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Osmoz app for iPhone, iTouch

Posted by Robin on 22 December 2010 8 Comments

Osmoz iPhone app

Osmoz, the consumer website of the fragrance & flavor company Firmenich, has launched a new iPhone application:

Get information about your favorite fragrances, up-to-the-minute fragrance news streamed live, and expert recommendations from our fragrance advisor…

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Paris Parfum ~ new guidebook

Posted by Robin on 4 December 2010 4 Comments

Osmoz has produced Paris Parfum: The Fragrance Guide to Paris:

Legendary addresses and those reserved for the in-the-know…

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Naked without perfume

Posted by Robin on 9 September 2010 26 Comments

A funny from the folks at Osmoz, and they're also giving away a year's worth of perfume. Update: they've upped the value of the perfume to $500.

Osmoz Les coulisses du parfum Vibrations of Spices & Delicious Gourmand Notes ~ new olfactory kits

Posted by Robin on 2 December 2009 18 Comments

Osmoz Les coulisses du parfum

Osmoz has launched two new olfactory kits in their Les coulisses du parfum series, Vibrations of Spices and Delicious Gourmand Notes:

Volume IV, Vibrations of Spices (shown above), with clove, nutmeg, saffron, coriander, black pepper, Sichuan pepper, pink pepper, ginger, cardamom, everlasting, cinnamon and cumin…

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Osmoz Les coulisses du parfum, Vol III, Legendary woods & resins ~ olfactory kit review

Posted by Robin on 26 May 2009 43 Comments

Osmoz Les

One of the real challenges facing newbie perfumistas (and even some of us seasoned perfumistas) is learning to pick out fragrance notes. As I’ve said before (see Perfumista tip: on getting to know fragrance notes), I don’t think you need to be an expert either to enjoy perfume or to approach it as an art form, but a certain level of familiarity is certainly helpful — if everyone is talking about sandalwood and you have no idea what sandalwood smells like, you’re left in the dark.

One alternative is to just keep on doggedly smelling different perfumes until you start to recognize and “pick out” fragrance notes, another is to smell the materials separately. The new Les coulisses du parfum kits from Osmoz, the consumer website of the fragrance & flavor company Firmenich, are designed to help you with the latter approach.

There are 3 kits in the series. Volume III, the one I’m reviewing today, is “Legendary woods & resins”, and of necessity is the only one of the 3 made up entirely of natural raw materials.1 Volume III includes cedar, myrrh, sandalwood, benzoin, vetiver, patchouli, balsam fir, oak, galbanum resinoid, rockrose labdanum, oliban or incense and guaiac wood…

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