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from perfumeshrine @ Perfume ShrineI distinctly recall the first time I tested Alpona: it was the holiday season of 2006 and I had come very late to the cult, considering my perfume habit dates back to the time I was collecting minis and mixing (nay, ruining) my mother’s expensive perfu…
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from Ayala Sender @ SmellyBlogEver since I watched Jennifer Lopez’s mind blowing performance in U-Turn, I’ve been waiting for something like this to happen in her perfume line. I know, this is a rather nive wishful thinking, but we can all dream a little… I don’t know what …
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from perfumeshrine @ Perfume ShrineIf there is one fragrance family that has a very specific history and timeline to its emergence it is the chypre one. Perfume Shrine has explored the historical intricasies shrouding the chypre genre as well as its classifications and production, so re…
Read the rest here: Une Histoire de Chypre by Molinard and AedesPerfume for the Occasion : Saint Patrick’s Day
from Divina @ Fragrance BouquetOriginally celebrated mostly in areas with large and active Irish communities such as the US and Canada, as well as the UK and Ireland itself of course, Saint Patrick’s Day has, in recent years, become more and more popular: The 17th of March has become a celebrated holiday in many countries as diverse as Japan, Russia, Germany, Argentina, Denmark and South Korea.
Celebrations are, of course
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from perfumeshrine @ Perfume ShrineWhen Solange Azagury Patridge came out with her first perfume, Stoned, I was curious to sample it. It-jeweller to the London stars Elton John, David Furnish and Bella Freud and creative director for Boucheron, Solange had all the makings of a hip-celeb in her respective field and the news of her launching a fragrance seemed like a nice idea for someone who had obviously good taste and an eye for
Montana Parfum de Peau
from perfumeshrine @ Perfume ShrineOn an ordinary morning on an ordinary weekday in Paris this past June, a rumour started to ripple through the mirrored design studios, the gilded, glossy magazine offices and the cramped workrooms of the French fashion industry. “Have you heard?” whispered voices ominous with impending ill news.”The police found a body on Rue de Bellechasse this morning.” “Have you heard?” they whispered, “about
Assia’s Dior: A Mystery
from Heather @ memory & desireChlorophyl - by Ted Hughes - She sent him a blade of grass, but no word. Inside it The witchy doll, soaked in Dior. Inside it The gravestone. Inside it A sample of her own ashes. Inside it Her only daughter’s Otherwise non-existent smile. Inside it, the keys Of a sycamore. Inside those, falling The keys Of a sycamore. Inside those, Falling and turning in the air the Keys Of a Sycamore. From Capriccio (Gehenna Press, 1990) reprinted in Collected Poems, edited by Paul Keegan (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003) p. 799.
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from Heather @ memory & desireChlorophyl - by Ted Hughes - She sent him a blade of grass, but no word. Inside it The witchy doll, soaked in Dior. Inside it The gravestone. Inside it A sample of her own ashes. Inside it Her only daughter’s Otherwise non-existent smile. Inside it, th…
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from perfumeshrine @ Perfume ShrineIt 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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from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogSometimes ignorance is a blessing. Not knowing any background info on a brand, notes, etc, allows one to smell a perfume with a fresh nose, so to say. Not, to my shame, being familiar with Domenico Caraceni, upon sniffing their eponymous blend, I decided it was a feminine fragrance, and the rare species at that - a chypre. Have I done my homework before sniffing, I would have realized that a line
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from Divina @ Fragrance BouquetWhen TMH of For the Love of Perfume and I came up with the idea for this feature a couple of months ago, we decided we had to find a name for it that would be neutral enough to allow us to write about both oldies we liked and disliked as well. Considering my feelings about Antaeus, I now find myself wondering whether Forget me Not is indeed neutral enough. Having said that, Antaeus should not be
Read the rest here: Forget me Not: Antaeus by ChanelThe Dior Chypres series ~Miss Dior: fragrance review
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…
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from helg @ Perfume ShrineEveryone 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 …
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from helg @ Perfume ShrineIf 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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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…
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from helg @ Perfume ShrinePerfume 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…
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from helg @ Perfume ShrineIt’s hard for me to speak of Paloma Picasso perfume and not implicate the obliviously innocent in this. Because it happens to be the signature choice of someone I knew, someone who is most probably unawares of this blog, its writer and musings. I doubt…
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from helg @ Perfume ShrineIn this month of chypres examination and discussion, Perfume Shrine pondered on their origin, their composition, the modern variations, their aesthetics and the relation they have to the zeitgeist (Click on the links to go to respective subject). It wa…
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from helg @ Perfume ShrineThere are times when I reflect upon a fragrance to realise that it has been painted by the brush of a rampant personality, bigger than life, more enduring than the everyday routine. And those precious, troubling fragrances make it to my heart almost wi…
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from helg @ Perfume ShrineIf you have ever wandered in a dark, damp forest you know the smell of dead leaves trampled underfoot and grasses soaked with bog water. But do you know what trolls smell like? Do you know what the enchanted forest vibrates of? You feel it in the air, …
Read the rest here: Aromatics Elixir by Clinique: fragrance reviewPackaging and Advertising for Coty Chypre
from helg @ Perfume ShrineAdvertising and presentation are icings on the cake of a great fragrance and in the case of Coty Chypre they evoke the lovely aesthetics of La Belle Epoque and the years that followed.Considering the success it had on the market and the avalanche of fr…
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from helg @ Perfume ShrineBy 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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