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The Different Company: Vetiver Proud and Sel de Vétiver

05 Jun 2011 Posted by Valerie Vitale in Perfume Reviews A-L, Thoughts on Single Notes

Oddly enough, it is the root of the Vetiver plant, not its leaves that are distilled and ultimately used in perfumery. Vetiver is dry, dusty, and reminiscent of earth that is parched. It is rooty, if you will and twiggy like the root that it…

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Looking forward to: World Science Festival

29 May 2011 Posted by Valerie Vitale in Perfume Events and Interviews, Thoughts on Single Notes

June 4th event at the New School: World Science Festival -The Invisible Language of Smell http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=65410 Coming in November to NYC http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/arts/design/perfume-as-an-art-form-at-museum-of-art-and-design.html

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Annick Goutal Tubereuse, a memory

23 May 2011 Posted by Valerie Vitale in Perfume Reviews A-L

When I swim underwater, I like to see how far I can swim without coming up for air. Surrounded by water, I close my eyes and can easily imagine the edge of my body pushing out beyond itself. The outside world becomes muffled. Wearing AnnickGoutal Tubéreuse feels a little…

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Sandalwood and Rodin

18 May 2011 Posted by Valerie Vitale in Thoughts on Single Notes

I want to take in all the lushness of Sandalwood, but no matter how I try, I just can’t smell it. When I put the blotter to my nose, I start thinking that maybe the raw material didn’t make it to the blotter or possibly…

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Perfume Blotters and Spring Cleaning

14 May 2011 Posted by Valerie Vitale in Thoughts on Single Notes

Lately, as soon as I walk through the door of my apartment, I am immediately hit by a harmonious and sometimes cacophonous cloud of perfumes. Their conduit: BLOTTERS. Last summer, during a visit to the Rodin Museum in Paris I saw a particular exhibit that…

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Yesterday – CUIR DE RUSSIE

07 May 2011 Posted by Valerie Vitale in Perfume Events and Interviews

If a “perfect” New York City day still exists, yesterday came very close. My friend suggested that we take an olfactory lunch together. So yesterday morning, I rolled out of bed, showered, and put on my silk dress and leopard print shoes, and started the…

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Snapshot: Arpège and Mom

02 May 2011 Posted by Valerie Vitale in Snapshots

The term ‘minimalism’ is a trend from early 19th century and gradually became an important movement in response to the over decorated design of the previous period. Minimalist architecture became popular in the late 1980s in London and New York.

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Loving Civet and Rose Poivrée

27 Apr 2011 Posted by Valerie Vitale in Perfume Reviews A-L

I started wearing Rose Poivrée this time last year. It was a very strange time because all roads were leading me toward Jean-Claude Ellena’s fragrances without my knowing it. I spent a very long time choosing a gift–would it be Acqua di Parma Colonia Assoluta…

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Wearing L’Artisan Parfumeur Premier Figuier

20 Apr 2011 Posted by Valerie Vitale in Perfume Reviews A-L

< style=”text-align: left;”>Wearing Premier Figuier is incredibly comforting, warming, and special. Figuier gives you the opportunity to smell the greeness of the fig leaf and its unripe fruit AND the dried fruit all at the same time. Its impact is green and creamy in a white sappy way, as if…

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Cedarwood

17 Apr 2011 Posted by Valerie Vitale in Thoughts on Single Notes

I was working in my garden today, it’s my second or third time this spring. I’ve been cleaning up after a harsh winter. I am always amazed that the perennials come back, but I guess that’s what they do. The daffodils have already come and…

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