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“Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. It’s contrast.”                         ―Virginia Woolf, played by Nicole Kidman in “The Hours” (2002) by guest writer AlbertCA Perhaps the most peculiar aspect of the fragrance industry, in the current sea of familiarity, is its ever forward-venturing heart. Just short of [...]

Usually the Twin Peaks series, an album comprised of smell-alike snapshots, springs from the demand for similar-smelling perfumes, either less expensive homologue scents, alternatives when a specific fragrance doesn’t quite work but you know you like the effect or substitutes when one’s favourite is ruined through reformulations. The case of Secret Obsession and Chiffon by [...]

According to the Daily News, the Yankees will be selling his-and-her fragrances in April: “The men’s fragrance captures ‘a sporty and confident attitude, creating a timeless masculine’ scent, redolent with ‘fresh wood tones, an invigorating blend of sparkling bergamont, coriander and cool blue sage,’ the manufacturer says. The ladies’ scent is described as an ‘alluring [...]

Givenchy music video for the brand’s new fragrance Givenchy Very Irrésistible Electric Rose starring Liv Tyler, the face of current Givenchy perfumes (waste of beauty if you ask me, but of course you didn’t so I’ll shut up now). The fragrance will be available for purchase in stores in April 2012. The clip is choreographed [...]

If the Great Big Sea are to be taken literally, “you can smell that French perfume” on the wake of a contraband ship “if the wind turns right”. In a world where everything has a received value besides its inherent one, Pilsener has to be Czech, computers should be USA-made, feta cheese must absolutely be [...]

…for the bottle of Violet is Barbara Patty. Congratulations! Please email me using the Contact with your shipping data so I can have this in the mail for you soon. Thanks everyone for the enthusiastic participation and till the next one! Go to Source

On Tuesday, Feb. 14, Gaga posted: “Looking forward to this weekend. Shooting my parfum campaign and commercial with Steven Klein. Will be edited to a special song…shit.” The tweet can be viewed at her official Twitter feed, which is followed by 19 million people. [source] “Every celebrity whose “anybody” needs to have a perfume and [...]

Violet is a limited edition “flanker”* of the signature Oscar fragrance, one of the group of limited summer editions by fashion designer Oscar de la Renta which launched through 2005 (Violet is from that season) and 2006: Soft Blossom, Soft Amber, Sweet Flower, Tropical Flower, Fresh Vanilla, Red Orchid, Pink Lily, Sheer Freesia, Citrus, Bamboo. [Wow [...]

Few are the males ~and the masculine fragrances to accompany them~ that indulge into tipping their long toes (with a few stray hairs on them) into the gourmand pool where vanilla reigns supreme like a giant mother’s breast offering precious comfort. Breast and beast don’t mix. Or do they? Rochas Man (1999), no less because [...]

The mouillettes by Maria Candida Gentile have been lying on my desk for several weeks now, aromatizing the air with their delicious mélange, making me nostalgise about the mystical splendor of wintertime Venice. They all speak in mellifluous voices that you really want to follow into the echoing cobblestone alleyways, over the silent canals. Hanbury, [...]