Phaedon is a new niche line that debuted in late 2011 with six fragrances. The line was named for Phaedo of Elis and is reportedly produced by perfumer Pierre Guillaume of Parfumerie Generale…
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Parfumerie Generale No. 25 Indochine ~ new fragrance
French niche line Parfumerie Generale will launch No. 25 Indochine this month. The new fragrance was inspired by a mythical cruise on the Mekong river, circa 1920…
Parfumerie Generale Praline de Santal & Les Parfums de Rosine Rose Praline ~ fragrance reviews
Everyone needs a little candy now and again, no? Not necessarily praline, mind you, and not necessarily praline in high summer, but it’s still cool enough here to talk about two possibilities for the gourmand section of your perfume collection: Parfumerie Generale’s Praliné de Santal and Les Parfums de Rosine’s Rose Praline.
Parfumerie Generale Praliné de Santal
Parfumerie Generale, to my mind, is a niche house you really should know if you’re at all into oddball little gourmands — candy for grownups, if you will. Praliné de Santal is one of their more recent launches, and it’s a limited edition, so if you want some, think sooner rather than later.
I loved it right away…
Parfumerie Generale Praline de Santal & Tonkamande ~ new fragrances
Parfumerie Generale has launched two new limited edition fragrances, Praliné de Santal and Tonkamande…
Parfumerie Generale Bois Naufrage ~ fragrance review
One of perfumer Pierre Guillaume’s inspirations for the new limited edition Parfumerie Generale Bois Naufragé was a photograph by Lucien Clergue — Le Nu au Bois Flotté [Ed note: the image is NSFW]. Taking into consideration the photo (showing a naked woman lying on a huge piece of driftwood) and the fragrance’s name (“shipwrecked wood”), I was imagining a salty perfume (salt of the ocean, salty skin), a perfume with a silky, sun-dried, and yes, salty, wood note combining with the scents of seaweed and sand. I was preparing myself for a summer sea breeze in a bottle, and Bois Naufragé’s fragrance notes gave me hope: carob tree, fleur de sel and ambergris.
Bois Naufragé starts with a sweet-milky accord that reminds me of candied figs stuffed with coconut: NOT what I was expecting. The ‘fig’ note loses a bit of its sweetness during the initial dry-down as a touch of mild, “green” musk emerges. I don’t find Bois Naufragé particularly “salty” but the fleur in fleur de sel is apparent in a sheer floral note, smelling a bit like “flat” jasmine mixed with tonka bean/vanilla. Most of Bois Naufragé’s “wood” must have been washed back out to sea…
