Michael is a writer and management consultant who specializes in training and development. Michael's foray into the field of fragrance began many years ago when he received a bottle of Aramis as a Christmas gift and he has been collecting, wearing, and testing fragrances since. Michael holds a B.S. in psychology, an M.S. in organizational behavior/human resource management and has many interests outside his professional career. He is an avid fan of bull riding, auto racing, muscle cars, photography, music, art, Thai and Indian cuisine, and philosophy to name a few. Michael is also a fitness and nutrition buff does his best to lead a healthy lifestyle. Michael Davis was a Top Five Finalist for Editorial Excellence in Fragrance Coverage 2009 Blog for his "Real Men Wear..." Series. You can view the full "Real Men Wear... Series" here.
Beth is passionate about life, colorful and inspiring,she has been helping others create lives that they love for over 20 years. Years of experience as a visual stylist blended with an extensive background in public relations and an emphasis on personal and corporate branding allowed her to work in and eventually become the President of one of the most prestigious Jewelry, Gift and Tableware businesses in Northeast Ohio. Beth has been privileged to have many of her articles published nationally, and has enjoyed giving many interviews over the years, most notably to Martha Stewart Living, Gifts and Decorative Accessories, Town and Country, The Cleveland Times and Tableware Today. A gifted cook and creative hostess, Beth has also had the distinct honor and pleasure of designing the table settings for several TV series, including Julia Child Cooks at Home with Friends, Julia Child Cooks with Jacque Pepin and the Todd English and Olives Restaurant cooking show. She has also created the table setting designs for the books of the same name. When she's not obsessively writing or traveling or shopping she's busy as the sitting President of The Women's Committee of The Cleveland Orchestra. Beth is also delighted to be a featured writer for Perfume Smelling Things and her own personal blogs Schreibman's Live and The Windesphere Witch. Ms.Gehring was nominated for a Fifi Editorial Excellence Award for her article "Why I Write About Perfume" in 2010.
THECONTRIBUTORS
RAPHAELLA BARKLEY
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF / OWNER / PUBLISHER
MARK DAVID BOBERICK
MANAGING EDITOR
Mark David, "MD' is an Interior Architect and Perfume Journalist who has been in love with scent for as long as he can remember and has been collecting fragrances since the age of 12. He is an alumnus of The Art Institute of Philadelphia. MD has written extensively on perfume and has been published in Men's Health Australia. For his article Scents My Sister Loved originally published in Sniffapalooza Magazine in October of 2009, MD earned a spot as one of the Top 5 Finalists for the American Fragrance Foundation’s prestigious FiFi award. He is also the first person in ten years to be granted an exclusive interview with Fragrances of the World author and perfume expert Michael Edwards. In 2009, MD conducted the first of what has become an in-demand workshop entitled "The Poetry of Perfume" in which he familiarizes his guests with perfume history and composition, and introduces them to many different perfumes from the classics to the niche and obscure. A lover of art and music, MD frequents museums, theatre, and the opera. He is also an accomplished theatrical set designer having already amassed a large portfolio of work for only being 26 years old. MD is an avid supporter of Nationwide Greyhound Rescue programs and adopted his 10-year old retired racer in 2009. MD currently resides in Cape May County, NJ.
BETH SCHREIBMAN GEHRING
SENIOR EDITOR
Director of Men's Fragrances
Executive Administrator of The Perfume Magazine Forums
Director of Classic Fragrances
Justine has been involved in the natural botanical skin care and perfume world since 1996. It has been said that she walks softly and carries a big scent strip. Botanical perfumery is a lifestyle for Justine. Justine is an author, teacher, student, and herbalist who has led perfumery classes and writers workshops. Justine has studied perfumery, herbalism, aromatherapy, distillation methods, extraction methods, and Pranic healing. Proprietress of The Scented Djinn, her accomplishments are legion: Editor In Chief of the much lauded Le Parfumeur Rebelle, a website dedicated to the mavericks of the natural perfume world, as well as contributor to Nature’s Nexus and Bella Online, and perfume instructor with the Natural Perfume Academy, also known as Nature’s Nexus Academy of Perfuming Arts (NNAPA). Justine resides in Central California, surrounded by four clamorous generations of family and various sundry four legged beasties.
CRISTIANE GONCALVES
SENIOR EDITOR
Cristiane is The Perfume Magazine Perfume Culture Editor and Senior Fragrance Writer. Cristiane Gonçalves is proud to have a collaboration for new articles/new fragrances reviews and interviews exclusive to the Magazine. Cristiane is a fragrance writer and global fragrance consultant from Brazil, specialising in Oriental Perfumery, Luxury Fine and Niche Fragrances and Brazilian Perfume Brands. She is an award winning pioneer in Brazil in Fragrance Expertise Blogging as owner, editor and writer at Perfume da Rosa Negra which won the 9th Basenotes Awards Best Blog Finalist. She also writes for the main online fragrance publications such as Sniffapalooza Magazine, PerfumeCritic and Osmoz. Cristiane has also a broad general culture and multilinguistic background and a solid experience and expertise in Management and Human Resources, acquired in top-levels companies such as Johnson & Johnson, IBM and Unilever. She is a true passionate woman for fragrances and an excellent learner in perfumery, having reached respect and recognition by great professionals in the global perfume industry. She is internationally involved in the development of scent culture and has the gift of connecting various dimensions as literature, visual arts, music and others artistic expressions with the magnificent perfumery world and her unique writing style.
JUSTINE CRANE
THE EDITORIAL STAFF
THE CONTRIBUTING STAFF
GRACE HUMMEL
CONTRIBUTOR
Marlene specializes in writing about the significance of perfume as seen through works of art, literature, and history. Two of her articles have been nominated for FiFi Awards in the Fragrance Foundation’s Top Five Finalists for editorial excellence in a blog. She is a clinical psychologist, a published poet both in the U.S. and abroad, as well as a researcher and lecturer, who has published in the area of women and creativity. In 2011 Marlene was awarded honorable mention for one of her poems in the Tupelo Press spring poetry contest. She is married and the mother of two sons.
MARLENE GOLDSMITH
SENIOR EDITOR
Veronica was born in England and lived in 5 countries before moving to the United States at the age of 10. Educated at The College of William & Mary in Virginia, she moved to San Francisco and has been happily living there ever since. For the last four and a half years, Veronica worked for Real Girls Media/DivineCaroline.com (recently acquired by publishing giant Meredith Corporation.) During that time she conceived, wrote and marketed the fragrance column Scents and Scentsibilities as Violet Devereaux, while also writing extensively about her other passion; food, under her real name. She is thrilled to be writing for The Perfume Magazine.
Christine Lewandowski is passionate about fragrance. She once suffered from migraines which led to her study of aromatherapy. As a child, she first became aware of fine fragrance when visiting a much beloved and world traveled, Aunt. She later learned her Aunt’s signature scent was the classic, Shalimar. So at age 14, before there existed the word “perfumista”, Christine was one.
Now a collector of hundreds of fragrances, Christine has a reputation as a dedicated fragrance lover. She shares her knowledge and love of all things fragrant with many. Christine is a graduate of the University of Virginia, former educator & voracious reader. She resides in St Louis, MO with her husband, daughter and a tuxedo cat, named Bella. Christine has been with The Perfume Magazine (formerly Sniffapalooza Magazine) since 2006.
VERONICA KAVANAGH
CONTRIBUTOR
CHRISTINE LEWANDOWSKI
RAYMOND MATTS
CONTRIBUTOR | INDUSTRY CORRESPONDENT
Raymond has 25 years of experience as a fragrance designer specializing in the design and development of fragrances for fine fragrances, household and personal care products. Raymond has designed products for the following companies, Clinique, Aramis, Prescriptives, Origins, Elizabeth Arden, Abercrombie, Abercrombie and Fitch, Ruehl and Gemini Fragrances. Prior to specializing in fine fragrances Raymond has collaborated with some of the top perfumers around the world. As a fragrance designer, Raymond Matts orchestrates olfactive poems that defy tradition and remain, ultimately, Signature. He creates a voyage within a fragrance; building from the ground up, moving through an idea or emotion. By not simply selecting ingredients; by not holding fast to traditional structures, Raymond discovers and construes refreshing interpretations of life's common place moments:
"I design fragrances using sensations, emotions and experiences to create liquid emotion. Always, my challenge is to find the intrinsic beauty that surrounds us everyday. To always dig deeper than the surface. To take you on a sensorial journey to what we see, touch and feel from within."
Raymond's inherent ability brings forth and constructs a convergence of senses; distilled, through awareness and passion, into a drop on a neck or a passing scent in the air. His website is Here
Marika was born in Genoa (Italy) between the launches of Chanel N.19 and Diorella, Marika has had a 20-year professional career in brand communication and marketing, though her primary interest has always been perfume. She has studied and experimented perfumes since she was ten. She used to explore perfumery aisles of department stores, where she fell regularly fell in love with Dioressence, Rive Gauche, Shalimar, N.19… To further explore the culture of fragrances, she attended specialization courses in France, at the Grasse Institute of Perfumery and in Italy, at Mouillettes & Co; Italian partner of Cinquième Sens).
In 2007 she created her popular Italian blog, "Bergamotto e Benzoino", an independent place dedicated to disseminating the culture on fragrances (the blog is bilingual Italian/English). She regularly keeps up on courses on scents, dedicated to the exploration of perfume, its authors, its characteristics, raw materials, etc. In recent years she has started collaborating with a small company in the development of tailor-made cosmetic projects, mainly selecting fragrances to scent creams and detergents and she creates bespoke fragrances at Farmacia del Castello in Genova.
MARIKA VECCHIATTINI
CONTRIBUTOR | ITALIAN CORRESPONDENT
FIFI Finalist
FIFI Finalist
FIFI Finalist
Our Editors and Contributors uphold our mission to deliver to our readers a truly journalistic and Industry-friendly approach to writing about perfume. We have assembled an International team of passionate and talented journalists who recognize the value of writing ethically about perfume and who all share in The Perfume Magazine's positive and all-inclusive attitude. We strive for work of the highest caliber. Many of our contributors are internationally published writers; several have been recognized as Top-5 FiFi Award Finalists; and all are inspired to deliver something unique and unexpected to keep our readers coming back for more. These men and women are professionals in their respected fields or in the fragrance industry who all share one common interest - Perfume.
Raphaella founded and created the popular former Sniffapalooza Magazine (now The Perfume Magazine.com) and created the first true perfume magazine of its kind in early 2006 out of love and passion of fragrance. Passionately involved, Raphaella has spent the past few years researching and studying fragrance. Under her direction, she has pulled together an variety of professional writers to contribute to the magazine she founded, sharing with the world a huge assortment of unique articles, interviews, reviews that will be industry and consumer friendly. In 2011, She rebranded and created her most recent venture, The Perfume Magazine, an International Fragrance Magazine. Under her ownership, direction and dedication as Editor In Chief, the Magazine garnered four TOP-FIVE Finalists for the Fragrance Foundation's FiFi Awards in the category of Editorial Excellence Fragrance Coverage in 2009 and 2010. The Perfume Magazine (formerly Sniffapalooza Magazine) reaches unique visitors monthly from 190 countries and was the first ever online magazine/blog in history to earn four FiFi Top Five Finalist for Editorial Excellence Awards
The Perfume Magazine and Ms. Barkley was recently invited to become a Web Media Partner for Esxence Milan 2012, in which she attended for them. Esxence Milan has been one of the great highlights for The Perfume Magazine. As well, just recently, The Fragrance Foundation interviewed Ms. Barkley.
"Up Close And Personal with The Perfume Magazine’s Raphaella Barkley", which she considers another great honor.
Grace Hummel is a vintage perfume writer and has compiled research for over 15 years about various perfume companies, their fragrances and dates of manufacture. She focuses her writing on cult classics, discontinued fragrances, vintage perfumes & bottles and has been collecting and dealing with vintage perfumes for over 20 years. She is Editor and owner of her own popular blog, Cleopatra's Boudoir. Additionally, she writes about vanity accessories and lady's accoutrements such as vanity purses, compacts, and more. A self-proclaimed perfume historian and detective, she searches high and low for obscure, discontinued and well known perfumes and takes pride in researching and delving information about vintage perfumes. Recently, she sold a vintage perfume bottle to Roja Dove, perfumer, owner of the Roja Dove Haute Parfumerie at Harrods and author of the book The Essence of Perfume. Since 2003, she has written about vintage perfumes and also collects DeVilbiss perfumes, Victorian bottles and Lalique perfume bottles. She owns an extensive reference library and is always buying reference books to help further her education and further her collection. Grace has years of experience and knowledge in dealing with vintage perfumes, Victorian antiques and antique perfume bottles. She is a past member of the International Perfume Bottle Association and is currently an antique dealer residing in historic Salem County, NJ, where she makes her home with her husband, three beautiful Russian Blue cats and her two wonderful stepdaughters.
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MICHAEL DAVIS
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GIOVANNI SAMMARCO
CONTRIBUTOR | ITALIAN CORRESPONDENT
Giovanni Sammarco is the founder and the editor of Fragrance Scout, an Italian website based on the idea of spreading olfaction culture and finding links between perfume and art. He works as Parfum Trainer for fragrance brands and organizes parfum events. Giovanni Sammarco also has a PhD in Law.
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Tim is the principal and founder of GIRVIN | Strategic Branding, one of the longest running, privately held brand development and consulting firms in the United States. For 35 years, Girvin and his teams in Seattle and NYC, as well as his Tokyo alliance, have created brands for beauty mega brands: Shiseido, Procter & Gamble, Esteé Lauder, Louis Vuitton, Bath & Body, Yves Saint Laurent, among others -- as well as working with niche brands and newly emerging companies, large and small. Earlier, working in Paris, Girvin partnered with perfume design legend, Pierre Dinand. Girvin has written about, consulted on and designed for perfumes and fragrance groups throughout the world, his blog studies fragrance and experience design, perfume packaging, olfactory brand strategy and emotionality in scent engagement.
CONTRIBUTOR | BRAND CONSULTANT
TIM GIRVIN
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A former model, beauty queen and professional ballet dancer, Ms. Barkley also has an extensive business background that includes executive experience in marketing, fundraising and event management. She served as Artistic and Executive Director for two successful major arts organizations; working with international ballet super stars. Raphaella is also a former artistic director of two professional ballet companies and a choreographer who has directed musicals, television commercials and was a personal manager to dancers from several leading ballet companies (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Joffrey Ballet) Other interests involve collecting rose fragrances, Raphaella's Roses and she is currently in the process of re-discovering classic and iconic fragrances and working on Part Five of Raphaella’s Rose’s. Raphaella is also a Contributor for Beauty Fashion Magazine, the national industry beauty magazine featuring her popular column, "San Francisco Beat." Ms. Barkley was also the former Editor of the Bond No. 9 Blog, reviewing “The Neighborhoods of New York” and feels some of her best work is over at the Bond No. 9 Blog. She was also featured in InStyle Magazine recently, discussing fragrances. She does not listen to unprofessional negative "chatter" on blogs and will always follow her heart and intuition. She believes that The Perfume Magazine will be a huge global success and believes that fragrance is an art form; magical and healing. She still stops to smell the roses whenever she can. Read more about The Perfume Magazine here... Contact Raphaella
