The pilot launch of Eau de Stilton is generating quite a stir. People are adopting a wait-and-see attitude to see if this perfume concept will flounder or not. The dairy farmers who have come up with the idea are...
Scented Thoughts Archives
Scented (Good) Thoughts: Mother's Day Fundraising for Orphans of America
This is just a small reminder that on Mother's Day, Sunday May 14, a group of participating perfume and beauty blogs will each be fundraising for the charity of their choice. For each comment that you will leave here,...
Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses: Of Scents and Spaces
I am inaugurating a new column and in it, I will offer information about travel intineraries, promenades, and places that are perfume-related. The search for perfumes leads to travel in time and the discovery of new imaginary geographies that...
Scented Thoughts: Perfume List-Making and The Meaning of It
For whatever reasons people decide to compile lists, and lists of perfumes in particular, I find the results of this activity to be usually both interesting and entertaining as well as informative for the consumers that we are. The activity...
Scented Thoughts: How to Define a Good Perfume & Double Take on Fragonard by Fragonard {Perfume Short (Review)}
Yesterday, sitting on the couch, sipping my early morning cup of coffee, the lamps unlit, the blinds still un-drawn, and the laptop on, I suddenly became aware of the presence of an exquisite scent surrounding me. It made...
Scented Thoughts: Back From Paris
It is hard to write about perfumes when you are in Paris. First of all, there are too many things to get busy about and secondly, if your mind starts craving certain scents, the craving can so rapidly be satisfied...
Scented Thoughts: The Archangel Michael, The Demon, and The Salamander
This is where part of me lives, St Michel in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Good old Archangel Michael is slaying evil, a demon with wings and a tail, amidst the bubbling waters. Once a year, at least it used...
Scented Thoughts: A field of Eiffel Towers & Flowers
I miss my home city, Paris, and so I evoke her through images, words, and...scents. Here, the Eiffel Towers almost smell of flowers. A fabric for a coquettish boudoir where perfumes mingle with the imagining of fresh-cut flowers and the...