+ Q PERFUME BLOG ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!

I have been in love with fragrances since I was very little, but I was never really involved with the process of creation till I started to work as a lawyer, for a client who wanted to establish a cosmetic company in Brazil.

Helping him to find suppliers I got in touch with essential oils and I fell in love with Aromatherapy.

Reading and studying every book I could find about it and having long conversations with Jean and his daugther, the best importers of the essential oils we find in Brazil I got deeply involved with fragrances and that took me to Luca Turin.

With him and Jean Claude Ellena´s book I discovered that synthetics are not less noble than naturals and there was a huge world of new experiences out there.

I produced soaps, bath salts, room sprays, massage oils, butters, lip balms, gels and creams.

I was doing everything, from briefing to design.

And one day writing the text from the products I realized that I was enjoying more to write about them than actually making them.

I ordered Luca´s Perfume Guide and read his former blog. The word blog did not leave me alone for weeks. I was restless and sleepless because all I could think of is about a site about perfumery.

I build +Q Perfume site together with Ofir and it came out beautifully but somehow I felt that it was static. I needed a live way of communication, of passing information and sharing opinions. I wanted to be connected with my own kind. The ones who prefer not to breath than live without fragrances!!

So one year ago this is how + Q Perfume Blog was born. A blog about perfumes, perfumers and perfumery.

An space to share information about raw materials, perfume creations, the sense of smell, package design and perfume publicity and reviews, lots of reviews.

I would like the opportunity to thank so much Mr. Luca Turin, Mr. Jean Claude Ellena for being my everyday inspiration to write.

Andy Tauer (Tauer Perfums) and Eddie Roschi & Fabrice Pernot (Le Labo) for giving me the honor of interviewing them back than. They believe and gave me support for my project with kindness and respect.

I would also like to thank The Fragrance Foundation & The Sense of Smell Institute for cooperating and supporting my dreams.

And I think that Images de Parfums site has been essential to me since the beginning so I can´t thank

From the beginning I have been receiving many e-mails and comments and I could not make my dream come true without my dearest readers and followers. This blog is for you guys!!!!

To spread perfume culture and to discuss perfumery in Brazil is a challenge. Many new Brazilian blogs about perfumes are coming to join this journey and I am very happy to find out that our group is growing more and more each day.

Smiling with Infusion de Fleur d'Oranger by Prada

Orange Blossom

Inspired by a vintage flower print, the house has launched another fragrance of the Infusion collection, created by fragrance designer Daniela Andrier of Givaudan.

With notes of mandarine, neroli, jasmine, tuberose, orange blossom, serenolide and powdery notes, this new Prada fragrance is so uplifting and so romantic that it makes us actually smile!

In gray times of Sao Paulo's winter days, this fragrance is neat, fresh, clean and inspiring.

It is a mix of nail polish, paper and fresh citrusy - powdery notes.

The opening is a pretty synthetic nail polish/paper smell combination, which sounds bad but in fact it is surprisingly great!

A whiff of mandarines, refreshing, slightly sweet, deep green with exotic, robust flowery neroli and jasmine bouquet.

Supposedly wearable during the summer but a must in winter.

Inspiration

For all ages, all times and specially when you need something to cheer up and you cannot eat chocolates because you are on a diet!

I fell in love for it on a paper strip in the duty free shop, and could not help it so later on I went to the ladies' room to wash out the fragrance I had sprayed earlier at home, to try Prada's on my skin.

My skin is rather dry so the citrus notes cannot hang for a long time, but this one did not disappoint me in this matter. The flowery touch is very creamy on my skin. A sense of a rich shower gel being spread under hot steamy waters. Soapy in a way, but not in the cheap sense of it, on the contrary, luxuriously soapy.

Tuscany

Smelling this fragrance I can't think of anything else but a warm vacation in Tuscany.

The joy of good food, amazing sightseeing's and hiking, wine hunting, a warm kiss of someone you love and a luxurious bath with rich powdery soap to finish the day and start a fresh neat evening with a great Chianti. Maybe that is why Infusion de Fleur d'Oranger makes me smile and uplifts the mood, it takes me to a trip to dreamland.

It is the vacation sensation bottled!!!

The orange color itself is inspiring. It brings greatness and dispels darkness.

It helps while meditating, bringing joy and optimism.

Prada's fragrance is an invitation to the sensation of well-being, freshness, romance, joy and femininity.

Para uma avaliação confiável e de qualidade da fragrância, em português, visite o blog da minha querida Gaëlle clicando aqui.

Men Style Editor's pick - Colognes

Top colognes according to Men Style Editor:

1. Tom Ford for Men

2.Comme de Garçons 2 Man

3.Terre d'Hermés

4.Le Labo Rose 31

5.Creed Green Irish Tweed

6.Yves Saint Laurent L'Homme

7.Viktor & Rolf Antidote

8.Givenchy Gentlemen

9.Gucci pour Homme II

10.Calvin Klein Man

11.Acqua di Parma Colonia Intensia

12.Guerlain Vetiver

13.Polo Black

MEN STYLE UPGRADER CRITERIA:

Snob value

Butchness

Wearability

To check for reader's choices & voting click here

Since today is GAY PARADE DAY in SAO, choose your the best option to be irresistible in the parade!

+Q Perfume would like to know what would you wear if you would join the party!

Also to read the 10 rules of style according to Tom Ford, click here

(Details Magazine)

Image of the month/Imagem do mês

Flora by Gucci

Inspired by Gucci iconic flora pattern.

To watch the video by Cris Cunningham

Clima de festa Junina

Moça Bonita - nova fragrância da Natura

Valorizando as tradições culturais do nosso País e a expressões culturais que revelam nossa identidade, a Natura lançou em versão limitada uma fragrância floral fresca com notas frutais e óleos essenciais brasileiros.

A embalagem é inspirada na obra da artista plástica Edina Síkora que se inspirou na obra Quermesse de Santo Antonio, retratando o colorido e a alegria do nosso povo.

Com alcool orgânico vegetal e embalagem reciclável a Natura continua surpreendendo pela modernidade e avanços tecnólogicos.

A fragrância se inspirou no lado feminino das festas juninas, nas saias rodadas das moças de longas tranças e na alegria da festa.

Para quem é louco por festa junina como eu, só de ler este artigo já estea pensando em pipoca, quentão, pamonha, paçoca, vinho quente, pinhão e pé de moleque.

O cheiro de madeira queimando na fogueira que esquenta no mês em que começamos a sentir o inverno. Notas de vinho adocicadas por notas de laranja e canela.

Cheiro de gengibre e bombinha queimada...hummmm!

Clique aqui para conhecer o perfume:

http://www2.natura.net/web/br/hotsite/mocabonita/