A Newspaper Stand in Paris on Dec 31, 2017 - Everything Remains to be Written // Un kiosque à journaux le 31 décembre au soir - Tout reste à écrire © Chant Wagner 2017 This is the only pic...
December 2017 Archives
Editions de Parfums Frederic Malle Music for a While (2018) {New Perfume}
French niche label Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle will release a new unisex scent from March 2018 entitled Music for a While......
Saint Faustina // Sainte Faustine {Paris Street Photography}
Saint Faustina // Sainte Faustine © Chant Wagner 2017 This is the image of a chapel in which a shrine to Saint Faustina was set up at the church of Saint Sulpice in Paris, next to a large container...
Les Parfums de Rosine Rose Nue (2017) {Perfume Review & Musings}
Rose Nue, the latest launch by Les Parfums de Rosine, is an interesting composition to the nose, in the way that it meshes the sharpness of snowy aldehydes with the fruity, almondy softness of Heliotrope; in the way also...
Tiffany & Co. Eau de Parfum (2017) {Perfume Review & Musings}
Tiffany & Co Eau de Parfum is heavy on the musk, that you can smell from the opening. It seems to want to grab Tiffany customers, wholly indifferent to perfume, by their basest instincts, as relating to their assumed...
Bulgari Magnolia Sensuel (2017) {Perfume Review & Musings}
Bulgari, after proposing a trio of carefully crafted Splendida Bulgari fragrances devoted to the classical floral scents of rose, jasmine and iris, has now turned to a more "secondary" flower in terms of cultural import, overall, in the world...
Working Kid // Enfant au travail {Paris Street Photography}
Working Kid during the Holidays // Enfant au travail durant les fêtes © Chant Wagner 2017 This is our last pic in the Advent, per se, Street Photography project. This was a kid who was co-manning the cash register...
Prayer // Prière {Paris Street Photography}
Prayer in the Fourth Week of Advent // Prière durant la quatrième semaine de l'Avent © Chant Wagner 2017 Day 20 of the Advent Street Photography project. A young man kneeled down to pray before a Nativity two days...
Festive Shopping Carts // Les chariots de Noel {Paris Street Photography}
Festive Shopping Carts // Les chariots de Noël © Chant Wagner 2017 These carts are both trying too much and not enough - we don't know how else to describe the feeling of amusement this visibly valiant effort elicits...
Man in Overcoat // Homme au pardessus {Paris Street Photography}
Man in Overcoat // Homme au pardessus © Chant Wagner 2017 Day 18 of the Advent Street Photography project. This man in an overcoat made me think of the persons who spend Christmastime alone, not of their own choice,...
Adieu Colette {Paris Street Photography}
Adieu Colette © Chant Wagner 2017 Today, concept store Colette closed down in Paris. Founded in 1997, it had become a cultural reference for people who love trends. The hipster temple is no more, RIP......
Smell Me // Sentez-Moi {Paris Street Photography}
Smell Me - At a Christmas Market // Sentez-Moi - Au marché de Noël © Chant Wagner 2017 Day 16 of the Advent Street Photography project. I did smell the terracotta pomander and it smelled perfumey - a pretty...
A Little Girl - Flight Movement // Une petite fille - mouvement d'envol {Paris Street Photography}
A Little Girl - Flight Movement // Une petite fille - mouvement d'envol © Chant Wagner 2017 Day 15 of our Advent Street Photography project. This was taken at the same baptism ceremony we featured yesterday. As we already...
Alaia Eau de Parfum Nude (2017) {Perfume Review & Musings}
Alaïa Nude eau de parfum is the third fragrance issued while designer Azzedine Alaïa was still alive. He died recently, on November 18, 2017. The new perfume is not yet on shelves. A circuitous look allows you to see...
Baptism before Christmas with a Gaggle of Kids // Un baptême avant Noël avec une kyrielle d'enfants {Paris Street Photography}
Baptism before Christmas with a Gaggle of Kids // Un baptême avant Noël avec une kyrielle d'enfants © Chant Wagner 2017 Day 14 of the Advent Street Photography project. There is one week to go before Christmas. Kids, kids,...