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The Guide received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, which said, “The book brings [the authors'] exquisite connoisseurship to life in a contagious manner.Their passion for a few scents and their outrage at the others' failings make for entry after entry of hilarious, catty comments interspersed with occasional erudite, eloquent disquisitions."
Brut (French pronunciation:) is a brand name for a line of men's grooming and fragrance products marketed around the world by Unilever - except in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Latin America, where it is owned by Sodalis USA (formerly High Ridge Brands Company); and in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, where it is owned by Pharmacare Laboratories.
Some 8,000 perfumes were profiled in the 2015 printed edition of Fragrances of the World, accompanied by brand name, date, fragrance family and gender.The online database, updated weekly, archives profiles of over 17,000 perfumes, listing brand name, corporate group, creative director, gender, perfumer, date, country of origin, bottle designer, fragrance family, an image, an olfactory pyramid ...
When free trade was established in Cologne by the French in 1797, the success of Eau de Cologne prompted countless other businessmen to sell their own fragrances under the name of Eau de Cologne. Giovanni Maria Farina's formula has been produced in Cologne since 1709 by Farina opposite the Jülichplatz [4] and to this day remains a secret. His ...
Dunhill for Men: Alfred Dunhill: 1934 Pour Un Homme: Caron: Ernest Daltroff [10] 1935 Nuit de Longchamp: Parfums Lubin Marcel Prot, Paul Prot 1935 Lancôme: Armand Petijean: 1936 French Cancan: Caron: Ernest Daltroff: c. 1936 Kobako: Bourjois [17] 1937 Colony: Patou: Henri Alméras: 1937 Early American Old Spice: Shulton Company 1938 Old Spice ...
It is used as a flavouring agent, in perfume, and medicinally. [23] Palo Santo; Parsley oil, used in soaps, detergents, colognes, cosmetics and perfumes, especially men's fragrances. Patchouli oil, very common ingredient in perfumes. Perilla essential oil, extracted from the leaves of the perilla plant. Contains about 50–60% perillaldehyde.
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The story behind the creation of this fragrance was the subject of the book The Perfect Scent: A Year in the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York by Chandler Burr. [5] In addition, the story in a limited form and accounts of other scents as well as his autobiography has been published in Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent. He is also a writer of ...