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Panning for Gold

from March @ Perfume Posse

I took a stumble through our local mega-mall recently, looking for something that didn’t bore me to tears, and buried in the dross were some gems. Join me.

First stop — Bloomingdale’s, where I was assisted by an SA who was informed but laughably unfriendly. Fortunately I keep …

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September 30, 2007 | Filed Under What Smells | Comments Off 

Scent of the Day

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Chene (2004) Serge LutensNotes: oak-bark tannin, cedarwood crystals, birch, immortelle flowers, wood saps, Tonka bean, rum absolute, black thyme, beeswaxSienna against oak, not dated, Andrea Johnson

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September 30, 2007 | Filed Under Perfume | Comments Off 


The Love Story XIX Angelic Neighbours

from Zita @ White Witch Perfumery Journal

This is the last episode in the series of stories about Rose and her journey of self discovery. We will have more in store in a couple of weeks time when we will take a look at the relationships of Ylang Ylang and her husband Cepes and Lavender and hus…

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September 30, 2007 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 

Post Secret

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.PostSecret

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September 30, 2007 | Filed Under Art, Oddities | Comments Off 

Fragrance Bouquet’s Top 5 for Fall

from Divina @ Fragrance Bouquet

What are you wearing this fall? Fragrance Bouquet and For the Love of Perfume are sharing their Autumnal loves for 2007 today. Are you going to stay and share your own loves with us? Have you brought out the big guns already? I am talking about the spices, of course! I’ll admit, I never really put them away – there’s always going to be a day when I need some spice in my life, even if it’s during

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September 30, 2007 | Filed Under Ambre Précieux, Annayake, Autumn, Ava Luxe, DSH, Fall top 5, Fragrance, Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier, Maître Parfumeur et Gantier, Miyako, Palisander, Perfume, Sequoia 7, Tsukimi, Van Cleef and Arpels, amber | Comments Off 


The Happiness Gap

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“It’s telling that there is also a happiness gap between boys and girls in high school. As life has generally gotten better over the last generation — less crime, longer-living grandparents and much cooler gadgets — male high school seniors have …

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September 30, 2007 | Filed Under Health, Isms, Society, Women, science | Comments Off 

Féminité du Bois

from Jenny @ Perfume making

I love this fragrance from Shiseido. This fragrance is based on woods, especially cedar wood. Other notes are not used to round off the accord, like it’s done in many classical fragrances, but they are used to deepen the main accord. I can’t find it i…

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September 30, 2007 | Filed Under Perfume Reviews | Comments Off 

Blushing Bouquet

from Divina @ Fragrance Bouquet

Mariuca, one of the most wonderful, sweetest people frequenting the web has awarded me with this “I’m Fabulous” award! Isn’t it lovely how its colors actually match the colors of my sidebar? It has found a permanent home above my search button. Thank you Mariuca, you’ve really made me happy :) And I know for a fact that you make so many others happy too - you spread happiness around. No, I don’t

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September 29, 2007 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 

Eau de Google

from Ayala Sender @ SmellyBlog

Any of you gentlemen even thought you might be spending too much time online? You’re not doing all the bad if you haven’t heard (or are wearing) this perfume yet…Online marketing for perfumes seems to go beyond the reach of the spider. Some of the ke…

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September 29, 2007 | Filed Under Gimmick, Google Eau de Toilette, Marketing Stunts | Comments Off 

Scent of the Day

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Obsession (1985) Calvin Kleinnotes: mandarin, bergamot, jasmine, rose, orange blossoms, coriander, tagete, armoise, amber, oakmossGirl in dress, undated, David Drebin

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September 29, 2007 | Filed Under Perfume | Comments Off 


Let It Rock

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.”Westwood gets parti…

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September 29, 2007 | Filed Under Art, Commentary, Style | Comments Off 

The Love Story XVIII: The Pulse of Love

from Zita @ White Witch Perfumery Journal

*The day after Rose’s night of passion with the French waitress Bergamot. Rose didn’t have time to nurse a hangover that day. She left “La Vigne Tremblante” (The Trembling Vine) restaurant after she drank her coffee and had eaten a fresh hot croissant …

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September 29, 2007 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 

Necklace

from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and Perfume

I’m considering purchasing this necklace. Opinions? What kind of neckline would suit this best?

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September 29, 2007 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 


The “Joyous Mistakes” of Armando

from Noteworthy Fragrances @ Noteworthy Fragrances

Introducing the redesigned website for Armando Martinez has been on the top of my ‘to do’ list for the past few days. And since I’ve taken a ’sanity break’ from the office today, it was at last time to get the review posted. The solitude of being awa…

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September 29, 2007 | Filed Under Parfums d' Armando, armando martinez | Comments Off 

Burma Inside Out

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

7 If you had to banish one public figure, who would it be? Although he’s not really a public figure, I would like to avenge myself on the warder who took money to smuggle 20 of my best abstracts out of jail, and then burned them because he was scared…

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September 29, 2007 | Filed Under Art, Commentary, Society | Comments Off 

the smell of soap

from Heather @ memory & desire

Soap Suds - by Louis MacNeice - This brand of soap has the same smell as once in the big House he visited when he was eight: the walls of the bathroom open To reveal a lawn where a great…

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September 29, 2007 | Filed Under musings, poems | Comments Off 

the smell of soap

from Heather @ memory & desire

Soap Suds - by Louis MacNeice - This brand of soap has the same smell as once in the big House he visited when he was eight: the walls of the bathroom open To reveal a lawn where a great yellow ball rolls back through a hoop To rest at the head of a ma…

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September 29, 2007 | Filed Under , Clean, musings, poems, soap | Comments Off 

Scent of the Day

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Dia (2003) AmouageTop notes: Aldehydes, Cyclamen, Bergamot Calabria, Violet leaves, Fig, Sage, Tarragon. Heart notes: Bush Peach Blossoms, Rose Oil Turkey, Orange Flower, Peony, Orris. Base notes: Gaiac Wood, Cedarwood, Sandalwood, Incense, Vanilla, He…

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September 29, 2007 | Filed Under Oddities, Perfume | Comments Off 

Samberg Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Crazy Delicious”Though much of his schtick screams “dork alert” (it should be noted that he is a major abbreviator — competition becomes “competish,” appropriate: “approps”) there is something very un-awk-weird about Samberg. And while he’s ever humbl…

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September 29, 2007 | Filed Under Film, Laughs, Oddities | Comments Off 

Miuccia Really Likes Flowers

from The non-blonde @ The Non-Blonde

These Prada shoes (and pants), shown in Milan fashion week, are so incredibly over-the-top, that I just can’t stop staring. I’m curious to see a (sane) wearable interpretation. I just might go for it.Photo: Antonio Calanni/Associated Press from the NY …

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September 28, 2007 | Filed Under Fashion, Fashion Week, Prada, shoes, spring 2008 | Comments Off 


Little Black Dress

from The non-blonde @ The Non-Blonde

Rihanna is perfection from the neck up, but this dress is a nip-slip waiting to happen. Also, I know everyone is as tired of hearing me say this just as much as I’m tired of maternity style dresses: Unless you really are with child, why would you choos…

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September 28, 2007 | Filed Under Celebrities, Dsquared2, Fashion, Fashion Week, Rihanna, spring 2008 | Comments Off 

Natural Perfumers Guild is Honored to Announce Author Celia Lyttelton is an Associate Member

from Anya @ Anya's Garden

Yes, this is the second time this week this image has appeared on this blog.When I blogged a few days ago on the wonderful book The Scent Trail that I had discovered, little did I imagine that within a few days the author Celia Lyttelton would join the…

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September 28, 2007 | Filed Under Celia Lyttelton, education on natural perfumes, natural perfumers guild, the scent trail | Comments Off 

Luctor and Don’t Emergo

from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume Blog

Are there perfumes that you just can’t stop trying to love? There are several such scents in my life. Some of them I try because they are Classics, great masterpieces that I feel I simply must like or else I am not a true fragrance lover and have no taste. Others are creations of brands and perfumers whom I adore and whose fragrances I ordinarily enjoy. And then there are some that sound so very

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September 28, 2007 | Filed Under Lists, Miscellaneous | Comments Off 

Good Luck Perfume

from Zz @ Liz Zorn

There is something to be said for simplicity. Connecting like experiences with like interpretations. As I have been working out Universal formulas for the “Fusionne” collection of perfumes, I decided to change the name of the collection. Looking back I…

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September 28, 2007 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 

David Byrne

from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and Perfume

Please have a look at David Byrne’s blog (of Talking Heads fame). It’s wonderful. http://journal.davidbyrne.com/

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September 28, 2007 | Filed Under Places | Comments Off 


The Scent of Desire by Rachel Herz

from Lucy @ indieperfumes

The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell, by Rachel Herz is a new book on the psychology of smell, that promises much — that is, to astonish as it informs. There are a number of things not commonly known about this most mysterio…

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September 28, 2007 | Filed Under Herz, sense memory | Comments Off 

Ma Folie de Noel by Dawn Spencer Hurwitz : Perfume Review

from Divina @ Fragrance Bouquet

Do you remember how easily reality could change into enchanted playgrounds when you were a child? Do you remember how the air itself in an old cellar could suddenly assume presence, cold and damp, smelling of something far away, possibly touched by wizardry? Creatures would lurk in shadows and treasures untold were waiting to be discovered in long disused drawers. With no adults around to break

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September 28, 2007 | Filed Under Aniseed, Cognac, DSH, Dawn Spencer Hurwitz, Fragrance, Ma Folie de Noel, My Christmas Folie, Opoponax, Perfume, Review, Star Anis, anis, sisley | Comments Off 


As many sensual perfumes as you can

from helg @ Perfume Shrine

Perfume Shrine has long worshipped at the altar of poet C.P.Cavafy. Sometimes it is just as well that he includes fragrant references in his unique poetry.Today I present you “Ithaca”, perhaps his most famous didactic poem, recited by Sir Sean Connery …

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September 28, 2007 | Filed Under baraka, cavafy, ithaca, poem, sean connery, vangelis | Comments Off 

Visages

from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and Perfume

These beautiful bottles (and compact) caught my eye in my browsings.Annick Goutal Songes EDPEmilio Pucci Vivara EDPEstee Lauder Intuition compactMi Angelic Gypsy perfume oilMissoni Limited Edition EDPNanette Lepore Lovebird

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September 28, 2007 | Filed Under Fragrance | Comments Off 

We have a winner!!

from helg @ Perfume Shrine

Like I had announced on the Perfume Quizz ~before the crash down that cost me so much time in restoring things~ there was to be the recipient of a bottle of italian perfume by a niche brand as a prize. The winner is Lea, who contacted me by email in th…

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September 28, 2007 | Filed Under Contest, The Body Shop, prize, white musk | Comments Off 

Autumn Blues

from Bryan @ Perfume Posse

I confess that I detest Fall. I mean come on…the trees are turning beautiful hues of red (my favorite color) only because they are starving themselves in preparation for frigid Winter. Lovely. The chill in the air that so many of my neighbors praise is only a …

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September 28, 2007 | Filed Under What Smells | Comments Off 

Three Great Ladies

from The non-blonde @ The Non-Blonde

When it comes to perfume, the ultimate luxury* for me is not a big name and a famous house but to wear a rare creation made by an artisan perfumer from the best raw materials. Today’s niche perfumery world offers quite a few options of this kind. Micha…

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September 27, 2007 | Filed Under Fragrance, Michael Storer, Perfume | Comments Off 

More Gifts and Freebies

from The non-blonde @ The Non-Blonde

It’s not just the big department stores that want to give us stuff in October. There are a couple of seriously cool draws and contests in magazines and blogs. Here’s the info:Elle Magazine makeover challenge: Give yourself a makeover, send the before a…

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September 27, 2007 | Filed Under Allure magazine, Contest, Elle Magazine, Giveaway | Comments Off 


Hotel Scents

from Vetivresse @ Vetivresse: Nosing Around in Wine, Scent & Style

In an interview of a few years back, cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum told ArtForum that if he could create his own perfume he would name it “Hotel” or “Standing Room Only.” When asked which word would best describe it, he answered simply “banquette.”…

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September 27, 2007 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 

Scent of the Day

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Encens et Lavande (1996) Serge LutensNotes: Lavender, Amber, Incense, SageJoyful Blue, 1998, Guo Jin

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September 27, 2007 | Filed Under Perfume | Comments Off 

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