Fragrance(s) of the week (24) 2013

Picture: New Robert Piguets are tempting me
Photo: PR Robert Piguet (c) all rights reserved

In the middle of my "reviewing light and summery fragrances period" I drooling over these interesting (to say at least) new Robert Piguets. I'm so curious, and soon I'll also be able to sample two of them: A perfect bright rose, Rose Perfection (even if the line already has the IMO perfect bright rose blended with powdery orris, Calypso) and a floral chypre (I love chypres) Alameda. Hopefully I also get the opportunity to test the leather Knightsbridge later on but now I'm so thrilled to dive in these two beauties, which I already know they are in advance. After all they are Piguets and this genuine house has proven to be the most versatile for me beside Guerlain and Chanel which is a great achievement as the two latter are giants with houndreds of perfumes in their lines compared to this little quality house.

Robert Piguet – The house and perfumes

Picture: Nouvelle Collection by Robert Piguet
Photo: Perfumes Robert Piguet (c), all rights reserved

As a long time admier and wearer of Fracas, which is as close to a signature flower scent as I can come, I’m very fond of the house of Robert Piguet with it’s classy fragrances featured in equally sleek, elegant black bottles. To make a long story short, the perfumes was a part of the fashionhouse Robert Piguet with the legendary Bandit and Fracas created by the legandary, one of the first famous female perfumers, Germaine Cellier in the 1940s as also Visa (together with Jean Carles) and Baghari 1950. As the fashion house had to close down in 1951 the perfume brand continued but with changed ownership over the years. In the late 1950s and during the 1960s Calypso, Cravache and Futur were launched. In the late 1990s the perfumes Robert Piguet was acquired by the current owner, Fashion Fragrances & Cosmetics, and the ardous work to restore the Robert Piguet perfumes to it’s former glory began. Judging from the impressions of my nose the strategy of Robert Piguet CEO Joe Garces is utterly successful: First the skillful reinterpretations/recreations of Baghari,Visa, Cravache, Futur and Calypso, where the fragrances are reinterpreted by the house perfumer Aurelian Guichard with respect to the intentions of the originals. I have tested all of them expect the masculine Cravache and I like them all very much, especially Calypso (loveJ) and Baghari. Last year, Perfumes Robert Piguet introduced its first fragrance which is not based on the classics, Douglas Hannant. This contemporary, gardenia, pear, Fracas light inspiered fragrance, was made in collaboration with American haute couture designer Douglas Hannant to create a signature fragrance for the fashionhouse. This year the house of Piguet has continiued to release new fragrances in the expressive, multifacetted, elegant, classical style of the house. The Nouvelle Collection which I have the pleasure to test and review with start on Friday (continued with coming entries during the autumn/winter) have some fragrances inspired of the perfumes of the Middle East. There is also a collection geared to the Asian market, The Pacific Collection being launched in these days. Also an easier to wear Fracas Petit Fracas will be launched  2012.

The perfumehouse Robert Piguet finally seeems to have reached the safe harbor that these beautiful perfumes, the style and the creative spirit of this classical house really deserves.     

Perfumed thoughts April 2012

Earlier this week I thought that this weekend would be the right time to publish my list of Spring-Spring perfumes in my serie Spring fragrances, see the earlier post Winter-Spring fragrances. But then Jack Frost returned for the weekend and I lost all the inspiration. But as always there is some perfumed thoughts:

* As the Robert Piguet fragrances is an old love to me I'm really looking forward to the release of the  five fragrances in the Nouvelle Collection created by the Piguet "house-nose"Aurélien Guichard at Givaudan: Bois Noir, Casbah, Mademoiselle Piguet, NoteS and Oud. Earlier, expect from Douglas Hannant by Robert Piguet, the house in collaboration with perfumer Aurélien Guichard  has new-interpreted their old classics Visa, Baghari, Calypso and Futur. Bandit, Fracas and Cravache I think are "regulary" reformulations of the original Germaine Cellier creations. The Nouvelle Collection will be tested and reviewed later if I can get my hands of some samples.

* Another release I have read about but are not sure it will be this year is some new fragrances from Vero Kern, Vero Profumo. As I love Rubj, Onda (swedish) and Kiki I know Vero will deliver.

* I'm also not sure about if or when the perfume/perfumes Mona di Orio was working on when she passed away in December 2011 will be released. As a great admier of Mona, although it is so deeply tragic, I'm waiting of the privilege to take part of her final creation(s).

* There is so many interesting fragrances around and it's hard to select what is worth to sample. As Denyse at Grain the Musc wrote in her post (controversial as she argues about the consequenses of the sharp increase of perfumebloggers)  Enchanted, disenchanted she can't waste time trying out scents that don't challange her. Therefore her strategy is almost only to test and review creations from houses/noses that she know almost always delivers from her point of view. I will try to practice this rule in the future, and I already do that (without thinking of it)  to some extent, but it's not a a planned strategy of mine. As I have many already written reviews "in stock" the mix of favouritehouse/noses and other will remain within the foreseeable future.

That's my perfumed thoughts by now :-)

Sniff 2011

Vad skönt att läsa Marinas inlägg om Dior Les Exclusives se

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Känns som jag kan skriva av dem från "Att prova listan", har genom åren märkt att Marinas smak överensstämmer mycket med min. Frågan är då vad ser jag fram emot att sniffa på i år?

Som alltid förstås Serge Lutens releaser men det blir nog inte förrän i höst när alla årets dofter finns tillgängliga. Så förstås nyheter från favorithus som Annick Goutal, Andy Tauer och Patricia de Nicolaï. Har inte luktat på PdN:s senaste heliotrophe och torrt-hö inspirerade parfym Kiss me tender ännu men det är ingen panik, jag har ju min kära Etro Heliotrophe, och heliotrophe är en not som är lite vansklig på mig.

Sedan kommer det förstås fler releaser från ett annat pålitligt hus L'Artisan Parfumeur vilket få mig att tänka på att jag ju faktiskt inte provat den super-hypade Traversee du Bosphore från 2010 ännu. Troligen kommer jag att gilla den men efter att ha läst att den har mycket av Havana Vanille i basen och Dior Hommes irisnot så befarar jag att den är lite av ett hastverk, Bertrand Douchaufour har ju varit väldigt produktiv det senaste året. När en näsa, hur skicklig den än är, trycker ut sig för många dofter under en kortare tid kan det hända att dofterna inte blir tillräckligt genomarbetade. Säger inte att så är fallet med Traverse... men det ska bli mycket intressant att sniffa på doften bland annat ur den infallsvinkeln.

Sedan är jag väldigt nyfiken på Robert Piguets förra året utgivna Calypso som tydligen inte har mycket med den ursprungliga från femtiotalet att skaffa. Den nya är efter vad jag har läst en ambroxbaserad skapelse och ambrox verkar vara en ingrediens som passar min kemi. Calypso har fått både ris och ros av förtåsigpåare.

Hoppsan, redan en hel del på sniff-listan. Dax för en provbeställning snart - fast hur var det nu - oprovade prover som väntar så jag får nog vänta ett tag ändå...