Scent Notes | Azzaro Couture

The perfumer Aurélien Guichard, the son of the equally talented Jean Guichard (the creator of the immortal l’Interdit for Givenchy), has excellent creative range. He can go from making the chic, retro-rich Baghari for the contemporary incarnation of Robert Piguet to the delicate translucent-flower-in-a-white-space-station cult favorite Chinatown for Bond No. 9 to the brutalist 21st-century chypre (take out the labdanum, put in asphalt and the scorched scent of steel under a welder’s arc) of Sean John’s Unforgivable.

Sandra’s Sources | Visionaire

T Magazine’s Senior Editor Sandra Ballentine opens up her little black book of tips on where to go, what to buy and whom to know.

Name: Visionaire
File Under: Women’s Boutiques, Monaco
Address: 37 Boulevard des Moulins, Monte Carlo 98000 Monaco
Telephone Number: (011) 377 97 98 30 00

What To Get: Finally, a Monte Carlo boutique where chic young members of the Med Set can flex their Titanium cards. Monaco has long been a hotbed of mega-yachts, mega-brands and the tax evaders who love them, but it’s the last place you’d expect to discover a quirky boutique full of young designer labels. Until now, that is. Visionaire, which was opened six months ago by Leyla Moghadam, carries all the right cool-kid designers including Erdem, Giles, Marios Schwab, Proenza Schouler,