In 2006 Karine Vinchon Spehner was a junior perfumer. With the release of Amouage Fate Man she now has authored 4 Amouage releases and experienced the creative direction of Christopher Chong; a full immersion in the deep end of the perfume pool.
Wearing a scent is probably the most personal thing a person can wear. It externalises one’s soul.
Pores are windows of our body.
So a scent is like a breeze that visits.
When the soul avails itself, the scent can be an agreeable stranger.
A beautiful stranger.
Two Fragrance Reviews by a person who does not wear fragrance.
Today we are in tropical, leafy Singapore talking with Woon Tai Ho, the author of Riot Green. We also take a side-trip to Bhutan for a mountain-top scent experience, view some pieces from Tai Ho’s art collection and ponder on Love, Art and personal scenting.
Smell is our most primal sense. It’s the reason, for example, that strippers make bigger tips when they’re ovulating.
My favorite fragrance is the smell of my wife’s skin. John Oehler.
Today in The Scented Salon we visit a Perfume Vault in Versailles, meet a real Rocket Scientist and partially solve The Marcello Aspria Mystery as well as talking with writer John Oehler about the purpose of perfume and the background to his novel, the perfume thriller, Aphrodesia.
The Fragrant Man 