I thought that it would be useful for readers to better understand my thought process when I review perfumes, to lay it out explicitly. And especially, the way I compare perfumes between themselves inside categories which allow for...
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The Scented Salamander in the New Yahoo Shine Get It Guide & a Note on Grandma Smell at the Sensorium...Really? {Scented Thoughts}
The editors at the new Yahoo Shine Get It Guide wrote that they highlighted the contribution of The Scented Salamander blog on celebrity fragrances after requesting a contribution on the topic as an Insider: see the piece that made it:...
Smelling Tommy Girl Now: When The 1990s Smell Like the 1940s {Scented Thoughts}
Tommy Girl by Tommy Hilfiger was launched in 1996 and was created by perfumer Calice Becker. Re-smelling it today - now - is perceiving the fragrance in a completely different light. Tommy Girl in the formulation bought ca. the earlier...
White Accords in Perfumery: So Long The 70s {Scented Thoughts}
White Dahlia by Fred Dalkey, 2011 Lately, we have seen more and more of what can be neatly summarized as the new white accords in perfumery. Perfumers and fragrance creatives seem to be having a blast devising fragrance accords that they...
Liberace Wore Perfume, So What? Homosexuality as Given Away by an Indiscreet Fragrance Trail in the 1950s {Scented Thoughts} {Celebrity Fragrance}
In 1956, wearing loud perfume for a man - and especiallly one of the blindingly bright, sparkling kind like Liberace was - was thought to be a sure give-away of his homosexuality which he tried to conceal from public...
Strange Olfactory Encounters Are Being Offered to the Wrong Crowd: Armani Privé La Femme Bleue, Ambre d'Orient, Miller Harris La Plume, La Fumée {Scented Thoughts}
Black Square by MalevichIt is quite a surrealist experience to smell perfumes which are housed world aparts in different bottles and labeled under different name brands, yet smell strangely similar. The fact that the four perfumes under consideration were launched...
Ma Griffe de Carven is Back on Track {Scented Thoughts}
Initially launched in 1946 by the fashion house of Carven, Ma Griffe (My Signature) created by the perfumer who also imagined Tabu by Dana, Jean Carles, had become barely recognizable in the recent period. The formula had been considerably cheapened....
Fragrance of the Moment: De Profundis by Serge Lutens {Scented Thoughts}
Grilles au cimetière de Montmartre © 2011 Chant Wagner The heat was sweltering today in Paris. The taxi driver told me it was 40 degrees Fahrenheit and that the knowledgeable ones had said that it would be the hottest...
The Scent of Linden Trees on Avenue Mozart {Scented Thoughts}
I kept meaning to go back to take a picture of the linden trees on Avenue Mozart for illustration, but never found the opportunity, although it shouldn't have been challenging. Finally, I decided to use for illustrating purposes a postcard...
Perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour as the new Pope of Niche Fragrances {Scented Thoughts}
Perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour is the new Pope of niche fragrances, apparently. His current compositions can be found across several well-respected, so-called niche brands: Frapin, Penhaligon's, L'Artisan Parfumeur, Amouage, Eau d'Italie, Parfums MDCI, and soon,The Different Company, for whom...
Your Guide to the New Soliflores of Spring 2011 - & What Their Comeback Might Mean {Scented Thoughts} {Perfume List}
The Fashion for Soliflores Then & Now The fashion for soliflores is seeing a reawakening in the spring of 2011. Soliflores or single-note floral fragrances were famously all the rage during the 19th century. It was so much so...
What Fragrances to Wear on New Year's Eve 2010: A Best-Of Suggestions {Perfume List}
// Chiming in 2011 can be best enjoyed with a perfume which will help you save the memories of this once-in-a-lifetime night as well as add sparkle or intrigue to your...
Radiant & Pristine Floral Bouquets Renew Our Sensations, Expand Space in 2010-2011 {Scented Thoughts} {Trend Alert}
Flor Garduno, Embrace of Light, 2000 Before I proceed to review some of the recent, new and upcoming perfumes which reveal this characteristic interest in the radiant-bouquet motif, I thought I'd organize them in the Trend-Alert section. This current of sensitivity...
Emmanuel Ungaro's Diva Dresses in Gold & Silver for the Holidays 2010 + An Aside on Perfume Authorship {Fragrance News - New Flacon}
A Limited-Edition of one of the most representative perfumes of the 80s, Diva, has been introduced to fête the Holidays 2010. Originally launched in 1983 and manufactured by Chanel, it has been officially attributed to perfumer Jacques Polge for the...
2010 Fall Fragrance Trends and Perfume Launches {Scented Thoughts} {Trend Alerts}
Picture © The Scented SalamanderThe 2010 Fall season of fragrance launches promises to be particularly rich this year with many, diverse universes of fragrance to choose from.Here is our list of fragrances to watch and give a sniff to (there...