July 7th, 2008 — , Review, bell'antonio, coffee, hilde soliani, italian, new, niche, sipario, teatro regio di parma, tobacco from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
“She curls up on the couch like a luxuriating cat, lights a cigarette with a vengeance”: this is how I have always envisioned pleasure smoking to be like ~decadent, indulgent, nonchalant. Instead, most people I see smoking do it in a perfunctory way wh…
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June 11th, 2008 — , Natural Aromatics, cacao, cocoa nibs, coffee, tincturing from scentedwench @ The Scented Wench
I have a row of bottles at my work bench, filled with freshly roasted coffee beans of various origin, and biodynamic grape alcohol. They’ve been there since I moved, following a crazed trip to Peet’s for a half pound of decaf that quickly became a quest to try coffees from all producing continents.
What is surprising [...]
May 18th, 2008 — , Gourmand, Natural Aromatics, aromachology, butter, cacao, coffee, wheat from scentedwench @ The Scented Wench
I was too beat to post last night, but it was on the tip of my brain to think a bit about foodie scents and their place in perfume. Some folks call them ‘gourmand’.
Generally speaking, these are not odors I seek out, at all. The idea of smelling like my aunt’s kitchen the after she’s [...]
March 16th, 2008 — , Travel Memoirs, coffee, istanbul, rose otto benzoin, scent from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
“The ghosts return at night, little lights for unredeemed souls
And if you gaze up at the barricades, you’ll see figures looking back at you
And it’s then that a complaint wanders you through the cobblestone alleys
Of Constantinople, a lover from …
March 16th, 2008 — , Cuisine, Food, Rose Otto, Travel Memoirs, a touch of spice, benzoin, coffee, istanbul, politiki kouzina, scent, youtube from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
“The ghosts return at night, little lights for unredeemed souls
And if you gaze up at the barricades, you’ll see figures looking back at you
And it’s then that a complaint wanders you through the cobblestone alleys
Of Constantinople, a lover from …
December 3rd, 2007 — Heliotrope, Sonya Rykiel, Vanilla, coffee, lavender from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume Blog
Here is how to make your very own Belle en Rykiel. Take Rykiel’s Woman Not For Men (or, lacking that, Barbara Bui, which is more or less the same thing), add a generous splash of any lavender soliflore, and you are all set.
Seriously though, the premise of Belle en Rykiel was very appealing. “Feminine, but with a nod to the masculine (…) composed of equal parts of darkness and light” (osMoz)
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October 7th, 2007 — , Vanilla, coffee, musings, poems, travels from Heather @ memory & desire
Toast - by Leonard Nathan - There was a woman in Ithaca who cried softly all night in the next room and helpless I fell in love with her under the blanket of snow that settled on all the roofs of the town, filling up every dark depression. Next morning…
May 15th, 2007 — Boudoir, Fragrance, Libertine, Perfume, Perfume Review, Review, Viburnum, Vivienne Westwood, bittersweet, coffee from Divina @ Fragrance Bouquet
Libertine… Gluttonous abandon, hedonistic encounters… The word brings many associations to mind, but perhaps most salient to me are the wordy, loquacious, sometimes downright pleonastic writings of the time. But no matter which association my wandering mind stumbles upon, the perfume itself seems incongruent with its gifted name. No, I do not mean that this is a fragrance with mass-market
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