The Friday Free-For-All

[synecdochic]

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!

Comments

[chomiji]

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.

[lunabee34]

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]

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.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

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.

[synecdochic]

Oh, that article is fascinating.

[rydra_wong]

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.

[synecdochic]

I've had that book in my "read someday" wishlist for a while, but reading the article made me actually get off my duff and order it :)