Folie à Plusieurs is the new fragrance brand of Kaya Sorhaindo, one of the original founders of the Six Scents Fragrance Initiative. The brand’s first perfume release will be this fall, but in the meantime the brand is collaborating on Le Cinéma Olfactif, pairing art house films with ambient fragrances developed by perfumer Mark Buxton. The films are being shown in Berlin at Soho House…
Sleeping with Ghosts, promoted by perfumer Mark Buxton as a “fantasy of extreme tenderness,” is one of six fragrances in the recently repackaged Mark Buxton Perfumes collection. It includes notes of tagete, quince, peony, leather, vetiver and vanilla, and it is described as “seeking for the unexpected beauty…lost in the dark world…who is it?”
I like the names of the perfumes in this collection (Black Angel and Emotional Rescue are two others that appeal to me), and I wonder whether Sleeping with Ghosts borrowed its name from an album by alternative rock band Placebo. In a 2003 interview, Placebo frontman Brian Molko discussed “Sleeping with Ghosts”‘ theme of lost relationships, saying, “The album title’s about carrying the ghosts of your relationships with you, to the point where sometimes a smell or a situation or an item of clothing they bought brings a person back…”
Perfumer Mark Buxton talks about L’Air de Panache, the concept fragrance he developed for Wes Anderson’s new movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Below the jump, a Grand Budapest Hotel “Featurette”.
French niche boutique Nose, in association with Twentieth Century Fox and Wes Anderson, has created L’Air de Panache, a concept fragrance inspired by Anderson’s upcoming movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel…
German niche line Linari will launch Mare Pacifico, a new aquatic fragrance. It will be the brand’s first launch since 2012’s Porta del Cielo.