"When you buy from an independend artist you are buying more than just a painting or a novel or a Song. You are buying hundreds of hours of experimentation and thousands of failures. You are buying weeks, months, years of frustration and moments of pure joy. You are buying nights of worry about paying the rent, haveing enough money to eat, haveing enough money to feed the children, the birds, the dog. You aren't just buying a thing, you are buying a piece of heart, part of a soul, a private moment in someone's life. Most importantly, you are buying that artist more time to do somehting, they are truly passionate about; something that makes all of the above worth the fear and doubt; something that puts the life into the living.
John Pegg, der Gründer des US-amerikanischen Indie-Parfum-Labels Kerosene Fragrances, ist wohl alles andere als ein prototypischer Parfümeur. Schon dass er überhaupt einmal sinnliche Düfte kreieren würde, war ihm gewiss nicht schon an der Wiege gesungen worden: weder entstammt er einer altehrwürdigen Parfümeurs-Familie, noch ist er zufällig inmitten eines zart duftenden Jasminfeldes im Umland von Grasse aufgewachsen – [...]
On the occasion of the European premiere of Kerosene Fragrances at Essenza Nobile, we present you an exclusive interview with the founder of this upcoming and promising independent perfume label, John Pegg, who is also well-known as a perfume reviewer from his Youtube channel Kerosenetrewthe. Born and raised in Michigan near Detroit, one day he left his former life of monotonous factory [...]
Nach dem Ausscheiden von Céline Ellena im vergangenen Jahr (wir berichteten) hat eine neue Parfum-Virtuosin die Kommandobrücke des großen Düfte-Dampfers The Different Company betreten: Emilie Coppermann. Mit im Gepäck hat „die Neue“ neben erstklassigen Referenzen (u.a. Van Cleef & Arpels – Bois d´Iris, Lalique Parfums – Equus pour homme, Eau de Lalique) gleich vier brandneue [...]