Every perfume blogger loves “zombies”. No, not the brain dead reanimated corpses hungry for human flesh, stinking of gravedust and decay. In the blogosphere, zombies refer to posts that take on a life of their own long after they are written
Six perfumers have come together today to wish Tama Blough a Happy Birthday: Brent Leonosio of Smellbent, Ineke Ruhland of Ineke, Jane Cate of A Wing and Prayer, Mandy Aftel of Aftelier, Shelley Waddington of Envoyage Perfumes and Yosh Han of YOSH. We are offering a selection of Tama’s favorites in a West Coast Indie Perfumer Birthday Bag SURPRISE
All four fragrances released this year are EDT concentration and come in 50 ml spray bottles. They are all in a base of organic corn grain alcohol and are also gluten-free.
Take a look inside the famous International Flavors and Fragrance with Frédéric Malle and Bruno Jovanovic, perfumer for the collaborative Dries Van Noten perfume. Cameras are rarely allowed in this bastion of the olfactory arts and sciences, so this is a rare opportunity to see inside its walls
Captured in the iconic image by Ed Feingersh, Marilyn Monroe was a famous wearer of Chanel No. 5. But did she wear it to bed? Chanel exposes all in their new ad campaign for Fall 2013.
The theme of Burning Man this year was “Cargo Cult”.It is a religious belief of some indigenous peoples based on the anticipation of delivery of cargo in ships or aircraft by spirits. Much of this belief system originated during times of colonization and war, when more technologically advanced groups would temporarily establish themselves in areas and receive shipments of food and other supplies, passing some along to the native people
