Hello perfume people and welcome to another session of Mood Scent 4. Each month my fragrant partners and myself team up to share some fragrance love highlighting a specific theme. The Mood Scent 4 team features Portia at A Bottled Rose (Australia), L’Esperessence (Netherlands) and I Scent You A Day (Wales, United Kingdom) and we are […]
All posts tagged: Vero Profumo
RIP Vero Kern (1940 – 2018)
Today I’m paying my respects to this wonderfully creative perfumer who made a lasting impression on so many fragrance lovers. Vero Kern was a true artist rather than a purveyor of fragrant goods. In the fragrance world there are many types of entities with different ambitions, […]
Mood Scent 4 : Relaxing Perfumes
Welcome back to another session of Mood Scent 4 with my perfume blogging friends, I Scent You A Day, A Bottled Rose and L‘Esperessence who is here with us today after a leave of absence. This instalment features our most relaxing perfumes. So when do you feel relaxed? […]
Perfume Review : Naja from Vero Profumo : Reptilian Shapeshifter
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 […]
Esxence 2017 Perfume Sniffing
Hello perfume people and welcome to my condensed run down on Esxence. I’ve already shared my thoughts on what it’s like to work at Esxence here and I’ll admit that I managed to get to only a handful of brands as I was working there and was limited […]
Summer Perfumes : My Top 10 : 2016
There’s no getting away from summer in the South of France. It’s hot although thankfully it doesn’t feel quite as stifling as last year. The flowers on hedges and trees are simply beautiful, adding scent and bright pops of glorious colour to the villages in […]
Pitti Fragranze Here I Come
Hello fragrance lovers. I will be at Pitti Fragranze, in Florence this week to smell perfumes and meet the people involved – the creators, brand owners and the teams. I’m also looking forward to catching up with people I met in Milan at Esxence back […]
June 2015 Perfume News Update : Papillon’s Salome, Annick Goutal’s Absolus Collection And More
Here’s a short June Edition of current perfume releases and those about to launch that I’m a little excited about. I won’t be writing about all of the releases to the market in these editions as quite frankly there are way too many to reference and […]
Esxence Day One : Discovering New Favourites
Where to start? I’d drafted a list of brands that I wanted to visit before I left for Esxence that numbered around thirty. I imagined that I’d easily get around all of the stalls, go to a sprinkling of workshops and have time for sightseeing, […]
Esxence : The Scent Of Excellence : Off To Milan
Tomorrow, Esxence, The Scent of Excellence gets underway in Milan. It’s a trade show extroadinaire running from March 26th – 29th, featuring niche and artisanal perfume lines. Pretty much all that is new in niche. On Thursday and Friday Esxence is open to trade and media, but […]
New Perfume Review : Rose Privée from L’Artisan Parfumeur
A version of this article previously appeared on Ca Fleure Bon written by Megan In Sainte Maxime. I have to admit I have a special fondness for L’Artisan Pafumeur, not because it was one of my first discoveries but because they make Séville à l’aube, […]
February Perfume News Round Up : So Many New Perfumes + Tauerville
Here’s my February Perfume News Round Up of Upcoming Releases and News Items that have caught my eye and piqued my interest. Upcoming Perfume Releases That Have Me Hot Under The Collar : Already a slew of new perfume releases have been mentioned in February. Not all of them get me excited but a […]
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