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Thursday, 4 September 2014

Cuir Cannage

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I am just back from a holiday in France where the temperamental weather meant that we spent most of our time with eating, drinking and visi...
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Monday, 18 August 2014

The Architects Club

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Different cultures have different rules as to what is considered an unsuitable topic for polite conversation around the dinner table. In G...
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Monday, 4 August 2014

The Odd Fellow's Bouquet, much better than it sounds

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I used to be a smoker and I am sure the habit has done unspeakable things to my sense of smell; just how much it improved after quitting wa...
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Saturday, 19 July 2014

Gorilla Gallery, or why I smelled a shop dummy's crotch

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It's not going to surprise anyone that I enjoy a bit of media cross over. Visual art, cinema, patterns, performance art, design and arc...
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Thursday, 17 July 2014

Cologne du Maghreb

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I think I mentioned in one of my last posts that I am not looking for refreshment in a perfume, and while that is still the case, I have to...
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Monday, 16 June 2014

El Born, it takes all sorts...

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Spanish perfume house  Carner  have dedicated their 5th scent, El Born ,  to the ueber trendy local borough in Barcelona of the same name. ...
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Thursday, 12 June 2014

Imaginary Authors, Chapter 1

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Backstories for perfumes are sometimes interesting, often ostentatious and nearly always written by some more or less clever PR company....
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Monday, 2 June 2014

Violent Violets

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Ach , violets. Such delicate little things. I always thought it odd that the German word for them, Veilchen ,  is also used to describe a b...
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Tuesday, 27 May 2014

A strange Virgin and her signature perfume

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I cannot remember where and when I first met her, this strange Virgin with child surrounded by angels, but I do come across her in differen...
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Monday, 19 May 2014

Springtime in Paris

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This spring, time is flying by even quicker than usual. While it definitely feels like it  was just last week that we were visiting Paris, ...
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Friday, 2 May 2014

Cafe Chantant, black forest gateau in a bottle

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Italian perfume house nobile 1942 is on it's way to becoming a new favourite of mine. I have already written about the Chypre and sinc...
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