tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37923933429627962532024-03-17T09:15:22.431+00:00Perfume ShrinePerfume Shrine is a perfume, beauty & art blog devoted to fragrance reviews, scent discussion, perfume history & science, comparisons between modern & vintage scents, interviews with perfumers
& insiders of the fragrance industry as well as travel memoirs, food, cinema & musings about anything scented.Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comBlogger3015125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-29552106362050934562024-02-12T09:37:00.004+00:002024-02-12T09:37:59.567+00:00Dior Dolce Vita: fragrance review of a perfumery classic Photo by Bianca Czarnock on behance, borrowed for educational purposes Dior's Dolce Vita fetes its 30th anniversary this year, being launched in 1994, when Dior was very careful with its new launches and the firm was creating mega-hits that shattered antagonism in one fell swoop. The promise of happiness, exuberance and confidence in Dolce Vita, in its flamboyant and optimistic package, Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-71100262399522977012024-01-25T14:30:00.001+00:002024-01-25T14:30:00.126+00:00Chanel No.5 Eau Première 2015 edition: fragrance review Chanel often comes to mind when we talk about festive occasion drenched in champagne, if only because of the reputation of aldehydes being fizzy and sparkling materials (the aldehyde sequence in No.5 is mostly citrusy and waxy, to be honest, though). Chanel's perfumer, Olivier Polge, taking the baton from his father Jacques, had stated clearly that the legendary perfume of Chanel No 5 Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-31466769178944239262024-01-24T14:00:00.001+00:002024-01-24T14:00:00.123+00:00Guerlain Encens Mythique: Reformulation Done Right Encens Mythique by Guerlain is a great choice for mid-season as well as wintertime in the north hemisphere, because it adapts so well to a multitude of requisites. I'm talking of the revamped edition in the cylindrical bottle with the gold spherical cap and the cute ribbons on the neck, as the scent originally launched among a trio of Middle Eastern exclusives (later brought into international Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-65170209378006355902024-01-23T11:22:00.002+00:002024-01-23T11:22:29.733+00:00Boss Bottled Elixir: fragrance review Although we tend to overlook Boss fragrances, if only because of their ubiquitousness and confusing names, apparently, they still possess the power to surprise us. Color me impressed, then, upon discovering that Boss Bottled Elixir is nothing short of an anomaly in the usual Boss range.
It's exciting, atypical in the roster, certainly night-time material, and with a dark streak that defies thePerfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-73142114827730867902023-12-07T15:00:00.001+00:002023-12-07T15:00:00.146+00:00Givenchy L'Interdit Eau de Parfum Rouge: fragrance review Glamour fragrances go hand in hand with the celebrities who endorsed them. No myth is stronger than the tie of Marylin Monroe with Chanel No 5 Parfum or Audrey Hepburn with L'Interdit by her preferred couturier Givenchy from the 1950s. Whereas No.5 has retained its core formula to the best of the brothers Wertheimers' ability, rendering the contemporary versions recognizably No.5, the same Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-70832062154288193612023-12-06T08:35:00.004+00:002023-12-06T08:35:51.095+00:00Jean Paul Gaultier Divine: fragrance review Back in August 2023, Jean Paul Gaultier launched Gaultier Divine, the brand's new feminine fragrance, classified as a gourmand marine floral. American actress Yara Shahidi has been selected to represent the new fragrance, imagined as a celebration of femininity. It is signed by perfumer Quentin Bisch and is made of floral, gourmand, and marine notes. For Gaultier Divine the bet was on creating Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-26405881037206159622023-07-06T15:00:00.013+01:002023-07-06T15:00:00.140+01:00Hermes Un Jardin sur le Nil: fragrance review My friend Chandler Burr unfolded the story of how the charming and cerebral Jean Claude Ellena was inspired for this fragrance in a New Yorker piece which catapulted a series of events for both him and perfumery reportage. Looking for the starting point of inspiration in Aswan, traveling the Nile, aquatic plants gave way to unripe mangoes as the team of Hermès travelled up to the roots of Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-31337535589805686442023-07-05T15:00:00.033+01:002023-07-05T15:00:00.141+01:00Dior Homme: thoughts & fragrance review on a milestone It doesn't matter that Dior Homme is everywhere, either in one of its -many- versions, or in some copy of it from another brand. It remains one of the most interesting men's releases of the last twenty years, because the formula brings a more unusual note of iris root, halfway between dry retro face powder or old lipstick along with dusty dried flowers, to an otherwise standard formula for Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-40151144368095520942023-07-04T09:20:00.000+01:002023-07-04T09:20:01.344+01:00How the Perfume Market Game is Changing The drift into the corporate mainstream by some of the older niche brands always creates the risk of a possible (or rather probable?) diminishing of innovation and creativity as a result: Tom Ford, L'Artisan Parfumeur, Penhaligon's, Le Labo, Diptyque, you name it... We're therefore experiencing niche 2.0 with newer artisan and indie brands.
Creed is the latest brand to be sold to a large Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-22019787400283908252023-06-02T15:00:00.001+01:002023-06-02T15:00:00.149+01:00Thierry Mugler Angel Muse Eau de Toilette: fragrance review In 2016, the house of Thierry Mugler opened a new chapter in the story of the famous gourmand galaxy of Angel fragrances - the "futuristic-gourmand" Angel Muse. The Muse Eau de Toilette version of this scent came out at the end of 2017. The sweetness of hazelnut cream at its heart, a repeat from the original Eau de Parfum version, is not overly foody, and it keeps the dignity that a Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-6559352936861466842023-06-02T07:21:00.005+01:002023-06-02T07:21:33.797+01:00Hermes Eau de Basilic Pourpre: fragrance review Hermès launched another vegetal, light, and airy fragrance in its Cologne collection in July 2022. Eau de Basilic Pourpre represents a sunny and summery Mediterranean scent, inspired by basil at a farmer's market, a very common occurrence in open air spaces in the south of Europe and temperate climate Middle Eastern countries. The composition was created by in-house perfumer Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-82207248646534100612023-04-21T15:00:00.001+01:002023-04-21T15:00:00.283+01:00Prada Paradoxe: fragrance review It was a full seven years since Prada introduced an entirely new perfume for either gender, exploiting its established lines all this time. To my disappointment, the new women's pillar fragrance, Prada Paradoxe, fell short. It's a women's fragrance, yes, like periods are womanly, and it's clean like we're supposed to smell, sanitized.journaldeluxe.frBut that's a pity, as it could be so muchPerfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-62367246201878224192023-04-20T15:00:00.001+01:002023-04-20T15:00:00.292+01:00Paco Rabanne La Nuit: fragrance review Naked Lady Godiva, Countess of Mercia, rides on her proud gray horse, with leather bridles and wet saddle, keeping her word as a personal wager against her husband, on the occasion of relief from her husband's excessive taxation to the residents of the county. A peeping Tom peeps despite the curfew of the residents. This is the image that gradually appears and disappears in my mind - Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-20872846451567774232023-04-19T08:44:00.000+01:002023-04-19T08:44:34.314+01:00Roja Dove Diaghilev: fragrance review Much of our information on the particularities of Sergey Diaghilev the man come from the many exhibitions and press catalogues which have been relying on the lasting aftermath of Les Ballet Russes in Europe. Apparently the story of the Diaghilev by Roja Dove fragrance is more complex. The fragrance began as an Eau de Parfum concentration as attested by the older advertising images for Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-69181129808186579932023-04-19T08:24:00.000+01:002023-04-19T08:24:34.956+01:00The process of elimination and organization: a spring ritual For many of us, the process of elimination is fierce and daunting. How
to go about it without a sense of loss? On the other hand, the specter
of chaos is looming. We tend to amass hundreds of bottles and, on top of
that, thousands (it seems!) of samples and decants of things to try.
One needs to take a step back, if only to fully understand and assess
what one is about to write about, Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-36832298705278823302023-02-08T12:44:00.002+00:002023-02-08T12:44:35.699+00:00Ormonde Jayne Tolu: two golden incarnations perfume photography by Elena VosnakiPerfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-60017710976540344062023-01-27T08:55:00.003+00:002023-01-27T08:55:07.776+00:00Pascal Morabito Or Noir: the 70s aesthetic
perfume photo by Elena VosnakiPerfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-84327369893233538422023-01-27T01:00:00.003+00:002023-01-27T01:00:23.174+00:00Gibellini Wood: Unexpected Finds at Lidl Stores Sometimes surprises come in the guise of super market shopping. The German supermarkets Lidl are known for their thrift store policies and odd placement of products on shelves (with the crate). Among those products and trinkets lies fragrance too! Suddenly Madame Glamour is a well transmitted Coco Mademoiselle eau de toilette dupe, but there are other scents as well. Below is WoodPerfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-83998261502457990212023-01-27T00:22:00.004+00:002023-01-27T00:22:27.262+00:00Dior highlights presence in Asia for 2023 Happy new year!The following pictures from Dior's opening and exhibits in Asian metropolises are testament to LVMH's wish to dominate those markets. The beautiful images are breath taking! Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-33314384967242100912022-12-12T17:08:00.007+00:002022-12-12T17:08:59.545+00:00The Christmas chills of Liturgie des Heures (Jovoy) This glorious resinous scent of cool frankincense is pure magic at this time of the year! I absolutely love La Liturgie des Heures by Jovoy; its goth spirit, chilling, cool, anchorite is perfect for someone like Wednesday Addams. Here are some photos that I took. Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-60936556964954342112022-12-01T12:48:00.002+00:002022-12-01T12:48:24.487+00:00Oh my deer! by Baruti: musk reimaginedA dirty mind is a joy forever, they say! The newest Baruti perfume, Oh my deer!, a play upon the expression and the deer musk ingredient prized in perfumery, started as an exercise in recreating the scent of deer musk. That ages old animalistic substance of mythical dimensions which lend such a sensuality to perfume that all scent is feeling...The accord was quickly done, but releasing it as a Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-64054224448974243892022-12-01T12:36:00.000+00:002022-12-01T12:36:05.607+00:00Perfumeshrine & Elena Vosnaki on Who What Wear: Gourmand Fragrances NowI have been consulted on an article on Gourmand Fragrances on the prestigious publication of Who What Wear. The author Marie Lori covers the reasons and nuances of gourmand fragrances on the market now and why they clicked with audiences so much, on which I offer some insights. Please do visit the link to read it now and shoot me questions if you like. Always available for Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-59748879398424244042022-09-07T17:23:00.001+01:002022-09-07T17:24:13.810+01:00The ethereal beauty of L de Lolita Lempicka All photos by Elena VosnakiPerfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-12052739361577607942022-08-05T10:17:00.000+01:002022-08-05T10:17:25.333+01:00perfume bottles photos I took Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-1866311845368804192022-07-08T10:13:00.004+01:002022-07-08T10:13:36.025+01:00Elizabeth Arden Green Tea: fragrance review & storyElizabeth Arden Green Tea is one of Francis Kurkjian's timeless success stories, which built his reputation for
effortless light diaphanous fragrances, in turn setting the record for
his own Maison Francis Kurkdjian creations that sparkle and trail like gauze in the morning sun. Yet Green Tea is a case where one perfumer imitates another.
pic via pinterestThe sophisticated and Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.com3