This is a neat little fragrance shop on Christopher Street in the Village, located right beneath the Oscar Wilde Bookstore. If you are very lucky, you will arrive when the wisteria vine across the street is in bloom and turns the nearby street tree into a wisteria tree. If wisteria is not your scent of choice, it is awfully heavy, check out Aedes de Venusta. They have a broad range of fragrances, that one would be hard pressed to find elsewhere, even in New York City.
Here you can find Mon Jardinet bath oil, Aesop hand cream, Etro
essential
oils, Comptour Sud Pacifique spray scents and Diptyque candles. They
have
the entire set of Diptyque scents, from balsam to leather and beyond,
in
stock. If you aren't sure of what you want, or you are looking for
something
obscure or just coming onto the market, just ask. The staff (the
owners)
are extremely knowledgeable, and even better, enthusiastic. Their
enthusiasm
is infectious.
UPDATE 9 November 2006 -
Their website is at www.aedes.com.