Shruti and Chaitra #2

 

My friend Shruti and her sister Chaitra visited me over the weekend. We did everything that Shruti and I used to do during our Jakarta days. Eat well, shop, and get nails & massage. Absolutely lovely.

Shruti and Chaitra

 

 

Weekend with Jane...

Yukako looking awesome

I thought this photo greatly deserves public viewing. Thanks for taking me out today Yukako!

I loved all your goodies in your apartment too...

Reina Maruyama's perfume event

Thanks to all who participated from Hong Kong, and of course Reina and Junko, who came from Japan to host this perfume event. It was super fun and a great learning for me!

Very, very cool to learn through actually smelling and taking home 30+ different kinds of scent from the pyramid of the top notes (citrus, green, anise, and aldyhyde), middle notes (spicy, floral, and fruity), and bottom notes (musky, woody, mossy, amber, powdery, and animalic). I look forward to hosting the next event. Please let me know if anyone has any requests or questions!

 

 

Finally, Reina Maruyama's Fragrance Event in HK!

My very good friend Reina, who is a fragrance designer, is holding a special fragrance seminar in Hong Kong next Saturday! There are only a few spots left, so let me know asap if you want to join.

In the session, you can discover the fascinating world of fragrance through learning about the perfume history, smelling each family and famous fragrances, and following trends. Reina will also bring really special, exclusive ingredients, which you won't ever get a chance to smell unless you are in the fragrance world. I am particularly interested in Reina analyzing the smell I would like, and together creating my own personalized and unique scent, to bring home.

Read Reina's blog and official website to learn more. She's also holding seminars in Tokyo, London, and Cologne, so try to get to one of these.

Date: July 28, 2012
Time: 13:00-16:00
Place: J Residence, 60 Johnston Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong (next to the Pawn)
Fee: HKD 900 (Includes raw materials for your take home cologne, samples, and a mini booklet)

Profile: Ms. Reina Maruyama started her fragrance career as Lancôme Fine Fragrance Product Manager at L’Oreal Japan. As her passion for fragrance grew, she moved to Paris to study at the perfumery school, ISIPCA and worked in Givaudan France as an Evaluator, creating fragrances for international companies. In 2011, she became a freelancer and travels back and forth the capital of fragrance, Paris and the city of Eau de Cologne, Köln. Reina currently holds seminars in London, Cologne, and Tokyo.

Reina Maruyama

My perfumer friend is holding a party in collaboration with Diptyque in London. Super exciting! Reina is my super friend from college who was in charge of fragrance at Lancome Japan. She then went to study perfumery at ISIPCA and worked in Givaudan until last year. Now she's freelancing and holding perfume making sessions in London, Tokyo, and Cologne. You should go if you live in London! I will try to invite her to HK soon.

Beach baby

Photo credit: Elvi Nasution

Hiroko Ohyama, continued

I found more collage work in Hiroko's apartment in NYC. The bottle in the pink collage is just my addition on top of her work, as apparently it is the key to all collage making...



Her nails were super cute too :)

Hiroko Ohyama, as a model

At an event for Uniqlo last year.

This is my friend Hiroko. She looks like a model here, but she is more of a creator/designer. I posted her work once before, which was a very cool collage. If you're interested in using her photos, images or any of her past work, please contact me or her (her or me). She currently lives in NYC and is preparing her book, which should soon be coming out and which I look forward to posting here!

Hiroko Ohyama

An inspiring collage by my friend Hiroko.