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November 23rd, 2007 — Ralph Lauren, advertisement, femme, ferragamo, optical scentsibilities, rochas, romance from helg @ Perfume Shrine
Surely you have heard the above dictum: “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”. It’s actually a quote by Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832) Lacon, volume I, no. 183. The man had won a place in my heart for his other quote: “Many books require no…
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Continue reading → Optical Scentsibilities: imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
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…
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Continue reading → The Dior Chypres series ~1.the hidden force: Edmond Roudnitska
October 21st, 2007 — Chypre, Review, edmond roudnitska, femme, manos hadjidakis, melina merkouri, mikis theodorakis, phaedra, rochas from helg @ Perfume Shrine
There 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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Continue reading → Femme by Rochas: fragrance review and associations
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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Continue reading → Chypre series 5: chronology and the zeitgeist
July 12th, 2007 — Chanel, Guerlain, Serge Lutens, ambre sultan, angel, annick goutal, eau d'hadrien, ernest beaux, femme, fracas, jicky, madonna, mitsouko, niche, no.5, rochas, tale, thierry mugler, tiempe passate from helg @ Perfume Shrine
How many times have you heard a story regarding the creation of a perfume and in the end realised it must be a fabrication? From the almost bordering to the homeric notion of “genius through incapacitation” of Coco Chanel picking up the specific batch …
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Continue reading → Lies and Misdemeanors
June 14th, 2007 — Cool, Perfume, advertising, boss, bulgari, burberry, commercial, davidoff, dior, femme, grudduff, holloway, hugo, j'adore, jonathan rhys meyers, london, moss, water, weisz from helg @ Perfume Shrine
Hot on the heels of the news that precious, talented, gorgeous Kate Winslet will be the new face of Tresor by Lancome comes Perfumeshrine’s entry today about campaigns for perfumes that have been relaunched with new faces, new concepts, new force. And …
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Continue reading → Revamped perfume ad campaigns