Scented Thoughts Archives

Tuesday, 9 February 2010 By Chant Wagner

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...

Monday, 30 November 2009 By Chant Wagner

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...

Saturday, 28 November 2009 By Chant Wagner

L'Eau Serge Lutens: The Enduring Scent of Anticonformism or the Anti-Anti Perfume + The Film/ Un Parfum d'Anticonformisme qui Perdure ou L'Anti-Anti Parfum + Le Film {New Perfume} {Fragrance Images & Adverts} {Scented Thoughts}

{A fragrance review of L'Eau Serge Lutens has been added to the blog!}Foreword: This is not a review. This started as a teaser, then an introduction and ended being a more developed commentary on the idea of the perfume, as...

Monday, 23 November 2009 By Chant Wagner

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...

Tuesday, 17 November 2009 By Chant Wagner

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...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009 By Chant Wagner

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...

Monday, 9 November 2009 By Chant Wagner

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...

Friday, 9 October 2009 By Chant Wagner

Online Perfume Design with P&G Downy Simple Pleasures: Be a Nose! {Fragrance News}

Procter and Gamble have set up a dedicated space for inviting consumers to try their hands at online perfume designing with the tag line, Express yourself. It's simple. There is perfume designer Kavin Morgan who guides you through the different...

Friday, 9 October 2009 By Chant Wagner

Strange Article on Patriotic Bestseller Perfumes: Discuss {Fragrance News} {Scented Thoughts}

"Judging from besteller lists of fragrances around the world, shoppers prefer scents created by or associated with their compatriots.Fair enough. Here is an article in the fashion section of The Independent today entitled Trendwatch: Global beauty customers are patriotic with...

Thursday, 8 October 2009 By Chant Wagner

Faguenat, Faganat: How The French Described a Host of Stinky Odors after Rabelais with Notes on Fug {Perfume Vocabulary} {Scented Thoughts}

Faguenat, Fagana...FugFaguenat, Faganat are two very interesting words as they are all but forgotten in contemporary French, omitted by the contemporary dictionaries I checked, yet have rich, precise and diverse historic meanings in the field of historical olfaction. In this...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009 By Chant Wagner

Dior Hypnotic Poison Rubis & Thierry Mugler Angel Liqueur: Sniffing Rich Orientals in Paris Lead Me to New Flankers {Scented Thoughts} {Perfume Reviews} {Perfume Streetwear}

One of the pleasures of taking a stroll in Paris or simply going from point A to point B is picking up on sillages of perfume on the streets. When a repetition pattern appears, it becomes a bit intriguing. Paris...

Wednesday, 5 August 2009 By Chant Wagner

Do You Think We're Seeing a Christmas-in-July Trend with Perfumes?

After reading a both funny and sad article on marketers attempting to push the Christmas-in-July agenda with such immortal lines as "Given the dreary economic climate, we thought we could bring customers a little more cheer in the middle of...

Sunday, 28 June 2009 By Chant Wagner

Spring & Summer Notes: Peonies Red, Pink and Yellow {Scented Images of the Day}

I was eager to plunge my nose in the spumy peonies as soon as they appeared last spring. Peonies always remind me of one day in spring in my childhood when I arrived at the country house of a friend...

Saturday, 30 May 2009 By Chant Wagner

Spring Notes: Smelling Red Lilies for Several Days {Scented Thoughts}

Some time ago, I had the opportunity to smell red lilies over the course of several days and I became progressively enchanted by their olfactory complexity. Lilies are not spring flowers - so I am taking some liberties here...

Saturday, 23 May 2009 By Chant Wagner

Les Fleurs du Guildo & Jicky by Guerlain: An Early, 19th Century Precursor of Marine Scents & a Reexamination of Jicky's Gender & Fresh Factor {Perfume History & Facts} {Scented Thoughts}

Ruins of Le Guildo by GwenSo called marine scents have known an explosion of interest that came from the top in the 1990s, with the use of molecules such as Helional and especially Calone (discovered in 1966 by Pfizer), but...

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