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A Culture & Beauty Blog: from Olfaction to Imagination in Perfumes, Movies, Beauty Products, Food, Literature, & Fashion, Mostly.

"Perfumes' & movies' common point: you smell and watch them better in the dark"

Latest Fragrance Reviews

Dior Escale à Parati

 

Prada Infusion d'Iris EDP Absolue

Ferragamo Signorina

Thierry Mugler Miroir des Majestés

Jo Malone Plum Blossom

Madonna Truth or Dare

Roberto Cavalli Eau de Parfum

Carolina Herrera 212 Sexy

8 Best Perfumes to Herald Spring

Stella McCartney L.I.L.Y.

Guerlain Parfum Initial L'Eau: Going Back to the Purer Language of Perfumery

Guerlain Parfum Initial L'Eau: Un Langage Plus Pur pour la Parfumerie

Fragrance Essays

Perfumes & Candies are Kissing Cousins: Anis de Flavigny & Guerlain Anisia Bella

Jicky, The Ultimate Aphrodisiac for Both Sexes?

Jicky, L'aphrodisiaque ultime pour les deux sexes?

Best Rose Fragrances for Valentine's Day: The 2012 Edition

How I Think about Perfume when I Review Them: a Practical-Theoretical Outlook on the Perfume Shopping Culture

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

Liberace Wore Perfume, So What? Homosexuality as Given Away by an Indiscreet Fragrance Trail in the 50s

Reviews of New Perfumes

Diptyque Eau Rose

Isabel Derroisné Eclat Eternel

Sisley Eau d'Ikar

Mary Greenwell Plum

Parfum d'Empire Azemour Les Orangers

L'Artisan Parfumeur Batucada

Les Parfums de Rosine Glam Rose

Clinique Aromatics Elixir Perfumer's Reserve

Prada No.11 Cuir Styrax

6 New Celebrity Fragrances to Try Out this Fall

The Body Shop White Musk Libertine

Cartier L'Heure Convoitée (English Version)

Cartier L'Heure Convoitée (French Version)

Karl Lagerfeld Karleidoscope

Maître Parfumeur et Gantier Cuir Fétiche

Estée Lauder Wood Mystique

Thierry Mugler Angel with Bitter Cocoa Powder

Diane Von Furstenberg Diane

Bottega Veneta EDP

From the Archives

Bath & Body Works Warm Vanilla Sugar: An Euro-American Curio

Reviews of Past Fragrance Launches

First Impressions on the Thierry Mugler Coffret Based on the Novel by Süskind.

Look of the Day Archive

October 2, 2009



For a Change, The Natural Look at Balmain RTW 2010 {Beauty Notes} {Look of the Day}


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Exactly the kind of look one wishes to see on a Friday: Balmain went for a very natural look for its show for RTW 2010 to contrast it with ornate outfits.

Makeup

Tom Pecheux said "We are working and playing with every detail of the face without showing it,"

Hair
 
Sam McKnight was even more understated: he just sprayed water on the models' hair and ran his fingers through it.

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September 28, 2009

Kim Kardashian Black Vampy Makeover by Troy Jensen for YRB {Beauty Notes} {Look of the Day} {Celebrity Beauty}


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Okay, as I told you last time when looking at the Chanel Les Noirs Obscurs, I am very much interested in exploring - even if only through empirical observation - the really black vampy look that has been the new daring shade to sport. Daring is just fine, provided it does not transform you into a makeup victim. I am convinced it looks spectacular on a magazine spread and am still waiting for my first sighting of a normal person on the street done up in black pigments, on the lips. If it's someone with an obvious Gothic membership card, then I will be half-convinced. I really am hoping to see someone, say a fashionista, make it blend with her scarf (by the way I lately saw two extraordinary beings dressed like fashion extremists or drag queens, the second one wafted a divine sillage of Angel by Thierry Mugler, the best I've smelled so far.) But no black lips.

Onto the news. It's about Kim Kardashian's Stars-of-the-Silent-Era, Louise-Brooks inspired makeover by makeup artist Troy Jensen. I was interested in particular to learn how he did her black lips since the brand he exclusively used is Dior and they do not have a black lipstick out that I could remember...

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August 19, 2009

A Young Kate Moss Auditioning for L'Oreal


From the archives come two videos of a young Kate Moss auditioning for l'Oréal. There is a longer silent footage after the jump. In it she offers her profile to the camera at one point. In that moment she made me think of Marilyn Monroe. They look nothing alike 3/4 and from the front, but they have similar profiles...


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June 19, 2008

David Beckham •• Icon of Masculinity in Emporio Armani {Beauty Notes - Look of the Day}

 

Yesterday saw the unveiling of the new Emporio Armani underwear campaign fronted by soccer player David Beckham at Union Square Park in San Francisco, California.

Ads used to be called sexist when women were undressed on them; we don't know what people are going to be able to say about this one since there are now too many men offered as eye candies on adverts. Maybe, unfair to the average guy?

The strip tease begins, 

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May 7, 2008

Keith Richards for Louis Vuitton: Wrinkles That Fly {Look of the Day - Beauty Notes}

 
 
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Latest Vuitton advert shot by photographer Annie Leibowitz

 

In this day and age permeated with youth-oriented ideology it is so striking to see someone sporting their deep wrinkles proudly, even if a man, that Louis Vuitton decided to ask rocker Keith Richards to help them catch readers' and gawkers' attention in their new advert for their luxurious luggage line. It worked. Leafing through Vanity Fair, we had to take a pause and appreciate the Grand-Canyon style wrinkles, thinking that apart from Mother Theresa and an old peasant woman, it probably would not be considered as photogenic or charismatic with a feminine model......

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Look of the Day Archive

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Cat on Bien-Être Eau de Cologne à la Fleur d'Oranger (2011) {New Fragrance} : I MUST have this! I'm in Australia. Can I order it online?

Elcor on Dior Escale à Parati (2012): The Smell of Success {New Fragrance} {Short Perfume Review} : And have you seen Dior's latest promotional video feat. Depeche Mode music? ...

Vasily on Maison Martin Margiela Replica (2012) {New Perfume} : So basically they're replicating what Christopher Brosius has been doing for years ...

monique bondoin on Estee Lauder Youth-Dew Goes Retro Style: New Packaging = Updated Scent? {Fragrance News} {Perfume Review} : Where can I buy Youth dew in the classic blue bottle ? ...

Sharty on Musk Hall of Fame: A List of the Best &/or Most Talked About Musk Perfumes {Perfume List} {Perfume Short (Reviews)} : Hi just ran across your site. I found a store in the ...

DomesticGoblin on Fragrance News: More on Aura by Thierry Mugler : Did you manage to get your hands on this? I really want ...

Froufrou La Negre on Street Style: What Gendarmes Wear on May Day in Paris {Fashion Notes} : Mimi, that's what the French riot police wear EVERY day.

Mandy Aftel on Aftelier Sepia (2012): Like a Remembrance of Things Past Set in Gold Country {New Perfume} {Green Products} : Thank you so much Marie-Helene, I look forward to your review! - ...

emile edecent on Kiehls Launch New Aromatic Blends Collection of 4 (2012) {New Perfumes} : Really Kiehls???... i am guessing they must pay a royalty to le ...

dan fry on Kiehls Launch New Aromatic Blends Collection of 4 (2012) {New Perfumes} : wow, can't believe that Kiehl's would knock off LeLabo so exactly!! so ...

D.W.R. on Long Lost Crabtree & Evelyn Fragrance: Help Please {Ask The Readers} : Back in 1979 or so my favourite favourite scent which I wore ...

Susan on Zara Rosa Bulgara with Notes on Flor de Azahar, Lirio de Agua (2008) {Perfume Review} {New Fragrances} {Rose Notebook} : I love Zara's Lirio De Agua. I have looked and looked for ...

Flor on Yves Rocher Ode à L'Amour Passionnément! (2008) {New Perfume} : Quisiera saber si tiene el mismo olor de Ode á l'amour (digamos ...

Susan in Florida on Long Lost Crabtree & Evelyn Fragrance: Help Please {Ask The Readers} : While searching the web yet again looking for my long lost love, ...

karen on "Flanker" {Perfume Vocabulary} : I love these vocabulary posts.

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