Strange Invisible Perfumes and their offerings tend to fall off my radar. They´re not sold in many brick-and-mortar stores (in NYC I think they’re at Barneys and nowhere else); their website´s a little groovy and not especially detail-oriented regarding the notes in their fragrances. I didn´t realize the name was taken from Shakespeare but [...]
When one sets out to narrow down to six perfumes her favorites, what she should do instead is grab a Xanax, place her head under the pillow, hold it down firmly so nobody hears and scream until the mood passes. But I didn´t. Instead I have come up with the list of the six perfumes that I [...]
On its website Strange Invisible Perfumes describes itself as purveying “botanical fragrances and artisanal products” developed by Alexandra Balahoutis. The site doesn´t go on and on about SIP’s mission, at least that I could see, a fact that pleases me. So far as I´m concerned, their mission is to make something I’d enjoy wearing. [...]
My obsession with Strange Invisible Perfumes continues. I swear, I will one day move past it, but I’m having too great of a time exploring them to stop yet, so indulge me for a while longer. After March and Elle kept making reference to Lady Day - which is now just called Untitled on SIP’s website or [...]
Released by Christian Dior in 1995, and created by Pierre Bourdon, Dolce Vita has notes of rose, magnolia, muguet, apricot, peach, cinnamon, sandalwood, vanilla, and heliotrope. There is something about the interplay of the fruity notes on the open that makes this start off feeling a little, well… smutty. Like there are massive amounts of [...]