July 2008

How I Spent My ’08 Summer Vacation

July 31, 2008

We had swimming pools in our backyard all through my childhood. My father would build them, digging big holes in the yard, pouring in sand over which he’d stretch layers and layers of heavy plastic lining, then putting up wooden walls, painting them blue and installing a drainage-filtration-pump system that he devised on his own. [...]

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DSquared2 He Wood; Divine L’Homme Sage

July 31, 2008

Now, I love DSquared2 as far as their clothing and shoes are concerned — their oh-so-chic urban style is often underscored by a near self-deprecating sense of humor, and they’re a much needed shot in the arm to an industry that too often forgets that men are built differently from women (Prada and Dior Homme, [...]

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Fashion News Roundup: 07/30/08

July 30, 2008

1. Camouflage your iPhone: “Louis Vuitton has their new Camouflage range of handbags however; also included in the range is an iPhone and iPod case . . . These cases are not cheap, selling for $280. The design for these cases was inspired by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, who has worked on a number of [...]

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Guerlain Habit Rouge; Guerlain Chamade Pour Homme

July 30, 2008

Guerlain’s Habit Rouge is a masculine scent I can live with. It doesn’t smell old, tired, dull or cliched, despite the fact that it’s been hanging around on the shelves since 1965; and now that 40 is the new 30 (or so I’ve been told), that means there’s still plenty of kick to go around [...]

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Tauer Perfumes Orris; Tauer Perfumes Lonestar Memories

July 29, 2008

If niche perfumery is an attempt at serving the tastes of a minority not catered to by the big perfume companies, then Tauer Perfumes is a niche within this niche, offering self-proclaimed “beyond the ordinary” and “truly exciting” mixes that appear designed to provoke rapturous exclamations from easily excitable bloggers rather doing what a good [...]

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First They Came for the Trans-Fats . . .

July 29, 2008

The Al Dente blog introduces us to Five Hot Dogs That Will Kill You Cold. Dead. Hands. That’s all I’m sayin’ . . .

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Vero Profumo Onda

July 28, 2008

Swiss-based perfumer Vero Kern’s Onda is not for the minimalist. It’s a big bouquet of spice that will precede if not exceed you, and you’ll need a glittering personality to go along with it. Onda has a distinct, clear-the-decks entrance that can be chalked up to the eye-watering mace on its ingredient list. The herbaceous [...]

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Chanel Sycomore; Comme des Garcons Sequoia; Montale Red Aoud

July 27, 2008

Today, we’re going to knock on wood, and three very specific types of wood, at that: Sycomore, Sequoia and Aoud. The name Sycomore can be ascribed to three different types of tree — the Middle Eastern/Northern African fig tree, the European maple and the North American plane tree, but as far as references are concerned, [...]

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Equistrius by Parfum D’Empire; Anvers by Ulrich Lang New York

July 26, 2008

Parfum D’Empire Equistrius: Said to be named after a competition showhorse owned by the founder of Parfum d’Empire, Equistrius isn’t the wild beast you’d expect out of such an homage, but rather a tender collection of violets, buffed saddle leather, dusty chocolate and roots of iris flower and grass, plus a rich slathering of grey [...]

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Il Profumo G-11; Cereus Pour Homme No. 11

July 25, 2008

Il Profumo G-11: boring cliche of a men’s fragrance — green fresh notes, cypress, oakmoss, tobacco, lavendar, vetiver, musk . . . zzzzzzzzzz. Huh? What? Oh, sorry, I couldn’t even finish typing in the rest of the ingredients before I conked right out. They may as well have just named it Narcolepsy Extreme. Cereus Pour [...]

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