Aedes de Venustas
One of the launches that most struck me during Esxence exhibition is Aedes de Venustas, a fragrance created for the U.S. Based perfumery store bearing the same name. After years dedicated to offering the New York public artistic and unconventional perfumes, the owners decided to take a step further, creating a composition for their own brand, and involved Bertrand Duchaufour in the project. Through collaborations with such diverse brands (L'Artisan Parfumeur, Acqua di Parma, Neela Vermeire, Aedes, etc.), Bertrand is proposing consistently exceptional fragrances, among the best things you can smell around; challenging, vibrant, unexpected, and often, loved first sniff. Even when it's about another orange blossom or oud scent ( Seville à l'Aube in L'Artisan line or Neela Vermeire's Trayee -soon reviewed here-), his way of interpreting the brief makes them unusual and interesting. Probably Bertrand's best quality is listening , and in fact his most successful