Travel Inspired Perfumes
Travel Inspired Perfumes
Check out these new fragrances inspired by exotic locations, moments and places in time. A new spin on the olfactory-memory equation.
Excerpts from a fragrance editorial, Escape Artists, in Elle Magazine, December 2015 issue.
Escape Artists
April Long meets perfumers who act as sensorial tour guides, transporting us around the world - and even through time itself - with new, wanderliust-inciting scents. -- April Long, Executive Beauty Editor Elle | Read the entire article @ Elle.com
The Jet-Setters
No plane ticket? No problem. These fragrances are the next best thing to a week's vacation.
Yves Saint Laurent
Caftan
Incense and benzoin rich - a visit to YSL's famous Jardin Majorelle.
Eau de Parfum, 4.2 oz., $250
bergdorfgoodman.com
D.S. & Durga
El Cosmico
Pitch a tent: The desert air, yucca, and mesquite take you glamping in Texas.
Eau de Parfum, 1.7 oz., $125
dsanddurga.com
Demeter
Great Barrier Reef
Captures the mineral smell of Antipodean coral at low tide.
Cologne, 1 oz., $20
demeterfragrance.com
Memo
African Leather
A blend of geranium and warm spices conveys the wonder of the savanna.
Eau de Parfum, 2.5 oz., $250
neimanmarcus.com
Juniper Ridge
Big Sur
Monterey pine and three types of sage will plunge you deep into the woods.
Cologne, 1 oz., $60
luckyscent.com
The Time Travelers
Make a quantum leap into the past with these lost era-evoking scents.
Arquiste
Nanban
With heady leather, black tea, saffron, and wood it vividly re-creates the aromatic hull of a Japanese galleon.
Eau de Parfum, 3.4 oz., $190
barneys.com
Chanel
Misia
The powdery violet and tonka bean conjure whiffs of makeup and smoky velvet curtains at Les Ballets Russes.
Eau de Toilette 2.5 oz., $160
chanel.com
Maison Margiela
Replica Lipstick On
An olfactory snapshot - via iris and vanilla bourbon - of a woman's vanity table in the '50s.
Eau de Toilette 3.4 oz., $125
nordstrom.com
Norell
New York
A modern reboot of the radiant eau launched by fashion designer Norman Norell in 1968 - as classy as a classic.
Eau de Parfum, 3.4 oz., $150
bergdorfgoodman.com
Vilhelm Parfumerie
Fleur Burlesque
Experience a night out in the 1890s at the Moulin Rouge with decadent gardenia and jasmine.
Eau de Parfum, 3.4 oz., $245
barneys.com
Read the entire story at Elle.com
(Long, April. "Beauty: Obsession - Escape Artists." Elle Dec. 2015: 214-218)
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