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

July 13, 2010July 14, 2010

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

Menage a Trois The Scents of Summer

July 13, 2010

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.

Scents of France: Celebrating Bastille Day July 14 The Europeans + Eau d’Italie Au Lac Draw

July 12, 2010July 13, 2010

Whether they traveled to France by EuroRail or by airplane, our European friends are all involved deeply, passionately in perfumery and leave with us their scented Souvenirs de Paris. To be eligble for this draw please comment on your favorite L’Eau d’Italie perfume, or why you would like to win Au Lac

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

July 11, 2010July 12, 2010

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

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

July 11, 2010July 11, 2010

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

The Scent of asphalt | Scenting place and the Making of Fragranced Environments

July 10, 2010July 10, 2010

Place is distinct from space — it’s a terminus of locality, it’s where you are, what you are, and — in your consciousness — presence. Being present is paying attention. And scenting brings one to a feeling of sentience in the center of your experience — fragrance can be the strongest context of memory. Sisell Tolaas sprays her wrist liberally with what she calls Guy No. 3. “I wear it to parties,” she says. S&M Guy and Guy No. 3 were derived from the sweat of two of the nine men who were the subject of Tolaas’ 2006 exhibit the FEAR of Smell — the Smell of FEAR at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center.