Indie perfume house Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has launched Je Suis La Lune, Paper White, Rain, Maui, Taj Garden, Summer Cologne, Lis Oriental, Figue Interdite, Eau Cerise and Bakul Medjool. (Also new for 2018 is Shimotsuki, which Jessica has already reviewed)…*
Indie natural line Providence Perfume Co has launched Lemon Liada, a new limited edition summer fragrance…
Occasionally reviews describe a fragrance as smelling “vintage.” To me, it signals that the fragrance follows the conventions of a classic perfume style, like a floral aldehyde with a musk-sandalwood-vetiver base, or a mossy chypre. Besides that, it often means that a perfume simply isn’t fashionable.
Olympic Orchids Tropic of Capricorn smells vintage, in the animalic, leathery way of Caron Narcisse Noir Extrait. It’s definitely not fashionable, but it has a lot of style. This is a perfume for Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard…
If you’re a fan of indie perfumer Sarah McCartney, creator of 4160 Tuesdays, you may already know that she recently introduced a new collection called Our Modern Lives. The collection includes seven all-natural botanical perfumes named for colors and moods, plus two synthetic, hypoallergenic fragrances that can be worn alone or layered with the naturals. It’s an ingenious concept. With this collection, we’re able to choose or combine at will.
I’m slowly working my way through Our Modern Lives’ spectrum of natural fragrances; at the moment, Red (whose mood is “Gratitude” and theme is “Harvest”) is my favorite…
Indie natural perfumer Ayala Moriel has launched <3, a new limited edition floriental fragrance…