For centuries, a thurible with incense has provided a spiritual balm for congregants, as well as for those for whom the scent of fragrant smoke is as hypnotic as it is elevating. Long associated with religious practices, the burning of … Read More
If you’ve had the pleasure of sipping champagne with perfumer Alessandro Gualtieri, then you know that Nasomatto, his luxury fragrance company, is aptly named. Loosely translated from the Italian, Nasomatto means “crazy nose” – and as a nose, Gualtieri is … Read More
If the holidays and all their attendant mayhem have you feeling like Marie Antoinette about to lose your head, then it might be more prudent to pause and inhale deeply – and light your home like Versailles with a candle … Read More
For Danielle Ryan, founder of Roads Group, creating a fragrance is not unlike building a home. Ryan supplies a central theme with its essential qualities, whereupon her architect, the perfumer, executes the vision. For the fragrance White Noise, which is … Read More
As Sondheim and the Brothers Grimm remind us, you enter an enchanted forest in search of what you desire. Under the glow of moonlight, you slip beneath the branches. Then it’s over the river and into the woods, the air … Read More
We arrived at night, traveling from Iguazú Airport to Puerto Libertad, a very small town in the Argentine province of Misiones. We passed through the one-street town, turning onto a dirt road illuminated only by the headlights of the van. … Read More
For millennia, wine has been stored in oak barrels: to vary the color and concentrate the flavor, to augment the texture. More intensely flavored than French oak, American oak imparts sweeter notes of vanilla and caramel alongside smoke and spice. … Read More
As a young boy in art class, Nabil Hayari was told by his teacher to draw whatever he wanted. As Hayari explains, “My friend drew trucks – and I drew gowns,” a harbinger of his career as a French couturier. Hayari’s grandmother … Read More
