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With seven perfumes, four oils, three scented waters and one candle, Gucci did not hold back with their newest luxury fragrance collection. Called The Alchemist’s Garden, which shares the same name of the fashion house’s Fall 2017 Ready-to-Wear Collection, Creative Director Alessandro Michele has taken the magic of that runway show and, with the help […]

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Though his father wanted him to be a doctor, François Demachy felt the siren call of ’60s-era rebellion and decided “hell no.” “I refused any authority,” recalls the 69-year-old Frenchman, on a recent visit to Montreal to give a talk about his long career in fragrance at the Festival Mode & Design. He eventually began […]

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“The principal quality of glass is its transparency,” says Leonardo Cimolin, a well-known Italian glassblower. “No other material can provide the sensations and the emotions that one gets from glass.” Cimolin is who, after being commissioned by Valmont Cosmetics CEOs, Didier and Sophie Guillon, designed the Murano Venetian glass masks that adorn each of the […]

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Summer is filled with special moments – sunsets at the beach, evening strolls in colourful neighbourhoods, and your coworker’s non-stop Instagrams of her Italian vacation. Whether you’re soaking up the sun outdoors or working away at your desk, discovering a new favourite fragrance is a great, simple way to make sure you make some summer […]

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Let’s be real, if you didn’t have a hot pink bottle of Fantasy sitting on your bedroom shelf in 2005, then what were you even doing? Britney Spears is the ultimate success story when it comes to celebrity perfumes and with a whopping 23 bottles under her belt, it’s clear she knows what she’s doing. […]

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“I’m afraid of perfume,” says Sylvie Ganter, who growing up in France, never felt that opulent, super feminine scents were her thing. So when a salesperson let her sample Hermes Eau D’Orange Verte Cologne, she found her jam. “It was something that felt right, for me and for my age,” she says. For Ganter, citrus […]

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Back in 2015, Guerlain’s president Laurent Boillot took a sample of Mon Guerlain, a fragrance which had yet to be released, to Cambodia to meet Angelina Jolie in the hopes of signing her as the face. “She trashed the bottle,” Guerlain’s in-house perfumer Thierry Wasser recalls—which at the time was a remake of a 1920’s […]

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Toronto-based skincare brand Deciem (and particularly the brand’s founder, Brandon Truaxe) has been in the news a lot lately—and not for the best reasons. From erratic behaviour on social media to a string of resignations and firings, which you can read up on here, Deciem is the most talked about beauty brand of the moment. […]

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On Monday, Glossier introduced a solid version of their fragrance, Glossier You. Housed in a weighty metal compact that swivels open, it’s a concept that actually dates back to the ancient Egyptian times, when fragrance was made using either plant oil or animal fat and scented with essential oils. Today, it’s a super transportable way […]

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Everyday, the staff of Louis Vuitton at Toronto’s Yorkdale Mall check to make sure the recently opened fragrance pop-up is structurally sound. The reason for their concern: it’s constructed entirely of paper tube fragrance packaging containers, 2996 to be exact. But given that the pop-up has already traveled from Las Vegas, Miami and Houston, it’s […]

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Named after the slender silk accessory that women often wrap around their wrist or bag handles, Hermès  Twilly d’Hermès (from $76) signifies what perfumer Christine Nagel describes as an untapped niche within the esteemed French luxury brand. “I was seeing young women who appreciated the codes of the maison but were doing different things with […]

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Chatting with perfumer Daniela Andrier is the fragrance equivalent of a science geek speaking with Stephen Hawking. Like the author of A Brief History of Time, Andrier has a poetic fascination with time—especially the role fragrance plays in marking it. “I do consider perfumery a magical messenger between the unconscious and the conscious and between […]

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