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Photos: Maison Martin Margiela Untitled

July 12, 2010

One fashion company I would love to have seen retain its independence from the corporate takeover is Maison Martin Margiela. Deliberately “anti-fashion” while being highly fashion forward at the same time, the Margiela brand was known for the unexpected: exposed seams, oversized garments, the use of graphic prints, asymmetric details, creative washes and extreme distressing [...]

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Wafting Through Paris: The Guided Tour (Part 1)

May 16, 2010

If you visit the Grain de Musc website, you’ll see two links under the heading ‘PARIS PERFUME PILGRIMAGE’ that say “Right Bank” and “Left Bank” — these are GdM author Denyse Beaulieu’s guides to perfume shopping one’s way through the great city of Paris, and I had the distinct pleasure of Denyse’s company on Wednesday [...]

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Industry Quick Hits: 05/06/10

May 6, 2010

I’m taking off on a trip tomorrow, so won’t have time for the next few weeks to sit down and bang out the usual luxury business analysis (unless, of course, it just rains and rains and rains in Paris), but before I left, I did want to post a couple of quick links to items [...]

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He Said, She Said: Part 1

April 14, 2010

Katie Puckrik tells her side of the story. Sniffapalooza Spring Fling 2010 Debriefing: Part One: “My humble Le Sportsac hobo starts to feel a tad outclassed, but once Nathan gets me going, I acquire champagne tastes in no time, confidently fondling $2,000 snakeskin clutches, zipping, clipping and flipping flaps on purses with more secret compartments [...]

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Yosh Trompeur (or “It’s Not Nice to Lie To Your Perfumer”)

May 19, 2009

So this is what I can gather — in 2005, independent perfumer Yosh Han created a fragrance called ‘The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things’ as an homage to the allegedly autobiographical collection of stories of the same name by writer JT Leroy: “Then there’s JT LeRoy, the 24-year-old reclusive cult figure whom Han has [...]

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Less Is More: Packaging for the New Fragrance Consumer

May 5, 2009

I received an email from Neil Morris Fragrances yesterday, announcing that they were launching a new bottle size for their Neil Morris Vault series: “During the past year, we have discovered that most of the people who purchase a Vault fragrance actually purchase multiple fragrances. And we had many requests to offer the scents in [...]

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Photos: Untitled #3 by Sarah Horowitz

April 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I wrote about my encounter with Untitled #3, one of a series of specialized fragrances that the owners of Los Angeles scent retailer Scent Bar/Lucky Scent commissioned from a group of independent perfumers. Bois de Jasmin noted back in March of 2006 that the limited edition series (with each fragrance seeing a [...]

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Nasomatto Hindu Grass and Dorissima Goldmund

April 20, 2009

NASOMATTO HINDU GRASS: Remember how I said that Jalaine was a fragrance brand that was easy to love? Well, Nasomatto is the opposite of that — adamantly independent and cultishly niche, each fragrance is a triumph of head perfumer Allesandro Gualtieri’s personal vision over the demands of the mainstream market, which isn’t necessarily a bad [...]

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Jalaine Amber and Untitled #3 by Sarah Horowitz

April 17, 2009

JALAINE AMBER: There’s really not much to dislike about a Jalaine fragrance besides its price point — the formulae are simple, the ingredients are high-quality, the longevity is excellent and they wear like dreamy, plush wraps. Their Patchouli is a sweet, creamy party-mix of musk, amber and patchouli, and their Vetiver scent is like burying [...]

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Yosh Omniscient 0.96 and Mazzolari Zagara

March 9, 2009

YOSH OMNISCIENT 0.96: Independent and self-taught perfumer-numerologist-aromatherapist (etc.) Yosh Han took the concept of omniscience — “the capacity to know everything infinitely” — and created an Everything Plus The Kitchen Sink fragrance to illustrate it. Incorporating gardenia, egyptian tuberose, fig, lilac, violet, kush (or cannabis), tunisian opium, sandalwood, vanilla, basil, clove, geranium and pink grapefruit [...]

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Photos: Maison Martin Margiela Untitled

Wafting Through Paris: The Guided Tour (Part 1)

Industry Quick Hits: 05/06/10

He Said, She Said: Part 1

Yosh Trompeur (or “It’s Not Nice to Lie To Your Perfumer”)

Less Is More: Packaging for the New Fragrance Consumer

Photos: Untitled #3 by Sarah Horowitz

Nasomatto Hindu Grass and Dorissima Goldmund

Jalaine Amber and Untitled #3 by Sarah Horowitz

Yosh Omniscient 0.96 and Mazzolari Zagara

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