Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Magie Lancôme. The Best Elvis impersonator contest

Vintage Magie (supposedly from 70’s) smells of an apricot kernel: sour and poisonously inedible. May be it’s gone off. Both vintage and modern versions resemble quite well what Magie was designed to be:

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Magie Lancôme. Конкурс на лучшего Элвиса

Винтажный Magie (предположительно 70-е) пахнет ядром косточки абрикоса: кисло и ядовито, может быть, выдохся. Magie задумывался как

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Fracas faces: vintage, EdP and parfum concentrations

The difference between modern EdP and parfum concentrations and a vintage version of Fracas.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Ипостаси Fracas: витажная, EdP и parfum

Про разницу между современными EdP и parfum и винтажной версией на примере Fracas.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Opium no more

The Tanuki dog boiled the granny, put her skin on and began fooling the village people...
A Japanese folk tale
Loreal has acquired YSL perfume business, reformulated Opium and released it in new design in a company of some Belle d'Opium... with much artificial pathos. 

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Opium закончился

Енот тануки сварил бабушку, надел ее кожу и стал дурачить людей…
Японская народная сказка
Loreal купил YSL и переформулировал Opium и выпустил его в новом флаконе плюс у него теперь спутница Belle d'Opium.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Atlas, Texas and Virginia cedarwood

Good pencils are made with cedarwood. It’s the smell of a boring lesson when the only legal entertainment was to sharpen a pencil and this is how the essence of the Texas cedar smells like.  The Moroccan cedar doesn’t smell of pencil shavings – there’s much more to it: