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Brit Red and the Minions of Plaid

from teacake @ teacakery

After successfully ignoring the Burberry line for many years I have finally succumbed. Ever a wide-eyed child of advertising spin and my own imagination I have fallen for many a fragrance fantasy..You will be scary and maybe kinky and definitely sexy a…

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

pretty bottles with bad, bad contents

from teacake @ teacakery

Let me begin by saying that I am very proud of myself that I have never bought one of these beauties. I have been tempted. Just the other day I saw Live at a give-away price, the big wonderful bottle, and I didn’t even stop for another spray to try and…

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October 14, 2006 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 

A Room of One’s Own

from Zz @ An Artisan Perfumers Notebook

I am not a sloppy cook, sloppy worker, and generally get around to keeping things clean and tidy. Sometimes the work space gets a bit cluttered and needs a good spring clean. That is what has happened. Eventually I will have things more organized, but …

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October 14, 2006 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 

West Side

from Briana @ BOND NO.9 FRAGRANCES

 

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October 11, 2006 | Filed Under FRAGRANCES, Main Page | Comments Off 


Voices In My Head

from Zz @ An Artisan Perfumers Notebook

Usually when speaking of voices in ones head, it is almost always a drama where some crazed lunatic is channeling Satan, or claiming that his dead dog told him to do it.Truth is we all have a little voice in our head. Our official invisible pundit. The…

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October 10, 2006 | Filed Under Making Perfume | Comments Off 

Music to Your Nose: You’ve Heard the West Side—Now Smell It.

from Briana @ BOND NO.9 FRAGRANCES

            Draw a dividing line down the length of the island of Manhattan, and you have the West Side and the East Side.  The West Side has an unfair advantage: it’s long had a monopoly on music.  This part of town has been home to Carnegie Hall, Tin Pan Alley, the Cotton Club, the Copacobana, Birdland, Lincoln Center, Studio 54, and S.O.B.’s.  Mozart, Broadway musicals, and rock thrive here.  Bebop and disco just about got their start here.  So did meringue, salsa, and reggaeton.  Arturo Toscanini, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, John Lennon, Sid Vicious, Tina Turner, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, and Tupac have all lived or performed on Manhattan’s West Side.


          As for the flacon:  richly hued in red and blue, it of course displays the universal symbol of music—the curling treble clef.


         We’ve asked ourselves—What’s the sound of Bond No. 9’s West Side?  Are we talking The Platters’ version of Twilight Time, maybe? Lizst’s Piano Concerto No. 2.  Cole Porter’s Begin the Beguine?  Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue?  Philip Glass’s Koyaanisqatsi?  That’s just our nose at work.  Fragrance, like music, is open to interpretation.  Everyone who sniffs it will hear—and smell—a different melody of their own.


 



 

 

 


 

           

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October 6, 2006 | Filed Under Main Page | Comments Off