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BPAL Project: Come to Me

from teacake @ teacakery

When dipping into my imp supply I like to vary how I go about testing them. Sometimes I look up a few oils to avoid testing too many in the same vein in a row. Often I am feeling adverse to a certain kind of scent, gourmand or lavendar or any manner of…

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July 31, 2006 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 

BPAL Project: Snake Oil Revisited

from teacake @ teacakery

My first BPAL review was of Snake Oil, the lab’s most popular scent. I was very unimpressed. I did note though that I had at least two samples of Snake Oil and that there was much discussion in BPAL land about the wondrous ageing qualities of this oil….

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July 29, 2006 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 

BPAL Project: Mata Hari

from teacake @ teacakery

“Five roses with soft jasmine, warmed by vanilla, fig, tonka bean and mahogany, spiced with a drop of coffee bean.”*SOBS*Look at these beautiful, beautiful notes! Oh My Goodness and other creamy things, how to seduce an oriental lover with near edible …

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July 29, 2006 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 

A Favorite Fragrance Ad: Egoiste Platinum Chanel

from teacake @ teacakery

A Fabulous Ad!Surprising, almost hilarious, evocative. I am sure this fellow read The Magus far too many times in high school, with much underlining.”Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.”John Fowles

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July 28, 2006 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 


BPAL Project: Numb

from teacake @ teacakery

Anaesthetic. I feel it should be applied with a swab, prior to a ‘procedure’. Designed to wear in sweltering heat it does have a cooling effect, but so does an alcohol bath. If you find antiseptic soothing this may agree with you; but don’t forget it o…

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July 27, 2006 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 

BPAL Project: Verchernyaya

from teacake @ teacakery

A little whiskey..A little tobaccy..A little patchouli..A little post-coital sweetness.. or perhaps a little poppy seed paste.This is a comfort scent that dries down to furs and lingering stories. I like it very very much. The poppy is that of poppy se…

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July 26, 2006 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 

String Theory, Bees and Perfume

from Zz @ An Artisan Perfumers Notebook

Last night as I flipped through the channels, all eight of them for us. We do not have cable. I came across the PBS show Nova, a repeat of The Elegant Universe installment on String theory. I decided to watch it again, even though as a science junkie, …

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July 19, 2006 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 

Bottling The Scent of Bronzing

from Briana @ BOND NO.9 FRAGRANCES

   



FIRE ISLAND


           Imagine freshly bathed skin, doused with a coating of premium Euro-sunscreen, then warmed up by a midday siesta on the beach—and the sensual stirrings of a body in heat.  That’s the premise behind Fire Island, the latest eau de parfum by Bond No. 9, purveyor of New York-centric neighborhood scents.


            Fire Island is an experiential scent—the beach equivalent of Proust’s madeleine dunked in tea.  In this case, the memories conjured up are the sights, the touch, the smell of soaking up the sun the old-fashioned way—lying naked, or close to it, on the beach.  We know, we know:  Those UV rays aren’t safe.  So we thought, why not approximate the smell of skin in the sun,and recapture the bronzing sensation within the safety of a scent?  To make Fire Island authentic, we took a risk and summoned forth the distinctive spicy-sweet aroma of the most sought-after of vintage Euro-bronzing oils—whose iconic smell has wafted all across the Mediterranean, summer after summer, for decades, defining the body on display, with its daydream hints of sex on the beach.  Even when savored at a respectable distance, Fire Island is a reminder of skin sniffed up close. 


            This scent’s barrier-island namesake, 90 minutes from Manhattan by train and ferry, is the hideaway where New Yorkers come in droves to let their hair down and uncover their skin.  Fire Island may be made of sand dunes, but it’s got distinctive New York-esque neighborhoods (Kismet … Saltaire … Atlantique), a heavy-duty night-life, shopping (natch), and a history, in the 1920s, as a Bohemian retreat.  In other words, it’s home not too far away from home.  So it’s a legitimate part of our scent repertory.


      For its flacon, we colored our superstar bottle a sunburst golden-yellow, adding a contrasting deep ocean-blue at the center of our signature token.  The rest?  Pure sunshine. 


                                         Launch Date:  July 1st 2006


 Suggested Retail Prices:


Besides being available in its 3.4 oz. superstar bottle in a box presentation ($178), and 1.7 oz. travel size ($110), Fire Island may be purchased by the ounce ($45), either in a 2-ounce basic spray flacon with gilt honeycomb cap ($25), in an array of fashion colored bottles ($40 - $70) or in our unique vintage or art bottles, featured in a wide variety of designs ($60 - $200).



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July 18, 2006 | Filed Under Main Page | Comments Off 

Alpha Sampler

from Zz @ An Artisan Perfumers Notebook

Any one who wears fine perfume, knows that sampling is the best way to try out new fragrances. The cost is low, and one is not stuck with a big bottle of something that they do not care for. As such our Alpha 5 Sampler, has a trial sized vial of each A…

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July 12, 2006 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off