FREEDOM TRAIN ~ CAFLEUREBON'S PROFILES IN AMERICAN PERFUMERY SERIES

It is a great honor to have been featured in Cafleurebon's Profiles in American Perfumery Series!!! Big thanks to my friend in fragrance and Cafleurebon's Editor in Chief Michelyn Camen, for including me in this unique and special series!

(Here's a teaser), "The concept of "America" to me is wrapped up in the idea of Freedom and the Spirit of Independence. There are so many talented Niche/Indie perfumers out there right now; I see a real renaissance happening in the Fragrance Industry. I believe this movement is in direct line with the American ideal of entrepreneurial activity, and I am so happy to have the opportunity to be creating in this unique type of landscape..." Please visit CaFleureBon to read the whole interview, and check out some of the other fabulous Perfumers in this ongoing series (Mandy Aftel, Alexandra Balahoutis Strange Invisible Perfumes, Dawn Spencer Hurwitz of DSH Perfumes, Sarah Horowitz-Thran of Sarah Horowitz Parfums and many more!)

SOTD: FLAPPER(Datura) from our Les Bohemes Collection... What Could be more American?

Key Notes of Sweet Lemon Blossom, Clementine, Tangerine, Pink Peppercorn, Perilla Leaf, Mango Absolute, Ginger Lily, Datura, Gardenia, Jasmine, Vanilla, White Musk, Blond Tobacco & Tonka Bean.

Click HERE & HERE for more FLAPPER Love Notes(AKA Reviews)!






TASTY TID-BIT: THE FREEDOM TRAIN


The United States has seen two national 'Freedom Trains'. The 1947–1949 Freedom Train was a special exhibit train that toured the United States in the later half of the 1940s. A similar train called the American Freedom Train toured the country for the United States Bicentennial celebration in 1975–1976. Both trains were painted in special red, white and blue paint schemes, and both toured the 48 contiguous states with displays of Americana and related historical artifacts. The two trains took different routes around the 48 states, but they both stopped for public displays in each of them... The 1947–1949 Freedom Train was proposed by Attorney General Tom C. Clark as a way to reawaken Americans to their taken-for-granted principles of liberty in the post-war years... The Freedom Train even had an official song, written by Irving Berlin and performed by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters. The train's first public display stop occurred in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 17, 1947.... A second Freedom Train, The American Freedom Train, toured the country in 1975–1976 to commemorate the United States Bicentennial. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)



REMEMBER... FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S JOB!!!

Celebrating Summer Solstice Fragrantly ~ GIGGLE WATER ON CALFEUREBON'S TOP SUMMER SCENT LIST!

So excited to announce that our "GIGGLE WATER" Perfume made CaFleureBon's Favorite Summer Scents List !♥♥ (Two years in a row!!!)

Originally, I designed this scent for myself to wear to a special Summer night in the park performance of A Midsummer Nights Dream, that was being performed at the Barnsdale Art Park just up the street from The Jitterbug Perfume Parlour. It was super hot (LA Indian Summer style,)and I wanted a scent that would keep me feeling cool and refreshed, plus add something synesthetic to the texture of the play. I was thinking, “What would Titania waft?”... The scent of Orange Blossoms came to mind, as this is fragrance that has always transported me. I find it to be very magical and enchanting and it felt the perfect choice for a blast off point to my idea of "Wafting Titania." Plus it was a key note in my 'Solifleur Scent Palette Project,' that had yet to be tackled!



My "Orange Blossoms in Summertime," that temporarily became "Wafting Titania," has finally landed in our much anticipated Les Bohemes Collection with the official name GIGGLE WATER...

I was so touched when I heard from Michelyn (CaFleureBon's Editor In Chief) that she wore GIGGLE WATER on her "Honeymoon Night," when she recently tied the knot with her Fragrantly inclined Beau! I can’t think of a higher compliment than to be a woman’s choice in scent for such a very special night!

SOTD: Summer Scent GIGGLE WATER of course! Key Notes ~ Absolutes of Tunisian Orange,Flower Absolute, Egyptian Orange Flower Absolute, Orange Flower H20 Absolute,& Bitter Orange Flower Absolute, Honey, Wild Orange, Mandarin, Peach, Gardenia, Beach Found Ambergris, White Musk & Sandalwood



TASTY TID-BIT: BARNSDALE PARK is a unique park, which offers breathtaking views of Los Angeles and the Hollywood Sign, is also home to the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, Junior Arts Center and the famous Hollyhock House that was designed in the 1920's by the internationally acclaimed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Barnsdall Art Park officially reopened on June 4, 2003, after a 3-year remodel, with brand new visual and design art exhibits.**Excerpt from their website Barnsdall Art Park

FREE PERFUME ~ CaFleureBon.com Birthday Bash Perfume Draw!

Our Dear Friends in Fragrance CaFleureBon are celebrating their First Birthday and to mark the occasion they are giving away Free Perfume!!!

Opus Oils is participating in the Celebration & we have contributed a bottle of GIGGLE WATER from our soon to be released (April 2011) LES BOHEMES COLLECTION!!!

You have to act quick - the entry deadline is March 23, 2011!
So hurry up & visit CaFleureBon & leave a comment to enter the Perfume give-away draw!

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MOON GARDEN ~ Cafleurebon.com Best Scent of 2010 Awards!!!

OPUS OILS' Moon Garden has been named as one of the Cafleurebon.com's Best Scent of 2010!!! So honored to have made the List! Thank you Michelyn Camen, Monica Miller & everyone at Cafleurebon for the amazing job you do of translating the world through the language of scent!!!


~ Vampira Moon Garden Perfume by Opus Oils ~

A highly erotic floral jasmine oriental this love potion “take no prisoners” … so much so that it inspired a poem from me named after the scent Vampira.

Notes: Night scented flowers, jasmine, black violet, orange blossom, tarragon, amber,vetiver, sandalwood, civet, vanilla, white musk

http://www.cafleurebon.com/best-of-2010-fragrances-or-my-biscentual-year-a-draw-naturally/

A Preview of things to come from OPUS OILS in 2011 on Cafleurebon.com

It's been an especially chaotic past couple of months for me, and I've been busier than ever completing several projects for Opus Oils....

I'm hoping to get to a more detailed blog on these exciting projects shortly, but I wanted to do a quick post noting a recent mention from one of our favorite Fragrant Friends - www.Cafleurebon.com!

We wont be releasing these fragrant gems until 2011, but here's a little teaser!

http://www.cafleurebon.com/new-fragrance-opus-oils-les-bohemes-the-bootleggers-and-molls-of-boardwalk-empire-would-approve/

"GIGGLE WATER" AKA "Orange Blossom & Green Tea Private Blend" Top Spring Scent on Cafleurebon!

I am thrilled to be included as one of Michelyn Camen's Favorite Spring Scents on Cafleurebon!

Here is an excert from the article: "It is my vampy "day and play" scent all spring long. As layers of clothing are peeled off, my skin is exposed and by the sun. when a fruity floral is well crafted, it performs a burleseque on my skin. The "greenness' of the tea note is tempered with honey, a touch of gardenia and natural ambergris. Kedra uses four different Orange Blossom Absolutes."

See the Full Article by Michelyn Camen & Mark Behnke.

SOTD: Orange Blossom & Green Tea Private Blend ~ Of Course!!!

KEY NOTES: Tunisian Orange Flower Absolute, Egyptian Orange Flower Absolute,Orange Flower H20 Absolute,& Bitter Orange Flower Absolute, Honey, Gardenia, Beach found Ambergris.




TASTY TID - BIT:

Michelyn Camen is the Publisher and Editor in Chief of
www.cafleurebon.com and the Editor-at- Large for www.Fashiontribes.com. She is a formerly an Editor for Fragrantica, the Fragrance Editor for Uptown Social, a Senior Contributor for Sniffapalooza Magazine, the New in Niche Columnist forBasenotes, the Managing Director for BeautynewsNYC and the former publicist for www.luckyscent.com and Scent Bar, Los Angeles. She has been awarded Brandweek Magazine Marketer of the Year, Ad Age Magazine 100 and is a two time recipient of License Magazine’s 40 under 40 and recipient. She slipped off her corporate power suit to pursue her passion for fragrance.

Over the past six years, Michelyn’s articles and interviews on perfumery have appeared in major print magazines, newspapers and on online fragrance and beauty sites. She is best known for her in-depth and intimate interviews with independent, emerging and established perfumers and influencers. Many of her interviews have been the first exposure for her subjects to a global audience. In 2006, she was the first American to interview Olivier Creed in fifteen years, as well as the first ezine writer in the USA to interview Kilian Hennessy, Jean Claude Ellena, Bertrand Duchaufour, Thierry Wasser, Michel Roudnitska, Romano Ricci, Mandy Aftel, Neil Morris, Rodrigo Flores-Roux, Mark Buxton, Geza Schoen and Yann Vasnier.

As an advocate of fine qualitative fragrance and collaborate intelligence, launched www.cafleurebon.com (translated from French, this phrase has a dual meaning: this smells good and a more obscure one… as an affirmation of a good idea). It is her goal to create a “scented salon”, where perfumers and owners of fragrance companies, poets, chefs, painters, students, writers, bloggers, posters, dancers, and retailers can gather and share their love of the 8th Art – without politics but with one important collective understanding; we must embrace and support the art of fine fragrance in the 21st century.

She is the owner of Brandwidth Marketing Co., where she curates fragrance ‘wardrobes’ for private clients and is a marketing and merchandisng consultant for global, luxury, fashion, beauty and fragrance companies.

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