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Photo: Reflections of sunrise stained glass window in pool,  Courtesy of La Piscine-Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Roubaix, France.  
 
 
Wishing you a bright and fragrant New Year 2014 full of inspiration and joy!
 

 
Hermès has announced that perfumer Christine Nagel will join the company in March 2014 to work with Jean-Claude Ellena, the current in-house perfumer.
In a brief press announcement Catherine Fulconis, CEO, Hermès Parfums said:
“…The arrival of Jean-Claude Ellena in 2004 marked the start of a new journey for Hermès. Ten years […]

Mugler Follies
 
The Mugler Follies, a cabaret extravaganza of typically Mugler-esque over the top proportion, debuts this week in Paris.
 
Perfume lovers will be thrilled to know that the creator of ‘Angel’, ‘Alien’, ‘A*Men’, and ‘Womanity’ (Clarins Fragrance Group) has turned his creative talents in yet a new d […]

Photo: Sarah’s take (2nd row, 3rd seat) on Mark Buxton’s visual, “An acrobat balancing over the void standing on the tightrope of life”
 
 
The Attractive Force of The Dark Side
Pitti Fragranze, September 2013
 
Silvio Levi and his panel discussion at Pitti Fragranze, entitled “Partita A Tre” (Match Wit […]

Sarah Colton, author of Tilt 68 about the latest from the city of lights:  perfumes and scents and aromas.
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OMG! What happened?  If my beat truthfully included only Paris, September and October would have been delightfully but manageably crazy. In mid-September, the 5th Edition of Les Rives de la Beauté touched down in Paris, wreaking holy fragrant havoc on perfume and other art forms as they collided in a series of events on the left and rig […]

48 HOURS after Les Rives de la Beauté  2013 reached record high-water marks at La Cour des Senteurs in Versailles and The Liquides Perfume Bar in the Paris Marais district, a boatload of survivors was seen leaving a hotel particulière in central Paris — presumably to assess the situation. In boat: Front row left to right: Céline […]

“Les Rives de la Beauté”, a singular meteorological beauty and artistic perfumery phenomenon, is forecast to touch down in Paris on Wednesday, September 18, with conditions continuing through Sunday, September 22.
Satellite imagery tracking the projected path of this super-charged high-pressure zone, indicate a wide and fragrant sill […]

The Spa My Blend by Clarins has recently opened its third luxury spa at the Hotel Majestic Barrière in Cannes. Two other Spa My Blend by Clarins, one at the Royal Monceau Raffles Palace Hotel in Paris, and the other at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Toronto create a dazzling trio, while a fourth in The Maldives, is planned for opening in the […]

While the days of the 2 martini lunch in New York of the ‘60s may be past, cocktail bars in Paris of the ‘10s are flourishing. Sharing mid-summer cocktails on the terrace of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on the rue St. Honoré with perfumer Jacques Huclier  (Givaudan) offered a refreshing and multi-sensorial take on the contemporary c […]