June 8th, 2008 — , christian dior from March @ Perfume Posse
First off: there was confusion and word incorrectly got out that the Chi-cocoa Scentsation event in September is “by invitation only” and people are asking how you get invited. ANYONE CAN COME to the event. Just please RSVP to chicocoascentsation (at) gmail (dot) com …
May 19th, 2008 — , Perfume Review, christian dior from Patty @ Perfume Posse
One of the stranger realities of certain perfume obsessives is: we are intimately familiar with the scent of long-lost treasures like Iris Gris, or Djedi, or Chaos – but ask us what Tommy Girl smells like and we have no idea. So periodically we venture forth into the surreal world …
April 3rd, 2008 — , CB I Hate Perfume, Guerlain, Le Labo, Perfume Review, Serge Lutens, Strange Invisible Perfumes, apres l'ondee, christian dior, dior diorling, iris silver mist, ormonde jayne, ormonde woman, patchouli 24, vanille 44 from Patty @ Perfume Posse
When one sets out to narrow down to six perfumes her favorites, what she should do instead is grab a Xanax, place her head under the pillow, hold it down firmly so nobody hears and scream until the mood passes.
But I didn’t. Instead I have come up with the list of the …
February 25th, 2008 — Guerlain, Perfume, Perfume Review, Review, Strange Invisible Perfumes, beluga, christian dior, cuir, dolce vita, invisible, review, strange, vine from Patty @ Perfume Posse
Released by Christian Dior in 1995, and created by Pierre Bourdon, Dolce Vita has notes of rose, magnolia, muguet, apricot, peach, cinnamon, sandalwood, vanilla, and heliotrope. There is something about the interplay of the fruity notes on the open that makes this start off feeling a little, well… smutty. Like …
December 19th, 2007 — christian dior, holbein, memento mori, optical scentsibilities, poison, salvator dali, skull from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
How could the idea of mortality be tied to perfume? There seems to exist a plethora of references to Eros and Thanatos in scented matters. From the ancient practice of accompanying the dead to their resting place with aromatic incense and the fragrant …
December 3rd, 2007 — Bal a Versailles, christian dior, giraffe women, j'adore, jean desprez, optical scentsibilities from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
Who isn’t familiar with the Christian Dior advertisements for their feminine perfume J’adore? Before enlisting Charlize Theron and her fabulous physique, it was Carmen Cass and her graceful East European neck who adorned the pages of glossies. The gold…
November 15th, 2007 — Chypre, Galbanum, Review, christian dior, commercial, dior series, edmond roudnitska, inside, levis, ma griffe, miss dior, oakmoss, paul vacher, slitskin from helg @ Perfume Shrine
“I will tell you of a perfume which my mistress has from the graces and the gods of love; when you smell it, you will ask of the deities to make of you only a nose”. It is in those words that the Roman writer Catullus speaks of the seductive guiles…
Continue reading → The Dior Chypres series ~Miss Dior: fragrance review
November 13th, 2007 — Caron, Review, bulgari, christian dior, dior series, eau, eau fraiche from helg @ Perfume Shrine
One might think that unisex or “shared” fragrances, like DNA remnants on a TV show that focuses on forensics, can be traced back to CK One and the 1990s. That one would be much mistaken. Almost every house of perfumery and many small artisanal loca…
Continue reading → The Dior chypre series ~Eau Fraiche: fragrance review
November 11th, 2007 — Art, Fragrance, advertisment, christian dior, diorama, eau sauvage, illustrator, miss dior, rene gruau, sketch from helg @ Perfume Shrine
How can an obituary be glamorous? Or related to scent barring the mental connection with funeral flowers? Well, it can, if it involves René Gruau, chief visualiser and illustrator for parfums Christian Dior.Here is his obuitary from the Guardian: “Ren…
November 8th, 2007 — Chypre, Fruity, Review, christian dior, dior series, eau sauvage, edmond roudnitska from helg @ Perfume Shrine
Everyone has an aunt that used to bathe in cold water regardless of it being winter or summer, slip on her bathing suit first thing in the morning and go for an invogorating swim on the first sign of warm weather in mid-spring. She wore long masculine …
Continue reading → The Dior Chypres series ~Diorella: fragrance review
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…
Continue reading → The Dior Chypres series ~Diorling: fragrance review
November 5th, 2007 — Chandler Burr, Chypre, Fruity, Review, christian dior, dior series, diorama, edmond roudnitska, jean claude ellena, luca turin from helg @ Perfume Shrine
“Cabochard, Dioressence, Diorama were offerings to goddesses, not presents to women”. This is how Luca Turin addressed the masterpiece by Edmond Roudnitska that came in 1949 like a luminous cognac diamond to adorn the crown of Christian Dior parfums. H…
Continue reading → The Dior Chypres series ~Diorama: fragrance review
November 4th, 2007 — Art, Chypre, aesthetics, christian dior, diorama, diorella, diorling, eau sauvage, edmond roudnitska, femme, miss dior, paul vacher, rochas from helg @ Perfume Shrine
Perfume Shrine embarked on a mission: to disect and discuss one of the bastions of chypre: la maison Dior in its former glory, when under the baguette of Edmond Roudnitska and Paul Vacher it produced classics that remain up there in the pantheon for al…
Continue reading → The Dior Chypres series ~1.the hidden force: Edmond Roudnitska
October 31st, 2007 — Rose, christian dior, collection particuliere, iris, iris, tuberose from helg @ Perfume Shrine
According to latest news on Russian site Moon-fish, Christian Dior House celebrates its 60 years anniversary and to commemorate the event will release La Collection Particulière, a new exclusive line of feminine scents. There are three perfumes in the…
Continue reading → Fragrant News: Christian Dior La Collection Particuliere
October 29th, 2007 — Immortelle, Review, Serge Lutens, arabie, celery, chris sheldrake, christian dior, chypre rouge, eau noire, fenugreek, lille, sables from helg @ Perfume Shrine
It’s not often that a perfume assumes a stolen identity to pass icognito under our noses, hiding its true nature under a misnomer. Chypre Rouge is not a chypre by any stretch of the imagination, even taking into account the new chypre contestants that …
Continue reading → Chypre Rouge by Serge Lutens: fragrance review
October 24th, 2007 — Amouage, Andy Tauer, Anya's Garden, Diptyque, Labdanum, Le Labo, ayala moriel, christian dior, chypre series, cistus, crete, herodotus, paracelsus, patou, rock rose from helg @ Perfume Shrine
It is well known to our readers by now that chypre perfumes are dependent on a strict formula that juxtaposes bergamot and oakmoss, interlaying labdanum and other earthy elements such as vetiver or patchouli.Perfume Shrine has already focused on oakmos…
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…
Continue reading → Coty Chypre: fragrant pilgrimage and review
September 6th, 2007 — Patchouli, Review, advertising, blue, campaign, christian dior, commercial, edouard flechier, eva green, hypnotic, midnight, muse, poison, pure, sexuality, tendre, wong kar wai from helg @ Perfume Shrine
My subtitle might remind you of a great classic Blue Oyster Cult song, Astronomy and Parfums Christian Dior might be privy to the fact that it has awesome lyrics(click the link to read) able to convey poignant images.And so Christian Dior proceeded wit…
Continue reading → Midnight Poison by Christian Dior: the clock strikes twelve
August 20th, 2007 — Caron, Diptyque, brosseau, christian dior, daltroff, emslaved, harrod's, haute parfumerie, larmes sacrees de thebes, london, mandy aftel, new scents, roja dove, scandale, unspoken from helg @ Perfume Shrine
When one is faced with greatness it manifests itself in no uncertain terms. Awe, amazement and a feeling of having tingles down the spine greet you upon entering one of the sacred altars of perfume, Roja Dove’s Haute Parfumerie on the 5th floor of Ha…
Continue reading → London Calling…part 4: at Roja Dove’s place