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My Perfumery Bucket List
During my career and personal life I have been lucky to visit over the years: Morocco to see roses, Atlas cedar and camomile; 3 times to the World Perfumery Congress and local areas of Provence including visits to Grasse and the Perfumery museums; Floriade in the Netherlands; Oman to see roses and frankincense (olibanum); Provence to see lavender and roses; Geneva; Ludwigshafen; Cologne/Köln; But still on the Perfumery bucket list (and it’s growing!): Mimosa in bloom, France; Ylang ylang, cloves in Madagascar; Cistus, Seville; I also need to go back to Köln to the 4711 museum, as for our visit we did the Farina Haus, not knowing until we arrived…
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Vintage perfumes
Years ago, in the ’80s, teenage me had a favourite perfume, “It” by Lentheric. Fast forward to today, I obtained a vintage bottle on eBay. Now, as a successful perfumer of many years, I know fragrances mature and reactions take place, sometimes undesirable ones. But I’ve had very little real experience of any vintage perfumes. It doesn’t have the “off” alcoholic notes. But this doesn’t smell as I remember, to be honest. It’s a lot more aldehydic, animalic (even civet?), and oakmossy, chypre. I do like a good chypre, but I didn’t remember “It” being one? What happens to fragrances after this many years, is it only these kind of…