During a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, I chanced upon an exhibit of exquisitely beautiful super-heroine costumes. (There are some super heroes too, but that is another story — these MMA essays are fascinating). The designs i…
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Super-heroines and the Senses
May 11th, 2008 — , Bandit, Midnight Violet, Shalimar, jolie madame, mitsouko from Lucy @ indieperfumes
How much more gorgeous can you go?
January 3rd, 2008 — Guerlain, Shalimar, Vol de Nuit, advertisement, jicky, l'heure bleue, mitsouko from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
Seek and you shall find: it is these biblical words that come to mind upon seeing the gorgeous advertisements of the year 1972 by Guerlain.I was seeking an ad that would depict a red-haired beauty for Mitsouko in a futile search for the entertaining al…
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October 8th, 2007 — Bandit, Caron, Chypre, Coty, Guerlain, aphrodite, archaic, christian dior, cubism, edmond roudnitska, fauves, l'origan, la rose jacqueminot, mitsouko, oakmoss, picasso, sous le vent, venus from helg @ Perfume Shrine
By guest writer Denyse Beaulieu/CarmancanadaWhen friends complained to Pablo Picasso that the portrait of Gertrude Stein he’d just painted didn’t look like her, he answered something along the lines of: “Don’t worry. It will.”Though the famou…
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Autumnal Shift
September 5th, 2007 — Autumn, calendars, greek, keats, mitsouko, ode, opium, perfume wardrobe, roman, shift from helg @ Perfume Shrine
I’m very much afraid that the coming of autumn is given over to the Greek calendars. For those unfamiliar with this expression it is used to mean that something is never going to happen at all, as Greek calendars never existed, in contrast to the Roman…
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July 20th, 2007 — Guerlain, Paris, belle de jour, catherine deneuve, control, l'heure bleue, luis bunuel, mitsouko, prostitute, surrender, tristana, vivier, yves saint laurent from helg @ Perfume Shrine
Continuing from yesterday’s post, today we occupy ourselves with the matter of control versus surrender as manifested in matters of relationships as well as sensual escapades that pertain to olfaction. The amount of control we exercise in indulging o…
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Lies and Misdemeanors
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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May 27th, 2007 — Chanel, Guerlain, Perfume, advertising, brands, concept, daude, flacon, gobin, lutens, luxury, malle, marketing, mitsouko, nahema, natural, niche, patou, price, tauer from helg @ Perfume Shrine
I am grabbing the chance today before introducing you to the very, very new Nasomatto line to discuss a matter that seems to be a closeted taboo in the perfume business world: price. Actual retail price. And the relevance that it has to the spectrum of…
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