My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of Biehl Parfumkunstwerke PC01. You can read it here.
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A Visit to the Aroma M Atelier in Brooklyn, NYC
On Friday evening I took the subway out to Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood. DUMBO stands for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass; you can see the bridge here, from the Brooklyn side of the river, with the lower Manhattan skyline in the background. I took this photo from the roof of the building where Aroma M Perfumes has just opened its new “atelier.”
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Perfume Review: Rosie Jane Tilly
My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of the fragrance Tilly from Rosie Jane. You can read it here.
Quick Reads: Houbigant, Mucha, and La Rose France
I came across this beautiful advertisement from 1909, in which Houbigant used an illustration by Alfonse Mucha to promote a fragrance named La Rose France, and wondered how it came to be. Then I found this post on a blog devoted to Houbigant’s perfumes and perfume bottles, which answered all my questions and then some. Do give it a read!
(To re-read my own take on a present-day Anna Sui perfume ad that pays homage to Mucha, see here.)
Image: H-Prints.
CB I Hate Perfume’s Call for Benefactors
I’ve admired perfumer Chrisopher Brosius since the mid-1990s, when his original Demeter line was first launched in New York. I’ve continued to follow his career and his work, collecting samples and a bottle or two for my own collection and—in recent years—making regular visits to his I Hate Perfume studio and gallery in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood.
(You can read a post I wrote last year about Brosius and I Hate Perfume here.)
For all these reasons, I was distressed to learn that Brosius and I Hate Perfume are being forced to leave their Williamsburg storefront. I don’t have the details, but everyone knows that New York City real estate, particularly in a neighborhood like Williamsburg that has recently seen an influx of high-end development, is a tough business… Continue reading “CB I Hate Perfume’s Call for Benefactors”
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