MADISON

Last night I was up until 1am in the morning, working side by side with Florin, my window-dresser-wonder-maker-techie. The vintage expo, which Octavian threw at me as an innocent thought which later turned out into

Today Octavian will be closer to Romania and further from Paris; can’t wait to see him!
Today, I also started reading Chandler Burr’s “The Perfect Scent” .

I am enjoying it tremendously, especially because

i had no idea an article would come out today in Ziarul Financiar, and so I had a great surprise to see Madison take up half a page in the best section of a business newspaper.

I was watching Realitatea TV last night during a discussion about Cecilia ex-Sarkozy’s wedding.  The guests were great: Amalia Nastase (one of the most beautiful women we have, in my opinion), Laura Chiriac (very lively, elegant, articulate journalist), and… today’s women killer, Nicolas Don, journalist and amazing-look-on-TV star.

For a long time I had my eye on a certain location which, finally, has become functional. And functional in a great way!

Chandler Burr, The New York Times (this will make someone I know roll his eyes to the back of his skull), has a review on Jasmin et Cigarette from Etat Libre d’Orange.

Today’s edition of Ziarul Financiar (ZF article in English) quotes the GM of Ina International estimating that the selective cosmetics and perfumery segment is at 70mil eur this year. I just don’t know where these numbers come from; I encountered this problem when working in consultancy, too, where you don’t really have market studies [...]

If you haven’t heard or spoken to Octavian Coifan, you still can. He’s for real and he’s Romanian.
Besides having the most unbelievable nose and having a gift for words, his credentials are noteworthy and surprising for his age. He lives in Paris, which gives him an edge for being at the [...]

We had a fantastic start at Madison with the Clive Christian range of luxury fragrances, if I only consider the waiting list we had to open for the No.1 2008 edition of the pure perfume. ( I know a lot of you would die to take a look at this list…).
It is rewarding for [...]

an object of desire, the smell of money, success, shine.
wealth, health, happiness.
coriander, pepperwood, frankincense.
comme des garcons 8 88 fragrance and candle just arrived at Madison.