Nin Shar by Jul et Mad (2015)
Happy Valentine’s day! My SOTD is Nin Shar by Jul et Mad, created by Sidonie Lancesseur in 2015. Nin Shar is a mythical tale about the oriental, empress rose: about her rich royal status, about…
Jardins de Misfah (2019.) by Une Nuit Nomade
My Indian summer blues belongs to sweets and roses. Maybe it is my kind of coping with colder mornings and shorter days or just a way to prolong the summer’s period of indulgence and relaxation….
L’eau À la rose by Maison Francis Kurkdjian (2020)
Darling rose buds of May It was early and still rather cold spring when tested L’eau À la rose (2020), but even then my first association was the atmosphere from the series Lovely Buds of…
London by Gallivant (2017)
It is truly amazing how the first whiff of unknown perfume can dig out the very old and pretty vague memory and turn it into the bright hologram. That’s what happened to me with Gallivant’s…
Etat Libre d’Orange – roses from 2019.
500 years and Spice must flow From 2006., when first Etat Libre d’Orange perfumes were launched, until 2019., ELDO presented only one rose-centred perfume: striking Rossy de Palma Eau de Protection. But in just finished 2019. Etienne de Swardt – bang! –…
Bruno Acampora Malum and Mendittorosa Talento
Maybe the best way to describe my 2019. is to use the lyrics of local evergreen, more precisely a few popular verses which are upgraded almost to a proverb: A handful of tears, a bag…
Twilly Eau Poivrée by Hermès (2019)
Let’s have a disclosure at the very beginning: I have a soft spot for Hermès. I loved Ellena’s Hermès, I love some earlier Hermès perfumes, love some of the alterations to Hermès concept Christine Nagel has…
Le Jardin Retrouvé
I first read about Le Jardin Retrouvé’s and The Revival Project 2018. in The Plum Girl text sometime in the middle of last year. By then, I already knew the basic facts about Yuri Gutsats, the perfumer and the…
