Christopher Street: The Fragrance
“Out of the Bottle, Into the Street”: Home to merchants and misfits, Beatniks and Bohemians, dissidents and protesters, Christopher Street has established a reputation for celebrating rugged and...
View ArticleThe Non-Blonde: Christopher Street
Christopher Street Day Parade by Bueh B. Respected beauty blogger, Gaia Fishler (The Non-Blonde), has been reviewing beauty products since 2006, becoming well known for her discerning eyes (and nose)....
View ArticleChristopher Street: Leather
In crafting Christopher Street, leather was always understood as a central, inescapable theme. Whether discussing the many merchants selling their wares along the Hudson waterfront, or the infamous...
View ArticleCaFleureBon Reviews Christopher Street
Charenton Macerations Christopher Street - The Passion of Collaborative Creativity Christopher Street Day 1971 CaFleureBon Managing Editor Mark Behnke interviews Charenton Macerations‘ founder Douglas...
View ArticleChristopher Street – Now Smell This Review
Christopher Street and Douglas Bender have been featured on Now Smell This, one of the largest and most trusted online fragrance communities on the web. From its “boozy” top to its “earthy” base, here...
View ArticleChristopher Street: Ralf Schwieger and Douglas Bender
I first met my Christopher Street fragrance co-conspirator, perfumer Ralf Schwieger, back in 2008. I had been working as an independent fragrance consultant for about a year, and was contacted by Mane...
View ArticleChristopher Street With A Lime Twist
Christopher Street is the type of fragrance that is designed to grab you from that first spray. It’s olfactive story begins with that first blast of mist cast off into the air. Alcohol isn’t simply...
View ArticleChristopher Street Carnation
Tell people that you have created a fragrance based on the stories of Christopher Street, and you are bound to elicit some very interesting responses (i.e. “What does THAT smell like?”). These types...
View ArticleWhat’s Inside #TheBox
I’ve been teasing you all week long on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter about what’s inside #TheBox. Thanks to everyone who sent in some amazing guesses (some of which have given me ideas for the...
View ArticleChristopher Street Pride and Samples
Source: Diana Davies photographs, 1965-1978 / Christopher Street Liberation Day, 1970 It’s Pride Week in New York City, and celebrations are already underway on Christopher Street. The first official...
View ArticleChristopher Street Pride Day 2
It’s going to be another extremely hot day on Christopher Street. Because of this, today’s sampling location is dedicated to the sunbathers that line the length of Christopher Street Pier. Yes,...
View ArticleChristopher Street Pride Day 3: The End of DOMA and Prop8
In June of 1969, a group of homosexuals and their West Village supporters stood up to the police on Christopher Street. They had had enough of being pushed around and treated like subclass humans,...
View ArticleYou Smell Like a Girl
Tom (“The Dead Guy”) from The Opposite of Sex (Sony Classics – 1998) Thoughts on Gender and Fragrance Charenton Macerations was founded on the principle of challenging the tired gender clichés that...
View ArticleChristopher Street Fragrantica Scented Snippet
Photo Credit: Leonard Fink (1973 Christopher Street Day Pride March) Ida Meister of Fragrantica offers up a well versed quick run-through of some of the ingredient stories of Christopher Street. Happy...
View ArticleChristopher Street Clove
The fragrance story of Christopher Street is a story laced in clove. A story that begins with long ago memories of the merchant days of Greenwich Village, continues with tales from inside...
View ArticleHappy National Coming Out Day
Source: Infoplease, AP Today is National Coming Out Day. Every year on National Coming Out Day, we celebrate coming out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or as an LGBT ally. We remember events...
View ArticleChristopher Street Bergamot
Christopher Street is a fragrance designed to ‘sparkle,’ an homage to the many stages and dance floors that line the path from Jefferson Market to Pier 45. In the world of fragrance, when you want to...
View ArticleChristopher Street Makes Six Best Perfume 2013 Lists
What an honor to end this first year at Charenton Macerations by having Christopher Street recognized on six Best Perfume 2013 lists. And what a first year it has been… What started out as a crazy...
View ArticleHappy Anniversary – Christopher Street Turns One
I can hardly believe it, but Christopher Street is already celebrating its first anniversary. Drawing from inspiration found during adventures in New York City’s West Village (and a wealth of historic...
View ArticleChristopher Street – Dance on Skin
At the heart of the Christopher Street fragrance story is the most often asked about olfactive accord: “Dance on Skin.” Meant to capture that quintessentially unique je ne sais quoi that is New York...
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