The latest on scents, houses and aromas
There are creative people, and then there's Beau Rhee. The New York-based performer makes a living out of seeing connections between objects and ideas that most of us probably don't notice. She expresses herself through modern dance, scent, fabric, color, and texture, and talking to Rhee about her art is to know that her brain is a fascinating place.
Perfume can be a work of art, and like any product of creative expression, it is born of inspiration. From where? From anywhere. A person, a place, a painting. An experience, an emotion, a texture. The spark of inspiration can come from unlikely sources, calling your attention to a piece of the universe that you never noticed.
How do you describe a scent when you don’t know what’s in it? Even when you know the notes, what if your nose can't identify them? The language of scent is not easy to master (and what is mastery when the subject matter is so subjective?). Start with this: color and texture.
One of our favorite aspects of American perfumery is that there's no one path to becoming a perfumer. You can attend school in Grasse. You can follow a deep curiosity and start experimenting in your basement. Or you can take the path of Danielle Fleming of Note Fragrances.
We so love travel because it exposes us to other . To people whose circumstances are different from our own and to places rooted in histories that we've only read about. Travel puts us face to face with our interconnectedness and makes us more humane.
Home is more than a place. Home is a feeling—a feeling of being where things are familiar and right. It's where we can be ourselves and love what we love. It's in the arms of people who know us. Home is everywhere our memories were made.
Kelly Jones didn't know it was a faux pas to wear perfume to a wine tasting event. (In fact, we didn't even know that.) And lucky for us she broke the rules, because it inspired her to quit her job, follow her passion, and create a delightful line of perfumes that otherwise wouldn't exist.
W e might groan about the dropping temperatures and biting winds, but it's hard to ignore that we can do so while snuggled under a heavy knit blanket, cocooned in a fleece robe, or stretched in front of a fireplace. And when the solution is this wonderful, how bad can the problem be?
You had a completely functioning olfactory system when you were just 12 weeks in utero. Crazy, right? And things get better from there--until they start to go downhill way too soon. Follow your nose and come with us as we chart the development and denouement of our most mysterious sense.
Our October 2014 collection, A Change In The Air, reflects the rich variety of fall-perfect scents. It starts with a gorgeous daytime fragrance that echoes the sun and warmth of early fall afternoons and progresses into deeper, richer scents that come alive in the cool night air.
After years of designing jewelry for bespoke clients and high-end brands, Parisian jeweler Ann Gérard branched her business into perfume. The result of her clear vision—and her choice of Bertrand Duchaufour as nose—is a line of perfumes beloved by scent fanatics and critics alike.