Isn't the rose a beautiful thing? I can't imagine what god what thinking when he made the rose. Maybe something along the lines of: let me make something with a beauty so smoldering, so incredible, that women will want to wear it, be compared to it, be it. and hey, even audrey hepburn aint got NOTHING on the beauty of a rose.

For the woman, ( Read more... )

Some time ago, some incredible rich french dude decided that he was sick of perfumers not getting their kudos for the scents they create. Take for example the cult favourite, j'adore by Dior. So this much is obvious: the perfume from Christian Dior, and it goes by the name j'adore. Ever given any thought into who created it? unlikely. (The ( Read more... )

Hellohello! in lieu of the Beijing Olympics i thought i'd put up a post on something more... well, oriental.

My pick for today is from the Hermessence line and it's called Osmanthe Yunnan. It was released in 2004 along with Rose Ikebana, Vetiver Tonka, Ambre Narguile, and Poivre Samarcande. While i've managed to smell all of them, I only managed to ( Read more... )

Sometime last year, Chanel introduced a line of 10 or so perfumes under the line 'Les Exclusifs'. All of the scents were either re-issues of old scents or new creations by Jacques Polge that are meant to relate to a significant time, place, or person in Coco Chanel's life. The scents include Rue Cambon 31, Bois des Iles, Bel Respiro, Gardenia, 28 ( Read more... )

Recently, i attended a Jil Sander show at the four seasons. apart from the immaculately (well, in my eyes anyway) cut suits, the menswear impressed me very little. i found the terracozza-print coats and suits total overkill. the womenswear, on the other hand, was a structural marvel. the coats were totally insane (in that they were really cool but ( Read more... )

So i've got these three annoying red armchairs in my room (which, by the way, my mother uses as a fucking storeroom for everything from unused stereos to the cupboard containing out fine china) which i really want to get rid of cos' they're so bloody dirty. the red damask is supposed to be a bright-ish red, but is instead a sort of i-just-scraped- ( Read more... )

Rose Poivrée is this incredible perfume by famed perfumer, jean claude-ellena (he's the one who does hermès). It is an incredible juxtaposition of both masculine (namely, pepper, vetiver, civet, coriander) and feminine notes (damascus rose, bay rose) that culminates in a decadent, animalistic, and very unique perfume.

What does it really smell like ( Read more... )

So i'm sitting here in my room studying for my I.O.C (Individual oral commentary) for which i need to read three books, one of which is James Joyce's Dubliners. Totally melancholic and dry. It DOES help, however, that i can curl up in my armchair and smoke in my room while doing so. The BEST part, though, is that i can have a glass of Diptyque's ( Read more... )

You know how certain things just manage to take you right back to your childhood? Such as, for example, a perfume that smells like a flower that used to bloom in your garden or something like that. But how would a perfume capture, say, that expensive lobster meal that was the one your fiancee took you to before he proposed? or the smell of the ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here at the moment, in my room, having a cigarette with Édith Piaf's La Vie En Rose playing off my itunes (such a mood spoiler i tell you. I want an ipod player that looks like a grammophone.) and i was just thinking of a french woman in an old café, sipping coffee slowly and smoking a Gitane cigarette, smoking it perfectly, just as a ( Read more... )