Deauville © The Scented Salamander 30 OF THE VERY BEST BEACH & MARINE FRAGRANCES - PART II Hope you are still able to partake of the pleasures of the beach and seaside before fall sets in. We are continuing...
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30 of the Very Best Beach & Marine Fragrances - Part 1 {Scented Thoughts} {Perfume List}
Countryside by the sea © The Scented Salamander 30 OF THE VERY BEST BEACH & MARINE FRAGRANCES - PART I It's beach time! (in your mind)We could look at beach and marine fragrances from a purely practical and functional...
Valentine's Day 2010 & Beyond: Exploring Musk Oils - Part 2 {Scented Thoughts} {Perfume List}
Nudo con el calze rosse by Giuseppe De NittisI hope that you had a lovely Valentine's Day and that you celebrated in high or low style. A rose, a glass of wine, sweet words will do, at every opportune occasion...
Valentine's Day 2010: Exploring Musk Oils // Part 1 {Scented Thoughts} {Perfume List}
18th century Muscadins - from "muschardin", a pastille perfumed with musk - are pre-dandy types, who were known for their predilection for perfume Musk Oils in the 18th and 19th Centuries - Scientific Discoveries & Industrialization The systematic quest...
The Best Perfumes of 2000-2009 in Poetry by Cinquieme Sens {Fragrance News} {Perfume List}
Cinquième Sens (Fifth Sense) a Paris- and New-York-based perfume school open to all (not just professionals) who wish to take classes to train their sense of smell and knowledge of fragrance history and marketing (check out their website for a...
Best-Selling Celebrity Perfumes {Celebrity Fragrances} {Perfume List}
Elizabeth Taylor at the launch of White Diamonds at the Plaza Hotel in New York city in September 1991The market research group Euromonitor International published a list of the 9 best-selling fragrances in the celebrity category for the US in...
16 Baby Approved Perfumes {Fragrance List} {Shopping Tips}
We are so used to representing to our selves the scents of babies as eminently desirable that the reaction to the idea of perfuming your little bundles of love can be one of incredulity or sarcasm. I remember years...
North-American Originals: Perfumers on Fall & Winter - Part 5 {Scented Thoughts} {Perfume List} {Shopping Tip}
Pink & Lavender Sky of Paris in the Fall ©The Scented Salamander Our series on Fall- & Winter-inspired creations by North-American independent perfumers comes to a close today. See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. We hope that it...
North-American Originals: Perfumers on Fall & Winter - Part 4 {Scented Thoughts} {Perfume List} {Shopping Tip}
If you missed our previous posts, you can find them here: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3 Today, we feature Brent Leonesio of Smell Bent and D.S. & Durga. Both are newcomers to the scene of independent perfumery, with...
North-American Originals: Perfumers on Fall & Winter - Part 3 {Scented Thoughts} {Perfume List} {Shopping Tip}
End of a fall day in Paris If you missed the previous installments, here they are: Part 1, Part 2 Today, we continue to follow the thoughts and experiments of Anya McCoy of Anya's Garden, peruse the fall perfume catalog...
Smell Expensive for Less with these 6 Perfumes: Your Practical Shopping Guide to the Scent of Moneyed Privilege
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) How to smell like you have gold ingots in the bank while keeping this idea as a hypothetical? Here is your shopping guide to smelling expensive. Some perfumes just smell like mink fur, and...
North-American Originals: Perfumers on Fall & Winter 2 {Scented Thoughts} {Perfume List} {Shopping Tip}
A view of Paris fall from last year. You can spot the French gardening principle right away: trees need to look tailored, like clothing. Isn't Paris the capital of fashion? The lines were so straight I had to make them...
North-American Originals: Perfumers on Fall & Winter {Scented Thoughts} {Perfume List} {Shopping Tips}
North-American Originals: Perfumers on Fall & Winter You can read Part 2 here; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5 American perfumery is as varied as its landscape. One of its most notable traits is the fact that...
My 2009 Halloween Shopping List: Ambiguity {Beauty Notes} {Perfume List}
To help you out make that mad dash to the beauty and perfume counters for Halloween 09, here is what I think will help you prep in the most ghoulish yet stylish way and usher in The Moooood.Also, bonus, see...
Perfume Cravings In The Fall: Cornucopia of Dark, Golden Fruits {Fragrance List} {Perfume Reviews}
Vertumnus by Arcimboldo, 1591 Here is a List of Fall Perfumes I compiled last year in the beginning of November 2008, which did not make it to the blog until now. I then felt an urge to wax poetically...