New Project

This month I am sharing with you the happiness of celebrating the first anniversary of + Q Perfume Blog.

With that in mind I created a new corner called Trends & Blends.

Here you will find the latest creations of the Big Brands and Niche perfumery.

We will bring the trends of the market.

We will show the newest campaigns.

I hope you will enjoy it and continue to be a follower of +Q Perfume Blog!

Fragrant kisses Simone.

Biehl Parfumkunstwerke - olfactive passports!

Thorsten Biehl is a traveller. In his bag, the culture of 60 different countries, a career in market positioning and development strategies for perfumes, marketing and evaluation and successful achievement as an entrepreneur.

His olfactive gallery as he calls his business, is a place where perfumers create art.

The concept of the fragrances is Art in a Flacon.

Exclusive and unusual fragrances for individuals, not for the masses.

Every fragrance is a limited edition with lot number. Exclusiveness is a matter of quality for this brand.

No models, no complicated packaging and design, minimalism is the motto (less is best).

The collection was design by 6 different perfumers, of six different countries:

Henning Biehl, Mark Buxton, Patricia Choux, Egon Oelkers, Arturetto Landi and Geza Schön.

Click here to enter to the gallery

Nez à Nez fragrances and spirits! Part one

NEZ à NEZ collection

Christa Patout and Stéphane Humbert in the process of creating the fragrances for the brand NEZ à NEZ, combine their own experiences with photographs, the collection of fragrances gathered in many years, Humbert's paintings and choices of colors, Christa's trips and knowledge of anthropology.

For them the sense of smell is based on primitive feelings, they "express and talk" themselves humanly without imposing a body.

Every fragrance is an experience, a story told with the nose, a spirit and a mood.

Note of Rhum, Cognac, Black Grape, Cade, Leaves of Patchouli, Roots of Vetiver, Raspberry, Tobacco, coffe beans and vanilla you will find yourself in an Atelier d'Artiste

You will go up the stairs made of stones. There you will find a leather coach, canvases, books, pencils, a paint brush, a glass of raspberry wine, a candle, the muse and her painter.

Notes of Fresh herbals, Fig tree leafs, Petit grain, Fig, Kiwi, Cedar, Sandalwood and Musks will invite you to scape barriers, will challenge you to have fun, to up bring thoughts, to collide with the buffalo. Be loud, animate, influence crowds, be spontaneous!

The leaves are rustling in the wind...

Enter to a forest with notes of Grapefruit, Licorice, Halzelnut, Cedar, Cinnamon, Chlorophyll, Ambar, leather and Vanilla.

Be attracted to nature, smell the woods, observe...

Engage in a +Q Perfume quest!

Find out a new brand, indulge your senses, live a new experience, taste a different dish, talk to a different type of person than you, try a new shampoo, kiss different lips or kiss the same lips with a different desire...be bold, be curious, be alive!!!!

Photo credits: NEZ à NEZ

TOME I - La Pureté by Zadig & Voltaire

To Dimitri, the angel...

TOME I - La Pureté

Rock n' Roll Angel

Fabrice Penot and Edouard Roschi are the co-founders of LE LABO, a brand that has been around in the market and in this blog for quite a while (they were the first brand interviewed in the blog, and the first supporters of my project a year ago- click here for the interview). Together with Thierry Gillier they created a fragrance-concept called TOME I - La Pureté for the brand Zadig & Voltaire.

The first fragrance of the brand is inspired by a story of a fallen angel, the messenger of utopia, a rock n' roll symbol loved by the brand.

The fragrance-concept has a white bottle, the symbol of purity and heavenly dreams and the packing is a white book with a Thomas Kempis quotation:

"Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all the temporary nature".

The idea is to go beyond the fragrance itself and tell a story, an olfactive story.

The bottle

With Blends of milky notes,

Patchouli oil,

Musk,

Ambar,

Orange Blossom,

Jasmin Tea,

Tonka beans,

Almond,

Sandalwood and vanilla.

It promises to bring inverted commas, nursery rhymes, purity, vitality, simplicity, extravagance and impertinence.

Spiritual, it brings heart and soul together in a delightful and innocent whirl.

I can't wait to put my hands on the bottle!

The movie has a nice movie that you can watch by pressing here.

The same style of the new campaign for Calvin Klein's CK One I may say...

Zadig & Voltaire has a Rock n' Roll, androgynous and cozy and punk, trendy cool style at the same time. It is fun, natural and the cashmeres are a must!

Extravagant Hot Angels

Photo credits: Fragrance - Zadig & Voltaire

sPEACHless!

Vicent Van Gogh

Peach Tree in Bloom at Arles 1888

Vicent Van Gogh is one of my favorite painters.

When he moved to Arles, France he had the idea of creating an art colony.

He fully develop his amazing style, painting beautiful landscapes, cafés and places he used to hang around with Gauguin.

It was a phase of beautiful bright colors such as oranges and yellows, but also of creamy soft canvas like Peach Tree in Bloom.

As in Van Gogh's, peach trees had a huge impact I my life. When I leaved in the Middle East one of my favorite trips during the weekends was the tracking to the peach trees field. Taking a long walk, breathing cold fresh air and stopping to rest on a peach tree blooming was absolutely incredible. Made me feel alive, happy and fulfilled.

The beauty of a peach tree blooming is really overwhelming!

And Van Gogh's geniality and sensibility could not let this beauty scape from his canvas.

Peach tree flower in bloom

Moving from tree to fruit: Prunus Persica is one of the most sensual fruits on earth!

The velvety pinkish skin involves a juicy yellowish creamy fruit, that has a very delicate perfume.

The fruit is perfect in all senses: The touch is delicate, the colors are beautifully spread, the taste is luxurious and slightly acid-sweet, and the smell...the smell is an invitation to sin!

As luscious as it looks, as it feels and as it tastes, I find it very hard to enjoy perfumes with peachy notes. They tend to smell too fake, to sweet or to strong to my taste.

Famous fragrances like Dolce Vita by Dior, Fracas by Piaget, Joy by Jean Patou, Mitsouko by Guerlain, The One by Dolce & Gabbana have strokes of peaches in their canvas, but they are not peach statements.Than I found Petite Chérie by Annick Goutal.

Fatal speechless peach! SPEACHLESS!

Petite Chérie collection

Fresh, slightly green and flowery, the cut green grass notes is essential to my sensibility and my idea of an ideal peach perfume. The combination of the dry, fresh and rather masculine touch with the sweet, gentle, feminine fruity delicacy is an indulgement to my senses.

The fragrance is for young, naive and yet witty young ladies.

The girl - ish side of the fragrance becomes more sophisticated with a touch of rose.

There you will really find the creator's inspiration: the phase when her child was becoming a fine young woman but still had traces of a child. The transition in a woman's life translated into an olfactive experience.

Petite Chérie makes me think of an elegant ball, or better than this, the movie Gone with the wind.

The perfume is indeed Vivien Leigh's Scarlet O'Hara in Gone with the wind: Sophisticated, with a velvety white skin, glorious fresh smile, huge flowery dresses and rosey lips!

A young girl who becomes a woman faster than she wished for. She is a beautiful young rich debutante with desires and a power to struggle to conquer and achieve.

On my skin the vanilla note develops rather fast and involves the fruit. It is sensuous and feminine.

Delicate like Van Gogh's paiting, vivid like Scarlet and juicy as any mature peach, I love the concept!

Still when it comes to peachy perfumes I tend to think twice before wearing them, but this one made me smile today, even thou I had many reasons to feel like Scarlet in the middle of a Civil War!!!