It’s all over the papers and the cable news: the End of the WorldTM as we know it is beginning tomorrow (Saturday, 21 May 2011) at 1800h in your local time zone; with The Rapture. Hush, children. I just relay the news. I don’t make it or write it.What will you be wafting?
Another scent that might make Geza Schoen “fume”? The proof will be in the pricey jus as teen heartthrobJ ustin Bieber announced his frist prestige scent today according to Women’s Wear Daily, called “Someday”… a fruity florqal gourmand (SWOON) by Firminch. the choice of video is mine.
Lotus was the flower of Buddah. The blue water lily, Nymphaea caerulea, which is called the Blue Lotus but is truly not related to white or pink lotuses, has been recognized from ancient times as not only a gorgeous scent, but a flower that has powers of altering the wearer in the kindest and most soporific of ways, much in the manner of Oud. I have some rare and precious Blue Lotus absolute that I snatched up at $600/ounce, since it rarely appears on the market.
Flowers are used to be floated in bowls of water to scent the room, as a fragrant decoration for bridal beds, and for garlands. It is also the flower sacred to the Hindi god Vishnu, the consort to Lakshmi-the god and goddess of love!
Everytime I look for hidden meaning, I often discover (to quote Sigmund Freud) “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”. Such is the case with the new release Oud Shamash for The Different Company. M. Duchaufour was so kind as to tell me about its origins in his own words.
Burqa burqa burqa. It’s hypnotizing to repeat as a mantra, as if in an indolent narcotized trance state, isn’t it?-Ida Meister
