Telekinec 5 months ago
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The Art of Fragrance Masterclass by Thierry Wasser
about you. Best way to choose a fragrance is by taking the time. You choose images, words, and moods that help narrow down to something you might like. Stop thinking and start feeling more.Thierry Wasser The other question was about the next biggest trend in perfumery. Mr. Wasser gave a cryptic answer, that essentially boiled down to the fact that perfumes are like...
DorothyGrace 8 years ago
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Pour une Femme and Autumn is Coming
all like what we like and I like Caron. Just as one cryptic crossword compiler seems to sing from the same hymn sheet so one perfume house can fit like a glove.I have Parfum Sacre, Nuit de Noel, Narcisse Noir, En Avion. I have sampled Can Can, Pour une Femme, Tabac Blond, L'Anarchiste. I would like to try all of the perfumes attributed to Ernest DaltroffI...
jtd 8 years ago
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Mythology
of which I endorse.]Jean Carles created Ma Griffe after he lost his sense of smell. (Multiple meanings: Artistry is mystical and creativity knows no bounds. The magic of perfumery resides in the soul, not the nose. The mirror-meaning is that creativity is actually quite logical and not at all cryptic. For a person trained in the calculation of formulae based on known materials, anosmia is no obstacle.)Guy Robert’s...
Cryptic 8 years ago
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Monsieur Guerlain is silenced by LVMH
Apparently Monsieur Guerlain's lovely tribute site has been summarily shut down at the behest of LVMH over alleged trademark infringement. To all appearances this represents cold-blooded and inexplicable treatment of an individual who had been the brand's biggest cheerleader. Although the house is legally entitled to protect the Guerlain name, one wonders what possessed prudent businesspersons to quash...
Cryptic 9 years ago
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Save Oakmoss (and perfumery in general)
If you love perfume, please take a few minutes to read this comprehensive article concerning the proposed oakmoss ban. I've heard many people take the position that the ban will not seriously harm perfumery because there is a synthetic oakmoss substitute available. According to the esteemed noses who were quoted, that's bunk. Furthermore, the article suggests that the EU commission...
Cryptic 10 years ago
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Fancy Francy: Exploring the House of Chabaud
it was an abject failure, but that doesn't detract from an otherwise lovely fragrance. Vintage is a fascinating number, between the heavily gourmand list of notes and the incongruent name, which would appear to suggest anything but that relatively recent addition to the perfume family. Mr Cryptic, who, in spite of being unable to wear perfume (long story) is nonetheless something of an olfactory...
Cryptic 11 years ago
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Please Excuse Me While I Rant
I love any number of perfumes, noses and houses, but on the whole, I don't have much respect for the collective perfume industry. In the last few years we've seen draconian restrictions on "allergenic" notes, wholesale bans on fragrance in certain settings and recently, a series of new/newly enforced postal regulations that do not bode well for the future of perfume. Meanwhile, to all appearances the fragrance...