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Jennifer Dalziel

Sat, 10 May 2014 14:09:52 +1200

I think the new formulations came out towards the end of 2012... probably for the Xmas market. Guerlain didnt change the formulations back to pre 2007... they refornulated them again. These new formulations are more popular than the post 2007 ones but not as popular as pre 2007.

Jennifer Dalziel

Sat, 10 May 2014 08:54:51 +1200

I think the public response to the reformulated Guerlain perfumes was so vociferous in its dislike of the new products that Guerlain has changed the formulations back to pre 2007. I could be wrong... I think it happened in 2012 or 2013

Lee Jensen

Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:54:21 +1300

So it look like I'll have to work on those Italics...

Lee Jensen

Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:53:21 +1300

Thank you David for this post.
I feel I should offer some context, because this is an area of great interest to me.
I read Denyse Beaulieu's _Perfume Lover_, the account of the creation of the fragrance _Séville à l'aube_ in 2012, and it catalysed something in me. I bought…

David Hood

Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:00:20 +1300

I heartily, heartily recommend the book "The Emperor of Scent" by Chandler Burr as a very fine read. It is a sort-of biography of the biophysicist Luca Turin, who co-authored "Perfumes: The Guide".

My copy of The Emperor of Scent is basically in a permanent state of being lent out…

Simon Bennett

Thu, 13 Mar 2014 09:23:52 +1300

Wonderful transporting writing. Inspired to track down these perfumes now. Could get expensive!

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:55:54 +1300

odour clones...
a bottle of Paperback...
One whiff of Biblio Moulder's
Calvinist tang, foxes me...

Andrew C

Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:34:00 +1300

Le Feu d’Issey?

Yep, got it in one :)

I have seen them for sale on Ebay for around 200-400, but we worry about whether they are still in good shape, I have had issues with old perfumes in the past.

If you ever chance upon anything let the PA…

David Herkt

Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:22:31 +1300

Hi Andrew, Le Feu d'Issey? For discontinued brands you have a few options like ebay, or samples websites like Perfumed Court or Surrender To Chance which can provide various sized small decants – but at a price (and probably hefty in the case of Le Feu d'Issey). I don't know…

Carol Stewart

Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:07:50 +1300

Coincidentally, our book group is currently reading The Emperor of Scent, about Luca Turin.
Sadly I have a very poor sense of smell so I'm not really able to join in the general rapture..

Andrew C

Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:25:36 +1300

This might be the perfect place to ask this question:

Are there places where I can get a perfume made that matches an out-of-production scent?

My partner would love to get hold of an Issey Miyake perfume that they no longer produced. My very limited enquiries to date have not…

Rachael J

Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:57:21 +1300

A subject close to my heart. My first ever 'grown up' perfume was Mitsouko when I was about 17 or 18 – a present from my dad. He bought it from then Silver Ferns coach, Lois Muir, who worked in a pharmacy in Dunedin that specialised in fragrance. My dad…

Emma Hart

Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:56:16 +1300

I love perfume, and this column touches on a lot of the reasons why. I'm not much into clothes, or at all into shoes or makeup, but there's an entire drawer in my dresser full of perfumes. These days I get most of mine from Possets – all their scents…

Kebabette

Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:52:10 +1300

Damn you must smell good! Those CBs sound intriguing. I have CB In the library which smells more of book dust than books per se. Am getting a bottle of Paperback by Demeter soon.

I like what Etat Libre D'Orange and L'Artisan do too – I have gone through my…

David Herkt

Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:17:06 +1300

In my original conception, I really wanted to do Shalimar (1925) and Vol de Nuit (1933), but gradually they began not to fit my scheme. They are both great fragrances – and I have a special fondness for Vol de Nuit.

Like you I’m quite interested in those very precise…

Kebabette

Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:54:52 +1300

OOhhh now you're talking. I revel in perfume, if I was rich would have roomfuls of it. I am a Shalimar girl, but love Mitsouko. Guerlain's male scents like Vetiver are also sublime.

Some of my most exciting Twitter moments was when Luca Turin tweets me. Squee! He's in my…

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:08:21 +1300

'Nosis'
the secret knowledge of the nose...

When in aroma...
Perhaps it is like 'the Scottish play' –
but I always thought Amygdala
would be a perfect name for a perfume...

Russell Brown

Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:09:19 +1300

Thank you for writing this, David. Fascinating!

Ngaire BookieMonster

Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:00:03 +1300

I LOVE Mitsouko, it is an unbelievably beautiful smell, and it can work as well on men as on women. I get why reformulations became required but in some ways it's also rather sad. The idea of spending hours in a vintage perfume house, being able to smell all the…

Public Address

Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:00:03 +1300

Discussion from blog post.