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Don’t You Forget About Me: Dali for Women Perfume

from minette @ Scent Signals

Don’t You Forget About Me is a new feature here on Scent Signals. In it I’ll shine the spotlight on scents I think are worth remembering, even if they’re not getting chatted up a lot these days. Let’s kick things…

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May 15, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

What is the Sillage of Your Life?

from minette @ Scent Signals

How do you perfume your world? What sort of energetic sillage do you leave behind? I’m not asking about your choice of perfumes or whether your tastes gravitate more to chypres than orientals or florals. I’m curious to hear how…

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May 14, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 


Yes, But Why Do We LOVE Perfume?!

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

People who aren’t “into” perfume tend to express surprise when they learn that I am. Sometimes I get the chance to tell them why perfume fascinates me, sometimes I don’t. So I thought I’d gather up my thoughts about it…

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May 12, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Moms and Kids: If You’re Okay, I’m Okay

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

You don’t have to have given birth to know and understand the bond between mothers and their children. The same bond exists between fathers and children, grandparents and grandchildren, adoptive parents and adopted children, godparents and godchildren, and between pet…

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May 10, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Magazine Scent Strips: Love ‘Em or Hate ‘Em?

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

This may be perfume blasphemy and some may seek to revoke my perfumista license because of it, but I am not a big fan of scent strips in magazines. I rarely pop them open to sniff them. When I do,…

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May 8, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Carven Ma Griffe: My Mom’s Perfume

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

Carven Ma Griffe is the perfume I most closely associate with my mother. She wore it when I was a little girl. I’d sit in my parents’ bedroom while she was getting ready for a party and snuffle it up…

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May 8, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Look Deeply Into My Eyes…

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

Yes, that’s it. Deeper. Deeper. Breathe out. Breathe in. That’s good. Now relax your shoulders. That’s it. Good. Yes, yes, keep looking deeply into my eyes. You’re getting sleepy. Very sleepy. Your eyelids feel very heavy. Soon they will close….

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May 6, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

A Man Reacts: Estée Lauder Youth-Dew

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

I love men. They are always good for a reaction, especially when it comes to things scented. Take my friend Joe, for example. Joe recently heard Gwyneth Paltrow tell a late-night-show host that she was wearing Youth-Dew. The host had…

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May 5, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Maroussia Perfume: The Scent of a Woman (Only Real Women Need Apply)

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

She is waiting for him. She is ready. She is certain that tonight he will not be able to resist her charms. She knows that tonight she will get from him everything she desires. Her part of the bargain? Negligible,…

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May 4, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Should You Buy Perfume for Mother’s Day?

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

What should you get mom for Mother’s Day? You might think my automatic response would be: perfume! But I’ve been thinking about it. And I think that unless you know which scent(s) your mom loves to wear, you could get…

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April 30, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Jasmine Makes Me Happy

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

These may not be “true” jasmine vines (I believe they are Star or Confederate jasmine), but they are in bloom nearly everywhere you look around Houston - at least inside the loop. They look beautiful and smell even better, and…

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April 30, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Une Fleur de Cassie: We’ve Got to Get Ourselves Back to The Garden

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

Years ago I had the thought that our love of perfume is an unconscious attempt to get ourselves back to The Garden. That the best perfumers can somehow slice open the veil and give us a sideways - now you…

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April 29, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

The Scents of Pascha: From Beeswax and Coffee to Chanel No. 22 Perfume

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

The Eastern Orthodox Christian Church not only tends to the soul, it engages the bodily senses - in worship and afterwards, at coffee hour - like no other. The eyes are treated to beautiful iconography, carvings, candlelight, gleaming brass and…

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April 27, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Happy Easter! Yes, Easter!

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

This year Eastern Orthodox Easter or Pascha came more than a month later than Western Easter. Why the difference? Pascha is a moveable feast scheduled according to a lunisolar calendar, and happens on the Sunday after both Passover AND the…

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April 27, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

When It Comes to Sniffing, Is Our Left Side the Best Side?

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

For women, the answer may be, Yes! Brain research says smells have the strongest effect on women when they come through our left nostrils. This is likely because the left nostril is linked to the more emotional side of our…

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April 25, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 


“Normal” People Review Tommy Girl Perfume

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

Having heard that Luca Turin considered Tommy Girl radiant and was giving it five stars in his new book, I wanted to sniff what all the fuss was about. I sprang for a bottle a few weeks ago, and have…

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April 24, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Did You Know: The Body’s Olfactory Sensory Neurons are Constantly Dying

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

These are the cells that live in the mucus in the back of your nose where they busily relay odor information to your brain. Any one of them can respond to many different odors. Thing is, these neurons only live…

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April 23, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

The Problem with Dog Poop (Other than the Obvious)

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

It seems the push to get dog owners to scoop zee poop is working. This is excellent news for those of us who are tired of stepping in doggie droppings. But it’s creating a new problem: what do cities do…

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April 23, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Into the Garden with Perfume

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

I love obviously perfumey perfumes. A scent like Le Parfum de Sonia Rykiel, which smells like a high-class parfumerie exploded onto a Parisian street, has my name written all over it. I adore all the classic Patous, Guerlains, Diors, and…

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April 21, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

A Perfume Poem for Perfume Lovers and Poetry Month

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

Here is my attempt to capture my feelings about perfume. Hope it strikes a chord with you. mon parfum invisible mask it exalts the woman i am proclaims the woman i want to be lets me play the woman i…

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April 21, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Proustian Rush: Cheeseburgers, Perfume and Ruthie

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

The Proustian rush of memories set loose by an odor is always unexpected. It can come at you from anywhere at anytime - like in your kitchen, while you’re doing chores. I was caught off-guard by a sudden flood of…

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April 16, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Guerlain Jicky: C’est Moi

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

I wrote in an earlier piece that perfumes are like lovers. They can also be like spirits. Sometimes even your own. Take Guerlain Jicky, for instance. The first time I smelled Jicky I was shocked. Not by the odor (though…

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April 14, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 


Michael Storer Perfume: An Individualist’s Impressions, Part Two

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

Part Two begins with Yvette. Yvette is a dyed redhead with a drinking problem. One of those women who is well-preserved, well-groomed and permanently pickled. She’s always looking for someone to join her in a drink. She likes dark sweet…

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April 9, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Michael Storer Perfume: An Individualist’s Impressions, Part One

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

The six perfumes of Michael Storer, a veteran of the fashion industry turned perfumer, garner many raves from many scent lovers. Some have even called him a “genius” perfumer and found his scents to be “the most beautiful thing” they’ve…

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April 8, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

The Real Perfume of Your Life

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

If you’re lucky, you will breathe somewhere between 23,000 and 25,000 times today. You’ll take into your body approximately 238 cubic feet of air. What’s in that air depends on where and how you live, but chances are it will…

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April 7, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

TGIF: These are a Few of My Favorite Stinks

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous. - Aristotle And the stinky. If you’re a pet lover, you know certain pet-related odors can be downright stinky. Here are a few of my favorites. The litter box….

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April 4, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Vintage Ambrosia for Violet Lovers

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

I love this story from the Washington Post for two reasons. One, these guys sound just like rabid perfume lover-hunters. They cross the globe looking in the most obscure places for their (vintage) holy grails. Seriously, if you substituted the…

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April 3, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Betsey and Johnny Were Lovers: Betsey Johnson Eau de Parfum

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

There is a honky tonk cowboy. A tall, lean honky tonk cowboy who plays a mean honky tonk guitar and an even meaner rock guitar. He’s not exactly handsome. But he can shake and stir many a hormone cocktail. If…

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April 2, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Woman Escapes Attacker by Spraying Him with Perfume!

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

A woman in Corpus Christi, Texas was able to get away from her knife-wielding attacker by spraying him in the face with Elizabeth Arden Red Door. He had held her hostage in her car for over two hours, threatening to…

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April 1, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Sniffer Dogs: Keeping You Safe or Invading Your Privacy?

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

Found a fascinating article about the use of sniffer dogs and other scent-sensing devices in the security industry in today’s Guardian UK newspaper. What clues do your body’s scent signals give away? As the following quote shows, the latest technology…

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March 30, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Can Can is More Like This Version of Lady Marmalade Than the One from Moulin Rouge

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

In fact, it’s a whole lot like Patti LaBelle’s amazing sleeves in this video, circa 1975 - frothy, fluffy fun. The Moulin Rouge video is more hard-core bump and grind, and really doesn’t fit the mood of the scent. Some…

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March 29, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 


Can Do Paris Hilton Can Can Perfume

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

As a dedicated lover of fine French perfume, I feel I should hate Can Can. After all, it’s the fashion, among those who take their perfume seriously, to write off anything Paris Hilton (”that slutty, no-talent poseur”) does or makes….

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March 29, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

The Terrible Beauty: Serge Lutens Un Lys

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

I don’t think I’ve ever been intimidated by a perfume before Un Lys. It’s not that it’s too strong - it has great presence but doesn’t smother. It’s not that it’s too sexy - it is sexy but in an…

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March 26, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Happy Easter, Darling Lily!

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin: even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. - Matthew 6:28-29 The lily is the flower we most closely…

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March 22, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

Since When Does Baby Powder Smell Sexy?!

from M.C. @ Scent Signals

A couple of weeks ago, while in the cold, hard grip of a fever, I bought this perfume sample at Walgreens. I was there for a thermometer (Winnie the Pooh), tissues and other sundries to get me through what turned…

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March 21, 2008 | Filed Under , Current Posts | Comments Off 

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