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JUST BEACHY
Aquatic Scents For Oceanic Getaways
Aquatic fragrances invoke images of wide stretches of sand against turquoise waters, the sounds of crashing waves and gulls overhead. Also known as “oceanic” scents, they are the cleanest, freshest-smelling scents of all the olfactory families, used primarily in summer fragrances and men’s colognes.
The Davidoff house popularized aquatic colognes in the 1990s with their ever-growing assortment of fresh fragrances for men and women; among them, the now classic COOL WATER sce...
FANATICAL ABOUT BOTANICALS
The World's Best Flowers & Floral Fragrances
The largest fragrance family is the floral family. It’s no surprise, considering there is such a vast multitude of species of flower and tree plants found in different regions around the globe, all with their own beauty, healing properties, and aromas. It is also the largest in terms of timeline; floral perfume’s earliest beginnings date back to ancient Egyptian culture, when people bathed in fragrant oils of jasmine, lily and rose. The first perfumes were simple mixes of oils w...
FRUIT BASKET
The Origins Of Citrus
The sweetness of fresh citrus fruits invites the senses to recall bright suns on hot summer days, fresh cut grass and tall, cool drinks of sweetened iced tea. Their fruity smells are widely loved and widely imitated in all sorts of scented products, from dish soap to candles, cosmetics to juices, alcohols—- and fragrances.
Actual citrus plants like that of the orange, lemon, grapefruit and lime originate in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Many major commercial growing ...
BON VOYAGE!
Guerlain Leads Scent Tours With New Fragrances
Been around the world and I-I-I, I can’t find my fragrance.
That is, until Guerlain stepped up last spring with a trio set of scents inspired by three cultural capitals and personally pivotal cities in his history, as seen from his native Paris: Moscow, New York, and Tokyo. The scents of this aptly-named Voyage Collection are meant to conjure the image of a stroll through each respective city and capture their essences through olfactory homage.
In addition to the careful mixology inv...
THE SCENT RISES IN THE EAST
Experiencing The Orient With Oriental Fragrances
Oriental scents, with their fragrant spices, deep musks and resins, exotic flowers, and sweet warm woods, instantly conjure up images of the Eastern world—- of narrow-aisled markets selling bright fabrics and grains in large bins, of exotic cuisines and colorful architecture. It is the heaviest fragrance family: warm, rich and sultry.
Oriental fragrances rely heavily on intense and intoxicating notes like amber, musks, vanilla, and exotic resins, flowers and spices. Depending on the c...
THE WAY AUTUMN FALLS
Explore Vermont
The only place to be in the fall is in the North-East. Nowhere else do trees transition into winter in quite the same way, maples exploding with luminous oranges while oaks fill their branches with brilliant reds. Autumn also carries its own scent, as well as landscape: a fresh and slightly damp aroma with hints of winter crisp, a musky cider laced with rotting bouquets.
One tree in particular, the Cercidiphyllum japonicum with no simpler name to share, gives off a distinctive smell that ha...
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