aperfumeblog by Blacknall Allen http://aperfumeblog.com Fri, 24 May 2013 04:18:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Bearded Wonders http://aperfumeblog.com/2013/05/24/bearded-wonders/ http://aperfumeblog.com/2013/05/24/bearded-wonders/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 04:18:08 +0000 Blacknall Allen http://aperfumeblog.com/?p=4200

Bearded Wonders

Does anyone (else) remember the wonderful garden writer for the Washington Post, Henry Mitchell?  He wrote the Earthman column for years and his collection of essays on gardening, culled from old pieces, The Essential Earthman  is wonderful reading matter for … Continue reading →

Bearded Wonders

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Perfume for a Wet Day in May

The day in question would be one of those puddle jumpers of late spring, you know, umbrella and Wellington boot weather.  This has been our lot for weeks on the eastern coast of the US, where the spring has been … Continue reading →

Perfume for a Wet Day in May

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Perfumes for a Writer

Maybe it all began with Baudelaire, or Zola, or Maupassant, or Huysmans;  certainly it carries over into the work of Proust, but arguably it was Colette who wrote about perfume with the greatest delicacy and exactitude of all French writers. … Continue reading →

Perfumes for a Writer

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A Patou Revival

Last week I went to Sniffapalooza, and among all the other things and people you could see there, I met the in house perfumer of Jean Patou, Thomas Fontaine.  Under ordinary circumstances this wouldn’t happen because in my zig- zagging … Continue reading →

A Patou Revival

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Witches’ Berries, Fairies, and a Pot of Jam

Cassis is a note that French perfumers are very partial to.  The smell of the little black berries puzzles me a bit, though, since cassis is rare in US markets.  We just don’t use it, and the reason is that … Continue reading →

Witches’ Berries, Fairies, and a Pot of Jam

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You Must Like It, And It Must Like You

The oddity of body chemistry is one of those imponderables that never cease to amaze me.  We all know the scenario by now, how two people can try on the same perfume and it will coalesce into a beautiful flower … Continue reading →

You Must Like It, And It Must Like You

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Hot! Hot! Hot!

One of the Hub’s guilty television pleasures is Heat Seekers, a little program in which two chefs go in search of incendiary food all over the US map. Roger Mooking and Aaron Sanchez can take on just about anything measured … Continue reading →

Hot! Hot! Hot!

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Flooring an Amouage

Amouages do not waste time when it comes to opening up.  Even more than Montales, and certainly more than Serge Lutens perfumes, they hit the road- that road being the Silk Road-at high speeds.  The trouble with all that acceleration,all … Continue reading →

Flooring an Amouage

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Guerlain Originals

The publishing mogul/poet Felix Dennis is blunt about it: “The problem with the great idea is that it concentrates the mind on the idea itself…But unless the idea is executed efficiently and with panache and originality, then it doesn’t matter … Continue reading →

Guerlain Originals

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Chanelophobia

It’s been an age since I had my first bottle of perfume, and in the long interim that has followed, with lord knows how many bottles passing through, only one of them has ever been a Chanel. Isn’t that peculiar, … Continue reading →

Chanelophobia

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