Welcome to another edition of Mood Scent 4 with my perfume blogging friends, I Scent You A Day and A Bottled Rose. We’re here to scent moods and occasions and today we’ll be writing about Scents of Place. L’Esperessence is currently taking a break but […]
Warszawa : from Puredistance // Nose : Antoine Lie // Year : 2016 // Notes : Galbanum, grapefruit, violet leaf , jasmine absolute, broom absolute, orris butter, patchouli, vetiver, styrax, vetiver The Low Down : A classy, beautifully blended floral perfume that will make you Queen of the ball. […]
Hello everyone and welcome to 2018. Here’s to a Fragrant New Year across the globe 🌺. I’m going to take you through my favourite fragrances of the year and a few musings. This is a year where I blogged less frequently for various reasons, however my […]
We’re back with the fourth edition of Mood Scent 4, where A Bottled Rose, I Scent You A Day, L’Esperessence and Megan In Sainte Maxime offer their choices on scent moods and occasions or various themes every two months. Rainy Day, Wedding Guest and Mainstream perfumes have been covered […]
Vero Kern’s perfumes are highly anticipated and it’s certainly been a long, drawn out wait for Naja. The teasing started a while back on social media and this was the one perfume that I was insistent on smelling at Esxence, the annual niche perfume trade […]
Nabucco is a word of mouth perfume house (and an Italian opera by Verdi). There are three perfumes in the collection – Amatys, Nabucco and LOV. The first two fragrances were released way back in 2007, so you can’t accuse this brand of a tsunami of fast fashion like […]
I recently spent a lovely morning at the headquarters of Nana. M, a new French perfume house situated in the hills of Grasse. Fiona Tiberi, the Product Manager was the perfect host and patiently introduced me to the collection of eight perfumes. Céline Ripert is the founder […]
The Paris attacks as you can imagine have dominated the news coverage in France this week. I’ve felt a combination of sadness and anger, and an acknowledgement that this will not be an isolated incident. Of course the ongoing situation is complex. And yes terrorism […]
So Day Three at Pitti Fragranze rolled around far too quickly. There was a small earthquake in Florence that morning, although large enough to wake me around 3am. An early wake up call if you will. You can also read about my scent adventures on Day One […]
Day Two at Pitti Fragranze was open to the public as well as buyers, distributors and press. As expected it was buzzing. First up was Histoires de Parfums. This is a brand with some great perfumes up its sleeve. I have 1969 Parfum de Revolte in my […]
Today I sprayed on Chergui, another fabulous scent from Serge Lutens and his perfumer supremo, Christopher Sheldrake. I adore Lutens and his oeuvre, and have written about Tubereuse Criminelle, Douce Amère, La Religieuse and Bas de Soie on these pages, but this is only a […]
Summer has hit the South of France with a vengeance. It’s stinking hot already and I live in a non air conditioned house so have become a dab hand with a bottle of Evian Facial Spray while standing in front of the fan. And no we […]
