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Six Scents Les Potions Fatales by Parfums Quartana ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 7 June 2016 9 Comments

Six Scents Les Potions Fatales by Parfums Quartana

Six Scents will introduce a new fragrance collection, Les Potions Fatales by Parfums Quartana, later this month. The collection includes nine fragrances…

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Six Scents: Series One, No. 3 The Spirit of Wood for Cosmic Wonder Light Source ~ fragrance review

Posted by Robin on 7 January 2009 38 Comments

The Spirit of Wood fragrance by Cosmic Wonder Light Source

The Six Scents Fragrance Initiative debuted last year. The project is a collaboration between Symrise, Metaproject and Seven New York: each year, they’ll release six new fragrances, each one pairing a Symrise perfumer with a designer, and donate a portion of the proceeds to charity. The beneficiary of the 2008 collection will be Designers Against AIDS.

Several of the fragrances in the 2008 collection were interesting (I’m still mulling over No. 2, Wicken 3000 oops, make that No. 4, Diagonal) but No. 3, The Spirit of Wood was the only one that inspired love at first sniff. No. 3 was developed by perfumer Philippe Paparella-Paris for Cosmic Wonder Light Source, the fashion line of Japanese designer Yukinori Maeda, and it’s worth repeating the perfumer’s statement from the ad copy…

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Six Scents Fragrance Initiative, Series One ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 10 October 2008 30 Comments

Six Scents: Series One fragrances

The Six Scents Fragrance Initiative is a new, ongoing collaboration between Symrise, Metaproject and Seven New York. The group plans to launch six new fragrances every year with a percentage of the proceeds going to charity. Six Scents: Series One will launch next month, and will benefit Designers Against AIDS' International AIDS Awareness Education Center in Antwerp, Belgium.

Each of the six fragrances was developed by a celebrated designer working in conjunction with a Symrise perfumer. The fragrances for Series One, curated by Joseph Quartana of Seven New York, are:

Fragrance 1: Urban Tropicalia ~ by Alexandre Herchcovitch. According to perfumer Joachim Correll, “The inspiration for this fragrance was driven by the way that Alexandre creates fashion: The creative liberty he uses to design fashion which can be used equally by men or women…”

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