January 2009

Fashion Industry News Roundup: 01/30/09

January 30, 2009

1.) As If I Needed A Reason:“If you’re out on a date, have as much gourmet food and wine as your purse will permit, including all kinds of shellfish and vintage red wines. The reason? Gourmet foods contain pheromones and so you will increase your personal level of pheromones.” Then I’ll have the Kobe steak, [...]

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Soivohle’: Underworld and Tobacco & Tulle

January 29, 2009

Soivohle’ is an Ohio based, small-scale boutique perfume house founded by artist Liz Zorn, producing both all-natural and “modern” (synthetics included) fragrances by hand. The two scents I’m testing today are from her all-natural side of the aisle. TOBACCO & TULLE: Sometimes, with fragrances, I feel like I’m the equivalent of the wine-snob, where I [...]

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Keiko Mecheri Loukhoum Parfum du Soir and Divine L’etre Aime Homme

January 28, 2009

KEIKO MECHERI LOUKHOUM PARFUM DU SOIR: I stayed up way too late last night watching Dead Reckoning: a 1947 black & white film-noir with Humphrey Bogart and a platinum blond Lizabeth Scott. Cool movie — lots of snappy dialogue and slick plot twists. There’s a scene near the end where Bogart has just been beaten [...]

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L’Artisan Parfumeur: Timbuktu (again) and Aedes de Venustas

January 27, 2009

TIMBUKTU: Since my second-chance meet-and-greet with Cartier Declaration went so well, a commenter suggested that perhaps I might want to rethink my initially less than thrilled reaction to L’Artisan’s Timbuktu, an incense fragrance created by noted perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour and heaped with so much praise, and from almost every direction, that I’m a little surprised [...]

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Histoires de Parfums Noir Patchouli and Montale Louban

January 26, 2009

HISTOIRES DE PARFUMS NOIR PATCHOULI: Roars out of the gate like a sledgehammer on a patchouli bender and I’m thinking, “Uh-oh, this is going to get ugly” . . . but 90 minutes later, the patchouli has calmed down and the fragrance has taken a softer turn. The Scented Salamander waxes nearly rhapsodic about Noir [...]

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Fashion Industry News Roundup: 01/23/09

January 23, 2009

1.) Kanye West debuts his footwear collaboration with Louis Vuitton, and all I can see is Marc Jacobs in a skirt and neon-patterned tights. “No, I didn’t say your tights were dope, I asked if you were smoking dope!” Sorry LV, but when your head designer starts dressing like an escapee from Arkham Asylum, you’ve [...]

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Guerlain Shalimar and Parfumerie Generale Coze (plus Annick Goutal Sables)

January 22, 2009

GUERLAIN SHALIMAR: With the continuous (and seemingly endless) flood of new releases, it’s easy to overlook the classics in favor of the now, but I finally sat down for a meet and greet with Shalimar and was happily surprised to discover how attractive and downright chic it is, especially considering its age (Shalimar was originally [...]

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Quick Sniffs: Nouveau Paris Feral Forest, B Never Too Busy to Be Beautiful Dirty and L’Artisan Parfumeur Ambre Extreme

January 21, 2009

B NEVER TOO BUSY TO BE BEAUTIFUL DIRTY: Two parts grease monkey, one part pre-dawn locker room and not entirely bad. This is what Nasomatto Duro could have/should have been, instead of the unwearable, noxious mess it actually is. If you’re in the market for a masculine scent that smells like a cool, shadowy, oil-slicked [...]

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Photos: Etro Messe de Minuit

January 20, 2009

I guess I like the smell of old musty churches. Who knew? Don’t everybody raise their hands at once . . . This deep, retro-inspired incense fragrance goes hand in hand with the exotic yet tailored aesthetic of the Etro line. Video clip of the Etro Spring 2009 collection for men below: And for women:

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Everything Must Go: Part 3

January 19, 2009

We had some friends from California (Julie and Darren) visiting over the weekend, so of course one of the afternoons included some driving and shopping. The new Victory Park development area right outside our doorsteop is now pretty much D.O.A., so we took them to Highland Park Village since the day was sunny and beautiful [...]

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