06 Monday Apr 2020
Posted in Perfume Reviews
It’s April…and there isn’t much news to share, other than that my household is staying safe and sound. I hope yours is, too.
And I’m continuing my project of indulging in fragrances that I’d never wear to the office. This is a silver lining of “working from home”…
02 Thursday Apr 2020
Posted in Perfume Reviews
30 Monday Mar 2020
Posted in Perfume Reviews
Greetings from my chamber of self-isolation! I did venture out to the pharmacy earlier in the week, and I may be plotting a bakery run soon. Otherwise, I’m staying home and trying to get some work done while avoiding too many news updates.
At least I’ve smelled pretty darn good over the past fortnight, thanks to another handful of office-inappropriate perfumes. Here’s the latest round-up:
27 Friday Mar 2020
Posted in Classes and Lectures
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Here’s a break in my pandemic-themed posting for late March!
The Perfumed Plume just announced the finalists in their 2020 Awards for Fragrance Journalism and I’m happy to be represented in two categories…
23 Monday Mar 2020
Posted in Passing Fancies
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Reading: A collection of Fran Lebowitz essays that I haven’t read in a while, for comic relief.
Audio: The news. Too much news. And a disco playlist that a colleague created for Spotify, to clear my mind afterwards.
Video: “Schitt’s Creek”…more welcome comic relief.
21 Saturday Mar 2020
Posted in Advertising and Scent, Perfume Reviews
Greetings, fragrant friends! I hope you’re all staying safe and staying home during this unprecedented situation.
I miss my friends, and my workplace, and my subway rides on the 2/3 train when I make my “to do” lists, and cocktails at local bars, and visits to perfume stores, and I’m as scared as everyone else about the coronavirus itself and this pandemic’s effect on the economy (not to mention our collective mental health)…but there must be a few silver linings to this giant cloud, right?
18 Wednesday Mar 2020
Posted in Advertising and Scent, Film/TV and Scent
Jo Malone’s limited edition collection for Spring 2020 is Lavenderland, a trio of fragrances that evoke “an enchanted world of violet visions, where English lavender meanders in purple pathways across the countryside.”
As usual, the visuals for this launch are beautifully styled and photographed…
16 Monday Mar 2020
Posted in Advertising and Scent
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day and “the Emerald Isle,” here’s a 1949 advertisement for Coty’s Emeraude — French for “emerald.”
Emeraude was released in 1921. It’s an “oriental” composition of orange, bergamot, tarragon, jasmine, ylang ylang, rose, rosewood, amber, sandalwood, patchouli, opoponax, benzoin, and vanilla; it has frequently been compared to Guerlain Shalimar, released four years later.
This illustration by René Jeandot represents Emeraude as a siren-like woman wearing a one-shouldered deep green gown, a bottle of perfume held lightly between her fingertips as she turns her face to the wind…
14 Saturday Mar 2020
Posted in Art and Scent
So, what’s new?
[ironic pause]
Wherever you are right now, I hope you’re staying safe and healthy. If you’re practicing “social distancing” and/or staying isolated at home, I hope you’re finding some calm and comfort in your favorite pastimes…reading? writing? wearing perfumes that you haven’t tried in a while?
