CB Experience- to see a FLOWER: Simple Gifts

August 20, 2010

CB- aka Christopher Brosius- speaks to our collective unconscious, our amygdala, our “lizard brain”.
Sometimes, what I crave is utter simplicity; I don’t need much to be content.
I keep many of CB’s scents around for the sheer comfort of triggering memories and emotions.
My favorite ones concern my keen love of the natural world.
to see a FLOWER….
CB describes this as “delicate spring flowers [hyacinth, daffodils, jonquils, crocuses], green shoots, wet dirt, and a bit of moss “.

Parfumerie Generale Querelle: Un Parfum Vert Contraire

August 18, 2010

Querelle.
This masterwork- and I really perceive it as such- is an approach/ avoidance fragrance for many.
It seethes with complexity; if it were a color, it would be the darkest green imaginable, tinged with black.

Soivohle Moderne Moroccan Orange: I’m Walking On Sunshine

August 13, 2010

Sunny, ebulliently good-natured- like a windblown child in a summer field, with nary a care in the world.
This is how I feel when I wear Liz Zorn’s Moroccan Orange edp.
Like Katrina and the Waves,
I’m walking on sunshine, and don’t it feel good.

Vintage Scandal de Lanvin: My Gateway Drug

August 10, 2010

A fragrance devoid of complacency and ordinary prettiness.
An extraordinary perfume for woman endowed with curves, great strength of character, and larger-than-life sensibilities and appetites.
Scandal started it all.
My pulse quickens today, just as it did over 50 years ago.

Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Kohl Gris: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes?

August 6, 2010

Sheryl Crow got it right:
“If it makes you happy-
It can’t be that bad…
If it makes you happy-
Why the hell are you so sad? “
So it is with DSH’s Kohl Gris.
Originally launched for the holiday season of 2009, this baby is timelessly decadent and sultry.
It would murmur “come hither” on any man or woman alive.
And it may be worn with impunity in any weather, it’s so subtle.

Soivohle Waterflower: Spanning The Spiritual And The Carnal

August 4, 2010

Liz Zorn is an iconoclastic wonder; by now, she is becoming more widely known and appreciated. I’m so glad…
I find Lizzie- and her work – to be a marvelous amalgam of tender and tough, sweet, sassy, and spicy.
Waterflower is one of my favorite parfums- spicy, earthy, floral, and intricately nuanced.
Profoundly spiritual, and deeply earthy.
According to Liz, she was inspired by her own lily pond and the transcendent philosophical aspects of the lotus blossom.
It was a true labor of love, and we can clearly sense that.