Perfumer Aurélien Guichard talks about Dolce & Gabbana Velvet Zafferano.
Consistent complaints from a smell-sensitive neighbor
The updated rules will go into effect in March, a little over a year after restaurant owner Eddie Dong was forced to close his Pho Gabo at 7330 N.E. Fremont St. after consistent complaints from a smell-sensitive neighbor. Dong continues to operate Pho Gabo locations in Hillsboro and Happy Valley.
The 5-year-old restaurant’s surprise closure marked the end of an 18-month struggle for Dong. Despite deep cleaning the exhaust system and moving meat grilling to another Pho Gabo location, the Portland restaurant had continued to receive complaints from a single upset neighbor, leading to visits from a city inspector and growing fines.
— Read more in Portland changes city ‘odor code’ that led Vietnamese restaurant to close at The Oregonian.
Abu Dhabi x 2
The spot for Memo Abu Dhabi. Below the jump, perfumer Mylène Alran talks about the fragrance.
Girls just wanna have fun
The holiday spot from Lancôme.
The first American masterpiece
The first was Estée in 1968. It was Mrs. Lauder's first foray into perfume. Not Youth Dew. When Youth Dew came out in ’53, she was into skincare. That was her love, and she wanted a bath oil. That was a skin perfume. But her first real perfume that she was part of was Estée of ’68. It was also the first American perfume that made the French perfumers sit up and take notice. When you look at some of the interpretations of Estée, think of First by Van Cleef & Arpels, that kind of went there. And Roure Bertrand Dupont’s Geoffrey Webster, told me, for example, that he regarded Estée as the first American masterpiece.
— Michael Edwards, quoted in Liquid Emotion, Cultural Artifact: A Conversation with Fragrance Taxonomist Michael Edwards at BeautyMatter.