Next up from British niche line Miller Harris will be Fleurs de Bois, a new addition to the classic line. Fleurs de Bois was “inspired by an English garden with dewy grass, fresh rain and floral notes”, and will debut in May.
The fragrance notes include galbanum, grass, lemon, green mandarin…
I’ve been on a bit of a tea journey recently, creating my own blends to sell in a new cafe at the back of my fragrance shop. Getting the taste right has been remarkably similar to making perfume – combining the elements to get just the right mix. In my view, the tea itself should be the main event; it should never be drowned out by other aromatic additions.
— Perfumer Lyn Harris of Miller Harris talks about blending teas in Make tea to a tea at the UK Times Online.
Surprise of surprises. When I first smelled Miller Harris L’Air de Rien, a fragrance named “air of nothing” and made for the breathy-voiced, hippie-chic Jane Birkin, the last thing I expected to think of was Jean Desprez Bal à Versailles, a scent purportedly made of over 300 ingredients and whose bottle features 17th-century ladies in pastel dresses. But from their shared sweet neroli beginning down to their saddle leather, musk, and dirty stable dry down, Bal à Versailles and L’Air de Rien smell to me like twins separated at birth and raised in different homes…
I have a confession to make: I’m a fragrance fanatic. I don’t bathe in scent and asphyxiate fellow elevator passengers, but lately no reading interests me as much as the well-crafted description of how something smells. It’s similar to how people used to read Pauline Kael’s film reviews for the sake of artistry, not to decide whether they’d see the movie.
Still, it feels strange to confess to an obsession that few are aware exists.
— From Charting the ascent of scent: why the olfactory arts are set to be the next great obsession in The National Post (link no longer active, sorry)…
Le Petit Grain is the latest fragrance to join the Nouvelle Edition collection at Miller Harris.
Incorporating every element of the orange tree from the oil from the peel of the fruit, to the flowers, to the leaves and the twigs, Le Petit Grain celebrates the great tradition of the cologne family and can be worn and enjoyed by the whole family…