Exactly one year after the couturier-perfumer’s former residence, the Château de La Colle Noire, reopened in Grasse, the Musée International de la Parfumerie is going back on the history of Dior’s perfumes. Born at the end of the Belle Époque, just as modern perfumery was being propelled by Coco Chanel, Christian Dior never ceased to...
Essential, sophisticated, glamorous, the perfume J’adore from Christian Dior symbolizes unanimous femininity. The scent, imagined by the nose of Calice Becker in 1999, respects all of this “Diorness”, or in other words the femininity, elegance, and emotion of Dior women. This nose imagined a perfume that broke with the olfactory codes of the decade’s perfumers...
This is one of Chanel’s signatures: the perfume Coco Mademoiselle is legendary in that it incarnates what the suit is for haute couture. This classic never ceases to be brought back into taste. Admired for its fresh notes and the unexpected delicateness of its floral bouquet, Coco Mademoiselle is a sensual icon and a refined...
This March 2017, diptyque is celebrating 35 years of their iconic fragrance ‘L’Ombre dans l’Eau’. In 1983 it was sold for the first time as an eau de toilette – a surprising scent that tells tales of a lakeside garden. A childhood memory of one of the three founders of diptyque, this fragrance captures the...
This is a concentration of pleasure, nature, and technology; Dior Hydra Life is able to provide a moisture that wasn’t even fathomable before. Chock full of active ingredients with targeted effects, Dior Hydra Life is able to preserve and value the capital of youth and the beauty of the skin. With a respect for its...
For the first time in its history, Les Airelles’ spa is getting renovated with a little help from illustrious skincare and cosmetics brand La Mer. Within this sumptuous hotel, La Mer becomes the ideal spa partner for offering the most advanced treatments to clients, starting with the most coveted cream in the world. This partnership...
Men’s needs sometimes differ from those of women. Take the skin for example: men’s skin is 25% thicker and doesn’t encounter the same problems as women’s – naturally oily, the male epidermis is more apt to hold out in the long run. Pollution, sweat, and shaving are the problems most inherent to men. That’s why...
2004: Hermès imagines the Eau des Merveilles collection with velvety, creamy, and bursting notes stripped of any floral accents. This was rare indeed for a women’s perfume. Soon, this olfactory tale would know a certain success amongst the public. Today, nose Christine Nagel decided to “put things back in place” with this fragrance that was...
There are certain effects of nature and time that we have to wont to master, to ease and to appease. Starting here, Dior’s laboratories took the time to observe in detail the aggressions of cold weather and its negative effects towards the skin. The cold makes blood vessels contract to maintain a proper body temperature....
N°22, Gardénia, Beige, 28 La Pausa, Jersey, Bois des Iles, N°18, 31 rue Cambon, Sycomore, Cuir de Russie, and more… They’re all here, each of them chapters in the Chanel story that, it goes without saying, still hold many secrets. Les Exclusifs de Chanel constitutes a discovery boxset where 15 miniatures of the label’s emblematic...
