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Scented Quote of the Day Archive
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 Singer Justin Timberlake
speaks during the 23rd annual American Cinematheque show honoring
Samuel L. Jackson held at Beverly Hilton Hotel on December 1, 2008 in
Beverly Hills, California.
So we know Justin Timberlake does not like the idea of having a signature fragrance added to the celebs scents pool. He however is the face for Play and Play Intense by Givenchy which he wears apparently from time to time because girlfriend Jessica Biel is reported to like how it smells on him. Here is what the singer had to say about how he got into the Givenchy fragrance deal and what his basic perfume-wearing philosophy is. In this respect he is a spiritual cousin of Matthew McConaughey...
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 After the surge of shamelessly self-promoting, attention-seeking celebs - the most numerous contingent, apparently - we get to hear from the less egotistical ones, apparently. The other day Justin Timberlake said he couldn't dream of making a celebrity perfume bearing his name, it would feel so fake and navel-gazing an enterprise. Now Emma Thompson reveals she is of the same breed: just the thought of putting her name on a fashion label and perfume bottle for the sake of narcissistic self-celebration makes her want to puke...
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 In Berlin on July 1, 2009 for the presentation of William Rast at the Bread & Butter fashion trade show.
Asked if he would develop a Justin Timberlake fragrance, the singer answered in the context of a wave of celebrity fragrances and after having posed for Givenchy Play and Play Intense colognes: "There's some level of
narcissism you have to put in check. I don't know that I would be
completely comfortable with a my-name fragrance," "It feels like cheating,
almost. It doesn't seem like you're creating anything... I could see
doing a William Rast* fragrance, but that's as far as I think I'll
take it,"
*William Rast is the name of his new line of clothing
 "Without permitting anyone else to lay a hand on him, the lady herself washed Salabaetto all over with soap scented with musk and cloves. She then had herself washed and rubbed down by the slaves. This done, the slaves brought two fine and very white sheets, so scented with roses that they seemed like roses; the slaves wrapped Salabaetto in one and the lady in the other and then carried them both on their shoulders to the bed . . . They then took from the basket silver vases of great beauty, some of which were filled with rose water, some with orange water, some with jasmine water, and some with lemon water, which they sprinkled upon them. After which they refreshed themselves with boxes of sweetmeats and the finest wines."
In Boccaccio's Decameron (14th century) translated by Richard Aldington
 "Glazman said living at the age of six in Russia, there were only two fragrances on the market and both were called Red Moscow. In a country where "everybody smelled the same," Glazman recalled one particular morning, when he and his mother rode in a cab in their pajamas for a half hour to buy French fragrance (which cost about one month's salary) on the black market. "There was this magic moment where her rollers fell off, the pajamas disappeared and we're standing there. I was a prince, she was a queen." Glazman said of his mother. Glazman admitted the power of scent drew him into the industry. "It starts with dreaming; it is a journey," said Glazman. "To deliver the true experience from beginning to end, it always comes from that place of passion. There has to be a reason and an emotional connection to the product."
Lev Glazman is co-founder and director of R & D for Fresh.Quoted and written by Belisa Silva at WWD; poster via communisme-bolchevisme.net
 American men's grooming company Baxter of California will introduce two new scents from mid-April 2009 inspired in name only by the original Bravado cologne launched in the early 1970s. In fact, the new owner Jean-Pierre Mastey knew he didn't want the new Bravados to smell anything like the earlier woodsy-floral cologne which has been retired for 7 years. He turned to fragrance supplier Belmay who blended the original to archive Bravado and create 2 and 3. Bravado 2 and Bravado 3 are described as being both "... light and sophisticated scents designed to fringe on unisex."... 
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 A 1981 ad for Dioressence by famous illustrator Gruau
Here follows an interesting quote from perfumer Guy Robert (Calèche, Dioressence, Madame Rochas, Monsieur Rochas, Amouage Gold, The Pink Room...) about the role of marketing in perfumery seen in a more positive light than is usual to convey. It has become a little bit bon ton perhaps, and conformist even, to decry marketing and oppose it to Art with a capital letter as if they were enemies. I think that Robert's thinking is a more balanced assessment of the historic role of marketing, which one can't ignore, in shaping the destinies of perfume as we know it. This insight helps to surmount over-simplistic dichotomies and make us realize that the object we love as perfume is beholden to the progress of that branch of perfumery too...
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 Found a little jewel in a book from the first part of the 19th century recounting an interesting use of Eau de Cologne. Eau de Cologne could be used or was used once as an alcoholic drink by sailors aboard a ship short on rum. They had the idea of drinking it with water and sugar and called it a Cologne-Sling then sang its praises. The song reveals the sailors' resourcefulness. At the time, it would have appeared unusual but not outlandish an approach as Eau de Cologne was ingurgitated as a medecine in that era. I would love to know the air on which this sailors' drinking song was sung. "EAU DE COLOGNE, OR THE NOVEL BEVERAGE.
Our ancient poets sung the praise
Of nectar and of wine,
And made us believe their influence
Was god-like and divine;
But I'll embrace another theme,
A novel one I own :
In random verse I now chaunt forth
The praises of cologne....
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 About perfumers, "There's hardly any perfumer where you know his face," "We're
silent stars if you want. You can go anywhere you want, nobody's going
to point you out and say 'this guy made the last Givenchy or Dior' or
whatever. So nobody really knows us."
Source: WWD Feb 25, 2009
 All photos in the post © A.K./The Scented Salamander
A. K. sent us some pictures taken from the new fashion exhibition in Paris entitled Sous L'Empire des Crinolines (Under The Influence of Crinolines). They were taken during a private viewing on inauguration night, with a cell-phone, which gives you an instantaneous reportage quality and casts on the gowns a crystalline light and opaline-like finish, adding to the sense of distance in time while turning them into never-before-seen modern snapshots of antique fashion, taken on the quick. In that era, the famous perfumers of the day were Guerlain, Coudray, L.T. Piver, Lubin, Houbigant, Gellé Frères... But beyond a short-list of names, we have a passage from La Curée (The Kill) by Emile Zola (translation by Brian Nelson) which beautifully conveys some of the atmosphere and habitual practices in the arenas of fashion and perfume under the Second Empire in Paris as character Maxime visits the great couturier of the second empire, Worms (the fictionalized character of Charles Frederick Worth).  Summer gowns
In fact fashion and perfume here seem to become one under Zola's pen, whose writing as usual offers uncanny evocative power based on and prepared beforehand by meticulous ethnographic research (he would routinely note down in his notebooks the smells he encountered in his literally, fieldwork trips). One should also note that the fashions of the time were said to have become so
ostentatious that an observer reported that it had become nearly
impossible to distinguish an honest bourgeoise woman from a peripatetician
based on their outfits alone. Scented Quote of the Day from Emile Zola: "This quaint little creature (Maxime), who during his English lessons read the prospectuses which his perfumer sent him every Friday, could have delivered a brilliant lecture on the fashions of Parisian high society, customers and purveyors included, at an age when country urchins are too shy to look their housemaids in the face. Often, on his way home from school, he would bring back in his tilbury a bonnet, a box of soap, or a piece of jewelry which his stepmother had ordered the day before. He always had a strip of musk-scented lace in his pockets...
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 "Dylan McAfee, (...) in second grade at Georgetown
Day, met Mrs. Obama last Monday and has been star-struck ever since. " I
touched her hand and she smelled like cherries,"...
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 Sean "Diddy" Combs who has a reputation as being a cocky personality is going to fuel further this perception when people read what he had to say regarding his new fragrance I Am King, "When you see Barack Obama, you see a strong, elegant black man and
when people see my ad, it's almost like that's the trend," he said in
an interview." (WSJ)
 Kate Moss who already launched two perfumes under her name, Kate and Velvet Hour, is now saying "why not?" to a fragrance featuring a gasoline accord, "I remember loving that smell when I was young. I've heard it's one
of the most preferred scents in the world, maybe that's something to
study for my next fragrance. Sometimes natural smells are the best. I
really love the smell of bacon in the morning and coffee."She added, "Worryingly, my daughter Lila loves the smell of
gasoline, too--she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm
filling up the car."
Gasoline indeed has a nice scent and it is all we might be left with when the wells run dry. Check out Comme des Garçons Garage for its Kerosene note. And I can't believe it, but Demeter does not have a gasoline perfume yet (or did they retire it?) Via Gossip Girls
 Picture of the English adaptation of Lovers' Vows by Elizabeth Inchbald
"Enter Count Count: Ah, bon jour, mon colonel. Fair lady, I kiss your hand. (Amelia curtsies and returns no answers) Baron: Good morning! Good morning! But, My Lord, it is almost noon. In the country, you must learn to rise at an earlier hour. Count: Pardonnez, mon Colonel. I rose soon after your great clock struck six? But my homme de chambre was guilty of a betise, which has driven me to absolute despair; a loss, which pour le moment cannot be repaired...
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