..."I LOVE PARIS" by Cole PorterSung by Ella Fitzgeraldhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ahbE6bcVf8

...Designer: Lalique & Chloe & ChanelNiche: LUTENS & NEELA VERMEIRE & MECHERI

...My Gawd that is hysterically awful about the old lady, her friend, the perfume, and the funeral!It's great to be able to have such a wonderful choice as we do today. I could never restrict myself to wearing just one or two. I couldn't even do that when I was in high school. When I was in high school and college I used to wear such scents as My Sin, Chloe Narcisse, Tresor, Magie Noire, Tabu, Ysatis, Bal a Versailles, Volupte, White Shoulders, Halston, Nuit de Noel, and Oscar. My carefree, youthful-self absolutely reveled in such complex and heavily-animalic concoctions. My body chemistry and my tastes have evolved significantly through the years though. At this point in my life, an excess of indoles and/or bottom-heavy animalic bases rapidly descend into a sour, revolting miasma on me. My preference has changed in its entire genre! I have changed over the years from preferring heavy floral/oriental/woody/spicy types into preferring fresh florals and floral aquatics. Besides, it IS fun to wear several different perfumes even within the day!Perfume reapplication is a lovely self-pampering activity anyway. We should not complain about impermanence, because without impermanence, nothing is possible. Aware of impermanence, you become positive, loving and wise. With impermanence, every door is open for change. Impermanence is an instrument for our liberation.”- Thich Nhat Hanh

...I adore Fresh Floral fragrances that are silky-smooth and neither too sweet nor too tart. I also like some of the Clean Floral Aquatics, but only if they inhabit the distinctly feminine side of the scent spectrum. I tend to enjoy a variety of fruity and refreshing Green/Floral-Green top notes as long as they are not overtly astringent or acidic. I flatly detest gourmand scents saturated with sickly-sweet-overly ripened fruit, vanilla, coconut, caramel, chocolate, milk, sugar, and/or drowning in a foul low-quality-patchouli based broth. I like to eat food, not wear it. Heavily animalic doses of civet, leather, musk, castoreum, or anything with that grotesquely awful salty decomposing sea life accord is nauseatingly repellent to me as well. I like a base of fine woods, grasses, orris root, and very light musks laced with a touch of amber and a few subtle spices here and there. I especially enjoy a fine vetiver, sandalwood, cypress, cedar, or bamboo. I love to burn very high quality Japanese incense in my home. That being said, I dislike many perfumes with incense listed as a major component because the incense ingredients used in them are cheap, acrid, headache inducing, and remind me of Far Eastern Asian funeral rituals. The same applies to the much vaunted "oudh" ingredient. I don't think there is a more beautiful scent than high quality kyara agarwood. A number of Japanese incense companies sell pure kyara incense and it is indeed the epitome of beauty, serenity, and meditative richness encapsulated in scent. However, many perfumes I have sampled with "oudh" listed as the major ingredient do not use this high quality kyara. I don't like them either from a bottle sniff, a tester card spray, or on my skin. I find that low-grade "oudh" is rankly hideous. It smells of a muddy, medicinal, putrid barn filled with hay, feces, and spilled turpentine. With regard to fragrances, I am as always, in search of an ever more profoundly beautiful, exquisitely fresh floral that is superbly blended, smooth, and elegant.

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...Throughout high school I used to wear such scents as My Sin, Chloe Narcisse, Chantilly, Red Giorgio, LouLou, Tresor, Magie Noire, Tabu, Ysatis, Bal a Versailles, Emeraude, Wild Musk, Ispahan, Volupte, Panthere, Coco, White Shoulders, Halston, Rumba, Nuit de Noel, and Oscar. My carefree, youthful-self absolutely reveled in such complex and heavily-animalic concoctions. (Remember these were the vintage formulations at the time I wore them.) My body chemistry and my tastes have evolved significantly through the years though. At this point in my life, an excess of indoles and/or bottom-heavy animalic bases rapidly descend into a sour, revolting miasma on me. I prefer fresh florals and floral aquatics now.

...Oscar Wilde would wear De Profundis by Serge LutensWhat would La Marquise de Pompadour wear?

...Lotus Garden by PacificaL'eau d'Issey by Issey MiyakeLotus Blossom and Water Lily by Jo Malone

...Frankincense Myrrh Rose Maroc by Regina HarrisJuozas Statkeviciusby Juozas Statkevicius (2004)Series 3 Incense: Kyotoby Comme des Garçons (2002) Series 3 Incense: Avignonby Comme des Garçons (2002) Series 3 Incense: Jaisalmerby Comme des Garçons (2002) Series 3 Incense: Zagorskby Comme des Garçons (2002)Lots of the Montale Line smells incense-like

...Serge Lutens - UN LYSCreamy yet fresh. Appropriate anywhere, anytime. LOVE LOVE LOVE it.

...I picture Dorian Gray wearing Serge Lutens IRIS SILVER MIST

...For me, BOUCHERON It makes me feel like this:

...The only Lutens that works with me is one of my favorites. UN LYSIt's not typical of the house. But if you like Lily, you just might love it!

...DISLIKE: Milk, Cream, Vanilla, Banana, Coconut, Copal, Tobacco, Tonka Bean, Patchouli DETEST: Mint, Sugar, Caramel, Chocolate, Cumin, Coffee, Leather, Civet, Castoreum, Heavy Musks, Bloody Notes, Metallic Notes, Salty Notes, Cadaverine/Putrescine accord, Asphalt, Vinyl, Indoles-------------------------------------------------------------------LIKE:Fruits: All Citrus, Quince, Blackberry, Peach, Apricot, Nectarine, Plum, Melon, Mango, Pear, Apple, LitchiFlowers: Orange Blossom, Apricot Blossom, Neroli, Osmanthus, Champaca, Light-handed Tuberose, Fresh Gardenia, Honeysuckle, Freesia, Heliotrope, Mimosa, Peony, Orchid, Sweet Pea, Ylang-Ylang, Non-indolic Jasmine, Rose, Lily, Lilly of the Valley, Waterlily, Water Hyacinth, Lotus, Syringa, Stephanotis, Saffron, Lilac, Violet, Carnation, Narcissus, Strelizia, Iris, Tiare.Greens: Ivy, Violet Leaf, Aloe, Green Tea, Cactus, JuniperSpices: Nutmeg, Cloves, Ginger, Pink Pepper, CardamomWoods/Mosses: Bamboo, Birch, Mysore Sandalwood, Lebanon Cedar, Japanese Cypress, Vetiver, Kyara Grade Agarwood, Teakwood, OakmossResins: Myrrh, Benzoin, Dragon’s Blood

...SECRETIONS MAGNIFIQUESYes I know this is the freakish bete noire of modern perfumery. I don't know about nihilistic leanings, however, if someone actually sprayed a good lot of this around my closed apartment and I went in and happened to smell it, it would definitely disturb me greatly.I would literally think that someone had killed and mutilated one of my pets. Then I would wonder if the killer was around. :shock:

...I love beautiful bottles.

...Decomposing Human Flesh. That beats most, especially when it's diseased. Bodily waste like urine, sweat, vomit, and feces. Actually any kind of decomposing bacteria is pretty disgusting. Decomposing Sea Life is a close second sometimes. Gasoline, Turpentine, Acetone, Ammonia, Vinegar, Bleach, Hot Asphalt, Sulfur, Saltpeter, Mold.

...OMG.........it is Christmas Day and I have found DOLBYWORLD!Beautiful JapanWeird Japan

...JapaneseCambodianChineseMexicanItalianFrench

...Last weekend I watched: 13 AssassinsIt was FABULOUS!http://www.13assassins.com/