Posts Tagged ‘perfumery’

Perfumes Make Scents: Part Two – A Buyer’s Guide

Posted by on Tuesday, January 27th, 2009.
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The perfumes available at Qortezan have been carefully selected. Many are unique. All speak their own individual, wonderfully sensual language. Here are some of the outstanding perfumes you can try at our store: Ombre Rose (J-C Brosseau) – created by famous perfumer Françoise Caron, this is a light, highly fragrant, powdery rose-based perfume that evokes [...]

Perfumes Make Scents: Part One – A Brief History of Fragrance

Posted by on Monday, November 17th, 2008.
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Have you ever caught a whiff of someone as they breezed by you on the street and been instantly transported to another place? Scent is particularly effective at triggering emotional and psychological memories, as Proust so famously described in the opening chapter of In Search of Lost Time. Perfumes, above all, have powerful sensory associations [...]