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Currently I am working on a book. Je travaille à l'écriture d'un livre. Featured Best Rose Fragrances for Valentine's Day: The 2012 Edition Latest Fragrance Review American Beauty Beloved Red Rose Fragrance Essays Bint el Sudan, The Other, African Chanel No.5 - Interview with Nick Evans of IFF Smelling Tommy Girl Now: When the 1990s Smell Like The 1940s White Accords in Perfumery: So Long The 70s Reviews of New Perfumes
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October 26, 2007Ladurée Partners with Sephora for the Holidays {Fragrance News} {Bath & Body} Continue reading "Ladurée Partners with Sephora for the Holidays {Fragrance News} {Bath & Body}" »
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New Revamped Website for Parfums de Nicolaï {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses} {New Perfumes}
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Rolling Out the Scented Red Carpet: Upcoming Celebrity Fragrances in 2008 {Fragrance News} {New Perfumes}
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October 27, 2007Gucci by Gucci (2007) {Perfume Short (Review)} {New Fragrance} The Reception by Frederick John Lewis, 1873 Both modern chypres and rose perfumes are very au courant this season and the new Gucci Eau de Parfum harnesses these two trends in a subtle and elegant manner. Frida Giannini, the new artistic director at Gucci wanted to create a fragrance meant for a strong and feminine woman. The idea of feminine strength is revealed here by perfumer Ilia Ermenidis in a very restrained fashion creating an impression comparable to the effect that gliding water can have on the hardest of rocks overtime. Like that fluid force, Gucci Eau de Parfum is easy to wear and one wants to drink from it as easily as from a glass of water........  Continue reading "Gucci by Gucci (2007) {Perfume Short (Review)} {New Fragrance}" »
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October 29, 2007Lalique pour Homme - 2008 Buddha Limited Edition {Fragrance News} {Luxury Perfume} Since 1997 Lalique has issued a series of limited edition luxury crystal bottles to house Lalique Pour Homme created that very year. The 2008 edition sees a spiritual Orientalist theme illustrated with the figure of the Buddha in meditation........
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Scented Quote of the Day, from Serge Lutens: - {Fragrant Reading} Photo: Ling Fei/Salons du Palais Royal "A quoi sert le parfum ? Nous sommes tous fragiles. Le parfum est une arme contre notre fragilité, notre timidité. Translation & interview after the jump.......... Continue reading "Scented Quote of the Day, from Serge Lutens: - {Fragrant Reading}" »
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A Tale of 3 Christina Aguilera Fragrances - Perfume Launch Mores {Celebrity Fragrances} A recap first. When all the press was abuzz with the news of Aguilera's "first fragrance" to come out this fall, The Scented Salamander was able to spot a previous Christina Aguilera fragrance issued ca. 2004 called XPose. Then there was speculation as to whether that perfume had really existed at all since its existence had not been reported. A reader however commented recently that she knew that fragrance. Thanks to You Tube too, you can discover the commercial for Xpose featuring Aguilera musing in front of her closet (a common theme in women's perfume commercials including in the one for the most recent Christina Aguilera fragrance) then spider-like catching a man or more than one in the net of her perfume. Please see in passing also a reference to Marilyn Monroe dabbing perfume,
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Halloween - Perfumes from the Crypt....... {Perfume List} The Oriel Window, Lacock Abbey by William Henry Fox Talbot, 1835 or 1839 Halloween is upon us and with it the possible question of what perfume to wear to partake of the festivities or honor the dead. Halloween is not really celebrated in France. There was an attempt in the 1990s to implant the tradition there but it eventually failed although by 2000 it seemed to have picked up a bit. By 2006 however Le Monde and Le Parisien both declared Halloween to be dead. One can still remember an encouraging picture in a daily showing a spectacular row of pumpkins at the esplanade du Trocadéro with the Eiffel Tower in the background. It seemed to be opening a Roman Appian way or inroad into French culture. But somehow the symbolism of the pumpkin never took hold nor the horror movie cultural references past a few fashionable force-fed years. One can see it as a fashion, like the Christmas trees garbed in artificial snow and dyed in red or blue a couple of years ago in Paris and it soon died as a new tradition. Perhaps what the French were lacking was a vibrant Irish community to keep the fire of Samain burning. Cultural resistance to a wholesale import of a cultural practice now perceived as very American is faulted too. Halloween in the US on the contrary is a monster event for the majority. The olfactory images it conveys are rich or at least potentially rich. But before we leave the shores of France, a country where a tradition of Halloween perfumes could have developed, we can evoke an immediate All Saints' Day association with the scents of Chrysantemum and Immortelle flowers that are laid out on tombs on the day of La Toussaint . We know one perfume that can suggest this tradition and it would work well in the US too with its dark maple syrupy tones, Sables by Annick Goutal........
Halloween party invitation on an old ice truck by Walker Evans, 1973-1974.  Continue reading "Halloween - Perfumes from the Crypt....... {Perfume List}" »
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Davidoff Adventure TV Spot with Ewan McGregor {Scented Images}
You can check a previous post about the Davidoff Adventure cologne and ad print here. This is the TV commercial directed by Seb Edwards and shot in Brazil. McGregor said at a press conference about his love of adventure and motorbiking that, "There's something that appeals to the little boy in us to go out and not wash for weeks," [...]"You have no responsibilities except to have petrol in the tank and a vague idea of where you're going."(quote via Women's Wear Daily)
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October 30, 2007Maître Parfumeur & Gantier Puts Back on Kid Gloves {Fragrance News} {Fashion Notes} {Luxury Perfume} Scented Gloves from 150 € or US $ 216 Maître Parfumeur et Gantier founded by Jean Laporte in 1988 and now headed by Jean-Paul Millet Lage is reintroducing the ancient practice of scenting gloves that gave its name to the corporation of master glovers and perfumers in France starting in 1190 under Philippe-Auguste, and which finally saw its official status consolidated in 1656........
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Bijou de Parfum by Les Néréides {New Perfume} {Fashion Notes} {Luxury Perfume} Bijou de Parfum coffret, 288 € or US $ 414 Continue reading "Bijou de Parfum by Les Néréides {New Perfume} {Fashion Notes} {Luxury Perfume}" »
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Elixir Patchouli (2007) by Réminiscence Paris {New Perfume} Elixir Patchouli 100 ml Eau de Parfum, 90 € or US $ 129 To celebrate the longevity and success of its first-born fragrance with a cult following, Patchouli, created in 1970, Réminiscence Paris is launching a new version of its best-seller called Elixir Patchouli in November of 2007....... Continue reading "Elixir Patchouli (2007) by Réminiscence Paris {New Perfume}" »
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Costume National Scents Signs Licensing Deal with Beauty San S.p.A. {Fragrance News} As previously reported, Costume National is preparing to launch a new fragrance called 21 to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the brand.......
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Les Moments, Homme Galland by Maria Galland {New Perfumes} The cosmetics brand Maria Galland founded by dancer Maria Galland some 45 years ago has issued a duo of fragrances for her and for him this fall called Les Moments and Homme Galland. Les Moments includes notes of: bergamot, rose, peach, apricot, geranium, citrus fruits, quince jelly, rosewood, clove, cinnamon, vanilla, myrrh, sandalwood, and cedarwood. Homme Galland features notes of: lemon, rosemary, basilic, bergamot, clove, jasmine, iris, oakmoss, thyme absolute, and amber. Les Moments Eau de Toilette, 100 ml ca. 69,00 Euro; Homme Galland Eau de Toilette, 100 ml ca. 59,00 Euro
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October 31, 2007New Commercial Website for Indie Brand .Vero. Profumo. {Scented Paths & fragrant Addresses} 7,5 ml and 15 ml of pure perfume, 105 € or US $ 152 and 165 € or US $ 238 Vero Kern is the founder and perfumer of .Vero.Profumo. a Zurich-based independent perfume house. Kern was trained in Paris in the classical tradition of French perfumery. She is also well known as the close friend and collaborator of other Swiss indie perfumer Andy Tauer, whom we have had the pleasure of welcoming on this blog for an interview in the past. Vero Kern currently offers a collection of three perfumes called Rubj, Onda, and Kiki. They are now available, in extraits de parfums versions, directly from her visually arresting website, which has been revamped as a shopping site.......
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