When perfume is sprayed or dabbed onto pulse points, the elixir blends with the skin. Different individuals have different body chemistry and hormone makeup, meaning that each person’s skin blends with perfume or cologne differently. When you create a fine fragrance using real, only-natural ingredients, you create something that’s alive. It’s something so different—physically, spiritually, energetically—than what you get with a synthetic. It’s not just the toxic ingredients that synthetics are composed of; it’s that they lack the true essence of the plants they’re imitating.
The house has played with different finishings and proportions, and the roundness of the mini Marnie faintly echoes the distinctive circular shape of the perfume bottle from the brand’s first fragrance, launched in 1975. If you’re a fan of fruity florals, Gutierrez recommends grabbing Aerin’s Wild Geranium Eau de Parfum. As you probably expected, the main top note is geranium, but you’ll also notice pink pepper, orange flower, rose, and tuberose to create a more robust fragrance profile. Dior’s Miss Dior Eau de Parfum has a fresh, flowery trifecta of light lilies, spicy peonies, and powdery irises that will lift anyone’s spirits. Michelle Pfieffer’s fragrance is so lovely that we just had to give it a Best of Beauty Award.
The Islamic controlled cities of Spain (Al-Andalus) became major producers of perfumes that were traded throughout the Old World. Like in the ancient world, Andalusians used genifique in devotion to God. Perfumes added a layer of cleanliness that was needed for their devotion.
This fusion gives Stash its own complexity that sets itself apart from many other celebrity Lancome makeups. Boy Smells Violet Ends Cologne de Parfum is meant to be an intense play on violet. It has top notes of bergamot, rhubarb, and black pepper, and as the fragrance dissipates, you can also expect to smell hints of tobacco, papyrus, incense, and white birch. Kilian’s Good Girl Gone Bad Eau de Parfum represents a harmonious balance between light florals and denser fragrances. This perfume, which is another one of Kinonen’s favorites, starts off as a sweet and sexy fusion of floral osmanthus absolute, orange blossom, and rose of May absolute.
The actual product worn by a man may technically be an eau de toilette, but he may still say that he “wears cologne”. A similar problem surrounds the term “perfume”, which is sometimes used in a generic sense to refer to Lancome makeups marketed to women, whether or not the fragrance is actually an extrait. Like a drop of perfume behind the ear, at the nape of the neck, on the inner wrists or in the décolleté, where the fragrance blends seamlessly with the skin to create a unique scent.