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August 27th, 2008 — , Gender, Vetiver Series, fragrance history, vetiver from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
Have you ever watched a conjurer put a volunteer from the audience into one of those contraptions that open and close via those ornamented Chinese doors? He enters as a man, next thing you see is the magician’s attractive female assistant emerge from t…
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August 18th, 2008 — , Guerlain, Review, Vetiver Series, carven, comparison, fragrance history, givenchy, luca turin, vetyver from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
Vetiver seriously entered the consciousness of the West at some point in the 19th century, along with its brotherly Indian counterpart patchouli (brought to England in 1850), as exotic plants that smell good and keep precious silk cloths free of insect…
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July 23rd, 2008 — , Boutique, Paris shopping, celine ellena, fragrance history, history, jean claude ellena, niche, sublime balkiss, the different company from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
Following the work of perfumer Jean Claude Ellena, I came upon The Different Company, a small niche brand which was started by him with the sole objective revealed in its name: to be different!
In one of his aphorisms, Jean Claude had professed that cl…
June 29th, 2008 — , Chypre, Fruity, Pineapple, Review, aldehydic, caline, colony, fragrance history, l'heure attendue, ma collection, patou, youtube from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
“The exotic image of the deepest jungle, lush vegetation, powerful spices borne over amethyst seas and strange girls in distant sun-kissed ports.” Thus is described Colony in the booklet which accompanies Patou’s Ma Collection.
In 1938, amid t…
Related StoresJune 27th, 2008 — , book review, fragrance history, hyacinth, lilac, ma collection, patou, vacances from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
This painting of Marc Chagall, Lovers in the Lilacs, has always striken me as the quintessential mark of an unanswered question which both love and flowers wear like a corona: how can the ephemeral be coaxed to last?
Lilacs especially live and die for …
June 25th, 2008 — , Review, divine folie, fragrance history, ma collection, normandie, patou from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
The Great Crash of 1929 brought the US on its knees. The glamorous lifestyle of those who vacationed to sunny places, yachting and swimming in the trendiest swimming-suits with stripes and bare midriffs after the Chaldée ideal wasn’t at an end, but …
Related StoresJune 22nd, 2008 — , Review, adieu sagesse, amour amour, fragrance history, ma collection, patou, que sais je from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
With poetic and mischievous names such as Adieu Sagesse (goodbye wisdom) or Divine Folie (divine folly) the twelve fragrances comprising Jean Patou’s “Ma Collection” pose their own little enigmas for the modern perfumphile to decipher. “Ma Coll…
Related StoresMay 28th, 2008 — , ankh, antiquity, book, david pybus, fragrance history, scents of time from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
Perfumes are ephemeral beings. Open the bottle stopper and they evaporate, soon lost to time. Lost even faster than the stone visage of Ozymandias. But they can be trapped in time by disasters such as shipwrecks, volcanic explosions or earthquakes and…
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May 15th, 2008 — , alain corbin, animalic, baudelaire, erotic, fragrance history, henry IV, henry miller, hygiene, napoleon, the fragrant and the foul from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
Widespread is the knowledge of Napoleon’s famous erotic line to Josephine, “I will return in three days, don’t wash!” (“Je reviens en trois jours; ne te laves pas!”), which inspired even the famous name of a Worth perfume, Je reviens. But little do p…
Related StoresMay 7th, 2008 — , Fougère Royale, Kyphi, angel, chanel No.5, chypre coty, cool water, fracas, fragrance history, list, rose attar, theophrastus from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
Thinking about perfumery I often contemplate on its evolution, the way it has progressed through the centuries from the simpler techniques to state-of-the-art methods that encompass analytical chemistry, synthesis and sophisticated technologies such as…
Related StoresMay 1st, 2008 — , chamade, eternity, fragrance history, light blue, listerine, ma griffe from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
I have been keeping these “on ice”, so to speak, for some time. They’re interesting and fun to know and probably not too practical either, but thought I’d share.
Light Blue: It’s the title and colour of attire by which a representative of Cambridge …
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