My visit to the museum of Perfumery in Paris

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Finally – I made it to the Museum of Perfumery! Paris is always worth a trip, but this time it was a perfume weekend! After a trip to the Osmotheque in Versailles, I went to the museum. Such a cool experience – a MUST for perfume-lovers!

Here are some impressions:

A vivid demonstration of how fragrance enters our brain.

How does the scent of a croissant actually get in a perfume? Headspace Analysis is the answer!

How was fragrance used back in the days? Personal stories tell the background.

Citronellol and many other raw materials were exhibited.
Great installation with raw materials and audio explanations!

Me whilst sniffing!
A wonderful scent-organ with classical music and light effects!

…and once more because it was so beautiful!

Childhood memories could be awakened with these fragrance flowers!

Does the Flacon not remind of “Le Classique” by Jean-Paul Gaultier?

I hope you got a little insight! Yours, Fran

Personalization – Guerlain’s Parfumeur Boutique

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Personalization is the big trend and Guerlain wants to take part as well! Their ‘parfumeur boutique’ already exists in Paris on rue Saint Honoré, but is now to open in more countries.

Tailor-made products: How does it work?

The new area offers 110 Guerlain fragrances and a full immersion into the heart of the brand’s creativity. Basically the accords are classified into four main olfactory families, allowing customers to take advantage of a digital fragrance consultation to identify their personal olfactory profile and, thanks to a powerful algorithm, find their very own “signature fragrance”.

After choosing their fragrance, customers are invited to the personalization atelier, where they can finalize their purchase by selecting every detail to make the fragrance their own – bottle shape and colour, engraved message in any language, plus a choice of ribbons and bows to embellish the bottles. Plus the bottles can be refilled.

Guerlain’s main goal is to offer a unique experience revolving around completely tailor-made products & services.

I’ve lately been to the Paris shop and indeed, its a pretty concept! Yours, Fran

Parle Moi de Parfum – new Shop

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This September 2016, a new, independent perfume house has opened in Paris called Parle Moi de Parfum, a name which is to be understood to function as a motto: to talk about perfume – and nothing else. They debut with a catalogue of eight perfumes.

The brand was created by Benjamin and Romain Almairac, the two sons of renowned perfumer Michel Almairac. The boutique was designed by Elisabeth Almairac. It is a family affair with roots in the perfumery tradition of Grasse – the Robertet company in particular – and a flagship store in Paris.

A perfumery lab is part of the interior decor with a junior perfumer present at all time. A wall with dozens of ingredients is like a customer-oriented perfumer organ created with a didactic purpose in mind. You will be able to smell isolated ingredients to understand better how they are blended within a composition.

Have a lovely week! Yours, Fran

Museum of Perfumery in Paris

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On December 1st, 2016, at Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris, in the historical building dating from the XVIIIth century that hosted before the Christian Lacroix fashion house, the parisian Grand Museum of Perfumery will be opened.

Le Grand Musée du Parfum, where there will be more than sixty fragrances presented, is created with participation of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., and in collaboration with Jean-Claude Ellena and Osmothèque Versailles.

The president and founder of the Museum is Guillaume de Maussion. The Museum will be financed by the French Syndicate of Perfumery (Syndicat Français de la Parfumerie) which unites 66 perfume brands.

Autumn is coming, so let’s get prepared to visit some museums again! Yours, Fran

Book recommendation – The Perfume Collector

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I got this book as a present and read it with pleasure! Actually, I didnt want to finish it and just put it back in the bookshelve!

The book is a remarkable novel about secrets, desire, memory, passion, and possibility.

Newlywed Grace Monroe doesn’t fit anyone’s expectations of a successful 1950s London socialite, least of all her own. When she receives an unexpected inheritance from a complete stranger, Madame Eva d’Orsey, Grace is drawn to uncover the identity of her mysterious benefactor.

Weaving through the decades, from 1920s New York to Monte Carlo, Paris, and London, the story Grace uncovers is that of an extraordinary women who inspired one of Paris’s greatest perfumers. Immortalized in three evocative perfumes, Eva d’Orsey’s history will transform Grace’s life forever, forcing her to choose between the woman she is expected to be and the person she really is.

The Perfume Collector explores the complex and obsessive love between muse and artist, and the tremendous power of memory and scent.

Kathleen Tessaro – Author

Enjoy reading! Yours, Fran

Perfumer H – beautiful women power !!!

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A scent of a woman

After launching Miller Harris 15 years ago, perfumer Lyn Harris has followed her gorgeous nose to create bespoke fragrances in handblown bottles for a tailor-made sensory experience in London.

“It was nice to start with a clean piece of paper, to think about where and who I am. I needed to be able to stop and think. It’s so easy to get absorbed in the non-stop engine of something” Lyn said.

Surrounded by endless teak, polished brass and smoked glass, after a two-year creative journey Lyn Harris has finally opened the doors of her new project: Perfumer H. On the corner of Crawford Street in Marylebone, Harris’ new laboratory and store has been designed by architectural designers Retrouvius. It’s here that customers will be able to exclusively experience, create and ultimately walk away with Harris’s deliciously British new scents.

Perfumer H. plans to release new collections twice a year. The initial group includes five fragrances: Cologne, Rose, Velvet, Leather and Heliotrope. The Seasonal Editions will be complimented with a portfolio of Laboratory Editions, which customers can buy – even purchasing the formula, should they really fall in love with it. There are also five home fragrance candles. As ever, Harris will also be working with customers to create their own bespoke fragrances (priced from £15,000).

Its great to see that perfume creation does not always have to come from Paris!!! Yours, Fran

 

Beautiful glass design to capture olfactory memories

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French design student Charline Ronzon-Jaricot has created a device that releases a bespoke scent during a moment users would like to remember.

The prototype for the Evanescence project comprises an inverted glass flask suspended above a small plaster stone.

At a chosen moment, the user breaks the tip off the flask to release one drop of the liquid scent. This is soaked up by the plaster pebble. The intention is that the user removes the pebble from the device and stores it away until they want to recall that specific moment, when the scent should evoke memories of the chosen event.

To enable just one drop to be released, Ronzon-Jaricot designed the flask with a small glass ball that obstructs the broken tip, allowing just one drop through. The flask was hand-blown by the Silicybine society in Paris.

Ronzon-Jaricot worked with Parisian perfumer Sarah Burri to create a new scent that wouldn’t have any pre-existing associations, using only synthetic molecules.

Beautiful design to look at! Yours, Fran

Rituals attacks the French market

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The Dutch brand Rituals, born in the lap of Unilever in 2000, opened its first store in Paris. … and not just in any area of Paris… rue Vieille du Temple is one of my favorite street in Marais! The company’s aim is to seduce the French customers with a new concept, since Rituals offers care products for the body, but also for the home.

The company turned to renowned perfumers to create lines inspired by Eastern practices: Ayurveda based on Indian Rose, Tao composed of White Lotus, or Sakura Cherry Blossom. Each line is proposed in shower gels, creams, but also candles, scents for bed linen and sometimes even liquid dish wash!

Boutique Rituals
24, rue Vieille du Temple, 75004 Paris

Enjoy the rest of the week & don’t forget to relax! Yours, Fran

 

Sexy perfumery – women power !!!

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LE PREMIER PARFUM is a fragrance created by 2 women (Pauline Rochas and Carole Beaupré), who founded Coolife Studio in 2000, a photography studio based in Williamsburg, New York, that specializes in shooting luxury beauty products.

Neither conventionally “feminine” nor “masculine”, Le Premier Parfum is a woodsy floral scent that’s distinctive, compelling and seductive. The campaign is all about sexiness: “The warm and carnal fragrance is intended to elicit desire in the wearer, and in those he or she encounters, by activating the sacral chakra — the energy located beneath the naval that unlocks sensuality and eros.”

According to the founders Le Premier Parfum is not merely a fragrance, but an aphrodisiac: heady notes of ylang ylang, various species of sandalwood, and other secret ingredients embody an androgynous sensuality, registering desire in the olfactory dimension Scent.

Have a good start of the week! Yours, Fran