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Monthly Archives: December 2012
2012 Pulls its Scaly Tail Out the Door
This was not a good year if you lived in New Jersey. Mind you, those of us who live mid state have nothing to complain about. Those who lived on the Shore far more, but – it was not a … Continue reading
Posted in Perfume
Tagged Amouage, Ayala Moriel, Djedi, Encens Mythique d’Orient, Ineke-Anthropologie, Invisible Monster, Musc Intense, Sweet William, Treazon
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A Green Wind Blows Again
If you’ve never encountered Vent Vert, you are in for a bracing experience. It’s said to be the first of the green perfumes, composed by Germaine Cellier in 1947. Personally, I think the first green note was Alpona from 1939, … Continue reading
Posted in Perfume
Tagged Alpona, Calice Becker, Caline, Germaine Cellier, Pamplelune, Que Sais Je, Ricola, Vent Vert
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The Tropical Nightmare
If there are many ingredients in perfume more polarizing than tropical flowers I would like to know what they are? Possibly cumin, or maybe melon notes, but to me few ingredients are as likely to cause an instant brawl on … Continue reading
Twelve Smells of Christmas, Day Twelve: Cinnamon of the Season
Last in this series about Christmas smells comes cinnamon. Perhaps it should not be carrying the heavy train of all the preceding seasonal scents, but it is an integral part of most Christmas atmospheres, on a par with gingerbread. Cinnamon … Continue reading
Posted in Perfume
Tagged de Nicolai, Feminite du Bois, Maharajah, Moment Supreme, Vanille Tonka
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Twelve Smells of Christmas, Day Eleven: Ghosts of Chocolate Past
Most people like chocolate, but in my family chocolate approaches the status of a religion. No matter where we are, we always have something in the kitchen known as the “chocolate drawer” where we keep the chocolate. My mother-in-law never … Continue reading
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Twelve Smells of Christmas, Day Ten: The Trajectory of Fizz
I only recently learned how to open bottles of Champagne without spritzing an entire kitchen in the process. It’s a useful skill. You don’t have to bellow for your husband when the ladies want to make mimosas, you just do the … Continue reading
Posted in Perfume
Tagged Ambre Russe, Bois des Isles, Carol Channing, Champagne de Bois, Chanel No 22, Demeter, Royal Bain de Caron, Sonoma Scent Studios, Yvresse
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Twelve Smells of Christmas – Day Nine: Black with Fruit
My husband has an uncle who insists that fruitcake is a very civilized pleasure and the best way to go about eating it is in the evening along with a glass of sherry. He’s probably right about that. (He tends … Continue reading
Twelve Smells of Christmas – Day Eight: Wholly Myrrh
Most of the incense scents out there have a habit of replicating the experience of being in church for many of us, but some of them have a habit of reproducing particular churches at particular times. Now, a disclaimer- for … Continue reading
Posted in Perfume, Plants
Tagged Coeur de Vanille, Dawn Spencer Hurwitz, Keiko Mecheri, La Myrrhe, Myrrh et Merveilles, Serge Lutens, Vanilla Tonka
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Twelve Smells of Christmas – Day Seven: The Christmas Flower
Is certainly not poinsettia, which isn’t a flower anyway, only a set of colored bracts around a stunted central flower head. The only bloom with a scent that you can easily find in December is the carnation. It tends to … Continue reading
Twelve Smells of Christmas – Day Six: Beginning to Smell a lot like Christmas
Two of my fellow bloggers, Meg at Parfumieren and Michael at Top to Bottom both posted about that old Christmas classic Nuit de Noel recently. You can see that they had fairly different opinions about the venerable standard, the favorite … Continue reading
Posted in People, Perfume
Tagged Molinard’s Xmas Bells, Nuit de Noel, Rigaud candle, Rose de Noel, Voeu de Noel, White Christmas by Saravel
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