EXCERPTS: The Scent of a Woman -Anjelica Huston

"Joy never did it for me. My friend Joan Juliet Buck, then the rédactrice en chef of French Vogue — and what’s known in the business as a very good nose — showed me Mille when I was visiting in Paris and said, ‘‘This would be great for you.’’ From the moment I smelled it, it was mine in a way that no other perfume had been since Blue Grass, which my mother first gave me when I was a child. It’s round and floral and warm, with just a hint of spice without being too hippie, and just floral enough without being too sweet. It smells like midnight in the Bois de Boulogne — sexy and mysterious. I think it creates a mood. It’s alluring. It says, I’m interested in life, in olfactory senses as well as visual ones. It says, I’m in the mood for something. It also says, I’m feminine, I’m complete. It stands to exist with my mother’s perfume, Shalimar, which haunts me to this day. I even wear it to go to bed: I spray it behind my ears, old style. (Unless I’m wearing pearls.) People really like it.
 
Even when I was a smoker, they told me I smelled good — which is saying something! When you find yourself in an embrace and someone tells you that you smell good, it’s wonderful and unexpected. Mille is rare, hard to find, which I like about it. It means I don’t bump into many people who smell like me".
 
from T Magazine, style icon Anjelica  Huston in an interview with  Christine Mulke, www.nytimes.com  April 20, 2010
 
Acknowledgement to Hernando Courtright
 
– Michelyn  Camen,  Editor -in-Chief

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  • To this day amidst the many amazing perfumes that exist Mille is the one I will not be without.  I have it in every formulation from the pure perfume to EDP and body lotion.   I wear it least in summer during the day  but this scent expresses me in a way that most others do not.  Thanks for this take on a classic.
     
    Questions for you and your readers do you have a day and night fragrance?  Do you wear fragrance to sleep?
    Gigi

  • Marlene Goldsmith says:

    I must confess that if I love a perfume, I will wear it any time of day and no matter what the occasion. I will wear it to bed, to go grocery shopping, or to garden. And I do this because I feel passionately about its scent and want be able to breathe it in constantly. I will even wear something I love when I know that I am going to be alone for an entire day. Love knows no bounds!!

  • How interesting to hear what Anjelica Huston wears – I love titbits about celebrities and their favourite scents.  : – ) The EDT of 1000 is a touch civetty for me, but I have smelt the parfum on a friend and it was wonderful.

  • I must confess that if I love a perfume, I will wear it any time of day and no matter what the occasion. I will wear it to bed, to go grocery shopping, or to garden. And I do this because I feel passionately about its scent and want be able to breathe it in constantly. I will even wear something I love when I know that I am going to be alone for an entire day. Love knows no bounds!!