Book Release: The Fragrance Designer’s Primer
TasteTV and the Artisan Fragrance Salon are pleased to announce our newest book release is now available.
THE FRAGRANCE DESIGNERS PRIMER: A Roundtable of 14 Fragrance Makers answer 34 Creative, Brand and Business Defining Questions
The title, the first of its kind in our PRIMER series, has been released and is now available on Amazon. (photos below courtesy of Paul Kiler)
Insights and tips from artisan and luxury fragrance makers from around the United States and Canada.
Description: Are you interested in perfumes and fragrance design as a small business? There are many how-to books on starting an enterprise, but often the best advice comes directly from those with actual experience. Thus came the idea for this book; this “primer.” Why not ask perfumers firsthand what they have experienced and what they recommend? With this concept in mind, we composed 34 key questions and asked them to 14 interesting artisans with experience in either perfume, skin care, or both. Their answers on creativity, branding and business are very frank and often personal, and written in a journal or diary style. The information in the resulting primer is worth its weight in gold.
Featuring (by page number):
- Fragrance Belles-Lettres Magazine p6
- Meshaz Natural Perfumes p20
- Olympic Orchids Perfumes p38
- Velvet & Sweet Pea’s Purrfumery p58
- LA FLEUR BY LIVVY p72
- Ayala Moriel Parfums p84
- Ineke p102
- COGNOSCENTI p114
- PK Perfumes p140
- Pure Natural Diva p156
- EcoGenics Active Botanical Skin Care p162
- A Wing & A Prayer Perfumes p172
- MIKMOI p188
- En Voyage Perfumes p196
Fashion + Music: Tadashi Shoji and Dave Patten
TasteTV’s Fashion + Music looks at the Tadashi Shoji Spring Collection to the Music of Dave Patten’s “Echo”
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Coup D’Etat brings Haute Couture to Holiday Interior Design
High-end interior design studio and gallery Coup D’Etat has created a winter wonderland inside of the shop this season, complete with glass encased moose wandering among snow covered trees. The scenario even has its own pine-based scent, custom created for Coup, and which we hope they will one day sell, as it is fantastic.
Coup D’Etat regularly changes its collection and layout, giving it a “living museum” quality, although everything is for sale. The store has impeccable taste and design aesthetics, and an uncanny ability to discover talented furniture makers from across the world.
As the show in the store windows change regularly, we will be back to bring you their next incarnation.
COUP D’ETAT location
111 Rhode Island Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Popup Shop by Jay Jeffers inside of the Coup D’Etat store
Holiday themed crystal moose
Funky dinosaur chandelier
Vintage De Sede ‘Terazza Elements’ by Ubeld Klug. A different take on the concept of the chaise
Ribcage chairs. Paintings on walls by Paolo Troilo
The Bossini Italian Fashion Collection
TasteTV and the StyleLife series attend the Bossini Fashion Collection runway show, presented by the Members of Melange.
Haute Couture Paris fashion show features MIMI Tran and on aura tout vu
Recently at the legendary Fairmont Hotel in the chic Nob Hill area of San Francisco, Replete Skincare presented an Haute Couture fashion event featuring two top couture brands in the world, MIMI Tran and on aura tout vu. This was the first time the “on aura tout vu” fashion house showed their collection on American soil.
Livia Stoianova and Yassen Samouilov of the Haute Couture accessory label, on aura tout vu (which means “We will have seen everything” or “That takes the cake” in French), presented a number of looks on the runway.
Entertaining and titillating the fashionista crowd was pop singer French, who walked the catwalk with a bevy of lovely models clad in shoes by participating LA-based luxury footwear designer, Konstantina Tzovolou.
Replete Skincare donated 10% of all ticket sales for the 2014 Haute Couture Fashion event to Reason to Party, an all-volunteer San Francisco 501(3)c non-profit that raises funds in fun ways for extraordinary local nonprofits. The funds are earmarked for Samasource, a nonprofit that helps connect poor women and youth to training and employment in the digital economy.
TasteTV photographs by C. Bliss, author of Street Style San Francisco. Other partners included FSHN Magazine.
