tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135715322012-01-27T20:08:00.160+01:00Various Aspects of Perfume, from History & Chemistry to Haute ParfumerieOctavian Coifanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18342689176413052674noreply@blogger.comBlogger14611251000fragranceshttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13571532.post-21146250973088017272012-01-27T20:08:00.010+01:002012-01-27T20:08:00.169+01:002012-01-27T20:08:00.169+01:00

Le Discours de Frédéric Mitterrand, ministre de la Culture et de la Communication, lors de la ceremonie du 26 janvier. (voir mon premier article) Mesdames et Messieurs,Chers amis,Aujourd’hui les parfumeurs, ces nez qui forcent la curiosité, « péninsule[s] » que l’on peut admirer avec Edmond Rostand : « Pour un parfumeur, quelle enseigne ! », ces nez dont Gogol nous rappelle qu’en russe ils sont

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Last afternoon in Paris, I received the invitation from Frédéric Mitterrand, the French Minister of Culture, to honor a special day and a special event. The place, highly symbolic - rue de Valois - the dynasty when the French perfume became what is known today. Everything you know about perfume in France starts under Valois (right after Philippe IV le Bel and that's a long story about the secret

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If you buy diamonds from Armani and black carat is not written with capital letters, then you can be sure those are not diamonds, but plastic.Black carat smells like a black fruit diluted in the original raspberry theme of Diamonds, already a very cheap composition when it was imagined. It is surrounded by several white flowers and a rose, but there is absolutely nothing special inside, the

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Today, J'adore (Christian Dior) is the number one perfume, many years it was the lady in waiting of the iconic Chanel No5 in  the top sales. But with the world recognition and fame comes the dark side of the fragrance industry, the millions of fakes sold in extremely well organized structures all around the world. The objects you see are J'adore scented lipsticks, never produced by Christian DIOR

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Happy New Chinese Year吾皇萬歲，萬歲，萬萬歲 Ten thousand years for the Emperor in our case the Essence of Everything, the Perfume, as it was said in ancient China in the most precious garden. The Scent is the most important thing in the real world, it is the crown jewel of Reality and for this reason, the 8th ART is the most important of all arts. It is the conclusion of everything, the perfect illusion of

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Delicate and shy like the white petals of camelia and its very subtle scent, known mostly as a camelia oil, the new fragrance from Kenzo is a refined ode to the fragile aspect of white flowers. Eau de fleurs de camélia (Kenzo) evokes gardenia, champacca and magnolia in their dewy green presence, underlined by a soft lemony rose (with hints of Vietnamese grasses) and suggests the strong powdery

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Chanel No5, the most famous perfume in the world, was officially launched on 5 may 1921. It is not the Chanel special collection day, but the 100 years commemoration of Napoleon's death, the Emperor of France who passed away on the island of Saint Helena. The cause of his death is probably poisoning. In 1912, Ernest Beaux signed his first perfume in Moscow for Rallet, dedicated to Napoleon (the

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Une huile de musc est un produit indispensable, je dirai même vital pour la parure, car le musc sous n'importe quelle forme a un pouvoir exceptionnel à révéler les autres senteurs (y compris l'esprit de l'autre) sans être nécessairement un parfum.L'ambre véritable et le vrai musc Tonkin n'existent pas aujourd'hui à Paris car les ingrédients sont quasiment interdits, mais, heureusement, la trafic

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Who doesn't love Olfactive Studio, the new brand which emerged on Facebook as an experiment and became so popular in a short time? After the rendition of Camera Obscura I've presented this fall (the gorgeous leather plum chypre), it is time to speak about Autoportait, a profound and mysterious creation in dark hues with such an amazing trail.Autoportrait brings the fragrance of an enchanted wood

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Quoi de plus chic qu'un petit flacon secret, perdu dans les poches ou dans les mystères insondables d'un sac féminin, avec un nom étrange et une odeur forte pour se parfumer les poignets dans la journée?Amber de Von Eusersdorff, dans sa fiole de 15 ml, est une petite potion, très forte car extrêmement ambrée et orientale, venue à Paris depuis New York.Dans sa composition, Amber (Von Eusersdorff)

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Another place, Another time. In a spectacular setting infused with history, mysterious scents, precious ingredients and a veil of amazing grace, the 6 perfumes of the new Arquiste line are the most precious gift of this fall and the best introduction of 2011. Delicate embroideries on historic themes with a the golden thread of emotion, this line is an homage to magic encounters framed by the

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In 2012, the times when I first started to reveal the question of perfume reformulation, about six years ago, look like Stone Age. Welcome into the new era of reformulation, when the formula of a success perfume gradually changes with the market it changes since the moment zero of its introduction! It is the Scent 2.0, the perfume of the Matrix. With flankers, a prototype was "tested" through

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Séance OsmothèqueSamedi 14 Janvier:10h00 à 12h30Patricia de NICOLAI Versailles 78000 ∞ CHYPRE ∞voyage à travers la famille chypre En 1917, Monsieur François Coty lance sa dernière création "Le Chypre".Son succès est tel que ce parfum va inspirer la créativité de beaucoup d'autres parfumeurs et ouvrir une nouvelle famille olfactive: "Les Chypres".Cette famille n'a cessé de s'agrandir au cours du

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Is there a very Secret Scent from the days of Osiris? Isis, for ever Secret Scent of Osiris  ∞ S ∞ 000 If you carefully read what I've been telling on this blog on several occasions, you will find valuable clues to something more real than any mythical story, elements which haven't been unveiled anywhere else because I have other sources. There is a most unusual place in Rome, the place where

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Press Release Orgue CaraibesSenteurs∞ Réputée pour sa flore extraordinaire et les arômes délicats que dégage sa luxuriante végétation, l’île de Saint-Martin est l’endroit rêvé pour fabriquer, comme un véritable créateur, la senteur de ses rêves. La parfumerie Tijon, dont les produits cosmétiques sont tous issus de cette nature riche, l’a bien compris et propose aux apprentis-nez de réaliser

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Nouvelle édition exceptionelle pour le parfum J'adore (Dior) "Le vrai luxe exige le vrai matériau et le vrai travail artisanal. Il n'a de sens que si ses racines s'enfoncent dans un tuf baigné de traditions." le fil rouge et le fil d'or du nouveau parfum. Le flacon, en forme d'amphore, fait référence au 8, chiffre fétiche du couturier, et rappelle les premiers flacons de Miss Dior dans les

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Myrrhe et Délires, the new introduction from Guerlain, is certainly delicate, shy, fresh but lacks the original force of Myrrhiad (Pierre Guillaume) one of the most exquisite recent introduction featuring the myrrh theme. It is maybe the less interesting from Art et Matière Line. Myrrhe et Délires (Guerlain) starts with a strong freshness underlined by delicate accents of grapefruit, probably

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Completely absorbed by her work, the woman is working with her fingers a precious lace of an infinite beauty and delicacy, placing a pin in the pillow on which she is making her bobbin lace. Her small work can be appreciated only by the expert eye and from a small distance. The Lacemaker, the painting by Johannes Vermeer held in the Louvre (Paris), the smallest, his most abstract and unusual for

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Happy New Year Scented 2012 from Monaco with a huge bottle of Caron Royal Bain de Champagne for a scented bath of happiness. This Caron ad created more than 80 years ago is from 1927 the same year when Arpège was launched.

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When I was a perfumer student in ISIPCA Versailles, I was told that I had a GC instead of my nose because I was able to duplicate the perfumes we had to study in less than 6 trials. I arrived extremely fast at their essence with less than 16 ingredients (I duplicated a FK creation with only 2 trials because I was totally disgusted by that perfume). Do I have an unusual nose? I'd rather say that

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The marketing killed the perfume. The perfume kills the marketing. Prepare yourself for a revolution and a new order with 2012 when everything will be re arranged as it should be. Consumer, scent, creator is the new paradigm. During several years, the number of launches increased with a dramatic speed. Everybody was complaining, even myself. Wouldn't be more correct to complain today about

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In a previous post I said that creation in perfumery is the perfect union between Order & Randomness. For this purpose I have designed several games around the ingredients of the perfume organ to train the mind to find new gates inside the maze of scents. Every known notion of perfumery must be challenged. The best way to do it, in order to celebrate the New Year's Eve 2011-2012, is in Monte

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Séance Thématique Osmothèquele Samedi 14 Janvier:10h00 à 12h30par Patricia de NICOLAI à Versailles VOYAGE A TRAVERS LA FAMILLE CHYPRE En 1917, Monsieur François Coty lance sa dernière création "Le Chypre".Son succès est tel que ce parfum va inspirer la créativité de beaucoup d'autres parfumeurs et ouvrir une nouvelle famille olfactive: "Les Chypres".Cette famille n'a cessé de s'agrandir au cours

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Last night, Michelyn Camen, editor in Chief at Cafleurebon, made me a wonderful surprise and gift offering me an award on the website Cafleurbon. I wish to express my thanks for her consideration and her infinite passion for the world of perfumes. The year 2011 was an excellent year and the huge number of perfume launches should not makes us anxious about a certain decline of this magnificent

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If the first perfume from Pure Distance caught my attention several years ago because of its unusual modernity combined with a profound sense of classicism in terms of composition, it is Antonia that has undoubtedly conquered my soul. Antonia is one of the most beautiful perfumes ever created in the past 50 years, a creation that deserves to sit near all the major floral perfumes which

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