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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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January 5, 2008A Small Scottish Town Is Not Allowed To Carry Chanel {The 5th Sense in the News} Leven, Fife
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January 7, 2008Calvin Klein Man (2007) {Perfume Review & Musings} {Men's Cologne} Model Garrett Neff fronts the Man ad Man by Calvin Klein was launched in October of 2007 and proposed as a new classic for the modern Calvin Klein man, aged from 25 to 40. The name itself is programmatic and unambiguous, like an English translation of L'Homme by Yves Saint Laurent. Simple, brief, to the point. You are going to smell the essence of masculinity if you are to take your cue from the name of the fragrance. Admittedly most people are a little more jaded than that and will probably just barely register that it is a cologne (in the American sense of a perfume for men) as opposed to a feminine fragrance. The packaging is sleek, modernist, with an architectural sense of proportions and looks good. It is unusually large and slim at the same time, built like a wall more than a bottle. The surfaces are extremely shiny, mirror-like making you think of high-shine paint, black lacquer, or patent leather shoes. Another contrast intervenes with the white edges of the bottle.......... Continue reading "Calvin Klein Man (2007) {Perfume Review & Musings} {Men's Cologne}" »
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January 8, 2008Givenchy Les Mythiques Now at Sephora {Shopping Tip}
The collection of re-editions by Givenchy called Les Mythiques (The Mythical Ones) is now partly available at Sephora online (not in stores). The titles offered are: Givenchy III, L'Interdit, Monsieur de Givenchy, Xeryus, and Eau de Givenchy, each for $85. They ship for free.
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Guerlain Mayotte (2006) & Mahora EDT (2001) {Perfume Review in a Nutshell} {Fragrance Ads} In 2006 Guerlain added Mayotte to its collection of re-editions called Les Parisiennes. It was made immediately clear that it was a re-bottling of the failed Mahora issued in 2000 -- an Eau de Toilette version had also been issued in 2001 -- in an attempt to propose anew this tropical, not-so-Parisian scent. (The original name was not kept due to legal reasons and the fact that it had not been officially registered.) In fact, Mayotte is arguably the most American-smelling of the perfumes created by the venerable French house thanks to its all-out tropical white-flower personality put together with its linear character. Some questions arose on this blog as to whether it was exactly the same fragrance or a different composition claiming a link to Mahora. For US-based customers who can easily access numerous online discounters, it is an especially pertinent question to ask as the prices for Mayotte and Mahora differ vastly. The first one is 140 €, the second one can be had for cheap...
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Estée Lauder Pure White Linen Light Breeze Heralds Spring (2008) {New Fragrance}
Estée Lauder have introduced a new flanker to Pure White Linen, itself a modernized, more transparent version of White Linen. The new addition, as always fronted by actress Gwyneth Paltrow, is called Pure White Linen Light Breeze and is described as a sparkling citrus and floral. It rests also on a Darjeeling tea accord......
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Parfums 137 Nara 1869: New House, Unique Old Stories (2008) {New Fragrances} {Historical Perfumes} Parfums 137 subtitled Jeux de Parfums (Perfume Games) is a new French perfume brand that proposes an interesting, both learned and playful serialized concept, that of introducing each semester a new range of three perfumes meant to be layered in 7 possible combinations, which each time will be inspired by a unique, extraordinary story. 1 is for a story, 3 for the already mixed essences, and 7 for playfulness (they indicate in advance how the layerings smell). The idea is to progressively build a library of perfumes, one can assume in the tradition of popular serialized encyclopedia. The first coffret offered by the house is called Nara 1869 and is based on a true olfactory historical event, one exhumed from a very little known discreet chapter of the history of perfumes.......
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January 9, 2008A Preview of the New Thierry Mugler Ad for the Mirror Perfumes {Scented Image}
There are five perfumes in the new Thierry Mugler collection called Miroir, Miroir. Here is a peek at the advertisement where each scent represents a different facet of the same woman who is goddess-like. The quintet already debuted at Sephora Champs Elysées in December of 2007 but will become more widely advertised this month.
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January 10, 2008How The Dali Perfumes Came To Be {The 5th Sense in the News} Apparition of the face of the Aphrodite of Knidos, 1981 There is an interesting article regarding the collaboration between Jean-Pierre Grivory chairman of Parfums Salvador Dali and the artist himself. It details how the relationship came to be and how Dali started sketching the first perfume flacon on the spot; he was more interested in leaving his mark on the packaging than on the scents themselves. His bottles are instantly recognizable and the juices they contain are distinctive too. The original Salvador Dali for Women was great when it came out, offering an extremely soft and sensual texture. The one for Men is also wonderful (see review). There are many more to explore.
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Fragrance & Beauty Trends in China: News In Brief {Fragrance News} South China Woman by Wang Yidong, 1988 Continue reading "Fragrance & Beauty Trends in China: News In Brief {Fragrance News}" »
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Taking The Opium Express -The Yves Saint Laurent Opium Exhibition in Paris {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses} {Guest Contributor} Odalisk by Seb Janiak © Pauline/The Scented Salamander
"Taking the Opium Express" by Pauline, Guest Contributor  "Yves Saint Laurent by Artus" © Pauline/The Scented Salamander  Please come visit the exhibit! © Pauline/The Scented Salamander
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January 11, 2008Robert Piguet New e-Commerce Website & The 60th Anniversary of Fracas {Fragrance News} Robert Piguet have taken the practical and gratifying decision, for consumers of quality niche perfumes, of opening a new e-commerce website; "niche" does not need to equate "difficult to get". Their catalogue now comprises the following re-editions and re-workings of classic fragrances: Bandit, Fracas, Visa, Baghari, and Cravache. Fracas, the tuberose soliflore of reference by Germaine Cellier is officially feting its 60th anniversary, together with l'Air du Temps. (via Cosmetic World)
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Cruel Gardenia by Guerlain (2008) {New Fragrance} Guerlain is releasing two new creations in early 2008, a feminine and a masculine respectively called Cruel Gardenia and L'Ame d'un Héros (see next post). According to Guerlain, Cruel Gardenia, in the L'Art et La Matière collection, promises to be a highly unusual and novel gardenia composition playing with emotions and memories of childhood. This emotional trend in perfumery is extremely interesting we think. In 2007 Serge Lutens Louve and Humiecki & Graef Skarb showed that a perfume can literally aim to manipulate your emotions. Cruel Gardenia, reportedly, was not treated as a classic white floral at all. The perfume was composed by Randa Hammami together with artistic director Sylvaine Delacourte....... Continue reading "Cruel Gardenia by Guerlain (2008) {New Fragrance}" »
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Guerlain L'Âme d'Un Héros (2008) {New Perfume} {Men's Cologne} Continue reading "Guerlain L'Âme d'Un Héros (2008) {New Perfume} {Men's Cologne}" »
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January 12, 2008Henry Cavill Adds A Celeb Note To Dunhill London + Meet & Greet in London {Fragrance News} {Celebrity Perfume} {Men's Cologne}
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Stetson TV Spot with Tom Brady {Scented Images}
Set yourself free, with a little cologne! Tom Brady is racing (in a car) with a black stallion in the wide open Western American spaces (California in fact). Aaah, the nostalgia for the frontier days is palpable!
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