Olivier Durbano has launched Jade, the fourth fragrance in his “Bijoux de Pierres Poèmes” (Stone Poem Jewels) series*:
Long worshipped as the stone of immortality and a symbol of love and power, jade is also thought to bring inner peace, justice and harmony. Durbano’s olfactory rendering of the stone is one of the most beautifully realized green-woody scents we’ve ever had the pleasure of wearing…
Olivier Durbano has launched the third fragrance in his “Bijoux de Pierres Poèmes” (Stone Poem Jewels) series. Black Tourmaline is…
…a resinous and sweet smoky scent that Durbano has built around the legendary stone of protection. Burned wood, sweet smoke, rich oud and dried spice unfurl in a reverent ceremony, while earthy notes of patchouli, moss and leather provide a fragrant anchor to its otherworldly mystery…
With all the jewelers releasing fragrances these days — is there a jeweler left in Paris without a signature fragrance or two? — a bit of conceptual overlap is not surprising. Olivier Durbano, a young architect-turned-jeweler, has launched a line of scents inspired, like the Bvlgari Omnia flankers under consideration yesterday (Omnia Amethyste) and the day before (Omnia Crystalline), by precious jewels, and his first two releases, Rock Crystal (2005) and Amethyst (2006) mirror the Omnia flankers perfectly. Five more fragrances are said to be in the works (and I rather doubt we've heard the last from Bvlgari on the subject of Omnia, for that matter).
The notes for Amethyst include bergamot, pepper, grape, raspberry, incense, palisander wood, jasmine, orris, vegetable amber, sandalwood, musk and vanilla, and I have to say that the list did not warm my heart…
New at Luckyscent, two fragrances from French jeweler Olivier Durbano, who started his “Bijoux de Pierres Poèmes” (vaguely, Stone Poem Jewels) collection in 2000. The two are the beginnings of a projected series of 7 perfumes, “each one unearthing fragments of buried memories and emotions, the scents themselves linking to precious or primitive stones”.
Cristal de Roche / Rock Crystal launched in 2005…
Another corpse flower has bloomed at Western Illinois U, & they're expecting 2 more... http://t.co/oRnROz6j (& they've got live video)