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synecdochic ([personal profile] synecdochic) wrote in [community profile] smellsgood2014-05-16 04:38 am

The Friday Free-For-All

Good Friday morning, fellow sniffers!

This post is a free-for-all for people to:

a) post links to perfume-related content they posted elsewhere (on or off DW)
b) talk about anything they want to talk about that isn't big enough for a full post
c) socialize and hang out without worrying about "off topic"
d) or anything else that comes to mind!
chomiji: Several glass perfume bottles and the word Scent (Scent)

[personal profile] chomiji 2014-05-16 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)

I got my Fig-Figgety Fig Fig samples from Surrender to Chance and have been experimenting with them. I will post my results on the comm in a couple of installments. The winner so far (in terms of my perferences) is the relatively mainstream Un Jardin en Mediterranee from Hermès.

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[personal profile] lunabee34 2014-05-17 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
Yay for figs! :)

And remember, mainstream just means a bunch of people like it. Ice cream is mainstream. Because it is awesome. LOL
rydra_wong: Close-up shot of Pina Bausch's face. (body -- pina)

[personal profile] rydra_wong 2014-05-17 09:44 am (UTC)(link)
And Un Jardin en Mediterranee is by Jean-Claude Ellena, who gets a lot of respect -- it's the perfume that got Hermes to hire him as their exclusive in-house perfumer.
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[identity profile] smillaraaq.livejournal.com 2014-05-17 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a pretty fascinating in-depth article here - http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/03/14/050314fa_fact - covering the process of the development of one of Ellena's earlier Hermès scents, Un Jardin sur le Nil.
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[personal profile] rydra_wong 2014-05-18 09:32 am (UTC)(link)
Can't get the article to load properly, but I see it's by Chandler Burr --- he actually wrote a whole book, The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris & New York, describing the development process for Un Jardin sur le Nil and Sarah Jessica Parker's Lovely. This article must have preceded that, I think.