Ingredient Stories - Charenton Macerations

13 Feb

From The Underground, Ingredient Stories, Macerations

Christopher Street Tobacco

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
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One simply cannot discuss the history of the West Village without emphasizing the importance of tobacco. Christopher Street has thick roots buried deep in the old tobacco fields that lay forgotten beneath its current urban visage:...

13 Feb

Ingredient Stories, Macerations

Christopher Street – Dance on Skin

January 25, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
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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...

04 Dec

From The Underground, Ingredient Stories, Macerations

Christopher Street Bergamot

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
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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...

19 Sep

From The Underground, Ingredient Stories, Macerations

Christopher Street Clove

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
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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 neighborhood hospitals...

23 May

From The Underground, Ingredient Stories, Macerations

Christopher Street Carnation

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
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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 of...

08 Apr

From The Underground, Ingredient Stories, Macerations

Christopher Street With A Lime Twist

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
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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...

27 Feb

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Christopher Street: Leather

January 14, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
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In crafting Christopher Street, leather was always understood as a central, inescapable theme to the narrative. Whether discussing the many merchants selling their wares along the Hudson waterfront, or the infamous bar scene stretching...

12 Feb

From The Underground, Gender, Headlines, Ingredient Stories, Macerations, Product

Christopher Street: The Fragrance

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
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“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 rebellious individualism. Like the unique architecture of the...

08 Jan

From The Underground, Ingredient Stories, Macerations

Christopher Street – The Brief

November 21, 2019
Posted by Douglas Bender
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The origins of the Christopher Street fragrance story. From its architecture to the music and its people, take a look inside to read the fragrance brief