Perfumers being inspired by gardens is not something new, but this very interesting article on Telegraph.co.uk highlights two of the most illustrious ones: the legendary one of Edmond Roudnitska in France and the exotic one of Serge Lutens in Marrakech…
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Gardens for Lutens and for Roudnitska
May 18th, 2008 — , France, Serge Lutens, edmond roudnitska, garden, morocco from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
The Dior Chypres series ~Miss Dior: fragrance review
November 15th, 2007 — Chypre, Galbanum, Review, christian dior, commercial, dior series, edmond roudnitska, inside, levis, ma griffe, miss dior, oakmoss, paul vacher, slitskin from helg @ Perfume Shrine
“I will tell you of a perfume which my mistress has from the graces and the gods of love; when you smell it, you will ask of the deities to make of you only a nose”. It is in those words that the Roman writer Catullus speaks of the seductive guiles…
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The Dior Chypres series ~Diorella: fragrance review
November 8th, 2007 — Chypre, Fruity, Review, christian dior, dior series, eau sauvage, edmond roudnitska from helg @ Perfume Shrine
Everyone has an aunt that used to bathe in cold water regardless of it being winter or summer, slip on her bathing suit first thing in the morning and go for an invogorating swim on the first sign of warm weather in mid-spring. She wore long masculine …
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The Dior Chypres series ~Diorama: fragrance review
November 5th, 2007 — Chandler Burr, Chypre, Fruity, Review, christian dior, dior series, diorama, edmond roudnitska, jean claude ellena, luca turin from helg @ Perfume Shrine
“Cabochard, Dioressence, Diorama were offerings to goddesses, not presents to women”. This is how Luca Turin addressed the masterpiece by Edmond Roudnitska that came in 1949 like a luminous cognac diamond to adorn the crown of Christian Dior parfums. H…
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The Dior Chypres series ~1.the hidden force: Edmond Roudnitska
November 4th, 2007 — Art, Chypre, aesthetics, christian dior, diorama, diorella, diorling, eau sauvage, edmond roudnitska, femme, miss dior, paul vacher, rochas from helg @ Perfume Shrine
Perfume Shrine embarked on a mission: to disect and discuss one of the bastions of chypre: la maison Dior in its former glory, when under the baguette of Edmond Roudnitska and Paul Vacher it produced classics that remain up there in the pantheon for al…
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Femme by Rochas: fragrance review and associations
October 21st, 2007 — Chypre, Review, edmond roudnitska, femme, manos hadjidakis, melina merkouri, mikis theodorakis, phaedra, rochas from helg @ Perfume Shrine
There are times when I reflect upon a fragrance to realise that it has been painted by the brush of a rampant personality, bigger than life, more enduring than the everyday routine. And those precious, troubling fragrances make it to my heart almost wi…
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Coty Chypre: fragrant pilgrimage and review
October 8th, 2007 — Bandit, Caron, Chypre, Coty, Guerlain, aphrodite, archaic, christian dior, cubism, edmond roudnitska, fauves, l'origan, la rose jacqueminot, mitsouko, oakmoss, picasso, sous le vent, venus from helg @ Perfume Shrine
By guest writer Denyse Beaulieu/CarmancanadaWhen friends complained to Pablo Picasso that the portrait of Gertrude Stein he’d just painted didn’t look like her, he answered something along the lines of: “Don’t worry. It will.”Though the famou…
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Chypre series 5: chronology and the zeitgeist
October 8th, 2007 — 19, Bandit, Chanel, Coty, Estee Lauder, Guerlain, cabochard, caleche, charlie, chronology, chypre series, diorella, edmond roudnitska, femme, ma griffe, miss dior, picasso, saint phalle, zeitgeist from helg @ Perfume Shrine
It has long been my opinion that fragrances do not merely reflect their makers’ vision or the desire to attain beauty and harmony through an ethereal means such as the fume of a precious liquid. They are routinely shaped by the circumstances that defin…
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Jasmine Series: part 2 ~the role of jasmine in perfumery
May 31st, 2007 — absolute, diorella, eau sauvage, edmond roudnitska, first, hedione, indole, jean claude ellena, kirlian photography, natural, notes, piesse, ylang ylang from helg @ Perfume Shrine
As we examined previously, jasmine is an integral part of most fine perfumes’ bouquet and the varieties used render their own specific variables to the end result. But why is jasmine so prized over other natural or synthetic essences? And why is it a…
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