From the foreword of The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys, by Lilian Pizzichini:”In the summer of 1912 the French parfumier Jacques Guerlain concocted a scent from musk and rose de Bulgarie with a single note of jasmine. He intended his new scent, which he called L’Heure Bleue, to evoke dusk in the city. The blue hour is the time when heliotropes and irises in Parisian window boxes are bathed in

• L'air du desert marocain by Tauer Perfumes I've heard a lot of good things about Andy Tauer fragrances, originating in Switzerland, and I was excited to finally be able to try several of them thanks to a friend at POL. I will add my reviews as I try each of them. I have added links to both......
• Cute Nature - Soro Cute Nature has worked with producers like So-so Jeff, Puffy Tee, T.Y., 7th cord (produced oh!sean's inspirational song "Nothing Do You"), David Jones – Soro is the first single off his premier project “Soro Ti Mu Won”. The 14 track album should be out later in the year so......

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Hiris is one of my favorite hot weather fragrances. Introduced in 1999, I only heard about it a couple of years ago. It is considered a semi-oriental, suitable for a man or a woman. It is iris with an H for Hermes.
Top Notes: Orange blossom, rose, coriander seed
Heart Notes: White iris, black [...]

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• Review Guerlain 2009 Cherry Blossom Oh, this is a nice fragrance! And it's even better that it's priced at only $57, from the Aqua Allegoria line. Cherry Blossom is being billed as a floral green fragrance (Frangrantica). It also has some green tea in it, which is generally off-putting to me and puts it more......
• Tauer Perfumes Rêverie au jardin Rêverie au jardin (Daydream in the garden) (it's a little hard to give the nuance in the name as he uses 'au' which means 'with' instead of 'dans le jardin' which would usually be 'in the garden', properly it would be Daydream with the garden or Daydream with garden, which......

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Irises of my garden/Íris do meu jardimIris on my skin/Íris na minha pele

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Yves Rocher has a new perfume this month with the name Secrets d’Essences Iris Noir Eau fraîche specially for the upcomming summer days. Based on the original scent of Iris Noir of their Haute Parfumerie Secrets D’ essences collection, thi…

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Eaux de Sisley: Fresh water combined with the seductive power of a scent-Chypre Sisley. Sisley will launch 3 new cologne type fragrances named Eau de Sisley I, Eau de Sisley II and Eau de Sisley III.
“Je voudrais me glisse dans une forêt où le…

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I’m not going to write many reviews for “traditional” perfumes on Scent Hive unless it is really, really special. And well, Apres L’Ondee is really, really special. It’s difficult to know where to begin discussing this fabled perfume, as so much has already been poetically written in its regard. It’s been said to makes one’s heart [...]

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• 15 vs 30 Year Mortgages - Longer is better! I read an interesting post that really got me thinking today. It was written by a great blogger nicknamed Money Hawk, if you have never read his blog I implore you to check it out HERE. He wrote a great post titled "Kick Financial Ass With a 15 Year Fixed......
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I often layer my scents, as anyone who knows me will find out. I prefer, if possible, not to wear a scent that is so heavy or long-lasting that I have to wear only it for the entire day. I don’t mind changing every couple of hours or morning, afternoon, evening, when a [...]

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• Scent impressions on a hot day Serge Lutens Part 2 Moving on to Serge Lutens from L'artisan: Ahhhh... Oh my. This is the first time I've seen so many Lutens fragrances in one place since I was in Paris. On that trip I was overwhelmed by the choices, didn't really know the offerings, and felt confused enough not to make......
• Serge Lutens Borneo 1834 Thanks to a friend at POL, I finally have a bit of Borneo to sample. I've been waiting a long time to catch a whiff of this one. Frankly, I wasn't really eager because of how it has sometimes been presented: camphor and patchouli. Two highly possible negatives. Camphor wouldn't......

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By TomCreated in 2003 by Jean Claude Ellena and as sharp and clear as an icicle, D’Hiver is listed as having notes of heliotrope, iris and honey (according to Barney’s). I also get bergamot in the opening and an overarching angelica. But mostly I get a sense of whiteness. Whiteness and coldness. As if you were sitting in a freshly painted white room looking out a picture window at a field of

• Tonys GuestHouse Tony from Tonys GuestHouse just emailed us about the newest upgrades done to make visitors even more comfortable in his guesthouse hotel.   Read what we think about this good and cheap guest house in our previous post about Tony’s guest house.   As the pictures show, the rooms......
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In a line full of engrossing and unusual fragrances, The Unicorn Spell , despite the predisposing to overlyricism name, is perhaps the most arrestingly riveting due to both its unusual treatment of the violet note as well as the juxtaposition of shiny,…

• Ayala Moriel Parfums, part 3 Ayalitta and Megumi were both chosen for me by Ayala. I have been wearing one on one wrist and the other on the other for the past two days. Both are chypres and very similar to each other, at least on me. I don't know that I would want both,......
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I got a most interesting mail the other day: Someone who is clearly very much a perfume lover and whom I knew before through the blog was asking me what I thought was a perfumer’s perfect way to build a masterful iris. It surprised me because I am not …

• How to Start a Blog for Fun or Profit I've had many readers and new bloggers e-mail me for tips on starting a blog. I love answering e-mails and helping people, but I often found myself answering many of the questions multiple times. So I thought writing a series on how to start a blog would be a more......
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• Layering or mixing Guerlain Bois D'Armenie with Cuir Beluga Sometimes the sum of two perfumes is greater than its parts. Such is the wonderful new mix that Claire Young from the Guerlain store in the Palazzo in Las Vegas came up with, when he was looking for a fragrance suitable for a woman who really doesn't care for flowers.......
• Marc Jacobs, Orange If you are looking for a sweet orange fragrance, not an orange blossom, check out the new MARC JACOBS ORANGE . It is a hefty 10 oz in a spray bottle reminiscent in some ways of a square Chanel bottle. In other words it looks and feels rich to use.......

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Living in Italy, Parma especially with its tradition of Verdi’s operas, is like surrounding yourself by culture the way other people in other places are surrounded by skyscrapers, Taco Bells or hay fields full of cows. It just isn’t quite the same!
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• A Win for the Good Guys H/T to The Jawa Report The United States is the world's new facial hair super power, having captured twelve world championship titles out of eighteen categories plus overall at the World Beard and Moustache Championships in Anchorage, Alaska on May 23, 2009. Possessing home field advantage, the USA was able......

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I went to Lise Manniche for an entry on iris this morning, because I felt like I was missing something in my appreciation.
“Varieties of iris grow wild in Egypt today; Dioscorides gave nar as its Egyptian name. Petals of Iris albicans Lange or I. florentina have been identified in an Egyptian burial of Graeco-Roman [...]

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• Teaching Financial Literacy In Elementary School According to a recent article on Yahoo Finance, an experimental elementary school on the south side of Chicago named Ariel Community Academy has a unique focus on teaching financial literacy.  The concept is simple.  Each first grade class is bequethed a $20,000 portfolio managed by the experts at Ariel until the students......
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I doubt we will ever see a fragrance launched with the name “Loss” or “Bitterness” or “Death” and this is one major difference between poetry and perfume. Perfume goes there, but it usually goes in a veil of ambiguity.

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• Love in a perfume bottle A recent article details the love a woman's father had for her mother in buying her what he considered a luxury, Royall Lyme Toilet Lotion. Along with the gift came the admonition to use it sparingly, only for special occasions. Her mother appreciated the gift, and the author watched the......
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*This post is dedicated to the wonderful, warmhearted, generous friend who recently gifted me with a bottle of Kelly Calèche. She always impresses me with her great manners and thoughtful character. May her generosity find its way back to her tenfold.*

Last summer, Hermès’ newest launch, caused quite a stir among perfume aficionados: Everyone wanted to have a whiff of the newest member of the

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“Mmmmm, oooooooh, my!” …is all I can think, again and again every time I smell Dior Homme. How can something be so beautiful? This perfume has cast a spell on me: I am ready to make the wildly unrealistic proclamation that this is the classiest male fragrance I have ever smelled, at the very least among the non-niche offerings. Several weekends in a row now, I’ve found myself in front of the

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• Don't Be A Tightwad: Give Generously This is a guest post from Grant Baldwin, the author of Reality Check, a book about helping students transition into the real world. His new website, BrokePiggy.com, answers questions from teenagers about personal finance, savings, and all things money. This series "12 Things Every Teenager Needs To Know About Money......
• What Dreams May Come / Richard Matheson Genre:Fantasy, Fiction Main characters: Chris Nielsen, Ann NielsenSummary:The premise of the book is rather simple: Chris dies in a car accident and goes to Heaven. His wife of almost 30 years just couldn't bear to live without him and so she commits suicide. Because of that she goes to Hell.......

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According to latest news on Russian site Moon-fish, Christian Dior House celebrates its 60 years anniversary and to commemorate the event will release La Collection Particulière, a new exclusive line of feminine scents. There are three perfumes in the…

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• Scent memories Some of my earliest memories are of my mother and how good she smelled. I remember asking her one time what she was wearing and if it was expensive. It smelled divine. It was not expensive. That time, it happened to be Shulton's Desert Flower. (Woody and flower notes --......
• Layering your scents Iris Ganache with... I often layer my scents, as anyone who knows me will find out. I prefer, if possible, not to wear a scent that is so heavy or long-lasting that I have to wear only it for the entire day. I don't mind changing every couple of hours or morning, afternoon,......

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Has it ever happened to you to completely dismiss something new merely on the value of past experiences and then be proved wrong? Surely it has! This is what happened to me with the newest perfume by Swedish skincare and cosmetics brand Oriflame, conce…

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• Lily of the Valley Fragrances, for spring When I was in college, spring in Michigan was synonymous with breaking out my lily of the valley fragrances. I kind of got away from it with the heat of the deep south and spring lasting about 10 minutes. Plus it just smelled too bright in the south, minus the......
• Iris Ganache by Guerlain Guerlain's fifth fragrance in the niche L'Art et la Matière collection is Iris Ganache. The others are Cuir Beluga, Rose Barbare, Angelique Noire, and Bois d'Armenie. Thierry Wasser was the nose for IG, as well as such diverse fragrances as Calvin Klein Truth (with Jacques Cavallier and Alberto Morillas), Gres......

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Like Charles Dickens knew so well, there is some charm in correlating different things and finding respective affinities. After all one would devoutly wish for an interaction between entities in the universe; a sense of belonging, of not being cut out….

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• Iris Ganache by Guerlain Guerlain's fifth fragrance in the niche L'Art et la Matière collection is Iris Ganache. The others are Cuir Beluga, Rose Barbare, Angelique Noire, and Bois d'Armenie. Thierry Wasser was the nose for IG, as well as such diverse fragrances as Calvin Klein Truth (with Jacques Cavallier and Alberto Morillas), Gres......
• lemon lemon lemon lemon If you like lemon, there's almost no end to the products you can find! And spring is a wonderful time to take advantage of the lemon scents. They are as refreshing as the fresh air. And let's not forget Lemon Tea Sitting with a good cup of aromatic and tasty......

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“It is the date of my birthday, August 19. I was born under the sign of the lion. I am a Leo, and like him I unsheath my claws to prevent anyone from hurting me. But believe me, I suffer much more when I claw than when I am clawed”. Coco Chanel (Quote via Perfume Legends by Michael Edwards, page 157)
No 19, created for Parfums Chanel by Henri Robert in 1971, is a perfume-paradox, a blend of the

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• Guerlain's Plus que jamais I hear good things about this fragrance, but I have not yet had a chance to smell it. I live in an area that gets things later, but also never gets fragrances such as this. To sample fragrances like this, I rely on friends or the rare trip. I have......

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A couple of years before releasing their signature scent into wide distribution, Prada launched a collection of several exclusive perfumes that were more or less only available in Prada boutiques. (I say “more or less”, because it seems that the fragrances also were or still are sold in Harrods as well as in Printemps and Galleries Lafayette in Paris ). The fragrances were Cuir Ambre, Fleur

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• Review Guerlain 2009 Cherry Blossom Oh, this is a nice fragrance! And it's even better that it's priced at only $57, from the Aqua Allegoria line. Cherry Blossom is being billed as a floral green fragrance (Frangrantica). It also has some green tea in it, which is generally off-putting to me and puts it more......
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Iris Ganache is the fifth perfume to join Guerlain’s excluisive L’Art et la Matière collection. Created by Theirry Wasser, the scent is described as “iris butter worked like a pastry ganache” ( osmoz.com). Ganache is a term that describes a mixture of chocolate and cream, and in the case of Iris Ganache, the chocolate is said to be white. I am very happy to report that the chocolate note is

• Layering your scents Iris Ganache with... I often layer my scents, as anyone who knows me will find out. I prefer, if possible, not to wear a scent that is so heavy or long-lasting that I have to wear only it for the entire day. I don't mind changing every couple of hours or morning, afternoon,......
• Ah, sweet licorice in tea and chocolate and perfumes I'm not one to eat a lot of black licorice, but I do like it. When our son was five, we had one of our most beloved exchange students, Marko from Finland. He came when he was 17, and until he was in our house, we didn't realize he was......

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Happy father’s day everyone! Tomorrow I am leaving for Paris and I will be back on Wednesday evening, but there is still time for one more review this week. I decided to focus on yet another of the beautiful Divine fragrances, this time L’Homme de Coer. It is appropriate for the day insofar that it is a masculine fragrance, but it is not a scent that reminds me of my own dad and the reasons I

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• How do I love thee, let me count the ways -- 25 + fragrances to love When I was asked to be part of the ones who mentioned their 25 all-time favorites today, I was pleased to be a part of it! While bread is the staff of life, perfume is the essence of life. What would bread be, without the scent wafting from the......
• Review: L'Oreal Colour Riche Lipstick It's been a long time since I've worn a L'Oreal lipstick. Colour Riche have a very nice, moisturizing feel and are long lasting. Of course, L'Oreal is a French line, so we should expect them to be good. BTW, L'Oreal owns Lancome, among others, some of which are quite expensive.......

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