Fragrance Belles-Lettres Magazine

Noblesse Luxe Publication

Valentine's Day Weekend
           Part Two


                                       A Trio of Chocolates
                        The Exquisite Scents of Souvenir de Chocolate

  I had a wonderful Valentine's Day with cut-out hearts on the walls in the dining room, there was breakfast on the table for me and I got a bottle of rose' champagne but no chocolates.

 That was actually fine with me as I am starting a new diet but to have no chocolates, well not in the conventional way. I did have chocolates in the form of perfume and I had not only one or two but three!

 I wore Souvenir de Chocolate Trio by EnVoyage Perfumes. This glorious trio of chocolates all swirled together with mocha café, amber and vanilla. It quenched my taste with the aroma of dark chocolate and milk chocolate.

Shelley Waddington is the owner and perfumer of EnVoyage Perfumes and she did a favor for my waist line.

Souvenir de Chocolate Trio is the best in fragrant launches in 2014. I wish I had an award to give but this trio by far is the most captivating with the use of notes that gives a gourmand, woody and floral essence that a box of chocolates could not compare.

 Café Cacao is a breathtaking scent of a luscious cup of chocolate mocha! Its a creamy sensation steeped in a vapor that oozes with the aroma of a smooth and velvet taste. The inspiration for Café Cacao is the love of musk by Josephine Bonaparte and Marie Antoinette's fascination with the scents of cocoa and amber. Café' Cacao is a royal treat that any master pastry chef would love!

 Fragrance Notes: Set in an amber base with top notes of vanilla rose, sugar, cardamom and bergamot.
           Middle Notes: coffee, milk, dark chocolate and whipped cream
           Base Notes: amber, musk and ambergris.

Captured in Amber is a deep and I found to be a mystery because the notes in this fragrance all have there time and place to emerge. Captured in Amber is the deepest scent in this collection. If you prefer a woody note in a fragrance, then Captured in Amber is for you. I love how the notes move in motion from moment to moment-day to day. When I wore it I smelled a floral scent wrapped in amber and then moments later here comes the spices with the aroma of chocolate billowing into  the sweet scent of vanilla  to mellow things out.

This fragrance is a true masterpiece and to me I would think it is a difficult scent to compose, but Shelley Waddington does it brilliantly. It is truly the scent for women and men to enjoy!

Fragrance Notes: ambergris, labdanum, vanilla, tonka bean, floral notes, spices, woody notes, olibanum, resin, peru balsam, tolu, balsam, benzoin, patchouli, myrrh, dark chocolate.

Indigo Vanilla is the scent that captured my heart because vanilla is my most favorite spice. Usually when I love a fragrance it has vanilla in it and Indigo Vanilla is my favorite. This scent reminds me of a vanilla latte at Starbucks! I love the warmth and creamy aroma is provides that filled my nostrils with a sweet foam of milk.

Indigo Vanilla is inspired by the sultry jazz of the 1920's in the city called the "Big Easy". What intrigued me most about Indigo Vanilla is the violet sucree. This fragrance is not only soft and creamy but it is layered with violet sucree which means, "violet sugar" perched on the top.

I really had a lot of fun wearing Indigo Vanilla and I love the compliments I received. There were people who said I smell chocolate, others said flowers but most people said they loved the sweet smell.

Fragrance Notes: white chocolate, milk, whipped cream, sugar, amber, musk and violet sucree.

Souvenir de Chocolate Trio is for both women and men and it can be purchased at EnVoyage Perfumes, a multi-award winning perfumery in the state of California.

                                              www.envoyageperfumes.com

Photo courtesy of www.prlog.org










FMH





   

       

Noblesse Luxe Publishing

FRAGRANCE REVIEW


                                                                    ZELDA
                                           The Fragrance of a Movement

 I was honored to be a judge for the first annual International Artisan Fragrance Salon Awards in San Francisco, California this past summer. It was a competition of indie and natural perfumers to submit their latest creations of aromatic excellence in this unique and ever-growing industry of fragrances.

I had the difficult task to give my opinion of what was considered the "Best Of"...in certain categories.

I had the task of a sniff here and there, wearing scents day and night and ponder ing over several weeks of what I felt the International Artisan Fragrance Salon considered the "Best Of".

One of my selections and vote in regards to the Best Of...went to ZELDA EAU DE PARFUM by En Voyage Perfumes. ZELDA EAU DE PARFUM created by Shelley Waddington who in my opinion had the difficult task of composing a fragrance that tells the story of a woman who in my opinion entered a marriage out of love but wanted to maintain her own vision as a novelist, short story writer, poet and dancer.



Zelda Fitzgerald

ZELDA EAU DE PARFUM tells the story of ZELDA FITZGERALD, the wife of  F. Scott Fitzgerald, an American novelist and best known for his book titled, THE GREAT GATSBY.

How it must have been hard for Mrs. Fitzgerald to be a writer in her own right and then be married to the man who has written on of the greatest books.

ZELDA EAU DE PARFUM is brilliantly composed of dark, sometimes a little harsh and lavishly portrays a soft side of Zelda Fitzgerald.

Born Zelda Sayres in Montgomery, Alabama rose into Southern Society and out-glitzing those born into southern privilege told her own story from the beginning and never stopped to this very day.

Shelley begins the life of Zelda with a roaring of spices that kept me intrigued because I knew there was more to the story. It continue to blossom into a time of grandeur with streaks of creamy magnolia and effervescent floral blossoms that meant to me that Zelda was at the height of her career.

I loved how Shelley swept my heart with the real meaning and at times very sad life of Zelda because Shelley never stop telling the story by using darker scents of amber and vintage musk to represent how Zelda must have wanted at many times to run away in the depths of disappear.

However being dubbed by her husband as "the first American Flapper" in the 1920's is what made Zelda Fitzgerald become an icon in the 1920's.

Vanilla used in the base of this scent is one of my most favorite scents that means to me to go on and live on. It is the second most expensive spice and it is richly used to portray Zelda having strength in what was known later of a tempestuous marriage with F. Scott Fitzgerald.

ZELDA EAU DE PARFUM, is supremely a look into a life of a female writer who had a passion for dancing and wanted a more glamorous life for herself  in the Jazz Age but still wanted a marriage, too.

I finally had time to watch the 2013 release of THE GREAT GATSBY starring Leonardo Di Caprio.
I wore ZELDA EAU DE PARFUM while watching it. It gave me a sense of Zelda through a remarkable fragrance that lasted for many hours and the longer I wore it more notes jumped out at me.

The Sandalwood was so enticing and faithful. I loved every moment of ZELDA EAU DE PARFUM.

This is why I choose it as BEST FRAGRANCE. It is a fragrance so elegantly composed of a women's complicated life. It is a fragrance that tells the life and story as a remarkable masterpiece.

Shelley Waddington, owner and perfumer of En Voyage Perfumes was honored with the TOP ARTISAN FRAGRANCE SALON AWARD GOLD by the International Artisan Fragrance Salon for ZELDA EAU DE PARFUM. Congratulations Shelley!

TOP NOTES: Spiced Italian Bergamot, Spices, Iranian Galbanum
HEART NOTES: Creamy Magnolia Blossom, Garden Florals
BASE NOTES: Smoky Amber, Vintage Musks, Vanilla, Balsams, Sandalwood, Vetiver, Cedarwood, Mousse de Chene

                           www.envoyageperfumes.com

                            ZELDA EAU DE PARFUM  0.6 OUNCE $65.00 USD


Photos: Zelda Eau de Perfume courtesy of En Voyage Perfumes and photo of Zelda Fitzgerald courtesy of awhf.org






FMH


 

            VENTS ARDENTS & NECTARS des lles

                             Destination: Paradise

These two heavenly scents are as close to perfection as you can get. It leaves you hopelessly in love with land, sea and all that nature has to offer.


Vents Ardents and Nectars des Iles by En Voyage Perfumes are two masterfully designed fragrances by Shelley Waddington and her partner, Juan Manual Perez.  Ms Waddington and Mr. Perez takes those dreams you have of the South Seas and the Caribbean and compose the costly fragrance notes that truly represent exotic islands filled with lush flowers.


Painting "FLOWER STUDIES" by Da Vinci


Countless hours must have been spent at lush getaways to capture the essence of beautiful faraway places but if not, Ms. Waddington and Mr. Perez are a natural like Leonardo Da Vinci is to painting.

Vents Ardents

Vents Ardents to me represents the beautiful and gentle women in Tahiti during the “real mutiny” that occurred aboard the British Royal Navy ship, HMS Bounty in 1789.


A ship load of hard rugged men reached an island rich in natural resources into the arms of beautiful women according to the movie.. It was this movie that made me fall in love with Tahiti and Vents Ardents is waiting on shore for you. It is a fragrance to be enjoyed by men and it will make you leave all your cares behind.


Vents Ardents Eau de Parfum


Top Notes: Curacao, wild oranges, Bay Rum, tropical fruits

Middle Notes: Venezuelen Tonka Beans, heliotrope, magnolia, French Narcissus



The story behind Nectars des IIes Eau de Parfum is a fragrance that reminds me of the movie, “Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women” in 1979.


The white floral in Nectars des IIes represent the beautiful women on the mysterious island movie. It captures the beauty that leaves you spellbound.


Nectars des IIes is a sweet and juicy scent that is composed by Juan Manual Perez who is from the Caribbean. It has the zest of citron, wild oranges and mandarin to quench your thirst after a long day on the mysterious island.


Nectars des IIes is also masculine enough with trails of amber, sandalwood and white musks that leads to footprints in the sand to the man of your of your dreams!


Nectars des IIes


Top Notes: Wild oranges, mandarin, green citron, osmanthus nectar


Middle Notes: Gardenia, tiare petal accord, frangipani absolutes, ylang ylang, jasmine auricalatum


Base Notes: Sandalwood absolute, Tahitian vanilla, amber, white musks






PURCHASE: envoyageperfumes.com


PHOTO CREDITS: Painting: Flower Studies by Leonardo Da Vinci,


Drawing of “Mutiny in 1789” by Robert Dodd (National Maritime Museum), Drawing of girl with flower in hair available at ioffer.com/si/exotic 


*******************DRAW*******************

Due to the generosity of Shelley Waddington, owner of EN VOYAGE PERFUMES, a draw of one roll-on  of Vents Ardents EDP (15 ml) and one roll-on of Nectars des Iles EDP (15 ml) will be given out to two lucky winners!

Please write a comment in the COMMENT BOX to this question. IF YOU WON A BOTTLE OF VENTS ARDENTS OR NECTARS DES IIES what faraway place would you wear it?

Good Luck to you and Bon Voyage!






F.H.