Roja Dove’s Roja Parfums line has launched two new fragrances, Reckless and Scandal Pour Homme…
Abandoned bottles
There's a direct psychological link between your reaction to fragrance and your personality, but today we're so convinced by all the marketing spin. People buy scent by brand image and not smell. Eventually, when the buzz of that purchase has gone, you find that you didn't really like it. The proof is all those abandoned bottles sitting on top of dressing tables.
— From Interview: Roja Dove, perfumer at the Scotsman.
The Sun Buzz ~ new fragrance
UK tabloid The Sun has launched Buzz, a new fragrance that promises to bottle “the essence of pure entertainment”…
The Perfume Diaries at Harrods, part 3
About the author: Nina is our guest shopper for London, and she not only kindly wrote up the Perfume Diaries exhibit for those of us who can’t make it to London, she also took all of the images with the exception of the one just above, which is courtesy of Harrods.
Throughout September, Harrods is hosting a presentation of perfume through the ages. The Perfume Diaries is ‘an exhibition celebrating the past, present and future of the perfume industry.’
It’s on the fourth floor, in a long white space which has been put together with care and considerable style by Emma Jane Hockley (Harrods’ buyer for perfume and cosmetics — what a job!), and Harrods’ own Professeur de Parfums, Roja Dove. With this kind of clout, they’ve been able to pull in an amazing range of objects from all over the world.
Harrods generously invited perfume and beauty bloggers to a private viewing, and Robin equally generously allowed me to go instead of her. (And if you saw the quality of the patisserie offerings, you’d know how big a sacrifice this was.)
Racing in from a magazine interview, Roja Dove guided us round the exhibits…
The Perfume Diaries at Harrods
Harrods in London will be holding an exhibit — titled The Perfume Diaries — “celebrating the past, present and future of the perfume industry”. The exhibit is curated by Roja Dove of the Haute Parfumerie at Harrods.
A true celebration of the fragrance industry…