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Ask Dr. Basenotes: Looking for my father's cologne
by Doctor Basenotes, 25 April 2008
After a very long break, Dr Basenotes returns to help Jaclyn with a search. Jaclyn asks: I am wondering if you can help me figure out what my dad used to wear in the 80's. I think it came in a green bottle and may have had a name similar to Aqua velvet. Anything information you have will be wonderful!!...
The Beauty of Botanicals Made Liquid - The Passion of Natural Perfumers
by Anya McCoy, 20 February 2008
Like everyone who has progressed with passion, training and persistence to become a perfumer, the new wave of natural perfumers started with an intense love of scents. Many can trace their formative moment – the zing of recognition – when a scent transformed their life, and put them on the path of creation
...Xtreme Scents - Ticket to elbow candy - part two
by Chris Peterson, 03 October 2007
Chris Peterson's Xtreme Scents takes a further look into whether there really is a fragrance that would turn any ladies head....
Xtreme Scents - July 2007 - Ticket to Elbow Candy
by Chris Peterson, 27 July 2007
In the seven years Basenotes has been running, one of the most common questions we get asked is variants on 'which fragrance will make girls want me'. Chris Peterson finds out if there is an answer to that age old question...
Postcard from Paris - April 2007: Disappearing Act
by Michael Connor, 23 April 2007
Our Paris columnist, Michael Connor investigates disappearing Annick Goutal's and tests out Le Labo in Colette....
Guest Columnist Jean-Pierre Houri: IFRA and the 40th amendment
by Jean-Pierre Houri, 06 March 2007
Last month we asked Tony Burfield of Cropwatch to comment on IFRA's 40th Amendement. Here we give IFRA's Director General, Jean-Pierre Houri the opportunity to explain the Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) methodology for fragrance ingredients introduced by the 40th amendment....
Guest Columnist Tony Burfield: Perfumers and the 40th IFRA Amendment.
by Tony Burfield, 23 February 2007
A Perfumer's Lot: You could be forgiven for thinking that perfumers are becoming a threatened species. Opportunities for working perfumers are disappearing as dinosaur eats dinosaur in the fragrance world, and small perfume companies fight to hold their places amongst a background of commercial takeovers and mergers. Something else is happening too. In living memory, distinguished perfumers once led fragrance companies, or were, at least, members of the company's board. Now, salespeople, marketeers and accountants invariably head up aroma companies, and these very same individuals also seem to populate perfumery societies and associations, leaving the perfumers relegated as the 'back-room boys' of the trade, with a pecking order status slightly under the regulatory affairs manager, or the perfume evaluator....
Postcard from Paris: January 2007 - Human Remains
by Michael Connor, 31 January 2007
Niche labels are ten-a-penny. But niche labels with their own shops in one of Paris' hippest neighbourhoods.... well, that shows naked ambition. Columnist, Michael Connor takes a look at Etat Libre d'Orange...
Ferme les Yeux, Ellen Barkin: Experiencing JAR Parfums
by Marlen Harrison, 16 January 2007
Basenotes columnist, Marlen Harrison, 'experiences' the JAR boutique at Bergdorf Goodman....
Postcard from Paris: December 2006 - The Christmas Invasion
by Michael Connor, 18 December 2006
Michael Connor reports on the latest from Paris: Bond no. 9 arrives at Sephora, Penhaligon's opens a Paris boutique, What's new at the Guerlain flagship, Body products from Frederic Malle and new at Printemps: Stephanie de Saint-Aignan...
Postcard from Paris: November 2006
by Michael Connor, 08 November 2006
All the latest news from Paris: Scent trio's from The Different Company and Mark Jacobs; The new scents at Sephora and a sniff of L'Artisan's Dzongkha...
The Doctor is in!
by Doctor Basenotes, 05 November 2006
The good doctor has returned! After two years away, Dr Basenotes is back and awaiting your fragrance questions....
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