Fragrance News: New Internet "Reality Show" on Perfume-Making on Made By Blog
I just visited Marina's perfume blog, Perfume-Smellin' Things, and learned that Made by Blog has undertaken the project to create two perfumes for two of my fellow-bloggers, namely Katie from Scentzilla! and Marina from Perfume-Smellin' Things.
If you felt frustrated that you won't be able to follow the episodes of the new British reality TV show focusing on perfume-making over 6 months which is set to start next week on Living TV in the UK, you might instead elect to follow the different stages of the perfume creation process in the blogosphere.
The blog's readers will be allowed to participate as informal evaluators of the 2 perfumes in progress as samples of the trial fragrances will be put on sale on the Made by Blog website. Clement Gavarry and Laurent Le Guernec, both of IFF, are the two perfumers entrusted with the tasks. No limits will be put on cost nor time.
Nobi Shioya, the instigator of the project, wishes to offer some creative space to the perfumers and sees this as an opportunity for them to create outside of the logic of the mass-market. He is also interested in breaching the gap between the secluded and rarefied world of the big perfume industry and the individual consummer.
In this case, the only constraints set on them will be those set by Katie's and Marina's dreams of an ideal fragrance for themselves. The question is, from which side will the perfumers, in final analysis, get more pressure? From the mass-market or from the educated, picky noses of Marina and Katie? I am sure that their dialogues will prove to be fascinating.
Stay tuned.
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Hi Mimi, thank you so much for the link of Made by blog! This is such a great idea.
Posted by: jenny | May 31, 2006
You're very welcome:)
Posted by: Mimi | May 31, 2006
Hi! Great post. I'm very curious how it will all pan out. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that Nobi is a guy.
Posted by: kuri | June 1, 2006
Yes, it will be interesting to see how inputs from M, K, and readers will be taken into account.
Nobi is indeed of the masculine gender -- I wasn't sure, didn't take the time to google the name, and decided it was a woman:)) How impertinent of me!
Thanks for pointing it out.
Posted by: Mimi | June 1, 2006