Post by Charlotte on Oct 16, 2006 2:56:45 GMT -5
Edited By Jennifer Laine
Miller Harris Bespoke Service
Before opening her own house and developing her signature line of eponymous scents, French-trained, Brit-based perfumer Lyn Harris created custom eaus for fragrance houses and private clients. Access to her “nose” is still available—once a year, stateside—via her bespoke service, which begins with a daylong meeting to go through her library of notes and wraps up six months later with one perfect bottle of perfume (registered in Grasse to make it official).
Price: $10,000 for 30 ml
Available at Saks Fifth Avenue, NYC, (212) 940-2145 and www.millerharris.com.
Strange Invisible Perfumes Custom Perfume
Perfumer Alexandra Balahoutis doesn’t just make pretty perfumes, she tells stories via scent. Her ready-to-wear fragrance, Vine, a blend of osmanthus, lavender, grapefruit, and black currant, is based on the Greek myth of Persephone. In order to capture the essence of her bespoke customers, Balahoutis engages in a lengthy interview process that includes discussions of seasons, colors, travels, literature, music, and more, followed by a floral-water tasting to further gauge fragrance and flavor preferences, as well as a body-chemistry assessment to evaluate the effect of various scents on the skin. Balahoutis takes a month to translate the research. The resulting juice is as complex and multilayered as the person it’s created for.
Price: $2,100 for .25 fl oz
Available at Strange Invisible Perfumes, Venice, CA, (310) 314-1505 and www.siperfumes.com.
Creative Scentualization Fragrance Journey
When celebs like Sarah Michelle Gellar and Rachel Bilson need a signature scent, they turn to Sarah Horowitz-Thran, the Los Angeles-based perfumer behind a slew of unnamed cult perfumes sold at Fred Segal, as well as her own range, Perfect. Horowitz-Thran’s two-hour Fragrance Journey includes a history of scent, an in-depth question-and-answer period in which the client selects up to 50 essential oils, and two final rounds to whittle down the playing field. The resulting concoction is blended and bottled on the spot so you can spritz on your new scent, pronto.
Price: $250–$500
Available by calling Sarah Horowitz-Thran, (888) 799-2060 and www.creativescent.com.
Yosh Olfactory Sense Signature Perfume
When it comes to creating bespoke fragrances, San Francisco botanical perfumer Yosh Han relies on a client’s intuition. Depending on the type of scent to be created, she’ll have her customer sample from 50 to 150 essential oils; then they’re edited and grouped until a clear composition naturally emerges. After some fine-tuning, the final version contains “everything that makes a person feel incredibly blissful,” says Han.
Price: From $1,895
Available from Yosh Han, (415) 626-5385 and www.eaudeyosh.com.
Le Labo
“Fragrance is the opposite of wine,” say Le Labo’s Fabrice Penot and Edouard Roschi. “It doesn’t age well.” The problem is, most prepackaged store-bought scents have been sitting around for months, even years. So, the former fragrance execs opened a tiny NoLIta boutique featuring ten scents created by some of the best noses in the business. Each is blended on the spot (the essential-oil blend is combined with alcohol) and stamped with a “best before" date, so your eau is always fresh. Those hankering for a singular scent can check out the duo’s custom service—offered at $45,000 a pop.
Price: $45 for 15 ml to $180 for 100 ml
Available at Le Labo, NYC, (212) 219-2230; and Barneys New York, NYC and Dallas.
www.style.com/beauty/5great/092206
Enjoy!
Xxx
Miller Harris Bespoke Service
Before opening her own house and developing her signature line of eponymous scents, French-trained, Brit-based perfumer Lyn Harris created custom eaus for fragrance houses and private clients. Access to her “nose” is still available—once a year, stateside—via her bespoke service, which begins with a daylong meeting to go through her library of notes and wraps up six months later with one perfect bottle of perfume (registered in Grasse to make it official).
Price: $10,000 for 30 ml
Available at Saks Fifth Avenue, NYC, (212) 940-2145 and www.millerharris.com.
Strange Invisible Perfumes Custom Perfume
Perfumer Alexandra Balahoutis doesn’t just make pretty perfumes, she tells stories via scent. Her ready-to-wear fragrance, Vine, a blend of osmanthus, lavender, grapefruit, and black currant, is based on the Greek myth of Persephone. In order to capture the essence of her bespoke customers, Balahoutis engages in a lengthy interview process that includes discussions of seasons, colors, travels, literature, music, and more, followed by a floral-water tasting to further gauge fragrance and flavor preferences, as well as a body-chemistry assessment to evaluate the effect of various scents on the skin. Balahoutis takes a month to translate the research. The resulting juice is as complex and multilayered as the person it’s created for.
Price: $2,100 for .25 fl oz
Available at Strange Invisible Perfumes, Venice, CA, (310) 314-1505 and www.siperfumes.com.
Creative Scentualization Fragrance Journey
When celebs like Sarah Michelle Gellar and Rachel Bilson need a signature scent, they turn to Sarah Horowitz-Thran, the Los Angeles-based perfumer behind a slew of unnamed cult perfumes sold at Fred Segal, as well as her own range, Perfect. Horowitz-Thran’s two-hour Fragrance Journey includes a history of scent, an in-depth question-and-answer period in which the client selects up to 50 essential oils, and two final rounds to whittle down the playing field. The resulting concoction is blended and bottled on the spot so you can spritz on your new scent, pronto.
Price: $250–$500
Available by calling Sarah Horowitz-Thran, (888) 799-2060 and www.creativescent.com.
Yosh Olfactory Sense Signature Perfume
When it comes to creating bespoke fragrances, San Francisco botanical perfumer Yosh Han relies on a client’s intuition. Depending on the type of scent to be created, she’ll have her customer sample from 50 to 150 essential oils; then they’re edited and grouped until a clear composition naturally emerges. After some fine-tuning, the final version contains “everything that makes a person feel incredibly blissful,” says Han.
Price: From $1,895
Available from Yosh Han, (415) 626-5385 and www.eaudeyosh.com.
Le Labo
“Fragrance is the opposite of wine,” say Le Labo’s Fabrice Penot and Edouard Roschi. “It doesn’t age well.” The problem is, most prepackaged store-bought scents have been sitting around for months, even years. So, the former fragrance execs opened a tiny NoLIta boutique featuring ten scents created by some of the best noses in the business. Each is blended on the spot (the essential-oil blend is combined with alcohol) and stamped with a “best before" date, so your eau is always fresh. Those hankering for a singular scent can check out the duo’s custom service—offered at $45,000 a pop.
Price: $45 for 15 ml to $180 for 100 ml
Available at Le Labo, NYC, (212) 219-2230; and Barneys New York, NYC and Dallas.
www.style.com/beauty/5great/092206
Enjoy!
Xxx
