22 Friday Mar 2019
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Reading: Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Audio: Lots of 1960s guitar rock lately
Video: Sorry to Bother You
Art: Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future at the Guggenheim
20 Wednesday Mar 2019
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Jason and Donkey Doug, via NBC
In a recent episode of “The Good Place” titled “The Ballad of Donkey Doug” (Season 3, Episode 6), we got re-acquainted with Jason Mendoza’s best friend Pillboi and learned more about his other friend, Donkey Doug.
Jason, Michael, and Tahani pay a call to Donkey Doug’s apartment in Florida and end up sitting through a conversation about Doug’s latest get-rich-quick scheme. He and Pillboi have come up with a ground-breaking (?) idea for a combination body spray and energy beverage — imagine the love-child of AXE and 5-Hour Energy, or BOD Man and Monster Energy Drink.
18 Monday Mar 2019
Posted in Perfume Reviews
My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of Fantasia Mermaid, a new fragrance from Anna Sui.
You can read it here.
14 Thursday Mar 2019
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Sometimes those pesky algorithms on retail websites actually serve their purpose. I was visiting the Barneys site to price a perfume that was on my mind, and the page made some further suggestions to me — including the “New” and “Exclusive to Barneys” Femme de Poppy lipsticks.
Barneys has no way of knowing that I’ve been a follower of Poppy King’s creative output since the 1990s (when she launched her original line of Poppy lipsticks: matte shades! colors named after the 7 Deadly Sins! art-inspired packaging!) through 2007, when she founded the Lipstick Queen brand, and beyond.
However, it apparently remembers that I’ve shopped for Lipstick Queen products, so it kindly (ha!) shared this news with me.
I clicked, and read a product description, and clicked again, and read a Barneys blog post about Femme de Poppy, and I smiled…
11 Monday Mar 2019
Posted in Advertising and Scent
One of the major mainstream fragrance releases for autumn 2013 was Estée Lauder’s Modern Muse, with the tagline “Be An Inspiration” and an advertising campaign featuring the model Arizona Muse.
In the initial advertising for this fragrance, Muse (the person, with the perfume!) made an appearance at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
In the print ads, including the one above, she poses inside the Guggenheim, which is immediately identifiable by its spiral ramp and its circular skylight…
04 Monday Mar 2019
Posted in Perfume Reviews
My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of three new fragrances from Les Parfums de Rosine: Eloge du Vert, Bleu Abysse, and Bois Fuchsia.
You can read it here.
25 Monday Feb 2019
Posted in Advertising and Scent
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chloe, karl lagerfeld, perfume, Perfume Bottles, worth, ybry
Lagerfeld in 1985, with a bottle of KL fragrance.
Karl Lagerfeld died last week, on February 19, 2019, at the age of 85. Lagerfeld was probably one of the first fashion designers I knew by name, thanks to the prominent ads for Chloé that appeared in my mother’s copies of W magazine—favorite reading material for pre-teen me.
There are plenty of obituaries and features that give a comprehensive overview of his life and work. This post, however, is just a look at five perfume-related moments of his career…
21 Thursday Feb 2019
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Reading: The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
Audio: A nostalgic Bauhaus binge
Video: American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace
19 Tuesday Feb 2019
Posted in Perfume Reviews
My latest post on Now Smell This is a fragrance review of Vanille Paradoxe from Les Parfums de Rosine.
You can read it here.
