Calling all D.C. fragrance lovers and fashionistas! Mark your calendars, because Nomaterra is returning to D.C. to host our second pop-up shop! We're co-hosting the event with Diamantina bags and Kim Schalk apparel.
The shop will last from Friday, April 5th through Sunday, April 7th at
Tabula Rasa, 731 8th St SE, Washington, DC., and will be open from 11 am- 7 pm. Mother's Day will be here before you know it, and this is the perfect chance to pick up something special for the amazing Moms in your life!
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This photo is from our first pop-up shop in DC back in February, after our official launch![/caption]
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.
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El Matador State Park at sunset[/caption]
The beaches along the Pacific Coast Highway are generally amazing across the board, but the sunsets at the beaches in Malibu, CA, are some of the best we've seen. Be sure to check out El Matador State Park for some amazing beach shots of your own next time you're in the area!
photo c/o Extra Medium
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.
This photo is from our first pop-up shop in DC back in February, after our official launch![/caption]
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.
