Happy Monday, everyone! Be sure to check out our Washington, D.C. fragrance in this month's edition of
Fashion Washington, a brilliant fashion magazine based out of our nation's capitol. And for those of you living in the D.C area, get ready for our upcoming pop-up shop! April 5th-7th Nomaterra will be in D.C. hosting a pop-up shop at
Tabula Rasa, 731 8th St SE, Washington, DC. At the event you'll be able to test out not only our gorgeous Washington, D.C. fragrance but both of the other fragrances from our Spring Collection: Miami and East Hampton.
If you find yourself near Melissa Akkaway's B-named boutique, then you're hot on the heels of the Nomaterra LA Scavenger Hunt! Be sure to stop in and ask for Heather to win your own bottle of Nomaterra's classic East Hampton fragrance!
Nomaterra Scavenger Hunt Los Angeles Clue #2: find a free bottle of our East Hampton fragrance at this gorgeous luxury clothing and accessories store that has locations in both Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
Next Tuesday, March 19th, Nomaterra founders Ben and Aggie are hitting the road and heading west for our first Nomaterra road trip! The Nomaterra-mobile will be making stops all along the Pacific coast. Our trip will start in Los Angeles, CA and we’ll wrap up in Seattle, WA.
The best part? Giveaways! In each town we stop in we’ll leave one of our travel sprays hidden, and will post clues on our
Facebook and
Twitter pages to lead followers to the product! Once the product is found, the winner can take a victory photo with their trophy and send it to us so we can post their victory online!
As we make our way up the coast, we'll also be checking out restaurants, sites, and more and posting reviews right here on our blog for all of you lovely people. For those of you on the West Coast, we'd love to hear your recommendations! Where should we go, what should we eat, where should Nomaterra be? Let us know in the comments!
Glamour.com Interview with Nomaterra Founder Aggie Burnett
Be sure to check out this fantastic interview with behind the brand details about Nomaterra from our founder, Aggie Burnett!
introduction to the exhibit
Today the Nomaterra team ventured up to Columbus Circle to check out a fragrance-focused exhibit at the Museum of Art and Design. The exhibit, called the
Art of Scent, features twelve scents laid out chronologically. The exhibit's brochure explains that "olfactory arts have historically been overlooked as a significant creative practice. New materials and technologies that have appeared since the 19th century have transformed the medium and have been used by scent artists to achieve previously unimaginable works." The exhibit highlights some of those new materials and technologies in the perfumes on display, such as Olivier Cresp's Light Blue, who used olfactory holograms of his ingredients to this favorite. His modern process also allowed each of the key notes to stand out as separate entities while being in equilibrium, which is unlike the traditional form of composition where the blend was created to be seamless. The usage of synthetic ingredients is also on full display in all of the perfumes highlighted at the exhibit, including Jicky, created in 1889.
Our favorite were among the newer fragrances; we enjoyed the final two scents, produced in 2006 and 2010, the most. Osmanthe Yunnan (loaned by Hermès) was a very fresh, clean scent that "achieved an amazing effect, suggesting the diaphanous quality of light in a scent." We also enjoyed Untitled (loaned by Maison Martin Margiela, L'Oréal and Givaudan), which was very green and smelled both grassy and earthy at the same time. The bulk of this perfume comes from galbanum, which is a plant resin with an intense green scent. Our only dissappointment: no natural fragrances on display.
Along the rear wall at the end of the exhibit was a series of five scents on a card, all different versions of what ultimately became the popular Lancôme fragrance Trésor. Each step was more complex than the last. In the first, the notes of rose otto, orris, heliotropin, geranium leaf, musk ketone, ionone alpha, and vetiver were all characteristically distinctive. The second modification gave off poweder-y, woody accents, while the third was completely different, with a hint of nuttiness. The 4th version had green, metallic, and lavender accents, and the 5th and final version, well, is Tresor. What's cool about the final Tresor is that it's impeccably quite different than any of the preceding versions. You can tell the perfumer, Sophia Grojsman, made many adjustments between the 4th and the final version.
version three of Lancôme's Trésor
The exhibit only runs through March 3rd, so be sure to get up to the MAD and check out this great exhibit soon!
Art of Scent, 1899-2012 at the Museum of Art and Design
The Museum of Art and Design is located at 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019. It is open Tuesday-Sunday from 11 am until 6 pm, and on Thursday and Friday from 11 am until 9 pm.
Happy Monday, everyone! Be sure to check out our Washington, D.C. fragrance in this month's edition of Fashion Washington, a brilliant fashion magazine based out of our nation's capitol. And for those of you living in the D.C area, get ready for our upcoming pop-up shop! April 5th-7th Nomaterra will be in D.C. hosting a pop-up shop at Tabula Rasa, 731 8th St SE, Washington, DC. At the event you'll be able to test out not only our gorgeous Washington, D.C. fragrance but both of the other fragrances from our Spring Collection: Miami and East Hampton.
