White Queen

Made for ÇaFleureBon's 8th anniversary: a creamy, fragrant fantasy: non-candy gourmand. White Queen came to be during a long trans-Atlantic phone call between Michelyn Carmen, editor-in-chief of perfume community ÇaFleureBon, and Sarah McCartney, indie perfumer here at 4160Tuesdays. Many things came to light, including their joint fanship of Star Trek The Next Generation, their love of Alice in Wonderland (and Sarah's history growing up in one of the gardens in which he real Alice used to play), and the materials Sarah could use to make the notes Michelyn wanted in her 8th anniversary fragrance: A gourmand With Sarah's favourite materials With absolutely no candy notes With lactones, the compounds which make fragrances smell creamy Oddly enough, even though it does have our favourite materials, including labdanum, opoponax, raspberry leaf absolute and pink grapefruit, using Michelyn's special requests - frankincense, lactones and a drop of jasmine - we've managed to create something