Reminder:(Don’t forget to enter the drawing for samples of Yatagan and L’air du Desert Marocain – see the previous post – deadline is Sept. 3rd!When I was thirteen, I lived in a small Georgia town with my family. I’d already seen some of the…
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The Meaning of Ma Griffe
August 22nd, 2008 — , Perfume, ma griffe from Abigail @ OlfactaRama
Going Green, Part Two: Galbanum
June 19th, 2008 — , Alistair Crowley, Bernard Chant, Chanel No. 19, Devin, Estee Lauder Alliage, Galbanum, Gucci Envy, Ivoire de Balmain, Maurice Roucel, Vent Vert, germaine cellier, ma griffe, pheromone from Abigail @ I Smell Therefore I Am
With its penetrating, pine-like top note and slightly bitter, woody base, galbanum makes green pop, as if one of the green chypres had slapped you hard in the face with a chunk of bundled stems. Galbanum is a gum resin derived from certain Persian plan…
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May 27th, 2008 — , Chypre, Green, Review, carven, catherine deneuve, ma griffe, youtube from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
Mademoiselle Carven defined her fragrant prototype as “an outdoor perfume that needs to give up its heady character”, resembling her, hence the name and the packaging: “white for innocence, youth, and freshness; green because to me it’s the most beauti…
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May 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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November 15th, 2007 — Chypre, Galbanum, Review, christian dior, commercial, dior series, edmond roudnitska, inside, levis, ma griffe, miss dior, oakmoss, paul vacher, slitskin from helg @ Perfume Shrine
“I will tell you of a perfume which my mistress has from the graces and the gods of love; when you smell it, you will ask of the deities to make of you only a nose”. It is in those words that the Roman writer Catullus speaks of the seductive guiles…
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Chypre series 5: chronology and the zeitgeist
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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Suck it, you bitch!
August 29th, 2007 — M7, Paris, Perfume, Tom Ford, advertising, campaign, clavin klein, emanuelle seigner, for men, lacoste, ma griffe, nu, opium, polanski, racy, sexy, taste, vulgar, yves saint laurent from helg @ Perfume Shrine
Regular Perfume Shriners will be a little shocked by this undoubtedly vulgar display of bold title and accompanying advertising image, but not really surprised as they have come to expect some scathing commentary on fragrance advertising on numerous oc…
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