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OK. There we go again. The Easter bunny is a free rabbit again and happy because the Easter job is done. It has become sort of a tradition to celebrate this with a little draw.
It’s taken me a while to get around to trying the Pentachord fragrances from Tauer Perfumes, mainly just because they were difficult to find in New York City for a while and I never quite seemed to get around to placing a sample order. When I did finally try them this month, it was immediately apparent that White was my favorite of the three. Like its fellow Pentachords, White is composed from five synthetic ingredients — no more, no less. In this case, the fragrance’s central idea is “the clear melody of royal iris” and its notes are iris root, violet, rosewood, ambergris and Bourbon vanilla.
The official description for Pentachord White evokes “a white clean garden” that combines the “crisp beauty” of its flowers with the “warmth” of its trees and background. I’m noticing much more crispness than warmth in White: the note that makes the strongest impression on me is a cool, silvery-green violet. The violet never really gives way entirely to the softly rooty iris…
Today, I’m looking at two niche fragrances: LesNez Turtle Vetiver Front and Tableau de Parfums Dark Passage. They don’t really have all that much in common other than that they’re both limited edition fragrances made in support of outside projects. Oh, and I like them both.
Turtle Vetiver Front is the latest from Swiss niche line LesNez. It’s the second in their series of vetiver fragrances made in support of the Turtle “anarchic” salon (about which I know nearly nothing, but you can read more here). Vetiver Front was developed by perfumer Isabelle Doyen, and I adored her first in the series, Turtle Vetiver Exercise No. 1. I thought of Exercise No. 1 (which I believe is now sold out) as a kind of vetiver for vetiver freaks…
Tableau de Parfums, a collaboration between Andy Tauer of Tauer Perfumes and filmmaker Brian Pera, has launched Dark Passage. Dark Passage is a limited edition fragrance, and can only be obtained as a gift for pledging $60 towards the funding of Pera’s next film project, Only Child…
I own way too many perfumes. A good portion of my “collection” these days is made up of summery, citrus colognes. Here in the chilly, damp Pacific Northwest, and especially after a mega-snowstorm like we experienced last week, I am entering a ‘danger zone’ (a time period when I am REALLY susceptible to buying light, bright citrus-packed fragrances, perfumes that remind me of summer or my years living in Southern California). Who cares that I already own enough sparkling lemon-orange-lime-bergamot-grapefruit-kumquat scents to last a decade; isn’t there room for one, or two, more?
Enter Tauer Perfumes Cologne du Maghreb, an all-natural fragrance, that includes notes of bergamot and lemon essential oils, neroli oil, orange blossom, Moroccan cedar wood, cistus ladaniferus, rosemary, lavender, rose and clary sage. I like every fragrance note listed for Cologne du Maghreb and expected to enjoy the perfume, too.
When first applied, Cologne du Maghreb produces a dusky, dark, “art-studio” aroma…