One last perfume review before we take off for France and land in the capital of perfumes. We adore Paris and its Eden-like public gardens in the spring. There is also a less glamorous side to Paris as well...
March 2006 Archives
The Fifth Sense in the News: Carrying The Scent of Their Wives
"It's Good to Stare", an article by Craig McQueen in today's Daily Record detailing the biological and social reasons for which women are attracted to certain men and vice-versa:Daily Record...
April in Paris
I will be posting again regularly after April 10. If I get a chance, I'll upload some pictures from Paris, otherwise I'll recount my trip and perfume experiences (I also need to get some work done that's not perfume-related) when...
Scented Quote of the day, from the Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti:
"(...) Noble sirs, how does the Tathagata Sugandhakuta teach his Dharma?They replied the Tathagata does not teach the Dharma by means of sound and language. He disciplines the bodhisattvas only by means of perfumes......
Scented Quote of the Day, from Lyn Harris:
"Women should have a wardrobe of scents that they change. It's not about putting on a pretty smell that you really like.......
Scented Facts in History: Jicky and Gender
Jicky was created in 1889 by Aimé Guerlain. It is not only considered to be the first modern fragrance through its invention of the now classic 3-tiered structure comprising the head, heart, and base notes, as well as the introduction...
Fragrant Shopping: Herbaria Soaps
Apparently, these soaps are so good, they send people head over heels. They are not just content to flirt with them, they want to marry them, for all eternity. The other day, I happened on a press article about the...
Scented Quote of the Day, from Bart Yates:
"I've never wanted a different mother. I just want my mother to be different. Get in line, right?(...)But she smells great......
The Fifth Sense in the News: The Rise of the Unisex Fragrance
In today's New York Times, Ruth LaFerla writes a story on a growing trend: the gender-free approach to perfume.Scent of a Person...
Perfume Review & Musings: Carnal Flower by Dominique Ropion for Frédéric Malle
Carnal Flower....as the story goes, it nearly came to be named otherwise, but its French name equivalent, Fleur Charnelle would have sounded too much like Serge Lutens Tubéreuse Criminelle hence the resort to English. Another story, posted on Basenotes,...
Scented Quote of the Day, Anonymous:
"Real musk is the one that gives off its perfume and not the one which is boasted by the druggist."Persian proverb...
Fragrant Reading: Scents & Suitability
There is a terrific article on perfumes and the perfume industry by Geraldine Bendell in The Observer, Sunday, December 19, 2004:Scents and SuitabilityEngraving is from Gallica...
Scented Quote of the Day, from James Craven:
"Depth, warmth, an indefinable rounded quality (about the qualities of a good perfume) (...) A rolling smoothness about it, like holding an egg. It should satisfy all the senses and seem to have no beginning and no end. So many...
The Fifth Sense in the News: Everything you ever wanted to know about Lavandula Angustifolia
An article about the cultivation and distillation of the queen of lavenders, Lavandula Angustifolia, in the Drome Valley, in France. It reads almost like an ethnographic account.Once, There Were Blue FieldsArticle and Photo by Claire Ulrich...
Scented Quote of the Day, from Thomas Pynchon:
"...certain trestles of blackened wood have moved slowly by overhead, and the smells begun of coal from days far to the past, smells of naphta winters, of Sundays when no traffic came through, of the coral-like and mysteriously vital growth,...