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Scented Quote of the Day Archive
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 In the midst of the 1980s there were apparently and perhaps not surprisingly reactions to the larger trend of wearing Big Fragrances which were vocal enough to reach the ears of fashion editor Diana Vreeland. If Giorgio, Diva, Mon Parfum by Paloma Picasso, Ysatis, Kouros, Drakkar Noir etc. epitomized the era she knew then (Poison was yet to launch) to the point of saturation, sometimes giving rise to public opprobrium in restaurants, Diana Vreeland remained convinced based not only on her experience of the decade but of her whole life experience as she said so herself that perfumes with substantive sillages were the only way to go...
Continue reading "Scented Quote of the Day, from Diana Vreeland: The Lady who Loved Red and Strong Perfumes " »
 Ulysse remet Chryséis à son père, Claude LorrainAs you set out for Ithaka
hope the voyage is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon--don't be afraid of them:
you'll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
wild Poseidon--you won't encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you....
Continue reading "Scented Quote of the Day, from Constantine P. Cavafy:" »
 A Noble Lady of Venice by Lord Frederick Leighton, ca. 1865, Leighton House Museum and Gallery"...I shall venture to offer to ladies a few words of advice on the choice of their perfumes and cosmetics. I feel that this is delicate ground, but I shall endeavour to let my remarks be of a purely general character. The selection of a perfume is entirely a matter of taste, and I should no more presume to dictate to a lady which scent she should choose, than I would to an epicure what wine he is to drink ; ...
Continue reading "Scented Quote of the Day, from Eugene Rimmel: " »
 Image via Wikipedia Here is an excerpt from Ode to the Nightingale by John Keats which was written in the month of May 1819. In it, as the poet imagines his vision dimming with the passing of daylight, his sense of smell becomes all the more perceptive of the invisible presence of fruit and flora. The feeble light which comes to him is gloomy-green and smells of soft breezy mosses. " tender is the night,
And
haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Cluster'd around by all her
starry Fays;
But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven
is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways."...
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"Je suis triste de ne pouvoir photographier les odeurs. J'aurais voulu, hier, photographier celles de l'armoire à épicerie de grand-mère."
"I feel sad not to be able to photography aromas. I would have liked, yesterday, to photography those from grand-mother's spice cabinet."
 Ten years after having graduated from the school of perfumery ISIPCA, young perfumer Céline Lhéritier now at Colgate remembers how she fell in love with her chosen specialty: "A l'époque la parfumerie fonctionnelle était peu mise en avant, pourtant elle m'attirait davantage que la parfumerie fine. Il y a plus de défis à relever, techniques, réglementaires, budgétaires. Et puis on participe au réveil de quelqu'un dans sa salle de bains, alors que la parfumerie fine est plus élitiste. [...] Au Mexique par exemple, les détergents pour les sols sont très parfumés, car ils servent aussi de désodorisants d'intérieur."
Check out my translation after the jump...
Continue reading "Scented Quote of the Day, from Celine Lheritier: Why Functional Perfumery is Cool" »
 Le livre des propriétés des choses de Barthélémy l'Anglais, XVème siècle
The orchard was as beautiful as one could wish for:
In it all sorts of plants were growing
that I would be most incapable of naming to you;
but I can tell you without lying
that there were roses and other flowers
that exhaled mellifluous scents,
and spices of such virtues that
a bedridden person
crippled by sickness
would have left in full health, without any more infirmities
provided that person had slept in the orchard
one whole night...
Continue reading "Scented Quote of the Day, from a 13th Century French Poem:" »
 Herve This, a chemist specialist of molecular gastronomy, described what he calls the first molecular dish composed note by note, signed by his friend chef Pierre Gagnaire in Hong Kong in April 2009. It is dubbed Note à Note Numéro 1, because there will be more, and sounds like the name of a fine fragrance created by a super edgy nose (see picture above courtesy of pierregagnaire.com): "It is not something that is soft, nor is it liquid, but it includes various consistencies: pearls whose taste is reminiscent of apple and of the consistency of the pearls from Japan, a granité reminiscent of the taste of lemon, very fresh, the hull of a material reminiscent of caramel."
"Ce n'est pas quelque chose de mou, ni de liquide, mais il comprend
des consistances variées, perles au goût rappelant la pomme et la
consistance des perles du Japon, granité rappelant le goût de citron,
très frais, coque d'une matière rappelant le caramel",
You can read more about it in Le Monde, La cuisine, art moléculaire...
 Jacqueline Kennedy at JFK funeral by Andy Warhol
Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian whose work you might know through Le Male, Fleur du Male, Classique, or Gaultier2 by Jean Paul Gaultier, when asked about the relationship between cuisine and perfume and his conception of luxury put the stress on the role of emotion. He just opened his own house, Maison Francis Kurkdjian, in which he has started applying his personal ideas about perfume. Perfumes
goes beyond being a beautiful crystal object that smells good.
Perfume is only a matter of emotions: there isn't one that is better
than the other and it is not because an aroma is included in a cheaply priced
product that it is bad. Like for art, one can be touched by a canvas
without it necessarily bearing the signature of Francis Bacon.
Everything is perfumed in our environments, but this accumulation must be relevant. It therefore requires an approach that is more transverse.
To take up the challenge of entering the universe of perfumes as one
would the world of interior decoration, with a large collection, and to
turn perfume into an art of living which touches both the intimate and
the universal, this is precisely my idea of luxury.
Et quelle est-elle ? [à propos de son idée du luxe]
Le parfum va au-delà d'un bel objet en cristal qui sent bon. Le parfum
n'est qu'une question d'émotions : il n'y en a pas un meilleur que
l'autre, et ce n'est pas parce qu'une odeur est incluse dans un produit
qui ne coûte pas cher qu'elle est mauvaise. Comme pour l'art, on peut
être touché par une toile sans qu'elle soit forcément signée Francis
Bacon. Tout est parfumé dans nos environnements, mais cette
accumulation doit être pertinente. Elle exige donc une approche plus
transversale. Faire le pari de rentrer dans l'univers du parfum comme
dans celui de la décoration intérieure, avec une collection étendue,
faire du parfum un art de vivre qui touche l'intime comme l'universel,
voilà mon idée du luxe....
Continue reading "Interview with Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian: 2 Scented Quotes of the Day on Perfume and Emotion" »
"It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves."
"On this day each year, I soak the previous year's calendar in my mother's favorite perfume and then set it ablaze. Here's to a fresh start."
Twittered on January 1st, 2009
Photo credit: karllagerfeld.com
 Marguerite Duras -- Academy Awards both © Richard Avedon
The perfume industry is struggling with official definitions of authorship. Compared with the movie industry which is much more mature on this topic, I think it is fair to say that the perfume industry is experiencing more soul-searching because it is both so ancient in traditions and so modern in technological means and scale of production. Having evolved from an artisanal craft to become a scientific discipline in many cases, the shift in mentalities is not always easy to process. Perfumer Laurent Le Guernec offers a look into the humane complexities of a trade that has thrived for centuries based on secrecy and insiders' knowledge. I you read Guy Robert's book Les Sens du Parfum garner insights from some practitioners of the trade, you realize that perfumers were and are actually in the habit of sharing their knowledge, but perhaps not in having to systematically work on one of those "committee-perfumes" that have become a little bit like perfume Taylorism in order to keep up with the pace of new launches....
Continue reading "Scented Quote of the Day, from Perfumer Laurent Le Guernec:" »
 "Here they are, they've come, those peonies you say smell like a rose, themselves the forerunners of the earliest rose. Give them plenty of water, these gorgeous corollas, which indeed have something of the rose about them, something, but not its scent. Garnet-red, cheerful pink, sentimental pink and three or four other carmines, they are all of a healthy colour and will rejoice my heart throughout the week...
Continue reading "Scented Quote of the Day, from Colette: On Peonies" »
 " WHAT INSPIRES YOU FOR YOUR WORK?I believe that
from the age of eight everything is done--that is to say, everything is
filed away. The rest is to be remembered. After this age of reason...what
we have seen, what we have loved, it is all the same. These memories
are found. Creation for me is not an idea. Ideas are nothing....
Continue reading "Scented Quote of the Day, from Serge Lutens:" »
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