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Terre d’Hermès Saga continues. With Vetiver part. 

November 21st, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Details / No responses

If I need to associate love with a specific scent, I am pretty sure that something would be Terre d’Hermès. Because it was HIS perfume for years. And because I cannot sleep, I cannot dream, I cannot wake up without sensing it. My love, now it’s time to put a vetiver heart into your favourite ...

A journey in a bottle: the new Les Eaux de Chanel

May 12th, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

Every summer has its different taste. Every holiday has, for me, a different scent: a hint of salt will remind me of Normandy days, the scent of green leafs and roasted tomatoes will take me to Italy, the orange will remind me of sunny Spain. Therefore, it’s such great news that Chanel, one of ...

The mysterious scent of the new fragrances from Maison Francis Kurkdjian

April 16th, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Dazzling stories / No responses

“Oud is one of the most mysterious ingredient in a perfumer’s palette”, Marc Chaya, CEO & Co-Founder Maison Francis Kurkdjian. Therefore, they have decided to launch not one, but two new fragrances that have the amazing ingredient into their composition. And OUD Extrait de Parfum & ...

Waking up in the valley of Fleuve Tendre

February 26th, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Uncategorized / No responses

Do you know that feeling of “I am not sure I am awake, but if it’s a dream, let me sleep, please”? Well, that’s the feeling when you smell, for the first time, Fleuve Tendre perfume from the Liquides Imaginaires line. And its story is a beautiful journey in a half real half fictional world ...

Around the world in… many scents: a story about Rosa Mundi

February 14th, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Dazzling stories / No responses

I entered the Rosa Mundi world in one cold winter morning, with a terrible headache and a tight deadline to take pictures and to fly to the other task of that day. After almost two hours, I was still there, talking about perfumes, with no sign of the ache (and some missed calls from other people ...

Music in a bottle: interview with the creator of the perfume Feather Supreme

December 8th, 2017 / by Alina Aliman / in: Dazzling stories / No responses

To have a scent that reminds me about U2 Berlin concerts, to smell a perfume whose notes trigger happy memories of a summer, on a beach, when listening Bob Dylan, to have a fragrance that drives me back in teenager years, when listening to Kurt Cobain… that is something worth to be closely ...

On the wish list – Vetyverio by Diptyque

November 10th, 2017 / by Alina Aliman / in: Details / No responses

Grapefruit, vetiver and a little bit of roses - the new fragrance by Diptyque, Vetyverio, is all I could ask from a perfume. In the eau de parfum, vetiver from Haiti takes centre stage. Used in an overdose, it reveals itself in a pure state, without artifice, drawing its elegant, smoky nature from ...

The perfume that everybody waited for: Gabrielle Chanel

August 28th, 2017 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

“Everything I do, I do with passion. There isn’t one thing that I undertake without telling myself that my entire life depends on this specific thing”, Gabrielle Chanel said. And I think she would have been proud of the fragrance name after her. The Gabrielle Chanel fragrance is for sale ...

3 perfumes for summer nights

August 21st, 2017 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

Some perfumes are perfect for winter, when the notes could easily beat the cold. But some of them are just right to wear in a summer night, on a beach shore or on a long walk through the park. And to have them until the autumn comes, as I learnt about these 3 new discoveries (from left to ...

Kristen Stewart & CHANEL bring us the big surprise in the perfume world

May 31st, 2017 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

“A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future”, Gabrielle Chanel said a while ago. Fast-forwarding from the days of the legendary fashion icon, a new fragrance is going to be born. Gabrielle Chanel, Chanel’s latest perfume and the first stand-alone perfume of Chanel in the last 15 years, ...