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Category Archives: Fragrances

EAU DE COLOGNE HAY

8 June, 2010

The true goal of every essence is to evoke emotions and images; and to the desire of and thanks to the desire to free the movement of the senses through escape routes of the imagination, we owe the particular Eau de Cologne Hay created in Officina Profumo Farmaceutica of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. The [...]

PARFUMES

4 May, 2010

In collaboration with >bmm Issue N° 31

ESSENCE
Musical and bright. The essence of the new Narciso Rodriguez’s fragrance is the mirror of a paradoxical femininity, intense and light, simple and complex. The chypre fragrance created by perfumer Alberto Morillas is contained in a bottle-sculpture, designed by avant-garde exponent Ross Lovegrove. Essence reedefines feminine traits and signs [...]

(MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA VIDEO)

23 April, 2010

Such a penetrating feeling can’t just be described, but it does induce a pure statement. Reversed images. Reversed background music. The face is wrapped, hidden. No name will give identification. Eyes covered, anonymity. In the name of white. 3: Maison Martin Margiela fragrance.

Elisa Lusso

PARISIENNE

19 March, 2010

Musical and romantic. After the worldwide success of Paris in its declinations, Yves Saint Laurent devotes another tribute to the city of Paris, to the magic of metropolitan femininity, with a distinct joie de vivre. The olfactory scale of Parisienne winks to the notes chypré of Paris; but if in the previous fragrance Rose and [...]

JOHN GALLIANO

1 March, 2010

Scents are olfactory harmonies olfactory which let the most passionate off the ground. They create images and feelings opposed, are an escape from reality, capture the joy of living, just like the first Eau de Toilette by John Galliano dedicated to the playful spirit of his female creature with a striking poetic grace.

Hymn to the [...]

(UNTITLED)

18 February, 2010

“ Everyone has the right to ask themselves questions in front of a colour, ashape or a dress… we wanted to offer the same opportunity for a perfume. Lacking of any reference to an image or a specific environment (untitled), can interpret itself and adapt freely to each of us ”. This way was born [...]

LA FOLIE BAUDELAIRE

9 February, 2010

“(…) A lazy isle to which nature has given / Singular trees, savory fruits / Men with bodies vigorous and slender, and woman in whose eyes shines a starling candor (…)”. These verses, extracted from Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, inspired Byredo Parfum founder Ben Gorham to create a fragrance committed to forbidden and [...]

L’AIR DU TEMPS

14 December, 2009

Creative Director at Balenciaga Nicolas Ghesquiere, never made a false step: his collections, ever realized with masterly skills, enlighten and move deeply. For the new perfume commisioned by the french maison, the first after 1955’s Quadrille, high expectations were pushing on the director, while season after season Nicolas was renewing his view, but still imposing [...]