A seminarist stepping out of the iconostasis on Easter Monday 2017 // Dancey Step II © CHANT WAGNER How the Church Influences Our Love of Perfume: Smells & Sights on Easter Monday The most luscious incense scent comes wafting...
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4 Sexy Paris Sillages: Perfumes that Say Follow Me, Fragrances that Say Remember Me {Fragrances of Paris} {Perfume Streetwear}
How best to report on sexy fragrances but as a form of up-to-the-minute account of what you encountered on the street when you were involuntarily pulled into the aura of seduction of a perfume?The following are four perfumes that made...
White Musks Part II: Top White Musk Trails To Try Out {Perfume Short (Reviews)} {Perfume List}
Mainbocher Corset, Horst P. Horst, 1939Following my last article on the unadvertised, nay, covert trendiness of white musks in Paris, in complete contradiction of course with broadcast Gallic preferences for foul odors, here is a list of top white-musk trails...
The White Musk Trend In Paris...Really? {Perfume Streetwear} {Scented Thoughts}
An early engraving of the musk deer, here called the "musk-cat" - Hortus Sanitatis, 1490 PERFUME STREETWEAR: THE WHITE-MUSK TREND IN PARIS... VRAIMENT? by Chantal-Hélène WagnerBeing in Paris, a capital-city bigger, more kaleidoscopic than Cambridge or even Boston, with more...
The Knize Ten by Knize {Perfume Review & Musings/Part II} {Fragrances of Paris}
After our previous excursus into some of the historic background of Knize Ten by Knize we now come to our impressions of the scent in part II of the review.Knize Ten may have have had you expectant that it...
The Knize Ten or 10 by Knize (1924) {Perfume Review & Musings Part I} {Men's Cologne} {Fragrances of Paris}
Knize Ten by Knize (pronounced "Kniesche") comes preceded by an aura of legend within certain circles as being one of the best leather colognes in the world, whose reputation has endured to this day and very rightly so. In...
Rue du Petit Musc, Quid? {Scented Thoughts} {Fragrances of Paris}
The other day, I posted a picture of a street in Paris, located in the IVth arrondissement, which is called "Rue du Petit Musc" - literally reads as "street of the little musk" - thinking that I should double-check...