Blog Profile / One Thousand Scents
| URL : | http://1000scents.blogspot.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Beauty / Perfume | |
| Posts on Regator: | 429 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.6 | |
| Archived Since: | March 2, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Don't: Derring-Do by Ineke
I am trying to like these, I swear I am, but the best I can say about the line so far is that each scent is better than the last, as if the perfumer, Ineke Ruhland, is improving over time. But I still don't think Derring-Do is particularly...Show More Summary
Not My Cuppa: Chemical Bonding by Ineke
I want to like the Ineke series but I'm trying them in order and I'm still waiting for the big revelation, the fantastic scent: Chemical Bonding, the third in the series, is not it. Part of the problem is my nose, I guess: the scent just doesn't smell uniform, but presents itself in an unpredictable way. Show More Summary
'Til You Drop
Tomorrow, as it happens, is my birthday. Today, as it happens, Jim had to go to Dartmouth to teach a seminar, so I went along to keep him company during the drive (about two and a half hours each way). At nineish, Jim dropped me off at the Mic Mac Mall and headed to his gig. Show More Summary
Sunday Driver: Balmy Days and Sundays by Ineke
It is as true of the second Ineke fragrance as it was of the first that the packaging is fantastic, devised and executed with considerable imagination. And it is likewise as true of the second as of the first that the scent inside is not particularly good. Show More Summary
But Not Mine: After My Own Heart by Ineke
As I mentioned when I was discussing my last trip to New York, I bought a set of seven Ineke samples because "the packaging is so ludicrously beautiful and thought-through that I couldn't resist." And it is.Here's the sample box I got:A...Show More Summary
Departure: L'Artisan Parfumeur Oeillet Sauvage
Now that Serge Lutens has a new carnation scent, Vitriol d'Oeillet, on the shelves (though of course nowhere near where I can get my hands on it), I have had carnations on the brain, so it was high time I dipped into my vial of L'Artisan's discontinued and much-lamented Oeillet Sauvage ("Wild Carnation"). Show More Summary
Right The First Time: Serge Lutens Rahät Loukoum
If you ever want a lesson in how the same basic elements of perfumery can combine to produce drastically different effects, you need look no further than Rahät Loukoum and Louve.I wrote about Louve a couple of years ago and could hardly...Show More Summary
Old School: Badgely Mishka
There's nothing inherently wrong with the category of the fruity floral: it's been around for quite a while, and some of its inhabitants are very nice. But the huge majority of scents released in the last decade or so, possibly longer, have been fruity florals of a very specific style. Show More Summary
A Keeper: Estée Lauder Private Collection
The mythology, straight from the Estée Lauder website:In her private office, Mrs. Lauder kept a collection of the rarest, best and most expensive fragrance oils, extracts and essences from every corner of the globe. Over several years, she created a parfum from these precious ingredients that was deeply personal and for herself alone. Show More Summary
Through and Through: Etro Mahogany
There are a lot of "transparent" scents on the market these days, and by this we generally mean light, gauzy, inoffensive: that's how I use it. But Mahogany really does smell transparent, like thiswhich is an LED clock made of wood fronted by a veneer thin enough that the light shows through when you plug it in. Show More Summary
What Is Love: Kenzo Amour
Given the stunning bottles which reference everything from early Art Nouveau ceramics to fifties Melamine kitchenware (with I think a cheery nod to the original Shiseido Feminité du Bois bottle) and the novel note of "rice steam" (one...Show More Summary
Celebration: Oh la la by Loris Azzaro
Loris Azzaro's Oh la la, smelled from a distance of almost twenty years, feels like a bit of a throwback. It was launched in 1993, a big, voluptuous floral oriental that feels more like something from the eighties (it shares DNA with...Show More Summary
Bright Sunshiny Day: Montana Just Me
As you know all too well if you are one of the obsessed who is perpetually scouring the Internet looking for information about scents, descriptions and lists of notes are a dicey proposition at best, a complete curse most of the time.After...Show More Summary
Summer Cool: Comme des Garçons Series 5, Sherbet
But first, he rambles endlessly, and talks about heavy, unsummery oriental scents from a few decades ago.+I was idly thumbing through Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez' "Perfumes: The Guide" when I chanced upon this opening sentence for her...Show More Summary
Have Your Cake And Wear It Too: Jacomo Art Collection #02
As I mentioned, when I was at Bergdorf Goodman a few weeks ago, the nice saleswoman, when she discovered that I liked leather scents (or at least was interested in buying a specific leathery scent, which is not exactly the same thing, but she was on a mission), started plying me with all the leathers she could think of. Show More Summary
Carbo Loading: Serge Lutens Jeux de Peau
I often feel at a disadvantage when pondering the names and descriptions of French scents, because the descriptions are often so big and flowery that I know a translation is not really going to do them justice, and the names often force...Show More Summary
Trompe l'Oeil Coq
Okay. This is the packaging for the original Jean-Paul Gaultier scent for men, Le Male:Now, this is the packaging for his upcoming men's scent, Kokorico:In case it is not absolutely clear, the front of the bottle is a man's head in profile, and the edge of the bottle is the profile of the original bottle. Show More Summary
Helluva Town
Aaaaaaand I'm back from New York. It was pretty effing hot the first day we were there, last Friday; the weekend was nice, rainless and temperate, and then it just started getting hotter and hotter, until yesterday, our last day, itShow More Summary
Drink Up: Gres Cabaret Shower Gel
Even though I am on a self-imposed moratorium and am trying manfully not to buy any scents in 2011 (I will probably fail before the year is up), I have given myself a little bit of wiggle room: any bottle of fragrance that I buy is going...Show More Summary
The Element of Surprise: Comme des Garçons Odeur 71
There are a great many things to loathe about spring. Early on, the snow begins to melt, leaving behind all the garbage and detritus and dog leavings and rotting leaves deposited during the fall and winter. Later, it is a preview ofShow More Summary