Kurky, by Maison Francis Kurkdjian We had lunch with Marc Chaya, co-founder and president of Maison Francis Kurkdjian, during his visit to Manila last week. He introduced us to Kurky, a new fresh scent with an unusually quirky name for the house, an eau de parfum with a tangy tutti-frutti accord and rich musk notes. It's a fruity, sunshiny fragrance which to me evokes peach soap and baby powder, cotton candy and childhood summers. “To be a child is to look at the clouds and ponder their shape, rather than wonder if it’s going to rain,” says Francis Kurkdjian, the perfumer for whom the house is named. Kurkdjian says the idea came to him completely out of the blue, as he listened to the child within him, “Kurky,” as he was affectionately called all those years ago. Even the labeling is different from the usual: a simple script on the..
