Blog Profile / 1000 Fragrances
| URL : | http://1000fragrances.blogspot.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Beauty / Perfume | |
| Posts on Regator: | 1846 | |
| Posts / Week: | 6.8 | |
| Archived Since: | March 2, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Chemistry on skin
I have a good memory of Estée Lauder, the last time when she came in France a very very long time ago, maybe the reason why I'm very attached to a perfume made by her. The art of perfumes is important, but it doesn't exist outside the...Show More Summary
Orange scented colors
Colors and scents share a very intimate relation. Every odor has a corresponding shade and vice-versa. It is not poetry, but chemistry. Once the mechanisms are understood, it is much easier to combine and create perfumes. One of theShow More Summary
Translating
There are poets who cannot be translated without the risk of sounding ridiculous. There are many French poets who sound rather strange in my roman language, despite the efforts of translators. You wonder why they were so much praised in their own country. Show More Summary
Coty et L'Oréal en Echos
A lire C'est la bourse... Parfum : comment Coty veut marcher sur les pieds de L’Oréal L’an dernier il a essayé de racheter pour plus de 10 milliards le groupe Avon. Ca n’a pas marché. Ca aurait peut-être marché si Coty avait été coté. Aujourd’hui Coty c’est un petit concurrent de L’Oréal. Demain, ça sera un concurrent plus riche et sans doute plus redoutable.
Perfumer Laurent Le Guernec about his ART and Pierre Bourdon
Perfumer Laurent Le Guernec from IFF speaks about his art, the signature of a perfume and his mentors.
Hugo Just Different (Hugo Boss)
Do you know the perfumes from Hugo Boss? You can try them and see what's the Boss spirit.
A Venise chez FLORIAN - Ton café le matin
With a plain lab bottle on the table, a perfume can be anything you want because there are no signs to guide the perception. Do you know the coffee & tonka special combination?
Proteus
In a very old article I presented the concept of ever-changing perfumes, a concept which emerged more than 100 years ago in an apothecary located in Paris Ecole Militaire, near my place, on avenue Suffren. One of the many specialties produced by that expert during La Belle Epoque was named Z.Protéique. Show More Summary
Empress Helena
Helena Rubinstein made an empire from nothing in a world dominated by "old" French brands who sold their preparations with complicated designs, names and le discours. One of the photos from a previous article is a catalog of the house. Her first cream, a major invention and success is word play in Hungarian. Show More Summary
Lost in translation
The previous days I made a small test to show you something the perfume is doing every day on shelves. I wrote in French with enough errors to amuse any French lover and with a complicated style to make the Google translation quite difficult in English. Show More Summary
L'Eau de Narcisse Bleu (Hermès) - new perfume review
In France, vanity and narcissism are at home, the reason why I wrote a long post about this beautiful perfume in a "french style". The truth is that there is nothing exceptional about L'Eau de Narcisse Bleu - a water diluted perfume....Show More Summary
Ode au Narcisse Bleu
Le beau narcisse bleu de Nice c'est le plus beau lancement de l'année et si je vous l'avoue c'est par une totale subjectivité. La critique objective c'est en anglais que je la fais. Je suis né sous le signe d'Hermès, le Dieu, et j'ai...Show More Summary
Naffe de Nafé
Le premier jour quand je suis entré chez Firmenich on m'a demandé de dire le nom de quelques notes qui seraient à mon avis la prochaine tendance. J'ai dit le nom d'une plante du Codex qui était la note clé dans une Eau de Guerlain très rare au temps de l'ancienne société Chuit Naef. Show More Summary
La main songe
Narcisse Guérin - Morpheus & Iris (1811) Le rêve d'Elizabeth se trouve-t-il dans la main délicate qui signe "It's you", dans le flacon précieux, dans le nom charmant ou dans le chant du rossignol, le rêve mystérieux et intime de la poésie...Show More Summary
It's you
Do you remember the first scent?
IMPERIALIST
In fashion and beauty marketing only the words matter because consumers cannot "see" behind. One of the most used suffixes in the recent past was -ist. From Sartorialist to Collagenist or Perfectionist. When you read "ist" you actually...Show More Summary
REVSON INTIMATE
"I don't meet the competition, I destroy it" - Charles Revson (1906-1975) creator of INTIMATE and many other marvels for nails. His mother Jeanette Weiss Revson was born in former Austro-Hungary of German Jewish ancestry. Charlie was the great rival of Josephine Esther Mentzer (1906-2004), of Hungarian Jewish ancestry, known as Estée.
La REGENESSENCE
La Regenera crème version [3.R] - bientôt la prochaine nouvelle
Je m'avance masqué au Purgatoire
Le Vatican est un peu chez moi, il y a toujours une invention pour sauver ou damner les âmes. Le Purgatoire n'existe pas chez les autres. A rome, il faut mentir avec un peu de piment. Sinon, se repentir avec une autre sauce blanche. La vita nova c'est l'aroma nova. Show More Summary