“It’s hard to imagine how much savoir-faire and precision a perfume requires. The creative process is so sweeping, so demanding, that I feel like I’m just as much a Perfumer as a Couturier.” In 1947, Christian Dior turned the rules of silhouettes upside down with his first couture collection. In that same year, the clothing...
In the beginning of this Issey fragrance, there was a drop of a rare and precious water. This water, in its purest form, indulgently espoused the promise of a life in the making. A life, or rather a new chapter that opened in 2016 for this drop – the second chapter of an odyssey that...
The One is a special perfume in that it explores multiple facets of the same woman – this extremely sensual woman expresses herself here in the highly perfumed aura of a Florentine scent. With the immediate resonance and sustenance of a certain delicateness like that of lingerie on the skin, this Dolce & Gabbana perfume...
Burberry is unveiling a new version of its iconic fragrance to open a new chapter in the story of Burberry men’s fragrances. Imagined by perfumer Francis Kurkdjian in close collaboration with CEO and creative director of Burberry Christopher Bailey, Mr. Burberry is a more powerful and sensual version of the emblematic eau de toilette of...
Once more, the new Burberry fragrance is redefining the rules of women’s perfumes. By taking the idea of a naked body covered up by a Burberry trenchcoat, the scent translates this sensual element, this sensorial ecstasy. Composed by nose Francis Kurkdjian in collaboration with Christopher Bailey, My Burberry Black fuses the odor of jasmine and...
His Ambre sultan, “Arab and not Oriental”, to quote its creator, marked the grand opening. Iconoclastic and dreamy, it is outside of the norms. Lutens positions himself through his perfume: “You would smell a perfume, it was a soup. You either smelled the sexy woman or the woman who keeps records. For men, it was...
No one understands luxury better than LVMH. Today, Stéphanie Watine Arnault, Bernard Arnualt’s niece, is piloting this new approach to French luxury in London. Clos 19 is a website that brings together the world’s main luxury brands, including the jewels in LVMH’s crown. Imagined with LVMH and its luxury wines and spirits in mind, the...
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...
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...
