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Unidentified Scented Object

Posted by Robin on 20 October 2017 2 Comments

The vision of Cartier’s in-house fragrance nose Mathilde Laurent, Le Nuage Parfumé - aka the Unidentified Scented Object - is located at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. The scented object is in fact a cloud, a puff of perfume if you will. Inside a glass cube sits a suspended spiral staircase with a floating cloud that hovers elegantly just below the ceiling. It looks abstract on first impression, almost an illusion until closer inspection when the texture of the cloud is clear to see.

— Read more about Cartier's new art installation in Paris at What Is Cartier's Le Nuage Perfume Experience All About? at Vogue UK. The scent in the "cloud", by the way, is L'Envol de Cartier, and Le Nuage Parfumé is open to visitors from today through Monday.

Piver Reve d’Or ~ fragrance review

Posted by Angela on 18 September 2017 14 Comments

Piver Rêve d’Or vintage advert

In August, I met up with a friend at Sous le Parasol, a tiny perfume boutique in a decidedly non-chi-chi Parisian neighborhood. The boutique looks like it hasn’t had a branding update since 1966, and its logo and throwback storefront needs only Jeanne Moreau in a trench coat to shine in a nouvelle vague movie.

Naturally, my pulse leapt at Sous le Parasol’s glorious retro-chic décor. But what really got my heart racing were its shelves of cheap thrills. David Hasson, a Spanish perfumer, founded Sous le Parasol in 1936. He stocked his shop with his own colognes and blended them at his laboratory in Burgundy from materials from Grasse. The founder’s son still makes the boutique’s fragrances, and the granddaughter runs it…

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Le Grand Musee du Parfum

Posted by Robin on 23 December 2016 Leave a Comment

Take a walk through the new Grand Musée du Parfum in Paris. The commentary is in French, but you can read a description of the individual rooms in The Guardian's A first look inside Le Grand Musée du Parfum, a museum of scent in Paris.

Malle x 4

Posted by Robin on 2 December 2016 Leave a Comment

First up, two videos (one is below the jump) about Frédéric Malle’s new boutique in the Marais district of Paris. The boutique was designed by the architecture firm of Jakob + MacFarlane (and there is an article with lots of pictures at designboom).

Below those, first, a video telling the story behind the brand. Below that, perfumer Michel Roudnitska talks about Le Parfum de Thérèse, created by his father, Edmond Roudnitska.

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An emblematic space worthy of its true measure

Posted by Robin on 2 September 2016 Leave a Comment

Le Grand Musée du Parfum

An ambassador for French luxury houses and the French art of living, fragrance is one of the crowning jewels in the French economy. Yet, despite its international influence, French perfumery has not previously been on display in Paris; there has never been an emblematic space worthy of its true measure.

— Le Grand Musée du Parfum, supported by Syndicat français de la parfumerie, with an exhibit designed by International Flavors & Fragrances, opens in December, in a house formerly owned by the Christian Lacroix fashion brand. Read more at Le Grand Musee du Parfum – A new museum dedicated to perfumery will open in Paris at 2Luxury2.

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