Yesterday, after posting the blog entry, my father sent me another photo from Leonildas birthday celebration. This one showcases all the “adult” attendees. Looks like it was a big party!Also, in yesterdays post I wrote I would share the formula of …

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My dad e-mailed me the above photo this morning. It was taken in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 12, 1962. My great grandmother, Leonilda, is surrounded by all her great grandchildren, on her 90th birthday. She holds a little two months old infant i…

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Phytonic rose extract - South Africa (damascena): Gorgeous toffee caramel sweet rose with spicy green undertones.Phytonic rose extract from musk rose- South Africa: Deep sultry rose, moody and luscious.Rose leaf absolute -South Africa: Sweet green hay-…

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At the last minute before heading out the door I chose to wear pure Jasmine sambac absolute as my perfume to the film screening in Hollywood. It seemed an appropriate way to honor the small little fragrant flowers that have been strewning themselves in…

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Jasmine sambac “Grand Duke of Tuscany” from my gardenAs an artisan who grows much of her botanical aromatics, I made a conscious decision not to rely on the vagaries of the open market for many of my supplies. Of course, I have to buy concretes, absolu…

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Bliss, originally uploaded by Dave Ward Photography. After long procrastinatio…

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One of the perfumes featured by Aedes for the Spring Sniffa was Pavillon des Fleurs, an eau de parfum by Septimanie Perfumes and Jeanne Weber was there to talk about it. As a garden designer, she is inspired by the mood lifting experience of the bloom…

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Is jasmine and powder seductive? In continuation of our previous post concerning itself with how a perfumer defines a romantic scent fit for seduction, Perfume Shrine today focuses on how Chris Sheldrake envisions such a fragrance. His comment appeared in the February 08 edition of Allure magazine.

Christopher Sheldrake, the nose rensponsible for almost the entire Serge Lutens line (with the

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Launched in 1986, Sung was the first fragrance release by Canadian designer Alfred Sung. From what I understand, Sung is not only widely available in North America, but also very popular. Not so in these parts! I’ve only seen Sung actually sold around here once, many years ago. This was at the “Glamour Shop”, a little boutique in Amsterdam’s Magna Plaza. My recollection of the boutique is quite

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Review by Tom

In 1984 (when I was 7), a good friend of mine managed to scam the second of many jobs for me, this time at the Olympic Arts Festival an adjunct to the 1984 Olymics in Los Angeles. I was an East Coast boy, having grown up in New England and at that point living in New York. I sounded (and still do when I am tired) a bit like Katharine Hepburn, had milk-white skin, pale grey-green

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When I think of a white flower fragrance, I usually imagine something radiant and bright, happy and open, and of course sensual and romantic. The perfume named Joy is called that for a good reason, and Fracas is a rollicking and overflowing celebration of cheerful excess. Even the chilly perfection of my beloved Un Lys is more elegant than somber, shining with a cold light yet

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White Jasmine & Mint is the new addition to the Jo Malone collection of fragrances. It is described as having been inspired by “the tranquil moment in an English garden when the sun emerges, the dew gently lifts and the blossoms are at their most fragrant”, and for once an official description is so close to the image a scent evokes in my mind that I am actually hard pressed to think of any other

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Recently I received a selection of absolutes from two sources, Anya’s Garden, and Nature’s Gift. It was almost overwhelming because each one is so intensely dimensional and requires time for development and reflection on the experience. From Anya’s G…

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Sarrasins is the latest addition to Serge Lutens’s exclusive collection, described by the creators as “a sumptuous jasmin which smoothes its fur… a sigh of time” and “a stunningly beautiful jasmine, gloved in jet-black ink”. Compared to Lutens’s first ode to jasmine, A La Nuit, Sarrasins is sweeter and softer and perhaps even more “nocturnal”. Whereas A La Nuit is a radiant vision of

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It is rather a sad feeling when one has completed a certain “portfolio” of work only to stumble upon something that could have been included with much aplomb but wasn’t. Short of time travelling and going à rebours, this is unmanageable. Yet there is …

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After a hopefully in depth exploration of richer and heavier jasmine fragrances, it’s time to concentrate on some that are airier and more transparent, fit for those days when fragrancing oneself should seem like a breeze and not a serious seduction mi…

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The fact that jasmine may take on a more sinister turn accounting for fecal undertones that leave many people with apprehension and dismay does not mean that jasmine fragrances have to espouse that aspect. It is perfectly possible to evoke a balanced a…

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In the universe of flowers used for their fine precious scent used in luxe perfume, no other blossom stands alone as ubiquitous as jasmine, with the possible exception of rose. Indeed those two grace most perfumes’ heart bouquet as the classic marria…

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I have been lagging a bit about my posts lately, but it has to do with an augmented workload. The following posts will tackle a series on Jasmine (comparable to Incense 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and Orange Blossom week 1, 2, 3, 4) and a presentation and re…

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One of the most uplifting things that can happen in Winter is to come inside from a grey dreary cold day into a warm room that has a large fresh fragrant floral bouquet, or to run into someone wearing a wonderfully floral fragrance. I was fortunate eno…

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