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on the scent of news nosing around Insider info, chic curations – and the hottest happenings from the world of perfume. You’ll always read it (and sniff it) here first... Scented gems for men Just in time for our jewel-focused edition, Bvlgari (read more about them on p.14) launch Le Gemme for Men: six luxury scents developed by Jacques Cavallier (before he departed for Louis Vuitton), captured in gem-capped bottles evoking amber, red garnet, blue sapphire, malachite, black onyx and tiger’s eye. £215 for 100ml eau de parfum At Harrods Let’s get personal Fragrance is already a wonderfully personal gift – but why not make it even more so with The Perfume Shop’s engraving service? It’s available on many bottles, starting at just £5.99. The perfect finishing touch... theperfumeshop.com The most cracking gift… This surely deserves to top every perfume-lover’s wishlist for 2016: a customisable bath and bodycare extravaganza featuring a 100ml Cologne or Cologne Intense, 175ml Body Crème, 200g Home Candle and 250ml Body & Hand Wash (you get to choose the fragrances). All together now: ‘Dear Santa…’ £206-245 At Jo Malone London stores 6 The scented Letter
an air of sophistication 16 The scented LeTTer Looking for a perfume that will make you sit a little straighter, stand a little taller, feel a little more sophisticated? Follow the lead of noses-in-the-know, and seek out a scent from sochic (albeit confusing) Chypre family – currently enjoying a renaissance – advises Suzy Nightingale The world of perfume said to have slept on a bed of moss – so terminology can befuddle the best of us perhaps that’s another nod to the island at times. But the basic fragrance families it’s inspired by. But no matter how many shouldn’t cause any consternation, right...? notes a Chypre includes, you’ll almost Citrus? Easy-peasy [literally] lemonsqueezy. Woody? Does what it says on rounded and harmoniously tempered: a certainly find everything voluptuously the bottle. Oriental? Slighty more taxing, Rubenesque body in a perfectly tailored, but pretty much everyone can imagine so-chic suit that kisses every plumptious something richly flamboyant. But if you curve. happen to know what the term ‘Chypre’ Who was the first perfumer to invent actually means, you’re in the minority: the Chypre? The term ‘Chypre’ as a when The Perfume Society co-founders name for an accord is mentioned in 18th embarked on a national tour for their Century perfume manuals and there book The Perfume Bible, only a handful are even suggestions the fragrance of attendees on the entire book tour, composition could date back to Roman when asked, professed to know the exact times. In Guerlain’s vintage archive, there definition. So, let us begin… is a fragrance by the name of ‘Chypre de First off, say it ‘sheep-rah’. Next, its Paris’ dating back to 1909. (We’ve smelled origins: Chypre is French for Cyprus – it; it is sublime.) But François Coty was birthplace of Aphrodite, the goddess of the first to popularise the family, with the love. And because many of the aromatic eponymously titled Chypre perfume of plants which are common to ‘Chypre’ 1917. scents flourished, at some point, on that For his composition, Coty took island, that’s generally accepted to be how sparkling bergamot and added a floral this fragrance family got its name. heart of jasmine, rose and lilac with the Classically an interplay between suede softness of orris as a buffer to bergamot, oakmoss and labdanum (a potential shrieking. In the base addictive resin from rock rose, which once upon a vanillin and coumarin smoothly settled time was harvested from the hair of goats on that oakmoss and patchouli with dry, that grazed on that shrub), Chypres can smoky vetiver, creamy sandalwood and a be ramped up to be more floral, fruity or healthy dose of animalic labdanum, styrax, woody – often with generous amounts civet and musk. of further citrus in the top notes. But it’s In The Essence of Perfume, Roja Dove that quintessential mossy-ness which is at describes how ‘...Coty managed to put the heart of its character. Aphrodite was the gentlest whisper of orris, vanillin, 1 Guerlain Mitsouko Impossibly elegant bride walks through a forest, lost in reverie, draped in mist and a gauzy couture gown. 2 Clinique Aromatics Elixir Quixotic heroine clutches herbaceous bouquet while saving the day in tones of tweed. 3 Rochas Femme All hips and wiggle in plunging neckline plum velvet, batting away admirers with a flick of her feathered fan. 4 Bottega Veneta Italian country house party guest runs barefoot in the garden, slipping in the library to get more intimately acquainted. The scented LeTTer 17 boxing clever The art of the The Perfume Society has a fabulous Discovery Box for everyone on your Christmas list – and at every price. Visit perfumesociety.org/SHOP – and tick, tick, tick… bottle (PS Scroll down to VIEW THE ARCHIVE if you don’t see them any of them at first glance) For dapper chaps… For the fashionista in your life… The Scent of a Gent/£15 (£19 for non-VIPs) Scents of Style/£12.50 (£17.50 non-VIPs) All-British - for an English rose… For lovers of opulence and luxury… Shay & Blue Precious Minatures/£55 (£65 non-VIPs) Ormonde Jayne Discovery Set/£43.20 (£48 for non-VIPs) For anyone who’s often up, up and away… And for a far-flung fragrance-lover… Chypre ThriLLs Try Before You Fly/£12.50 (£17.50 non-VIPs) Overseas subscription to The Scented Letter on-line/£20 The scented Letter 7
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