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Takasago Raw Materials from China
The art of creating fragrances that adapt eastern harmonies to western tastes, was the theme of a recent press workshop at the Takasago Paris office.
Takasago’s Marketing Director Arnaud Guggenbuhl, freshly returned from a trip to the land of dragons presented an intriguing variety of Takasago base acco […]

Robert Piguet is officially at Jovoy, Paris as of today. 
 
I caught up with Robert Piguet’s CEO Joe Garces, who was in Jovoy this afternoon with Mathieu de Villelongue, Brand Manager France.
 
Fresh from a trip to Australia, Joe told me that in addition to top sellers such as Fracas and Rose Perfection, Chai is selling very wel […]

Happy 4th of July! Welcome to www.sarahcolton.com
I’m a Paris-based American perfume lover, and have chosen July 4th — a day of celebrations and fireworks — to launch my perfume website, www.sarahcolton.com.
I hope you’ll imagine this site as an open door on the lovely and lively corner of the fragrance world I call ho […]

Prudence is an exotic white flower of easy approach and sparkling luminosity, presented in a bouquet of fictitious simplicity.  Yet, the only thing simple about Prudence Paris fragrances is that they are simply lovely, and easy to be around. Like Prudence, herself: light-hearted and breathtakingly fresh in aspect; robust, and lusty at he […]

I caught a glimpse of Arquiste’s creator, Carlos Huber, at  Liquides perfume bar in the Marais last week. Fresh from being honored as a Top Five Fifi Finalist in New York for Boutonnière no.7, Carlos has been touring Europe, visiting friends and shops. We spent a late afternoon conversing with Marie, la charmante Marie, behind the […]

Mark Buxton, Nicolas Cloutier, Claire Delahaye de Villiers, and Mark’s son Miles
NOSE the Paris niche fragrance, cosmetics and home products concept boutique, famed for its olfactive purism, international flavor, and unique ‘diagnostic’ software, celebrated its 1st birthday on June 19 with a knock down-drag -out street party. Co […]

Karl Brandl, co-owner of Ades de Venustas was recently with François Hénin at Jovoy to present Iris Nazarena, the second fragrance from his ground breaking New York niche fragrance company and boutique.  Created by the perfumer Ralf Schwieger with an iris and incense accord, Iris Nazarena  is presented in the same (now) iconic 20s in […]

 
OPHONE & the Virtual Coffee
What next?
David Edwards is ready to text (or rather ‘whaf’) you a virtual espresso – from Australia. And that’s just your wake up call. How about an Aero-Shot chocolate bar you can savour – without (gulp!) —  Hey, we don’t swallow….We inhale.  According to David Edwards the […]

Denyse Beaulieu and Gilles Thevenin (owner Lubin Parfums) at launch party for the French edition of Denyse’s book, The Perfume Lover, (published in the US by St. Martin’s Press). In spite of unseasonably cold weather outside, the atmosphere inside the tiny Liquides bar à parfums was hot as owner David Frossard  served up  […]

Conjuring songs from stones and symphonies from perfumes, Olivier Durbano is a man of poetry and quiet spirituality. Nothing hurried, all in its time. What he touches reassures. A morning with Olivier in his atelier rue des Francs Bourgeois in the Marais is a haven. To suppose, imagine, discover — and then to remember. Via his fragr […]