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The Lost Perfumes: Agnona

from Gaia, The non-blonde @ The Non-Blonde

A long, long time ago Italian fashion label Agnona had a perfume. This label is part of the Ermenegildo Zegna Group and is known for using luxurious materials and classic designs. The looks are very Italian, just not in a Versace way. Looking at their …

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November 30, 2007 | Filed Under Agnona, Fashion, Fragrance, Perfume, discontinued products | Comments Off 


Immortelle l’Amour Tea

from Ayala Sender @ SmellyBlog

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Immortelle l’Amour Tea, originally uploaded by Ayala Moriel. I’ve had the plea…

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November 30, 2007 | Filed Under Immortelle l'Amour, Organic Tea, Rooibos Tea, Vanilla | Comments Off 

Scent of the Day

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Dianthus (2006) EtroNotes: carnation, orange, geranium, rose, clove, ginger, red pepper, Atlas cedarwood, musk, vanillaWhiteface, 2007, Trent Edwards

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November 30, 2007 | Filed Under Perfume | Comments Off 

The Sensuous

from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume

“What would happen if there were a glad acceptance of the sensuous in all forms? If we could rediscover our hands, eyes and ears, our tongues and noses, and then enjoy them without embarrassment.”- Ben ThompsonImage at left ©Greg Spalenka www.spalenka…

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November 30, 2007 | Filed Under sensorium, sensuous | Comments Off 

Caron Or Et Noir

from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and Perfume

I’m deep into my current ‘gothy-rose’ phase, fueled no doubt by a dream back in October of a room full of roses in a French monastery scriptorium. (No, I’m not kidding! My dreams are sometimes akin to Hollywood scripts, often bad ones.)I recently had t…

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November 30, 2007 | Filed Under Fragrance | Comments Off 

Powerful quote

from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com

I thought this quote had both teeth and power. So often when unfortunate things happen folks say the latter phrase which is hardly helpful.
Karin
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. -James Kern Feibleman, philosopher and psychiatrist […]

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November 30, 2007 | Filed Under Just thinking, Quotations | Comments Off 

A good insult

from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com

This was an Internet forward, but the cleverness of some of these was worth passing along. I did not check out every author to see if they were the real source. I know I always appreciate a quote from George Bernard Shaw and Gertrude Stein.
Karin

Ahh, a good insult is like . . . […]

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November 30, 2007 | Filed Under Guest writer, Just thinking | Comments Off 


Winner of Tigresse Sample

from Divina @ Fragrance Bouquet

Goodmorning!

The winner of last week’s Tigresse sample is Parisa! As usual, I used the list function found on www.random.org to get a random winner result. Parisa, please email me with your details and I will be sending out your packet on Monday.

xx,

Divina

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November 30, 2007 | Filed Under Sample, Tigresse, draw, winner | Comments Off 

Bond no.9 Christmas Gifts

from helg @ Perfume Shrine

“For Holiday 2007 Bond No. 9 Has Finally Gone Over The Top!” This is motto for this holiday season over at Bond no.9. And whatever preferences you have there has to be something that will please the eye, at least, for sure.The presentation is very luxe…

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November 30, 2007 | Filed Under Christmas, bond no.9, candle, gift, limited edition, saks fifth avenue, silver factory | Comments Off 

Gold leaves

from Andy @ perfumery

Please make sure you are checking in tomorrow! Starting tomorrow, this blog will feature sand dunes, a mountain and a few surprises.
But beforehand: I continue wondering about luxury these days, now that a super-trooper perfume is launched exclusively in Zurich. Super trooper as it tops what we have defined so far as luxury; we are […]

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


Perfume Review: CB I Hate Perfume In The Library and Demeter Paperback…plus a small prize draw and a short poll

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

Today I salute my fellow bookworms. In search of a perfume that would smell like a just-printed-just-received-from-amazon tome (a little acid, crisp, almost clean in a way), like an old, old book found in an antique bookstore (dump and a little incensey) or as an library in general, preferably The Bodleian Library in particular (a little musty, a little dusty, a little leathery, old-worldly,

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November 30, 2007 | Filed Under CB I Hate Perfume, Demeter, Prize Draws | Comments Off 

The Alton Brown Approach to Skin Care- Biotherm Biosource 3-in-1

from Gaia, The non-blonde @ The Non-Blonde

If you’re familiar with Food Network guru Alton Brown (who finally lost that unfortunate facial hair. Hallelujah), you know that he claims that the only kitchen tool allowed to be a “unitasker” is the fire extinguisher. It saves kitchen space, that’s f…

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November 29, 2007 | Filed Under Biotherm, cleanser, skin care, toner | Comments Off 

Winner - Iris Gris & shameless Posse

from Patty @ Perfume Posse

It is Hottie Friday, and it’s time to remind everyone that Christian Bale is simply the most gorgeous thing intheworldperiod.

And speaking of obsessions, and because I’m always thinking about you guys, and my obsession is your obsession, plus we can feed the world with this trifling obsession, just head over to …

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November 29, 2007 | Filed Under Perfume Review | Comments Off 

Burning The Midnight Oil

from Zz @ Liz Zorn

Last night I went to bed with a stack of perfumery books, my notes and the first trials of Domino Viole’ (the violet scent that I have had an off again on again relationship with over the past months). I decided to rework the main heart accord, and r…

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

Ingrid Michaelson, You take me the way I am

from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com

I love, love, love this song, first heard in the movie theater as part of the advertisements.
Karin

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November 29, 2007 | Filed Under Music | Comments Off 

Never Let a Good Deed Go Unpunished

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

A British teacher has been found guilty in Sudan of insulting religion after she allowed her primary school class to name a teddy bear Muhammad. Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, has been sentenced to 15 days in prison and will then be deported. …

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November 29, 2007 | Filed Under Isms, Oddities, Society | Comments Off 

Scent of the Day

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Cuir Mauresque (1996) Serge LutensNotes: amber, myrrh, burnt styrax, leather, incense, cinnamon, aloe wood, cedar, civet, nutmeg, clove, cumin, musk, mandarin peel, orange blossomLes Femmes du Maroc 14, 2005, Lalla Essaydi

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November 29, 2007 | Filed Under Perfume | Comments Off 


Poem

from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and Perfume

Following Dylan…yikes how foolish!Where Autumn Goes Clouds, goblin grayCluster like dirty cotton-bollsCaught in the bony fingersOf trees and telephone poles.Sap-thinn’d rosebushLeaves dried and curled hangFrom leggy stems, near the fenceWhere summer …

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November 29, 2007 | Filed Under Poetry | Comments Off 

The origins of the olfactory theory of Shape?

from helg @ Perfume Shrine

If anyone is at all familiar with the theory of perfume breakdown and the notion of searching for how the sense of smell works, then that one is familiar with the conflict between the standard theory of Shape versus Luca Turin’s theory of Vibration; th…

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November 29, 2007 | Filed Under linda buck, luca turin, lucretius, nobel prize, richard axel, shape, smell, theory | Comments Off 

Aromatherapy for Bodyworkers

from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume

Yesterday was spent all day at the massage school teaching aromatherapy. It was a full class of really lovely students eager to learn. I find with large classes it becomes more of a challenge to cover all the material and answer their questions.The new…

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November 29, 2007 | Filed Under Books, aromatherapy | Comments Off 

New Poison Ring for Sale

from Ayala Sender @ SmellyBlog

The Tiger’s Eye ring was sold in a blink of an eye… I’m now offering another unusual Mexican poison ring. This one has an Onyx stone with a tinge of Tiger-eye at the edges. This is an adjustable poison ring from Mexico.Unusual, asymmetric design, wit…

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November 29, 2007 | Filed Under Creme Parfum, Perfume Jewelry, Poison Ring | Comments Off 

Lancome Contest

from helg @ Perfume Shrine

Perusing the official sites of perfume and cosmetics companies is always fun, but it is double fun when one stumbles upon quizzes, contests and gift finders. One such case is the Canadian Lancome site, which has been online since 2001 and is offering t…

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November 29, 2007 | Filed Under Contest, Lancôme, lancome | Comments Off 

Condition Branding & Astroturfing

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Biobabble & Doubletalk”[D]rug makers earn their enormous profits from a very few market-leading products for which new applications are continually sought. If those uses don’t turn up through experimentation or serendipity, they can be conjured by …

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November 29, 2007 | Filed Under Books, Isms, Psychology | Comments Off 


The Birth of Fast Food

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“It was loneliness- that sense of deep alienation from one’s true home and community - that drove people to begin to eat out en masse.The popularity of the cafetaria in L.A. was primarily due to the loneliness of the people. It was a friendlier type of…

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November 29, 2007 | Filed Under Literature, Society, Urbanities | Comments Off 

life signs

from Andy @ perfumery

No post today, but a life sign from the “bottle on a journey”…..
A green, very green post on the Non Blonde Blog (thank you!)
more here on the Non-Blonde Blog

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

Double Perfume Review: Frapin Caravelle Epicee, Esprit de Fleurs, Passion Boisee and Terre de Sarment

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

…or a Double Dose of Grumpiness

Esprit de Fleurs

Tom:

Esprit de Fleurs is written of as “airy and crystalline”. It is airy, a pleasant bergamotty thing, with a bit of grapefruit and a bare hint of pepper. That accord also has the lasting power of a fruit fly; the scent then morphs into a light woodiness that’s very pleasant.

Marina:

Dry, green floral with a bit of a citrusy sparkle,

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November 29, 2007 | Filed Under Frapin, Guest Posters, Joint Projects, New Releases 2007, Tom | Comments Off 

Canada’s Glow Magazine features natural perfumery

from Anya @ Anya's Garden

The Winter 2007 issue of Glow, a beauty and fashion magazine published in Toronto, features an article “Two Scents” that yours truly is quoted in on the subject of natural perfumery. They give equal time to Thierry Wasser, perfumer with Firmenich, and …

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November 28, 2007 | Filed Under Anya McCoy, Firmenich, Natural Perfumery, Thierry Wasser, glow magazine, magazine article, synthetic perfumery | Comments Off 


Vanilla and Smoke

from March @ Perfume Posse

In my fragrance journeys I’ve had a chance to consider and reconsider my relationship with all sorts of individual notes in perfume. My carefully constructed belief system regarding vanilla as a dominant note is: no thanks. Vanilla people are different from you and me (well, me, anyway). Vanilla …

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November 28, 2007 | Filed Under Perfume Review | Comments Off 

Accordions: Andy Warhol Silver Factory and Fumerie Turque

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

The traditional fragrance pyramid contains one flaw: unyielding linearity. To say that, on application, a scent is concentrated at a single point from which it then expands in three distinct stages, is too simplistic. Certainly, if pressed, we can all …

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Would you buy a dress from this woman?

from Gaia, The non-blonde @ The Non-Blonde

Fur and fug? The camel and the camel toe?It’s just too easy.Photo: TMZ.Copyright ©2006-2007 The Non-Blonde, under the author’s name. Content poaching is both illegal and ugly.

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November 28, 2007 | Filed Under Celebrities, Donatella Versace, Fashion, atrocities | Comments Off 

Scent of the Day

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Cuir de Lancome (1936/2007)Topnotes: bergamot, mandarin, saffron; heartnotes: jasmine, ylang-ylang, hawthorn, patchouli; basenotes: orris, birch, and styrax.The Engulfments of Change, 2006, Lydia Dona

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Genius is Never Irrelevant

from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and Perfume

Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind,Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky…

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November 28, 2007 | Filed Under Art | Comments Off 

Anya’s Garden Kaffir and Temple

from helg @ Perfume Shrine

We have dabbled in Anya’s Garden, an artisan natural perfumery stationed in Miami Shores, Florida USA before, here at the Shrine. We were really taken with her wild-hearted Fairchild and consider Pan to be one of the most unique things to ever grace th…

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November 28, 2007 | Filed Under Anya's Garden, Fairchild, Lime, Oud, Pan, Review, kaffir, naturals, review, temple | Comments Off 

Heliotrope : Two Sides of the Same Coin

from Divina @ Fragrance Bouquet

Opinions seem to be split down the middle when it comes to heliotrope. Some love it and seek its warm, comforting scent, while others hate it with a passion, reporting aversive reactions to it. Rarely are there any indifferent comments to be found when it comes to heliotrope scents. But that is a good thing, isn’t it? Something that sparks such intense emotions, whether these belong to one side

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November 28, 2007 | Filed Under Almond, Cookie, Etro, Floral, Fragrance, Gourmand, Heliotrope, L.T. Piver, Perfume, Play-Doh, Review, Soft, review, skin scent | Comments Off 


About NATURE’S NEXUS!

from Zita @ White Witch Perfumery Journal

Ireland seems to be behind when it comes to websites, internet shopping, and using information technology. A lot of people still like to do things the “old way”, like faxing and the old dog and bone. Nothing wrong with that, but I often feel that peop…

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

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