20 Monday Jul 2020
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As I’m writing this post, I’m also checking the weather forecast. Temperatures are expected to rise into the high nineties for the next few days. Time to break out more summer-themed perfumes, including a few that are light enough for even the hottest days of July…
Continue reading06 Monday Apr 2020
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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”…
09 Tuesday Apr 2019
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aroma m, dawn spencer hurwitz, fragrance, frederic malle, gucci, ineke, lilac, perfume, yves saint laurent
Mary Cassatt, Lilacs in a Window, 1880-1883. Oil on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Partial and Promised Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Dillon, 1997. 1997.207
— T. S. Eliot, The Wasteland (I. The Burial of the Dead)
If you asked me to name my favorite flower, or my favorite floral note in perfume, lilac wouldn’t be the first one I’d name. It might not even appear in my “top five.” Yet every April there’s a day when I have the opportunity to visit the blooming lilac trees in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and I suddenly want to spray myself with a lilac fragrance.
Here are a few recommendations, including three from independent female perfumers and one from a preeminent female “nose.”
26 Wednesday Dec 2018
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My latest post for Now Smell This is a review of Dawn Spencer Hurwitz’s Colorado and Maria McElroy’s Desert Flower, two limited edition fragrances created for American Perfumer.
You can read it here.
30 Monday Jul 2018
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My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of Geisha Botan, an upcoming fragrance release from Aroma M.
You can read it here.
Image: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Japanese Peonies, before 1912. Via Wikimedia Commons.
26 Friday Jan 2018
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My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of Geisha Marron Eau de Parfum from Aroma M.
You can read it here.
09 Saturday Sep 2017
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My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of rose-fragranced skincare products from Gülsha and Aroma M.
You can read it here.
