My partner-in-crime, Brian, who co-writes I Smell Therefore I Am with me, is the best because he puts up with my incessant emails about perfume. I’ve noticed, from reading the email threads back and forth between the two of us that my taste in perfume has begun to change. I wonder if this happens to other perfume-addicts? Eight years ago I would never have longed to wear Tabac Blond, Bandit,
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Bring on the Earthy Scents
August 13th, 2008 — , Ava Luxe, Bandit, Caron Tabac Blond, Montale Black Aoud, Serge Lutens, earthy fragrances from Abigail @ I Smell Therefore I Am
Dandy of the Day: Jane Bowles
July 31st, 2008 — , Bandit, Heeley Fine Leather, Jane Bowles, John Ashberry, Paul Bowles, Truman Capote from Abigail @ I Smell Therefore I Am
Wife of Paul, and famously lesbian, Jane Bowles was a fascinating anomaly. How to explain the relationship between these two authors; both equally queer? Jane’s writing was often (and even now) overshadowed by Paul’s (The Sheltering Sky, et al), yet in some ways her work was perfectly comfortable in the dark. Her wryly comic characters smuggle ferocious idiosyncrasies. In “Camp Cataract”, a
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July 6th, 2008 — , Bandit, Gender, Habanita, Habit Rouge, M7, Tom Ford, nu from Abigail @ I Smell Therefore I Am
Much has been made of Nu’s unisex appeal. There’s no mistaking the floral accord, but the alleged white orchid here is no more prevalent than the iris in Dior Homme, and tempered similarly by contrasting influences (in Dior’s case, leather; in Nu’s, pepper and incense). Both have a heavy waft of powder about them. Is powder feminine? Someone tell Habit Rouge. This is a tiresome line of argument,
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July 3rd, 2008 — , Bandit, Body Kouros, Etienne Aigner, K de Krizia, Le Feu D'Issey, Magie Noire, Mariah, Maurice Roucel, Montana, yohji from Abigail @ I Smell Therefore I Am
I can spend hours in the Korean-owned fragrance store here in town, going without food, water, sleep, or even contact with the outside world. The place has been a total education for me. Within a short three months I’ve been able to smell dozens of p…
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June 25th, 2008 — , Antoine Lie, Antoine Maisondieu, Bandit, Dior Addict, Etat Libre d'Orange, Jasmine et Cigarette, Rien, luca turin from Abigail @ I Smell Therefore I Am
Set two Etat Libre D’Orange boxes back to back, with their red and blue, semi-circle logos, and you get a bulls-eye in the middle, an interesting sight gag for a niche line whose compositions tend toward the oblique. The names, too, sidle up to you …
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Super-heroines and the Senses
May 11th, 2008 — , Bandit, Midnight Violet, Shalimar, jolie madame, mitsouko from Lucy @ indieperfumes
During a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, I chanced upon an exhibit of exquisitely beautiful super-heroine costumes. (There are some super heroes too, but that is another story — these MMA essays are fascinating). The designs i…
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Outlaws and Brigands: Bandit by Piguet
January 21st, 2008 — Bandit, Chypre, Review, Robert Piguet, germaine cellier, leather series, review from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
It was 1944, when WWII was at its most crucial stages with the battle of Monte Cassino, the fall of Rome to the Allies, the maiden flight of the Bristol Brigand and subsequently D-day that Robert Piguet had sent his models down the runway brandishing knives, toy revolvers and masks like highwaymen, like outlaws. And it was this occasion that prompted Germaine Cellier to grab the models’ knickers
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December 7th, 2007 — Bandit, Labdanum, birch, cade, castoreum, cuir de russie, juniper, leather series, quinoline, safraleine, scandal from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
Rendering a leather note in perfumery is a challenge for the perfumer who must coax this difficult and cult note into submission to make it sing with the rest of the composition. Production relies on two different courses: naturally derived and synthes…
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November 7th, 2007 — Bandit, Chypre, Leather, cabochard, christian dior, dior series, diorama, diorling, paul vacher from helg @ Perfume Shrine
If Diorama is synonymous to a classical goddess, then Dioling is fit for a dark Rennaisance angel. This supremely elegant leather chypre that saw the light of the day in 1963 is one of the rare beauties that have such smooth contours, so velvety a shee…
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Coty Chypre: fragrant pilgrimage and review
October 8th, 2007 — Bandit, Caron, Chypre, Coty, Guerlain, aphrodite, archaic, christian dior, cubism, edmond roudnitska, fauves, l'origan, la rose jacqueminot, mitsouko, oakmoss, picasso, sous le vent, venus from helg @ Perfume Shrine
By guest writer Denyse Beaulieu/CarmancanadaWhen friends complained to Pablo Picasso that the portrait of Gertrude Stein he’d just painted didn’t look like her, he answered something along the lines of: “Don’t worry. It will.”Though the famou…
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Chypre series 5: chronology and the zeitgeist
October 8th, 2007 — 19, Bandit, Chanel, Coty, Estee Lauder, Guerlain, cabochard, caleche, charlie, chronology, chypre series, diorella, edmond roudnitska, femme, ma griffe, miss dior, picasso, saint phalle, zeitgeist from helg @ Perfume Shrine
It has long been my opinion that fragrances do not merely reflect their makers’ vision or the desire to attain beauty and harmony through an ethereal means such as the fume of a precious liquid. They are routinely shaped by the circumstances that defin…
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Taming the Bandit
September 21st, 2007 — Bandit, Fragrance, Perfume, Robert Piguet from The non-blonde @ The Non-Blonde
My first meeting with Bandit by Robert Piguet was a head-on collision. I bought a bottle of the newly issued EdP blind, based on the notes that I was supposed to love (and on the fact that Sephora had it on sale for a drugstore-like price): Spice, carn…
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