Lyn Harris Launches Perfumer H

27 May

Lyn Harris, whose fragrances stir in her memories of her grandparents’ house and garden within the Scottish Highlands, has cooked up a recent brand, Perfumer H, based on an abiding passion for such pleasing smells as fruits, flowers and baking bread. The London perfumer pioneered using naturals at a time when the market was awash in flashy scents and novelty bottles. She founded Miller Harris, the successful area of interest fragrance house, in 2000 and left at the top of 2012 after selling her stake to NEO Investment Partners. Now she’s back, with Perfumer H, offering three fragrance collections: a “ready-to-wear” line that follows the style seasons; a semibespoke collection offering customers the prospect to own the formula, and a completely bespoke...

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3 Dec

Contained in the Mind of Victoria Beckham’s Favorite Perfumer,

by Beautifaire101

Beauty, Featured

Harry Styles, Victoria Beckham, Ariana Grande. At the middle of a megawatt client list sits Jérôme Epinette, senior perfumer at Robertet and one in every of beauty’s most in-demand noses. Despite the eyeballs his clientele attracts, Epinette is a person of easy pleasures, evidenced by his interview with WWD on a recent morning in a Latest York farmer’s market. “It’s like being in a garden,” Epinette says of his surroundings, which range from organic produce to artisanal cheeses. “I don’t have a house and a garden in Latest York. That is what I do to set the mood for the day — often on Wednesdays, or the weekends. That’s where I get inspired, and I often buy flowers.” His floral tastes are as...

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30 Nov

This perfumer discovered the scent of pure evil –

by Beauty Tips

Beauty, Featured

David-Lev Jipa-Slivinschi’s brand Toskovat creates concept-based perfumes designed to evoke memories, from a Christmas-themed critique of capitalism with notes of cocaine, to a scent that reveals we're all just moths to the flame of evil The creator of Toskovat doesn’t want you to wear his perfume. Specifically, Inexcusable Evil – a scent that incorporates notes of blood, bandages and burning flowers. “I actually despise the smell,” he tells Dazed, speaking from his creative hub in Romania. David-Lev Jipa-Slivinschi is the Bucharest-based nose behind this small batch perfumery that’s drawn a surge of interest amid an increase in perfumes with creative, unusual and even disturbing accords. “If we lived in a greater world, there...

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12 Jul

Givaudan Master Perfumer Olivier Pescheux Dies at 57 –

by Beautifaire101

Beauty, Featured

Master perfumer Olivier Pescheux died Monday in Paris at age 57. The passing “after fighting against an extended disease” was confirmed in an announcement released by fragrance house Givaudan on Tuesday. A renowned and award-winning perfumer, Pescheux was known for his elegant and luminous olfactive writing, which defined many leading fragrances, including Eau Mohéli, Eau des Sens, Fleur de Peau and Orphéon by Diptyque; Herod by Parfums de Marly; L.12.12 Blanc de Lacoste, and Explorer by Montblanc. Other highlights include Paco Rabanne’s 1 Million scent, which last yr was voted by beauty industry insiders as one among the 100 biggest fragrances of all time, and the Diptyque 34 Collection, which took the “Home Collection of the 12 months” acknowledgement on the Fragrance...

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