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He(y) Violet !

Le 23 novembre 2008 à 14:11 sur 1000fragrances

Fragrance in the lab

Le 21 novembre 2008 à 13:16 sur 1000fragrances

Testing the cream

Le 11 septembre 2008 à 23:26 sur 1000fragrances

The most amazing beauty article of this month comes from Harper's Bazaar US. Did you ever doubt about cosmetic claims and miracle creams? This article "proves" that everything is true! The journalist did a trip in France and visited the major labs (which by simple coincidence ended the first (...)

The forbidden musk

Le 11 septembre 2008 à 15:00 sur 1000fragrances

Don't think that only musk ambrette, an outstanding product present in almost all luxury perfumes created before WWII, is forbidden. There are other so called bad molecules and this is a list from IFRA 42. Musk alpha - 1,3-Dibromo-4-methoxy-2-methyl-5-nitrobenzene Musk KS - (...)

Eau de Mélisse de Carmes - adieu

Le 9 septembre 2008 à 20:59 sur 1000fragrances

After Eau de la Reine de Hongrie and following the introduction of distillation in Europe, many convents started to produce floral waters based on the plants cultivated in their refectory. For several centuries the distinction between the fragrance and the drug was not clear, many distilled (...)

Thierry Wasser article

Le 5 septembre 2008 à 20:00 sur 1000fragrances

There is a portrait-interview with Thierry Wasser in september issue of Air France Madame. He speaks about his student period at Givaudan while doing the copy of Shalimar and Vetiver but also of the famous refrigerator of M.Thiboud (the director), where special materials, including classic (...)

Requiem for Mitsouko

Le 5 septembre 2008 à 0:03 sur 1000fragrances

Since several days I inspect the Mitsouko extract as it can be found today in Paris. I do not think that the current reformulation of the Extrait is good. In fact, it's very bad and the problem inside is not (only) the oakmoss! Mitsouko is also very, very spicy (spices rich in eugenol) but the (...)

Prince Matchabelli

Le 3 septembre 2008 à 19:17 sur 1000fragrances

I was unsure if this brand was still on the market until I've recently seen Marie-Hélène's review and Luca Turin's short presentation (he thought the name was a marketing invention). Prince Georges Vasili Matchabelli was an important name in American perfume industry of 30's and 50's (and even (...)

Politics and fragrance

Le 3 septembre 2008 à 13:54 sur 1000fragrances

Fragrance, as a form of luxury had always tight and not so well known relations with the power. Or politics in modern days. From the expensive spices to Catherine de Medicis, Louis XIV to XVI and later Napoleon I and III and modern moguls there is always an official history and a history that (...)

Guerlain - Dawamesk

Le 2 septembre 2008 à 22:11 sur 1000fragrances

Before Opium and its narcotic mythology there was Guerlain and Dawamesk - 1942, relaunched after the war and then renamed. From Baudelaire, les Paradis artificiels, a famous quote:"La plus usitée de ces confitures, le dawamesk, est un mélange d'extrait gras, de sucre et de divers aromates, tels (...)