21 Thursday Jun 2018
Posted in Perfume Reviews
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hair product, hand lotion, lip balm, lotion, lush, now smell this, ouai, product review, roses
My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of five rose-fragranced products for skin, hair, and body.
You can read it here.
20 Wednesday Jun 2018
Posted in On Blogging
Recommended reading: this article about the gendering of men’s fragrances, written by Greta Moran for INVERSE, titled “Why Men Are Realizing That Smelling Like a Desert Rose Isn’t Half Bad.”
Greta spoke with me when she was researching this piece and I really enjoyed our conversation. (I’m mentioned about halfway through.) It’s a timely topic and I appreciate the fact that she spoke with individuals involved in different aspects of fragrance.
Image: St. John’s Bay Rum advertisement, 1967.
18 Monday Jun 2018
Posted in Passing Fancies
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Reading: Simon Critchley, On Bowie.
Audio: Going through a U2 phase right now, revisiting some old favorites.
Video: Season 2 of “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Art: “History Refused to Die” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
16 Saturday Jun 2018
Posted in Advertising and Scent
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For Father’s Day, 1945 (which also fell on June 17!), an advertisement for Wrisley Spruce fragranced grooming products.
Image source: Vintage Ad Browser
11 Monday Jun 2018
Posted in Perfume Reviews
My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of Arizona, the first fragrance from Proenza Schouler.
You can read it here.
06 Wednesday Jun 2018
Posted in Art and Scent
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I’ve been listening to Kate Bush since I was sixteen years old (possibly the very best time to start listening to Kate Bush!) but I don’t think I’ve ever written about her in connection to scent.
25 Friday May 2018
Posted in Perfume Reviews
My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of Shimotsuki, a recent release from independent perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz.
You can read it here.
18 Friday May 2018
Posted in Passing Fancies
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Reading: Graham Greene, Brighton Rock
Audio: A Spotify playlist called “The 80s All Lined Up.” Springsteen’s “The Wild, The Innocent, & The E Street Shuffle.”
Video: Mr. PP and I recently watched “Dunkirk” on TV.
Art: Thinking about the American Watercolor movement lately at work.
Drink: Kobrick’s coffee in a French press
16 Wednesday May 2018
Posted in Advertising and Scent, Art and Scent
Sometimes an advertisement is all we can know of a discontinued perfume. This is the case (for me, at least) for Natural de Myrurgia, a fragrance released by the Spanish house Myrurgia in 1982.
Myrurgia is best known for its classic Maja, still available worldwide, but all I’ve been able to learn about Natural comes from a page on the Fragrantica database, which describes Natural as a floral-chypre composition of sandalwood, patchouli, musk, violet, jasmine, pink peony, bergamot, and rose. The page also includes an ad for Natural de Myrurgia. The photo is too small and too low-resolution for me to read its text, but its imagery is clear enough…
