and other “old” books I realized that cheap, wood pulp paper smelled the best — vanillic, woody-acidic.
Paper Passion opens with a quick touch of osmanthus “bud” (neither too fruity nor floral) and balsam of copaiba (woody but with a cool “bite”). The musk in Paper Passion’s base is super-light and almost undetectable but complements the overall vanilla-wood character of the perfume. I do smell “old books” as I sniff Paper Passion — there’s a definite musty vibe. The longer you wear the fragrance, the more you’ll smell like your granny’s huge, disintegrating 100-year-old family Bible, or bungalow-sized (silverfish-infested) volume of The Complete Shakespeare…