Some rainy days inspire me to match their cloudiness with watery,wistful fragrances like Guerlain Apres L’Ondée or Frédéric Malle L’Eau d’Hiver. Other rainy days, particularly ones that fall after an especially beautiful sunny weekend in May, provoke me to counteract the forecast with something bright and euphoric. Lately I’ve been using a patterned magenta umbrella that cheers me slightly whenever I open it, despite the gloom and damp of the day’s weather; the right fragrance can have a similar effect on my mood.
This week, my anti-gray fragrance is Sarah Horowitz Perfect Bliss, for which the perfumer Sarah Horowitz-Thran was inspired by the floral arrangements at her own wedding. The composition for Perfect Bliss includes top notes of blood orange, mango, and papaya; a middle accord of gardenia; and base notes of vanilla, patchouli, cedar, and musk.
I like Sarah Horowitz’s lists of notes, because they usually reflect just what I’m smelling in the fragrances themselves…
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Posted by Jessica
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13 January 2012
I’m a city-loving, sun-averse individual who doesn’t even own a bathing suit, and I can’t remember my last visit to a beach. (Oh, wait, there was that weekend in Montauk. In April 2006.) Despite, or perhaps for, this very reason, I find myself testing beach-themed and tropics-themed perfumes more often than you might expect. The latest such fragrance to cross my desk was a sample of Sarah Horowitz Coconut Milk, a recent release from this California-based independent perfumer.
Coconut Milk, the latest addition to Sarah Horowitz’s “Perfect” line, includes top notes of coconut and almond, heart notes of orange blossom and gardenia, and base notes of tonka bean, vanilla, and Egyptian musk. It’s a fragrance that accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do. Its coconut accord is milky with a hint of green, and it doesn’t remind me at all of the suntan lotions of my youth, thank goodness. The coconut, which lasts throughout the fragrance’s development on skin, is followed by just a hint of creamy gardenia…
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Posted by Robin
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30 November 2011
Our series of holiday gift posts continues; today we’ve got more travel sizes, coffrets and roll-ons. If you missed them, here are links to part 1 (scented body products) and part 2 (travel sizes & coffrets). Coming up next: home fragrance.
From Atelier Cologne, a “discovery set” in the Orange Sanguine fragrance: “Enclosed in an elegant Venetian blue gift box and tied with our signature aubergine leather ribbon” with Orange Sanguine Petite Cologne ( 30 ml) plus an Orange Sanguine Soap, a leather case, a miniature funnel and a sample pack. $65 at Neiman Marcus…
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Posted by Robin
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19 September 2011
Indie line GoodTrueBeautiful has launched their second fragrance, Lovelily…
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Posted by Robin
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11 September 2009
BCBG Max Azria will launch Within, a new fragrance for women, this November.
The new scent was created by perfumer Sarah Horowitz Thran in collaboration with Lubov Azria, BCBG’s creative director. Azria’s image appears on the packaging…
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