One of the most comforting classic desserts in the canon of French cuisine isîle flottante, a cloudlike confection of meringue floating on a sea of crème anglaise. Like a cloud on a plate, this light and airy dessert floats across … Read More
Located in the heart of the Arts Warehouse District in New Orleans, Avery Perfume Gallery is an olfactory sanctuary for fragrance aficionados who find themselves wandering through a neighborhood now known as “the SoHo of the South.” What was once … Read More
A well-composed fragrance takes you places: a journey via olfactory memory. And if you are truly fortunate, you arrive in a sanctuary redolent with flora, evocative of a halcyon epoch. Such is the case with Joya’s Foxglove, which takes as … Read More
There’s much to be said for bitter – and not all of it negative. One of the four primary taste sensations, bitter resides at the very back of the tongue at the farthest remove from the lips. Bittersweet, for example, … Read More
For many people, fragrance is one part of a personal signature. You’ve got to love a company that eschews mass adulation and says, “[This] is not a scent for the masses.” Produced by the Berlin-based Biehl Parfumkunstwerke, PC02 is French … Read More
For Proust, it was the scent of linden-flower tea (and a brown butter madeleine) that took him back to his childhood and his meeting with Baron de Charlus, one of fiction’s most aristocratic aesthetes. In a similar vein, French couture … Read More
If you were fortunate enough to study in the South of France as a student, and if you were lucky enough to fall in love, and if you were happy, then it’s likely, to paraphrase Hemingway, that you’ll antagonize everyone … Read More
Olfactory memory takes you home, which for Parisian couture designer Nabil Hayari is the fragrance of the Atlas Mountains. Stretching across Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, the mountains are home to a number of plant species unique to Africa, including the … Read More
