February 2012
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The Local East Village: As Fragrance Shop Reopens,... →
After losing her lease on East Seventh Street, the owner of the Fragrance Shop has opened three blocks to the south.
January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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Watch“After ten years of absence, Yves Saint Laurent’s legendary fragrance OPIUM is now making a grand comeback on our screens.” And here’s the trailer/behind-the-scenes video from the YSL parfum headquarters, complete with Emily Blunt. Full commercial and launch is slated for December 4, 2011.
1. I love Emily Blunt, she is smart, gorgeous, funny, and has just the right...
“When I leave the house, I smell like a teenager (Perscriptives’ Calyx), a...”
– From Nosy Girl’s Nosy Interview: Emma Straub
Not only do I love Calyx, and love people who love Calyx, I also find the Lorrie Moore reference to be perfectly complex. I get it, but I could never put into words what that would smell like.
“F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a...”
– From I Love You, You Smell Nice by Scott Friedman in this month’s Elle magazine. Worth a read.
October 2011
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“I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, November 1931 (via nickywire)
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What I Wore Today: October 25, 2011
They used to call me chicken legs.
I spent the weekend in Clarksburg, New Jersey, exploring haunted houses, taking long walks through the autumnal foliage, and drinking copious amounts of wine (said with my nose in the air, naturally). I tried to pack as light as possible, because although we definitely weren’t “roughing” it, we were still gonna roll lowkey. This meant my...
“Louis Vuitton is gearing up to enter the fragrance category, and has tapped a...”
– WWD / Miles Socha / Louis Vuitton Said Readying Launch Into Fragrance / Oct. 24, 2011
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“When I found a smell I loved, I chased after its variations, as I had so often...”
– A snippet of things to come from Alyssa Harad’s article in Oprah’s O Magazine from over the summer.
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“when you smell these 80-year-old perfumes there is a depth and a resonance to...”
– Denise Hamilton on Perfume | FiveBooks | The Browser
This makes me want one so badly. Instead I’ll stick with my usual synthetic perfumes and read these books instead.
(via denyinghipster)
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September 2011
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INATTENDU: SWEET PETULA BATH & BODY CARE →
inattendu:
Cordelia Smith makes wonderful luxury bath and body care for her label Sweet Petula. Her aromatherapy soaps, candles, lotions, washes and other pampering products are available in different scents like Fig Leaf, Milk & Honey, White Gardenia, Vintage Peony, Sea Salt & Lavender or…
Dying to smell these!! Gardenia, Peony, AND sweet pea?! It’s like my faves, all in...
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There is such a thing as marijuana perfume? →
incandescently-bright:
No thanks, if I wanted to smell like a stoner I’d do it the illegal way.
I don’t think I would particularly like it either, but I could see a cannabis note working in a more layered fragrance concoction!
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What I Wore Today: September 29, 2011
My grime-ridden window view of Soho at the new digs
Body care: Some things never change (although so much has changed since my last WIWT post), and basically, I am still spraying my limbs down with Avon Skin-So-Soft, and for extra care on elbows and knees, I’ve co-opted another baby product for my own: Hugo Naturals’ Vanilla Chamomile Baby Oil. It smells exactly like a very soft...
Gone but not forgotten... →
The Candy Perfume Boy is starting a “Gone but Not Forgotten” series on his blog! He says suggestions are welcome. Looking forward to reading…
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“Her new perfume is just like she is as a woman: glamorous and mysterious,...”
– http://p.dita.net/pr/20110901-perfume/ long time want. need to get me some of this stat! (via girlwithapearlnecklace)
I’m… not sure how on earth this would smell, to be honest. Do I want to smell like Dita Von Teese? Do I… not?
Claireabelle: perfume masterclass →
claireabellexx:
so it turns out accessing info on perfume is almost as difficult as describing it… despite making lots of enquiries about learning more, i just kept getting told that “kind of thing” isn’t available in Australia - maybe in France, but not here. which is why i just about creamed my jocks when…
An enjoyable read.
“I just love to smell a decade: its society, its culture, its politics.”
– Emily Maben via Odette Toilette in How To Spend It: Vintage Perfume (A Perfume Blogger on the Addictive Allure of Vintage Scents)
August 2011
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“Bonfires, arm pits, swimming pools, Shalimar, the subway or a club at 3am…..if...”
– From @odettetoilette on twitter
Scent & the City: A Nissan Sentra in Hobbs, NM
When I was 18, it was a very good year.
My parents graciously gifted my first car, a purple ‘96 Nissan Sentra, in 1998 - just two months before high school graduation. This lead to many, many days and nights blasting Radiohead’s “Planet Telex” everywhere I went, getting my first real job (ohhh how I hated you, JCPenney), and finally becoming the designated driver for...
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“It is literally an intersection between the sacred and profane- the shrine...”
– from Seth Embry’s entry entitled St. Francis of Paola Church Grotto Shrine on http://sacredspacesinprofanebuildings.com/
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WatchWhat I Wore Today VEEDEEOOOH edition! Aug 2, 2011; Walking home on Box St., Greenpoint, Brooklyn NY
What I Wore Today: August 2, 2011
Body care: Due to my sunburn, my crabsticks are peelin’ like Elvis’s banana. I’ve been using the usual Skin-So-Soft because I’m, you know, stuck in the 80s, but also, I’ve been stealing my boyfriend’s (YES, THAT’S RIGHT,...
July 2011
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What I Wore Today: July 25, 2011
July 24, 2011; Westhampton, NY
Body care: Wow, wow, wow. Wow am I ridiculous. Yesterday I took a much needed daycation to the Hamptons - the day was overcast and a little gloomy, the water was definitely rough and very cold. When I’d ventured out, I was wearing a tank top and rolled up trousers and had changed on the beach to a linen dress. Somewhere in between hastily applying SPF...
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Scent & the City: There are Places I Remember...
Cochiti Lake, NM road; photo by Peg Williams (my mom) - the fire is out!
There is something about a vast landscape that inspires the most creativity, I feel. As if there is so much space, you need to fill it with words and experiences, and there’s an unending effort to cram as much as you can into the wide plains, the flat mesas, the roads that feel as though they lead nowhere. Perhaps...
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“I love opening the bottles and just smelling them, and I make my daughter smell...”
– Lili Barbery-Coulon (Vogue Paris Beauty Editor) in Into the Gloss
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Scent & the City: The Pulaski Bridge
View from the Pulaski Bridge; Greenpoint Brooklyn; July 7, 2011
For a few years now, I have walked to the 7 train from my Greenpoint digs via the Pulaski Bridge, and there was… an odor. To say the least. The Greenpoint stink, I suppose you could call it. A direct result of citylife, waste, and an unfortunate oil spill in Newtown Creek, which is also a magnet for other random disgusto...
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What I Wore Today: July 3, 2011
Latest & Greatest Find for my kitchen - and yes, that’s a tiny red Christmas light (read: fire hazard) illuminating Mary’s feet
Body care: c. Booth Dry Oil Spray in Tahitian Monoi with a generous heaping palmful of The Body Shop’s Body Butter in Coconut. Something about this summer has made me really push the tropical creamy fruit smells - I love those heavy coconutty,...
The Independent Perfumers Guild: A Midsummer... →
indieperfumersguild:
IPG Member Amanda Feeley pointed me to the A Midsummer Night’s Dream project. 16 perfumers were tasked with creating a natural perfume based on an idea, theme, or character from Shakespeare’s seminal work of the same name (one of my personal favorites, by the way, and perfect for summer…
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What I Wore Today: July 1, 2011
Union Square at 9am on 7.1.11; New York City
Body care: I was thinking this morning about how, throughout the day, you usually just smell your deodorant. In fact, I am not sure why I even bother with perfume sometimes because all I can really smell is Secret’s Freshwater Effects in Fresh Water Orchid. I also think shampoo is probably a huge scent on your person - I tend to use clean...
June 2011
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At Bottle Rocket, on 5th Ave
Wine cashier: Are you wearing gardenia?
Me: Wow, good nose - yes!! I’m wearing a perfume called Tuberose Gardenia.
Wine cashier: We had a gardenia tree in my backyard, growing up. *chuckles* Sorry, I’m being nosey.
Me: No, no, you’re not being nosey. Haha, I guess you are, you know, being nose-y, though. I am obsessed with perfume. I bet you choose good wines.
Wine...