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Monday, 11 July 2016

Cinescent: Rubj VS. Irma la Douce (by Gabriela Guidetti)

Posted on July 11, 2016 by niten

Rubj (Vero.Profumo, 2007) 
Irma la Douce (Billy Wilder, 1963)


Nestor: Pardon me, do you have a licence?
Irma (walking her dog): A licence? No.
Nestor: It's a violation of ordinance No. 56
Irma: Oh, usually they let us get away with it. 
Nestor: Not me. And according to the law, you're supposed to keep it on a leash. 
Irma: On a leash?
(from Irma la Douce)

If there is a director that challenged common morality during his age, that was Billy Wilder, the master who directed movies imbued with biting humour, disregarding any rule or convention. 

He told about women with a pure heart scented of sensuality, and he gave us unforgettable sensitive and only apparent fragile female figures. As Irma, the main female character of the 1963 movie Irma la Douce, played by a radiant Shirley MacLaine. Irma is a prostitute at Pigalle, the "red light district" in Paris. 


One day she meets Nestor (Jack Lemmon), an honest and hardworking cop but disgraced for having done his job too diligently. The two fall in love and Nestor, discarded his uniform, becomes Irma's pimp, who is happy to work for both of them. Hilarious masquerade, comedy of errors in which anything is not what it seems, in Irma la Douce Wilder makes a joke of corruption and prudery with the light touch of two lovers who defy all hypocrisy to crown their romantic dream. 

Irma has the boldness of a consummate professional combined with ingenuous wonder of a beautiful soul. But what perfume would be Irma? A scent that could only come from the nose of the lady who tells original and different stories through her creations: Vero Kern.

And the fragrance was called "Rubj" an realised in 2007 for Vero.Profumo. As all other Vero's scents, also Rubj doesn't have a real olfactory pyramid, because all it notes evolve together in a harmonious polychrome accord. The exquisite brightness of orange blossom embraces the voluptuousness of jasmine in a pas de deux that melds innocence and femininity. 
The fragrance wraps the skin in a luminous allure that slowly grows into deeper tones, aroused by refined and animalic musk notes. The result is a warm and enveloping jus with a soft and powdered dry down. Irma is candid and generous, embraces and comforts even if defending his freedom to choose whom to love and what work to do. So Rubj is cozy and soothing, glides on the skin with the creamy taste of a forbidden fruit. The liaison between Irma and Rubj is all in one picture. 

Irma looks at the camera. A smile makes her eyes shine, a smile that smells of naivete and naughtiness, seduction and irony. She's a bud languidly unfolding and suddenly sparkling with a disorienting spring that tickles nose and fires up. The tender sweetness of Morocco orange blossom is wired by the pungent notes of cumin, tempting as the light that shines in Irma's eyes. Her white skin is wrapped in green lingerie that contrasts with brown hair and red lips. Everything smells like opulent femininity, like a fragrant Egyptian jasmine blossom placed on its green receptacle. The powerful floral note is the narcotic that dissolves the scent in the mellifluous turns of an insinuating seduction with no longer censurship. Irma is staying on a bed, waiting for a client or, maybe, her lover. An image that calls to mind rumpled sheets and messed love nest, sweaty skin and satisfied smiles. The warm and animalic musk welcomes the white flowers and then inflames them in a powdered and deeply sensual base. 


Irma is the same thing: a perfect balance of sensitivity and impertinence. She is a flaming soul that lives by selling her love for a fee and equally give passionately her heart to the man she loves. 

This duality is the same we find in Rubj, a corolla of velvet and pristine petals soaked in carnal abandon. The fragrance created by Vero Kern has got the inextinguishable fascination of classic fragrances that intrigued without parsimony as the charming smile of Irma La Douce. 





Rubj – Vero.Profumo 2007
Nose: Vero Kern
Family: Oriental Floral
Olfactory Pyramid: Rubj includes notes of Morocco orange blossom, cumin, Egyptian jasmine, musk. 
Website http://www.veroprofumo.com/
For more informations about Vero Kern here is our interview 






Irma la Douce – Billy Wilder, 1963
Cast: Shirley MacLaine (Irma); Jack Lemmon (Nestor Patou/Lord X); Lou Jacobi (Moustache); Grace Lee Whitney (Kiki); Joan Shawlee (Annie)
Director: Billy Wilder
From musical Irma la douce (1956) by Marguerite Monnot and Alexandre Breffort.
Awards: Irma la Douce in 1964 won an Oscar (best music André Previn), a Golden Globe (Shirley MacLaine) and a David di Donatello (Shirley MacLaine)



-----(italian)----------------------------------------------------


Nestor: Pardon me, do you have a licence?
Irma (walking her dog): A licence? No.
Nestor: It's a violation of ordinance No. 56
Irma: Oh, usually they let us get away with it. 
Nestor: Not me. And according to the law, you're supposed to keep it on a leash. 
Irma: On a leash?
(from Irma la Douce) 


Se esiste un regista di capolavori che sfidavano la morale del tempo, quello è stato Billy Wilder, il maestro del cinema che ha diretto film pregni di umorismo graffiante infischiandosene di ogni regola o convenzione. Narratore di donne dal cuore candido profumato di sensualità, ci ha regalato indimenticabili figure femminili sensibili e solo apparentemente fragili. Come Irma, la protagonista del film Irma la Dolce del 1963 e interpretata da una smagliante Shirley McLaine. Irma è una prostituta di Pigalle, il quartiere “a luci rosse” di Parigi. 

Un giorno incontra Nestor (Jack Lemmon), un poliziotto onesto e ligio al suo dovere che però cade in disgrazia per avere svolto troppo bene il suo lavoro. I due si innamorano e Nestor, abbandonate le vesti di gendarme, diventa il protettore di Irma, che è ben felice di lavorare per tutti e due. Esilarante masquerade, commedia degli equivoci in cui non tutto è come appare, in Irma la Dolce Wilder mette alla berlina corruzione e moralismo con il tocco leggero di due innamorati che sfidano ogni ipocrisia per coronare il loro sogno romantico. 

Irma ha la sfrontatezza di una navigata professionista unita all'ingenuo stupore di un'anima bella. Ma che profumo sarebbe Irma? Un profumo che poteva nascere solo dal naso di colei che con le sue creazioni sa raccontare storie originali e diverse: Vero Kern. 

E la fragranza si chiama Rubj, realizzata nel 2007 per Vero.Profumo. Come tutti i profumi di Vero anche Rubj non ha una vera e propria piramide olfattiva, perché tutte le sue note evolvono insieme in un armonioso accordo policromo. La squisita luminosità dei fiori d'arancio abbraccia la voluttà del gelsomino in un pas de deux che fonde innocenza e femminilità.

La fragranza avvolge la pelle in un allure luminosa che stuzzicata da raffinate note muschiate e animaliche piano piano matura in toni più profondi. Il risultato è un jus caldo e avvolgente dal dry down morbido e polveroso. Irma è candida e generosa, abbraccia e consola pur difendendo la sua libertà di scegliere chi amare e che lavoro fare. Così Rubj è accogliente e carezzevole, scivola sulla pelle con il sapore cremoso di uno frutto proibito. La liaison tra Irma e Rubj è tutta in un fotogramma. 

Irma guarda verso l'obiettivo che la sta inquadrando. Un sorriso le illumina il volto, un sorriso che sa di ingenuità e di malizia, di seduzione e ironia. E' un bocciolo che si dischiude languidamente e che improvvisamente ha il guizzo che spiazza, solletica le narici e accende. La tenera dolcezza del fiore d'arancio del Marocco è eccitata dalle note pungenti del cumino, conturbanti come la luce che brilla nello sguardo di Irma. La sua pelle candida è fasciata in lingerie verde che contrasta con i capelli bruni e la bocca laccata di rosso. Il tutto profuma di opulenta femminilità, simile a un fragrante fiore di gelsomino egiziano inserito nel suo verde ricettacolo. La nota floreale possente è il narcotico che discioglie il profumo tra le spire melliflue di una seduzione insinuante che non ha più censure. Irma è seduta su un letto, in attesa di un cliente o forse del suo amante. Un'immagine che evoca memorie di lenzuola sgualcite e giacigli disfatti, di pelle sudata e di sorrisi appagati. Il muschio caldo e animale accoglie i fiori bianchi per arroventarli in un fondo talcato e profondamente sensuale. 


Irma è così, un perfetto equilibrio di sensibilità e impertinenza. Anima fiammeggiante che vive vendendo il suo amore a pagamento e che al contempo sa donare con passione il suo cuore all'uomo di cui è innamorata.

Questo duplicità è la stessa che troviamo in Rubj, una corolla di petali immacolati e vellutati inzuppati di carnale abbandono. La fragranza creata da Vero Kern ha il fascino inestinguibile delle fragranze classiche che intrigavano senza parsimonia, come il sorriso ammaliante di Irma La Douce. 



Rubj – Vero.Profumo 2007
Naso: Vero Kern
Famiglia: Fiorito orientale
Piramide Olfattiva: Rubj racchiude note di cumino, fiore d'arancio del Marocco, gelsomino egiziano e muschio
Per informazioni:
http://www.veroprofumo.com/
Se desiderate conoscere l'universo olfattivo di Vero qui la nostra intervista alla creatrice 





Irma la Dolce (Irma la Douce) – Billy Wilder 1963
Cast: Shirley MacLaine (Irma); Jack Lemmon (Nestore Patou/Lord X); Lou Jacobi (Moustache); Grace Lee Whitney (Kiki); Joan Shawlee (Annie)
Regia: Billy Wilder
Tratto dal musical Irma la Douce del 1956 di Marguerite Monnot e Alexandre Breffort.
Vincitore nel 1964 di un premio Oscar (colonna sonora di André Previn), di un Golden Globe (Shirley MacLaine) e di un David di Donatello (Shirley MacLaine)

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Wednesday, 23 March 2016

A cup of coffee with...VERO KERN (March, 2016)

Posted on March 23, 2016 by niten




“What a nice interview! Thank you very much!
 I highly appreciated the original, 
non-stereotyped questions about perfumery -
  it was a real pleasure for me to answer.”   

Vero Kern, March 2016


Today I meet a dear friend, a perfume Lady who, in a few years, has given us some of the most fascinating fragrances of contemporary olfactory landscape: she's Vero Kern. From her native Switzerland, Vero has been able to spread over the air not only the unique aroma of her creations, but also the love for a research that turned her passion into art……



GABRIELA: Hello Vero!, it's a great pleasure for me to have the opportunity to ask you some questions about your fragrant world. You've shaped your first creation in the new millennium and you already put an indelible mark in the hearts of  perfume lovers. 
VERO: Carissima Gabriela! (in italian), it’s a great honour and pleasure for me to answer your questions. Thank you for your kind comment on my fragrances, it pleases me very much…



GABRIELA: Well, here my first question: what is your inspiration, your starting idea of a new fragrance?
VERO: The high desire to create and to implement a certain idea: this is for me the biggest boost for a new creation. In my head there is a whole arsenal of ideas, but not all are useful from a “scent” point of view. I have very clear ideas and very high claims on my creations, and I need some time to check out what could possibly be done. But above all, there is a special raw material that initially fascinates and inspires me …and that I want to process in some way. Apart this, fragrances have a sort of dramatic effect for me, even a dynamic-emotional one, so desires and fantasies mainly turn around characters of everyday life, or around strong emotions. I'm not that guy who decides to create a rose or an oud in just minutes, not at all: I work more abstractly. I’m very stubborn and unconventional in realizing my creations.



GABRIELA: Once there were “scents”, period. Since a few years, we are used to classify fragrances into “mainstream” and “niche” ones. What are your thoughts about it, and where do you feel to belong?
VERO: I’d say niche fragrances were the answer -or the consequence- of a predominantly uninspired and very commercial perfumery. Once "niche" meant, above all, products that do not care of commercial criteria and were done by independent perfumers and houses. This reflected values such as passion and inspiration in the creation as well as using very specific raw materials. After a few creative years, “niche” has arrived now in the place where it never wanted to stay -i.e. in total “mainstream”. The reasons for it are very complex and for a better understanding, it would need a separate interview or article, only for this topic. I see myself in competition with brands of complete different standards and qualities. That makes it complicated and means that I have to think about how I want to survive in the coming years with my products and how my brand has to be positioned and organized accordingly.



GABRIELA:  Each year a lot of new features and products are flooding the market, but you stand against the tide. For this reason all of your creations represents a highly anticipated event. Could you tell us what do you think about the market?
VERO: I feel the “market” as a very confusing one, and probably it is even more confusing for the consumer. What it was referred to so-called “niche”, today has no correlation with it. The term "niche" is no longer relevant, since it is now called “Artistic Perfumery”, which can fit everything! It could be a simple fragrance or a candle, bought in an airport shop, as well as a creation with elaborate packaging sold at 1000 euros, and even more! The scent itself plays a marginal role, the most important thing is to stay THERE, in the market!
Almost every day I can see new products or entire brands appearing with the same old scents, bottles and stories. Everything is so predictable, uninspired, banal... no surprises, sometimes even barefaced copied, it's just a never-ending sea of products! With a sheer mass of constantly new products, a sort of trivialization and vulgarization took place.
For me, it's important not to get too strongly influenced by these developments. I know exactly where -and why- I walk along a direction. There are great and loyal clientele behind me that not only love and appreciate my fragrances deeply, but also is growing slowly - for that, I am so eternally grateful! 



GABRIELA:  In your creations do you feel a liaison with classic perfumery, or do you prefer to explore new horizons and to test innovative raw materials instead?
VERO: Each new creation means reaching new horizons. In fact, I have a strong affinity to classical creations. Not only have I learned to create in the old classical style during my studies in Paris, I also have been wearing for a long time so-called "classical" scents. Especially Guerlain fragrances, as Vol de Nuit, Jicky, L'Heure Bleue, Mitsouko, but also Shocking by Schiaparelli, or Féminité du Bois and Ambre Sultan, both by Serge Lutens. So, wearing these scents surely had effects, but beside the fact that it’s virtually impossible for me to buy “new molecules”, it doesn’t matter if this raw material is an older or newer one. The critical aspect is whether it fits (or not) into the concept, into the idea of my creation.
It often happens that I try new products, but I turn back to the old ones. The choice of a specific raw material is for me a matter of personal aesthetics and style. Thus, the creation will receive a certain personal touch, a personal style, which is recognizable again by the consumer. And above all, the inspirational idea behind the creation is very important, it determines in my case the selection of raw materials, and not vice versa. The fragrance has always to be seen in its entirety, and for me the idea or originality it’s most important than the raw materials used (such as precious absolutes being awesomely mentioned or enumerated, but used in the dilution of  0.001, i.e. practically not perceptible anymore….). So at the end I’d say my style is neither classical nor modern - it is simply my style, the “Vero style” – it’s hundred percent authentic!



GABRIELA: Let's talk about historical perfumes: do you have your own favourite fragrance? And if so, which one… and why?
VERO: My all-time favourite perfume has been Vol de Nuit by Guerlain …the simple name makes me to dream. All of the Guerlain’s have been very complex and Vol de Nuit was no exception. This fragrance has been following me for a long time; it was a kind of signature scent. I see wearing scents as a part of my identity and personality, part of my story. Vol de Nuit has something mysterious; the scent is cool and warm, sweet and bitter, very elegant but not aloof. It has a frivolous side, something light-footed that feels like being newly in love…simply irresistible. I really fell daily in love with this scent.




GABRIELA: Remaining on historical perfumes discussion, and since you are an expert in aromatherapy and essential oils, could you name just a few particularly "well-crafted scents",  considering the composition, raw materials, accords, ...briefly, what are the high-quality historical scents according to you ?
VERO: For a long time I studied fragrance quality, by visiting repeatedly the Osmothèque in Versailles. Here I studied a variety of scents and even whole lines such as Coty, Houbigant, Balmain, Guerlain, Patou, Caron and many more. I was interested in how and from what these fragrances have been made of. Jeannine Mongin and Jean Kerléo from the Osmothèque founding team got me into this lost world. But finally fragrances are perceived very individually and therefore it is relatively difficult to give any quality recommendations…. I believe that quality can only be determined through the comparison of different products and by pros working by agreed criteria. My personal goal is to produce good smelling scents that satisfy my high expectations and those of my clients. I work daily with scents and in my professional life I wear mainly those that are currently being processed! I use whenever possible, cosmetics, cleaning products, detergents etc., perfume free. This kind of perfuming bothers me not only in my work; I find it often simply awful and boring. I sometimes love to wear natural fragrance in form of concretes or pure absolutes beside orange blossom and rose water, and occasionally I layer these with my own creations – totally ingenious...
However, back to your question: the only modern line with unique quality is for me Hermessence by Hermes. I love the work of Jean-Claude Ellena. It combines art, technique, originality, spirit, all-together, and this is ultimately the quality of a good fragrance. For me, Jean Claude Ellena is by far the only master perfumer - all those calling so, actually walk a bit in too large shoes.



GABRIELA: Your scents in some cases are inspired to well defined artistic suggestions, as Mito that refers to Villa d'Este in Tivoli or Rozy, which is a tribute to the great Anna Magnani. Will we then think that a perfume can be able to go beyond the olfactory memory and the emotion of the moment and become a true artwork for the contemporary and for posterity?
VERO: In my scents I put in evidence real experiences like in Mito with the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, an experience that impressed me and that I wanted to capture olfactorily, like a liquid diary. But there are also characters I chose, such as Anna Magnani, a woman with a strong charisma, simultaneously powerful and vulnerable. I grew up with Anna, she has been a very important role model. Rozy reflects Anna Magnani's unique attributes, they are universal, timeless and gender free – by no coincidence Anna was an actress. 
By creating, I feel very much as a movie director. I determine the scene being played, the different raw materials are the actors, and going together we create an olfactory drama or dream. The point is to bring NATURE and CULTURE in a unique combination, philosophically and timeless that enjoys the audience, stays for a while and then fades away again… silently and invisibly, like a ghost lost in infinite universe.




GABRIELA: And finally, do you have any future project that you can anticipate?
VERO: I have many plans, but most are not ready yet. The next adventure will be a new creation planned to appear during this year. I hope many of you will enjoy it…..be surprised!



Vero Kern is the nose of .vero.profumo founded in 2007
Vero Kern's creations are: kiki – onda - rubj - mito – rozy.
Each fragrance is presented in three formats: Extrait de parfum, Eau de parfum,
Voile d'extrait
website .vero.profumo :     http://www.veroprofumo.com/





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