. If you are not currently being aggregated and think you should be send an email to kevin [at] perfumebloggers (dot) com with your blog URL.From the Mouths of Husbands - Marina’s Impossible
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume Blog“Good morning Mr. Colombina. Your mission … should you choose to accept it … is to sneak into Colombina’s private scented world … to uncover and deliver top secret information that her readers don’t know about her and her perfumes… and might even be surprised to find out. The free (smelling) world depends on you and your team to expose the essence that is … PST.
Colombina … AKA
Read the rest here: From the Mouths of Husbands - Marina’s ImpossibleSeasons Wishes
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogHoliday shopping, half-hearted as it seems to be this year, has officially begun. Time to come up with a wish list. Please share yours!
Baccarat Vitrail Eclipse Pendant and Ring, $425.00 and $525.00 respectively, at Neiman Marcus
Anna Sui Contrast Collar Dress, $410.00 at Net-A-Porter
Chanel Lambskin Classic Handbag with Patent Finishing, in Chanel boutiques
Enzo Angiolini ‘Vital’ Oxford,
Read the rest here: Seasons Wishes8th Basenotes Fragrance Awards. Cast Your Vote!
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogBasenotes have announced the opening of their annual consumer led awards. This year the categories are as follows:
Best new fragrance (Masculine and Feminine)
Best overall fragrance (Masculine and Feminine)
Best fragrance for day (Masculine and Feminine)
Best fragrance for evening (Masculine and Feminine)
Best fragrance packaging (Masculine and Feminine)
Best designer, mainstream or fine
In Which I Am Being Thankful
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogIn keeping with tomorrow’s holiday spirit, let’s talk about what causes us to be grateful. I am thankful for:
Commute. Because it finally gave me time to read again.
Books. Because they make commute bearable. Two highlights of my reading in the last couple of months were Possession by A.S. Byatt and Dana Tomas’s Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster. The latter will confirm all the worst
Read the rest here: In Which I Am Being ThankfulA World Apart: The Secret Perfumes Revealed
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogBy Donna
For many years, since it first opened in fact, I have been a loyal and appreciative customer of The Perfume House in Portland, Oregon. I have bought some of the finest fragrances the world has to offer, and enjoyed countless others over the years when I would try dozens of scents each visit, yet never getting close to the bottom of the dazzling array the shop offers. New temptations
Read the rest here: A World Apart: The Secret Perfumes RevealedLove, Hate & Revulsion: My Perfume Hall Of Shame
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogBy Donna
“…Can’t look it in the eyes
Seconal, Spanish fly, absinthe, kerosene
Cherry-flavored neck and collar
I can smell the sorrow on your breath
The sweat, the victory and sorrow
The smell of fear, I got it
I’ll take you over, there
I’ll take you over, there
Aluminum, tastes like fear
Adrenaline, it pulls us near…”
(Excerpt from “E-Bow The Letter” by R.E.M)
I discovered that I was a little
Read the rest here: Love, Hate & Revulsion: My Perfume Hall Of ShameIn Which I Am Feeling Goth
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogIt happens once in a while - and it happens especially often in autumn, when the weather finally turns chilly and weepy, and it becomes blindingly obvious that summer is indeed over despite irrational hopes to the contrary - that I turn the proverbial street corner and the feeling of absurdity strikes me in the face. Or, to use plain language, that out of nowhere, for no particularly rational
Read the rest here: In Which I Am Feeling GothTop 10 of Autumn
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogDepressing as this season can be (the summer is over, the winter is coming…), Fall deserves its own Top 10 list. Today some of us, perfume bloggers, teamed up to post our Top Tens of Autumn.
Marina’s Ten
Not much has changed since I announced my Top 10 of Summer back in July. Which simply goes to prove that, as I always suspected, the seasonality in perfume, as far as my fragrance-wearing
Read the rest here: Top 10 of AutumnFriday…Time for Randomness…
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume Blog…and that mean another questionnaire, this time “Proust Questionnaire”. Please answer along with me in your comments, as many questions as you like.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being worry-free.
What is your greatest fear?
Bad news.
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
I could not for the life of me come up with an answer. Mr Colombina thinks it’s Mary Magdalene.
From The Diary of a Scent Addict…
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogBy Kelley
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Okay, so here is the scoop. I read about this great deal at the Montale-Paris website based in Switzerland. It is supposed to be so fantastic that they are practically giving the stuff away. Well, maybe not giving it away but it sure is supposed to be great. For example, the 100ml bottle of Aoud Lime is going for roughly $76! The bottle of Blue Amber
Read the rest here: From The Diary of a Scent Addict…Luctor and Don’t Emergo
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogAre there perfumes that you just can’t stop trying to love? There are several such scents in my life. Some of them I try because they are Classics, great masterpieces that I feel I simply must like or else I am not a true fragrance lover and have no taste. Others are creations of brands and perfumers whom I adore and whose fragrances I ordinarily enjoy. And then there are some that sound so very
Read the rest here: Luctor and Don’t EmergoFloris London fragrance auction for Susan G. Komen cancer foundation
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogOn Thursday, September 27, Floris London will be auctioning on eBay the last sixty bottles available in the world of their classic men’s fragrance, No. 89, to benefit the Susan G. Komen breast cancer foundation.
“Sought by men the world over, requests for the elusive No. 89 have been great, and this sophisticated and provocative scent has been worn by many celebrities, including James Bond in
Read the rest here: Floris London fragrance auction for Susan G. Komen cancer foundationUtterly Random Friday: An Ode to Boden
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogDo you like Boden as much as I like it? Probably not… I look forward to the arrival of the escapist little catalogs more than to my W or Allure. More even than to Perfumer & Flavorist. I would love to live on the pages of Boden…in the carefully understated and deliberately casual world of the inconspicuous (British upper-ish) middle class elegance, the world of fun skirts, comfy jersey tops
Read the rest here: Utterly Random Friday: An Ode to BodenPerfumes for Imaginary Encounters. Second Installment
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogA couple of months ago Mr. Colombina came up with a little game, in which he randomly chooses famous people and we name (or, in his case, describe) perfumes we would wear if we were to meet them. Today is Part 2.
Anais Nin. Mr. Colombina thinks a musk would be fitting for an encounter with a writer famous for her erotic stories. The one story that immediately (although vaguely) comes to my mind
Read the rest here: Perfumes for Imaginary Encounters. Second InstallmentWill The Real Colombina Please Stand Up! A brief interview with our fragrant leader.
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogBy Kelley
This interview comes with a giant WARNING! First off, I am not a journalist; in fact, I don’t even pretend to be a writer in any way. I do read a lot though. Secondly, I realize that because this is a perfume blog, this should be fragrance related. After asking many questions that had nothing to do with scent, I snuck in a few at the end. I hope you find this as entertaining and
Read the rest here: Will The Real Colombina Please Stand Up! A brief interview with our fragrant leader.Monday Tag
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogPerfume-Smellin’ Things and Aromascope decided to start the week on a fun note and tagged each other. Ina asked me to find perfume-”matches” for the following movies, paintings, outfits and celebrities. My answers are below; please click over to Aromascope to find out how Ina dealt with the matching tasks I gave her.
Tag 1. If this movie was a perfume, what perfume would it be?
PsychoThe
Read the rest here: Monday TagBeautiful Ghosts: Smelling Blotters from the Osmotheque
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogFriends are the best. Friends-in-perfume are the best of all. You read Judith’s article about her fabulous smelling expedition to Paris yesterday; in it, she mentions the visit to the Osmothèque, which was the excursion I envied the most. To be able to touch or rather inhale perfume history, to smell “disappeared” fragrances has been a dream of mine for a long time. Imagine my amazement and joy
Read the rest here: Beautiful Ghosts: Smelling Blotters from the OsmothequeParis Sniffa
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogArticle by Lilybp (Judith)
Well, I am back from the fabulous sniffa in Paris (arranged by “les Karens”), accompanied by 16 perfumistas, one perfumisto, and one long-suffering husband (hereafter known as Mr. Lily). Our days were jam-packed, and I–not realizing I would be writing this—did not take any notes, so my report will be relatively brief.
For me, at least, the unquestionable highlight of
Read the rest here: Paris SniffaTop 10 of Summer
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogNo season should be allowed to pass without being honored by a Best Of list. So today some of us, perfume bloggers, (participants listed at the end of the post) teamed up to simultaneously post our Top Tens of Summer.
Marina’s Ten
This summer, unexpectedly to myself, I fell in love with aoud-rose blends; I realized that the headiest, most sumptuous florals only truly blossom in the heat; and
Read the rest here: Top 10 of SummerThe Weekend of Extreme Sniffing - The (Extremely Long) Report
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogLast weekend Ina of Aromascope came to visit, and the two of us hit New York. Hard. We sniffed our way from Manhattan to Soho and back to Manhattan. Despite what the image on the left, created by Mr Colombina, might imply (“their husbands’ credit cards”, as if!) we did not do that much monetary damage. Ina and I came to a sad conclusion that we became jaded. We sniffed it all and we know it all
Read the rest here: The Weekend of Extreme Sniffing - The (Extremely Long) Report5 Random Bests
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogAromascope and Perfume-Smellin’ Things are teaming up once again to introduce a new re-curring feature, 5 Random Bests, in which we will offer our ideas for scents suited for pretty much any occasion and situation imaginable and will list the favorites according to various criteria. Today we present the first five Bests and we would love it if you could tell us what other Bests we should do in
Read the rest here: 5 Random BestsViva La Diva!
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogIna of Aromascope came up with a very fun idea of compiling a list of Diva Scents (please check Aromascope for her choices). Diva is the term derived from the Latin word “divus”, “a divine one”, and in its original use described a woman of exceptional talent, more specifically a great female opera singer. Nowadays the term is applied to very popular non-operatic performers and is often used with
Read the rest here: Viva La Diva!That Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi. The French-iest Perfumes
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogWriting the post about my favorite American scents made my mind wonder in the direction of yet another sweeping generalization. I realize that it is absolutely impossible to definitively describe French perfumery, the field is so large and so diverse, and perfumery as such is so closely associated in our minds (OK, in my mind) with France that the adjective, “French”, next to “perfume” is almost
Read the rest here: That Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi. The French-iest PerfumesRed, White & (Sacre)Bleu: 4 American Favorites for July 4
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogTo honor the Independence Day, today we salute American perfumery. Tom and I decided to each list four favorite American fragrances, and we invite you to do the same. I was going to preface the list by attempting to characterize American perfumery as a whole. My idea was to draw a parallel with designer sportswear, which is said to be one of the biggest American contributions to fashion, and to
Read the rest here: Red, White & (Sacre)Bleu: 4 American Favorites for July 4Perfumes for Midsummer
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume Blog‘Tis the time for solstitial celebrations. Time to gather midsummer plants, time to lit and jump over bonfires, time to dance around a maypole, time to float flower garlands on rivers, time to perform rituals to look into the future, a good time to get married…and generally a chance to get in touch with your inner pagan…None of which I will actually do, I am sure, opting instead, as usual,
Read the rest here: Perfumes for MidsummerMakeupalley Top 25 Fragrance Board Favorites
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogThe results have been announced. The Top 25 Fragrance Board Favorites are:
1 Serge Lutens Chergui
2 Frederic Malle Musc Ravageur
3 Hermes Ambre Narguile
4 Chanel No. 5
5 Serge Lutens Un Lys
6 Caron Tabac Blond
7 POTL Luctor et Emergo
8 Guerlain Mitsouko
9 Caron Parfum Sacre
10 Andy Tauer L’Air du Desert Marocain
11 Chanel No. 19
12 Chanel Bois des Iles
13 Creed Angelique Encens
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Perfumes for Imaginary Encounters
from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume BlogMr. Colombina came up with a little game, in which he randomly names famous people and I name a perfume that I would wear if I were to meet them. Fun for me, most probably boring for him, but he undoubtedly does it to earn brownie points. He often has great suggestions, but as he doesn’t know any many actual perfumes, his suggestions are of general -and not seldom politically incorrect- character
Read the rest here: Perfumes for Imaginary Encounters