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Présence (Houbigant) - vintage fragrance review

Le 24 avril 2011 à 8:00 sur 1000fragrances

The history of perfumes knows many lost masterpieces, creations that are totally forgotten despite their scent and crucial importance for the 8th art. Présence is one of those perfumes you could hardly forget if you had the chance to wear it. It was meant to be a success but its aesthetic essence (...)

A fragrant flower with a very shy freshness

Le 23 avril 2011 à 8:00 sur 1000fragrances

This flowers, growing near my Daphne bush has a scent quite different from the Daphne odora I've recently presented. It is more delicate, smooth, not contrasted and not lemony. The rosy elements are much more refined and soft, while an earthy rooty element, suggesting some vegetables and the (...)

The most unusual yellow flower

Le 22 avril 2011 à 8:00 sur 1000fragrances

Was Edmond Roudnitska thinking of other less known flowers when he composed Diorissimo? Last week, I was suddenly amazed in a garden by a mysterious fresh and strong scent that was filling the air. The first word that came to my lips before I was able to detect the source was - styrax. In fact, (...)

The origins of Jicky (Guerlain)

Le 21 avril 2011 à 8:00 sur 1000fragrances

It was inside this house from Paris that Aimé Guerlain composed Jicky in the late 1880's. A small lab was located on the first floor. The young Jacques Guerlain would meet the young chemist Justin Dupont to discuss about the new molecules and the composition of essential oils. In the following (...)

Rondeletia - a famous perfume

Le 20 avril 2011 à 8:00 sur 1000fragrances

A famous perfume and also a perfumery accord based on 3 naturals, invented around 1830 by british perfumers. Here you have the original ad of the first suppliers of Rondeletia. The accord was recently used in a modern masculine (...)

New York : chaos olfactif ?

Le 20 avril 2011 à 0:07 sur Olfactorum

Le plus gros avantage de New York sur Paris, c'est que la grosse pomme ne sent pas le gasoil, car il est très peu diffusé ici et les vents balayent la ville de la pollution en cette saison ! Le problème, c'est que l'absence de senteur de carburant dans l'air fait ressortir toutes les autres et pas (...)

A secret wish

Le 19 avril 2011 à 11:02 sur 1000fragrances

A drop of perfume in a forgotten bottle is like an imprisoned spirit in crystal coffin. When you release the Sleeping Beauty after years of loneliness, the molecules start to perform an unusual ballet in the air. It's like opening a very old book and reading the spells after 200 years. Yesterday (...)

The secret tuberose tree in Paris

Le 19 avril 2011 à 10:12 sur 1000fragrances

Have you ever had a dream about a tree that smells like the most luxurious bed of tuberoses where the senses are melted in the most decadent way?In Paris we have this type of tree secretly hiding its devastating scents from intruders thanks to a modest diffusion and shy sillage. This tree (...)

The most unusual broom - scented gênet

Le 18 avril 2011 à 8:00 sur 1000fragrances

Small and modest plants have reserved for us the most unusual surprises to compensate their shy appearance. Last week my attention went to a bush sitting near a glorious magnolia . The olfactory shock was huge. This is not a common broom, nor the golden type used by the perfumers to prepare the (...)

Perfume and Music - Carl Engel and La Belle Époque

Le 15 avril 2011 à 8:44 sur 1000fragrances

Carl Engel (1883–1944) was an American composer and musicologist, a writer for The Musical Quarterly and later the chief of the Music Division of the Library of Congress (1922).Around 1917 he published a perfume suite, an collection of 5 musical pieces for piano inspired by several perfumes. (...)