Tag Archives: Elixir

How you can get off the beaten path without losing your way (Part 1)

22 October 2010
Philippe Starck designed his first fragrance flacon, doing so for L’Air du Temps from Nina Ricci, a fragrance he has worn for years. The result? Amazing shapes, midway between a zoomorphic work of proto-history and an object cut while traveling through space. In both cases, the alliance of the past and the future is admirable. Marry Me! is the f...
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Azzaro sees red

1 October 2009
What happens when a perfumer sees himself given an exercise in style based on a 30 year-old fragrance? “You wonder how to preserve its relationship to the past, which elements to keep and which ones to do away with, ” explains Michel Girard, perfumer at Givaudan. Especially when the fragrance in question is the great Azzaro pour Homme, signed b...
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