Scents of France: Celebrating Bastille Day July 14 * Les Americains* + Caron Paris ‘Lady Caron’ Draw

The City of Lights has drawn American writers, musicians and artists from the 1800s to the present… Henry James, Nina Simone, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Van Morrison, Charlie Parker are just a few; today Tom Ford and Marc Jacobs are ‘expatriates’. The draw is for lady caron , a tribute to another beacon of light, The statue of Liberty created in 1876 and the first sight founder Ernest Daltroff saw as he approached Ellis Island. For those of us who visited Paris…it is amazing *how fluently one can speak in French , where perfume is concerned !*To enter the draw please write a comment on site about your favoirte Caron perfume or what the Statue of Liberty means to you. All three draws.. for Etat Libre D’Orange Jasmin and Cigarette,Eau de Italie Au lac and Caron Lady Caron close July 16 at 10 pm est

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*Menage a Trois* The Scents of Summer

Summer strode into California this year with the heat buzzing at around three digits daily. It’s dry, acrid and sometimes unbearable .My scents always come to the rescue. Although I am not in the habit of having winter- summer rotation fragrances I do find I am drawn to gauzier, less dense ones at the height of summer. This summer, three fragrances have my heart and I cannot get enough of them.

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THE LIGHT OF MUSK: *ODE TO PERFECT VEIL*+ Draw (Madonna, Jennifer Garner, Jennifer Morrison, Rachel Zoe are fans)

Let me have a fragrance that unleashes the skin’s freshness –

“I long to shed the indolic submersions of night and wake to a body overflowing with this Perfect Veil of newborn light.” After 5 years, and thousands of fragances late. Perfect Veil is still a top ‘skin scent pick” on luckyscent.com site; if you want to enter the draw, for a full size please leave a comment about your “perfect ‘ scent from Sara Horowitz Parfums Ps.marlene Goldsmith, Madonna, Jennifer Garner, Jennifer Morrison, Rachel Zoe are fans

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Rewind:2009 Interview with Camille Goutal, Artistic Director of Annick Goutal Parfums *songes of my mother*

In this interview with the Camille Goutal, Ms. Goutal’s daughter who has led the Company’s endeavors, including its famous fragrances (her “partner in perfume” is nose Isabelle Doyen), we have an insider’s view of the complex relationships between scent, memory, tradition and innovation, mother and daughters, as well as Camille Goutal’s personal memories of one of the most innovative and influential women of modern fragrance, her mother Annick Goutal

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