Founder, Charenton Macerations

11 Oct

Happy National Coming Out Day

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
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It All Started By Coming Out Today is National Coming Out Day. Every year on National Coming Out Day, we celebrate and remember those coming out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or as an...

10 Oct

Headlines, Macerations

The Rules of Olfaction

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
blog, Charenton Macerations, Education, Fragrance, Process
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Olfaction really involves two things: application and experience. We place scent on our bodies AND we seek it out in the world. In today's audiovisual-centric world, the full beauty of our olfactory senses can...

19 Sep

From The Underground, Ingredient Stories, Macerations

Christopher Street Clove

January 12, 2018
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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...

13 Sep

In The News, Macerations

Christopher Street Fragrantica Scented Snippet

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
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Ida Meister of Fragrantica offers up a well versed quick run-through of some of the ingredient stories of Christopher Street. Happy to invite her into my macrocosm of West Village life. In discussing the...

21 Aug

Gender, Headlines, Macerations

Stop Unisex-ing Me

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
blog, Charenton Macerations, Fragrance, gender, history, unisex
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I am not a fan of the word "unisex." In the world of fragrance, "unisex" is used to describe scents deemed acceptable for either men or women. A quick notation that supposedly says its...

13 Aug

Gender, Headlines, Macerations

You Smell Like a Girl

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
blog, Charenton Macerations, christopher street, Fragrance, gender
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Thoughts on Gender and Fragrance Charenton Macerations was founded on the principle of challenging the tired gender clichés that have taken over the fragrance industry. The driving concept behind Charenton Macerations was (and still is)...

26 Jun

Headlines, Macerations

Christopher Street Pride Day 3: The End of DOMA and Prop8

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
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DOMA, Prop8, and The Struggle That Started It All In June of 1969, a group of homosexuals and their West Village supporters stood up to the police on Christopher Street. They had had enough of...

25 Jun

Headlines, Macerations

Christopher Street Pride Day 2: The Pier

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
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Hitting the Pier It's Pride 2013 week in NYC and it's going to be another extremely hot day on Christopher Street. Because of this, today's sampling location is dedicated to the sunbathers that line the...

24 Jun

Headlines, Macerations

Christopher Street Pride and Samples

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
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It's Pride Week in New York City, and celebrations are already underway on Christopher Street. The first official Pride March took place in 1970, one year after the infamous Stonewall Riots of 1969. Marchers...

21 Jun

From The Underground, Headlines, Macerations, Product

What’s Inside #TheBox

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
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I've been teasing you all week long on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter about what's inside #TheBox. Thanks to everyone who sent in some amazing guesses (some of which have given me ideas for the...