Subscribe by RSS
Creative Commons License
aperfumeblog by Blacknall Allen by Blacknall Allen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Category Archives: People
The Meantime Perfume House
Which will be the next great perfume house? The house that will define early 21st century tastes in scent? Good question, isn’t it? You can go on speculating about which house will define the tastes of the 20s and 30s, … Continue reading
Posted in People, Perfume
14 Comments
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 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
8 Comments
Twelve Smells of Christmas – Day Five: The Holly and the Ivy
It wasn’t until Victoria married Prince Albert in 1840, that the tradition of the Christmas tree began in Britain. Before then, it was the holly and the ivy that were twined around banisters and railings in English homes. There were … Continue reading
Posted in People, Perfume
12 Comments
Twelve Smells of Christmas – Day Four: Virtual Gingerbread and Brooklyn Zen
My first attempt (age 13) at a gingerbread house construction was a failure because I could not decide which of the walls of my gingerbread house were load bearing, with the result that the whole construction site met with a … Continue reading
Posted in People, Perfume
4 Comments
Twelve Smells of Christmas – Day Two: The Smell of Falling Snow
The smell of snow is one of the most ethereal smells on earth. It’s very difficult to catch, being essentially frozen water and ozone, and I can’t think of many perfumes that even try. Of course, one famous house did … Continue reading
Posted in People, Perfume, Plants
Tagged Arpege, Byzanze, Calandre, Caleche, Chanel No 5, L'Aimant, Rallet no1, Rive Gauche
14 Comments
That’s Another Fine Bottle You’ve Gotten Me Into
To misquote the immortal Oliver Hardy, who was generally accusing his comedy partner Stan Laurel of being the prime instigator of their continual disasters. With me, it’s my brain. Why? Because my Brain thinks it’s intelligent. The Brain thinks it’s … Continue reading
Posted in People, Perfume
Tagged Krigler’s Lovely Patchouli 55, L'Air de Rien, Nahema, Parfums de Nicolai, Rochas Femme
12 Comments
A Minuet for Mignonette
If you’ve ever cruised through the Wrightsman Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you notice one thing at once. The colors are different, different from 21st century Pantone shades, strikingly so. I used to think, because of age and … Continue reading
Posted in People, Plants
8 Comments
Count Alfred D’Orsay and the Elusiveness of…..
The one difficulty in Brideshead Revisited (okay, there are a lot of difficulties in Brideshead Revisited, but I’m only interested in one of them) is the question Sebastian Flyte’s charm. We are assured that he has it, repeatedly, but somehow … Continue reading
Posted in Bruce Ware Allen, People, Perfume
Tagged Byron, Count Alfred D’Orsay, Countess of Blessington, L’Eau to Bouquet
Leave a comment
Swell Parties Full of Smells
Wouldn’t it be nice to be in Cesena, Italy on the 17th of November? Then you could go to the Scent Bar and have a true synesthetic experience all day, because Hilde Soliani is going to be there along with … Continue reading
