“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...
The history of the Poison collection begins in 1985, year when the house at 30 avenue Montaigne released a perfume with a slightly provocative allure. First of all there’s the name: Poison, already a foreboding omen. Then there’s the flask: a concoction captured in an apple-shaped bottle, the very archetype of the forbidden fruit. It...
Audacious Chance by Chanel is indeed. Coco herself never ceased to evoke it: good luck only comes to those who know how to recognize it and grab it for themselves. Just like this perfume, good luck or Chance acts like a blast of optimism, a whirlwind of happiness with a hint of mystery. This is...
Traveling the world over, criss-crossing different regions in search of the most beautiful flowers… “Creation a perfume takes time,” confides François Demachy, the nose for Dior. “But especially being stimulated by your travels, coming face-to-face with lands and people that bring them to life, that preserve them.” This is how François Demachy explores rare lands...
“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...
While the house on rue Cambon is getting ready to launch the new format of their iconic fragrance in France, the double-C brand chose London to put on a retrospective of Gabrielle Chanel’s creation. Entitled “Mademoiselle Privé”, the exhibit will take place at the famous Saatchi Gallery – from October 13th to November 1st, 2015,...
There is one color that is incontestably profitable to the imagination; blue is inscrutable, blue is infinite, blue is profound – fresh like the newly fallen night, as impudent as an expanse of water, variating from a winter sky to cobalt overhead, blue is ever so close to the shadows, the last grade before sheer...
“Wearing Shalimar means letting your senses take control.” – Jacques Guerlain
Tonic and refreshing. This is how one could qualify the new fragrance from the British brand. As unique as it is elegant, My Burberry eau de toilette is just like the icon that inspired it: the eternal Burberry trenchcoat. Just like their Fall/Winter 2016 runway, highlighting flowers and English gardens, My Burberry is a very...
Her wish was granted in 1978 by perfumers Gérard Anthony de Firmenich and Martin Heiddenreich. Together, they would compose the first fragrance for men in the history of the Italian label: Azzaro for men. Pierre Dinand would design the flask in the pure tradition of esthetic codes of the era: amber glass, modern typography, and...
