smell the colours – the scent journey of Élisire-founder Franck Salzwedel
Behind every perfume there’s a story, and the same is true about every perfume brand. In the case of the premium niche brand Élisire, the founder’s journey to fragrance starts with a life-altering moment on…
15 years of Kilian Paris – an exclusive interview with Kilian Hennessy
On the occasion of Kilian Paris’s 15-year anniversary we had the chance to sit with founder Kilian Hennessy in Berlin for an exclusive interview. Much has happened since our first meeting with him in 2015. Not only…
Moonmilk by Stora Skuggan — mystery in a bottle.
In 1555 Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner described a geological phenomenon called Moonmilk: “Dripping tears of white liquid that never dry.” Here at SCENTURY we wondered how this mystical story became the inspiration for Moonmilk, the…
Montecristo Deleggend: interdisciplinary luxury.
Marco Ciccateri and his wife Sonja transformed their passion for perfume and luxurious cigars into a new line of fragrances: Montecristo Deleggend. Even if you’ve never smoked a cigar, you’ll surely associate words like luxury, refinement, craftsmanship, and…
Meet Stefania Squeglia, founder of Mendittorosa.
The actual meaning of Mendittorosa, the name of the Italian niche perfume house founded in 2012, is a secret that founder Stefania Squeglia is unwilling to reveal. But there were many other secrets Stefania was…
Diana Vreeland: Outrageously vibrant!
I recently sat down with Alexander Vreeland, grandson of Diana Vreeland (1903 – 1989), the former editor of both Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue and the “only genius in the history of fashion magazines,” according to…
Meet Cérine Vasseur — co-founder of Evody
During this year’s Esxence we sat with Cérine Vasseur — one half the founding duo of Paris-based perfume house Evody. In 2008 Cérine and her mother, Régine Droin, launched their own perfume line, drawing on…
Meet Danielle Ryan—founder of ROADS.
In Milan, we met with Danielle Ryan, the founder of ROADS, a Dublin-based contemporary lifestyle brand comprising three companies: ROADS Fragrances, ROADS Publishing and ROADS Entertainment. Born in Ireland to a Sri Lankan-German mother and an…
3 new fragrances from Astier de Villatte
To mark the 10th anniversary of their brand, Ivan Pericoli and Benoît Astier de Villatte traveled to Berlin to introduce three new Eau de Colognes to the German perfume crowd at the beautiful MDC store in Prenzlauer…
