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Vanity Bash: Fall 2009

November 16, 2009

Okay, so November 14th arrived and the first ever Vanity Bash squealed rubber on its way to Louise’s doorstep. She baked up a storm, I swooped together a bag of the choicest cosmetics I could find, she cooked for an army of hungry fashion hounds, I thoughtfully included boxes of 75% pure cocoa squares on [...]

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Quick Sniffs: By Kilian Back to Black Aphrodisiac (plus Serge Lutens Fille en Aiguilles and Mazzolari Ambra)

October 13, 2009

BY KILLIAN BACK TO BLACK (Aphrodisiac): after the volume level on the lauding and praising died down a bit over Frenchman Kilian Hennessy’s surprisingly adept interpretation (well, surprising to me, at least) of the Middle Eastern incense genre with his limited edition Pure Oud release, the company debuted Back to Black, the eighth brick in [...]

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Photos: Parfum d’Empire Wazamba

September 28, 2009

I’ve been testing/wearing Wazamba for weeks. Other fragrances come and go and I can usually get a handle on them, or at least find a path that leads from testing to appreciating to describing without too much of a struggle, but the elegant simplicity of perfumer Marc Antoine Corticchiato’s composition for Parfum d’Empire comes across [...]

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Cartier Le Baiser du Dragon and Parfum d’Empire Ambre Russe

February 3, 2009

CARTIER LE BAISER DU DRAGON: Inhaling Le Baiser du Dragon (or Kiss of the Dragon) is like walking into an Hermes boutique right after a tornado demolishes the place — the brain registers telltale signs of expensive and exclusive materials but can’t get past the sheer and overwhelming mess that’s piled on top of it [...]

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Le Labo Olfactionary

August 10, 2008

One of the purchases awaiting my return home from Maui was the Le Labo Olfactionary, a metal case containing a limited “dictionary” of perfumery — 40 glass vials of pure essences commonly utilized in the formulation of contemporary fragrances. The idea is to dip the enclosed paper blotters into the vials and sniff the essences [...]

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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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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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Parfum D'Empire

Vanity Bash: Fall 2009

Quick Sniffs: By Kilian Back to Black Aphrodisiac (plus Serge Lutens Fille en Aiguilles and Mazzolari Ambra)

Photos: Parfum d’Empire Wazamba

Cartier Le Baiser du Dragon and Parfum d’Empire Ambre Russe

Le Labo Olfactionary

DSquared2 He Wood; Divine L’Homme Sage

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

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