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October 29th, 2008 — , Chanel, Floral, Guerlain, aldehydic, comparison, fragrance history, guerlain series, liu, no.5 from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
The Princess Turandot presents her first riddle: “What is born each night and dies each dawn?” Prince Calàf correctly replies “Hope.” Unnerved, she presents her second riddle: “What flickers red and warm like a flame, but is not fire?” He thinks a bit…
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January 18th, 2008 — Chanel, Fragrance, Perfume, Smelly Facts, no.5, reformulated, reformulation from Divina @ Fragrance Bouquet
Since speculation about which of our favorite, classic perfumes have been reformulated has been a rather hot topic in the last couple of years among perfume lovers, I decided to include an excerpt from a 2006 issue of New Scientist I found this week for today’s Smelly Facts post. We might not yet be 100% sure about most of the fragrances we are suspecting to be reformulated, but slowly, we are
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October 16th, 2007 — Chanel, Jacques Polge, advertising, commercial, das parfum commercial, esprit, no.5, tim duquette from helg @ Perfume Shrine
I stumbled upon this lethal CHANEL commercial, originally found by Octavian Coifan, with actor Tim Duquette and directed by Marcel Langenegger. It just begged for commentary, don’t you think?(Uploaded by TIMDNYC on Youtube) Click to watch.The chronolog…
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October 1st, 2007 — Chanel, artistic director, campaign, coco mlle, jacques helleu, keira knightley, nicole kidman, no.5 from helg @ Perfume Shrine
Artistic director of maison Chanel is no longer with us… He left this vain world after a prolonged illness this past Friday, ending a career that spanned 4 decades at Chanel, attending to the revered image of the brand ever since Mlle’s death. His la…
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July 15th, 2007 — Chanel, advertising, campaign, coco, commercial, egoiste, joe wright, keira knightley, mademoiselle, new, nicole kidman, no.5 from helg @ Perfume Shrine
I am not a catty person. Really, I am not. But the news some months ago that the expresioneless, manufactured-to-be-a-star, young, skinny Keira Knightley would be the new face of Chanel, substituting Kate Moss in the ads for Coco Mademoiselle perfume b…
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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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