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  • 4th December
    2012
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  • 22nd November
    2011
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Because the rare perfume
Of your swanlike paleness,
Because the innocence
  Of your fragrance,

Ah, because all your being,
Music so piercing,
Clouds of lost angels,
Tones and scents,

Has by soft cadences
With its correspondences,
Lured my subtle heart, Oh
  Let it be so!


From “To Clymène” by Paul Verlaine, translated by A.S Kline, text from Poetry in Translation

  • 7th September
    2011
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There’s nothing like a good ol’ fashioned vintage perfume ad. There is a little store in Grasse that sells such posters, at Place aux Aires. (Shoot, I forget what it’s called), but it’s hard to miss! In the summer, the owner; an artist, sits outside in the square, right in front of her store. With her shiny grey hair, and cigarette in her left hand…she paints.  Wish they would make ads like this nowadays. Click on the picture to see some more!

There’s nothing like a good ol’ fashioned vintage perfume ad. There is a little store in Grasse that sells such posters, at Place aux Aires. (Shoot, I forget what it’s called), but it’s hard to miss! In the summer, the owner; an artist, sits outside in the square, right in front of her store. With her shiny grey hair, and cigarette in her left hand…she paints. 

Wish they would make ads like this nowadays.

Click on the picture to see some more!

  • 14th July
    2011
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  • 23rd June
    2011
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  • 6th June
    2011
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  • 3rd June
    2011
  • 03

Temps

Time is a strange thing. We feel trapped by it when we are too aware of its passage and it goes by too quickly when we are not.                                                                                                                                   

Time is a fragrance’s friend and its foe. The moment a scent bursts into the air is fleeting. It’s there one minute and gone the next, but for many of us, that moment also becomes still, the scent is all that matters. That’s so remarkable, how can something be temporarily static and moving all at once?

You must be wondering, ‘well that’s strange, why would anyone want to devote so much energy into something that doesn’t last?’ I guess I see it as existential in a way. I’m the type of person who seems to dwell on the past, generally, because it’s hard to let go of things, but also because I wouldn’t be who I am today without them.

Ironically enough, I’ve chosen a path that requires me to live in the moment. Every day. Excuse the pun, but I actually stop and smell the roses! If my nose catches a scent, I archive it. This is a moment to cherish, one to put in your memory bank. On top of that, I have been taught to create something that can transport someone to another realm.  So I have to be on my game, an active imagination always needs a good dose of reality plus a pinch of razzle dazzle to spark it up.   

            

It’s reality 2.0- enhanced, appreciated and preserved. Perfect for dreamers.

Ohhh if only you could smell something over the internet so people could share the love, but the only way to smell something and truly understand it, is in person. Either way, perfume should be worn for you, by you, here’s a chance to live in the moment and in doing so, you learn about yourself.

Fragrance is a lot like love in that it has a similar lesson: Saying goodbye always hurts but the only way to heal (even though some of us hate to admit it) is to love again. Even though it is bittersweet, and you want that goodness to stay, whether it be smelly or otherwise, we just have to remember that with every goodbye there will be another hello. So enjoy the moment, and find more. Keep listening to others’ stories and keep telling your own, cuz that’s just the way it goesss.

time warp clock photo via http://fasteddie.wordpress.com

  • 2nd June
    2011
  • 02

On Perfume…

“The fact is that this stuff is worth loving…It decorates the day. It makes you feel as if the colors of the air have changed. It’s a substitute for having an orchestra follow you about playing the theme song of your choice. Think of what the functional fragrance industry calls the ‘magic moment’, when the smell of the fabric softener billows out of your dryer and you can’t help but feel great. Perfume is wonderful. And it’s simply not true, as some people believe, that thinking about our pleasures ruins them.”

Perfumes: The Guide by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez - ‘Introduction to Perfume Criticism

  • 28th April
    2011
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  • 4th April
    2011
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  • 27th January
    2011
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  • 22nd January
    2011
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Luckyscent!

Hands down the best niche perfume site out there, you can find their flagship store, ScentBar, in Los Angeles. One of my closest friends, whom I had met while studying in France, used to work there, and it blew my mind how small this world is!

  • 22nd January
    2011
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