The Scented Salamander: Perfume & Beauty Blog & Webzine: March 2006

"My earliest perfume memory: probably that of my mother when she would come to kiss me good night. A silky blend of fabrics and scents from a perfume whose name I have forgotten. It does not matter, really; I remember that it was mauve, tender, powdered with trails of white flowers. I would fall asleep in its softness while it floated around my sleep like a mysterious guardian. Sometimes, it happens that I encounter by chance women on a street or in an elevator who are wearing it, at that very moment all the images come back, rising up from these fragile sillages."

Previous Posts in Scented Quote of the Day:

Scented Quote of the Day, from Françoise Sagan:

Posted by Marie-Helene Wagner | Permalink | Comments (0)

Digg This Stumble Facebook Del.icio.us

Perfume Review & Musings: Agent Provocateur by Agent Provocateur

You will find that the juice contained in the bottle of Agent Provocateur is less dangerous than its name seems to indicate and less explosive than the shape of the bottle seems to imply. Some people have compared the bottle to an egg, even Agent Provocateur themselves; I have always seen a fleshy breast coupled with a hand grenade allusion. Please refer yourselves to the black ribbon on the side -- the subliminal advertisement on Agent Provocateur's website clarifies the association as we see a woman holding AP close to her partially naked breast, echoing its image as if in a mirror. Therefore, one can only say that it makes sense for a lingerie brand headed by Joseph Corre, the son of Vivienne Westwood, to promote this shape however slyly or unconsciously........

Continue reading "Perfume Review & Musings: Agent Provocateur by Agent Provocateur" »

Posted by Marie-Helene Wagner | Permalink | Comments (3)

Digg This Stumble Facebook Del.icio.us

Advertising Formats & Rates on The Scented Salamander {Ask Marie-Helene}

Advertising Formats on The Scented Salamander (rates are available upon request)

• Simple text ad link lower left column: -Homepage: /per link per month -Site-wide: /per link per month

• 160 x 120 upper part left column: 1 linked image or 2 text links - Homepage: /week – Site-wide: /week

• 160 x 600 skyscraper – top left column: 1 linked image or 8 links: /week

• 728 x 90 banner – Top middle: 1 linked image: /week

• 350 x 200 under the first post in the middle column: /week

Posted by Marie-Helene Wagner | Permalink | Comments (2)

Digg This Stumble Facebook Del.icio.us

March 19, 2006

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, around the blind curves and out the lonely spurs, a sour smell of rolling-stock absence, of maturing rust, developing through those emptying days brilliant and deep, especially at dawn, with blue shadows to seal its passage, to try to bring events to absolute Zero..."

Gravity's Rainbow

Painting by David Caspar Friedrich, from otosell

Previous Posts in Scented Quote of the Day:

Scented Quote of the Day, from Guy Laroche:

Scented Quote of the Day, from Françoise Sagan:

Posted by Marie-Helene Wagner | Permalink | Comments (0)

Digg This Stumble Facebook Del.icio.us

March 20, 2006

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 Fields

Article and Photo by Claire Ulrich

Posted by Marie-Helene Wagner | Permalink | Comments (0)

Digg This Stumble Facebook Del.icio.us

March 21, 2006

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 are jagged and rough. It should be adaptable to any occasion. And you should never be quite sure whether you like it: you should remain slightly unsure of it."

Previous Posts in The Fifth Sense in the News:

The Fifth Sense in the News: Everything you ever wanted to know about Lavandula Angustifolia

Posted by Marie-Helene Wagner | Permalink | Comments (0)

Digg This Stumble Facebook Del.icio.us

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 Suitability

Engraving is from Gallica

Posted by Marie-Helene Wagner | Permalink | Comments (0)

Digg This Stumble Facebook Del.icio.us

March 22, 2006

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

Previous Posts in Scented Quote of the Day:

Scented Quote of the Day, from Thomas Pynchon:

Scented Quote of the Day, from Guy Laroche:

Scented Quote of the Day, from Françoise Sagan:

Posted by Marie-Helene Wagner | Permalink | Comments (0)

Digg This Stumble Facebook Del.icio.us

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, which is also unverifiable and somewhat contradicts the first story, has it that CF was composed in honor of Candice Bergen, Frederic Malle's aunt, and in particular, in reference to her role in the movie Carnal Knowledge. Hmm, do you call this unfettered creativity as the EdP are supposed to leave complete creative freedom to their perfumers? Stories, myths, and lore abound in the world of perfumery and this is what makes it what it is, secret, charming, magical, and for ever vacillating between fact and fiction. I have come to think that a folkloric study of perfume industry lore is in order. To paraphrase someone who said that perfume was emotion in a liquid form, I would be tempted to say that perfume is myth in a liquid form...

Continue reading "Perfume Review & Musings: Carnal Flower by Dominique Ropion for Frédéric Malle" »

Previous Posts in Perfume Review & Musings:

Perfume Review & Musings: Agent Provocateur by Agent Provocateur

Posted by Marie-Helene Wagner | Permalink | Comments (0)

Digg This Stumble Facebook Del.icio.us

March 2006 Archive

Page 2 of 3 • 1 2 3

The Buzz

Latest Posts from Beauty And The Salamander

March 17, 2006

PERFUME REVIEWS - PERFUME HOUSES A to H {Index}

March 18, 2006

Scented Quote of the Day, from Guy Laroche:

Perfume Review & Musings: Agent Provocateur by Agent Provocateur

Advertising Formats & Rates on The Scented Salamander {Ask Marie-Helene}

March 19, 2006

Scented Quote of the Day, from Thomas Pynchon:

March 20, 2006

The Fifth Sense in the News: Everything you ever wanted to know about Lavandula Angustifolia

March 21, 2006

Scented Quote of the Day, from James Craven:

Fragrant Reading: Scents & Suitability

March 22, 2006

Scented Quote of the Day, Anonymous:

Perfume Review & Musings: Carnal Flower by Dominique Ropion for Frédéric Malle

Categories

Latest Comments

Monthly Archives

Recent Posts