CB I Hate Perfume has launched two new fragrances, M #4 A Room With a View and AmBrosius:
M #4 A Room With a View ~ “A Violet perfume inspired by a favorite passage from E M Forster. This perfume captures the scent of the hills above Florence…”
CB I Hate Perfume has launched a new Premium Accords series:
For quite a while now, I’ve been getting a lot of requests for certain Individual Accords either in Water Perfume or Travel/Trial size, which I completely understand. [...] So I’ve been thinking about what can be done about this for some time and have finally come up with a solution – CB Premium Accords…
M #2 Black March vies with Memory of Kindness as my favorite fragrance from CB I Hate Perfume. Memory of Kindness smells like early August; Black March, part of the Metamorphosis series, is what late March will smell like assuming all goes well (right now, we're blanketed in snow here). Perfumer Christopher Brosius was reportedly inspired by Stevie Smith's poem, Black March:
But I have seen his eyes, they are
As pretty and bright
As raindrops on black twigs
In March, and heard him say:I am a breath
Of fresh air for you, a change
By and by.Black March I call him
Because of his eyes
Being like March raindrops
On black twigs.
You can read the poem in its entirety at Memory and Desire….
CB I Hate Perfume has launched two new fragrances, M #3 November & Walking in the Air, and has released this year's holiday limited edition of the Gingerbread fragrance:
M #3 November ~ “For decades November depressed me. As the year died away, I too longed for warm green grass, long summer evenings spent with friends outdoors and the sight of fireflies twinkling in the woods….But i have learned to embrace November and find comfort in the beauty of decay.” With notes of pumpkin pie, fallen apples, bonfire…
Pure amber, which is distilled from tree resin, can smell "almost slightly pissy", in Christopher's words--but he insists that when it's used correctly it is quite alluring. "Americans have this idea that everything needs to smell clean, clean, clean", he laments, with a shake of his head. He counters the trend for sanitised fragrances with creations like Wild Hunt, which is full of delightful earthy notes, including (according to his literature) "torn leaves, crushed twigs, flowing sap, fallen branches, old leaves, green moss, fir, pine and tiny mushrooms".
— From He Hates Perfume, a profile of Christopher Brosius of CB I Hate Perfume, in More Intelligent Life. Thanks to Pia for the link!
"Reinventing the Rose: Is perception affecting your ability to stop and smell the roses?" article at Cosmetics Mag http://t.co/y6gT43iH Sunday SOTE? I'm wearing Parfums de Nicolai Eau Exotique (mango!) Chocolate: Vosges Pink Salt Caramel (not my favorite) TV: Sherlock Denise Hamilton looks at some recent perfume books (including Alyssa's & Denyse's) in the LA Times http://t.co/FbuPTNrq "Does the perfume industry have it wrong? New tests suggest most seductive scent is our natural one" at Mail Online http://t.co/iUfAzRE7