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Katherine
New York, NY
Perfume-obsessed art dealer who likes to write.
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I love this post! Your descriptions are beautiful. I can't wait to read the links to your other posts on the history of beauty. Thank you!
Persian Beauty Rituals & Fairytales
Every couple of weeks, I devote an evening to beauty rituals. They are not fancy, nor do they require an appointment at a spa for an expensive treatment, but my evenings of beauty, as I’ve taken to calling them, are just as satisfying. I make a sugar and lemon juice scrub, a yogurt and rosewat...
I am ALWAYS the only woman spritzing myself at the men's frag section of Sephora, and I'm proud of it! The SA's always look at me funny when I tell them that I'm looking for a perfume for me. But It just so happens that a lot of what is in a perfume marketed to men is what I like. I guess I think of it as cross-dressing for the nose. It makes me feel sexy, powerful, and ready to take on the world.
One of my favorite girly man scents is Etat libre d'Orange's Antiheros. It's not the most complicated perfume, but the lavender really sings.
Running with the Boys : Adventures at the Fragrance Counter
Feminine, masculine? Does it really matter when it comes to perfume? I wander over to Sephora’s masculine section and bravely spray Ralph Lauren Polo on my wrist. After all, I had to wear Drakkar Noir as a perfumery student to learn its nuances and once spent a whole day drenched in Paco Raba...
I've moved my blog to Wordpress, called...
I've moved my blog to Wordpress, called Confessions of a Mad Perfumista. Visit me here: http://girlwholikesboyswholikegirlswholikeperfumes.wordpress.com/ Continue reading
Posted Feb 5, 2012 at Can't Stop Smelling Myself
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Thank you so much for this! Now I need my Perfumer's Apprentice kit and I'll be much more knowledgable with the bewildering terminology!
Speaking Perfume : A-Z of Common Fragrance Descriptions
The inability of our language to fully capture the nuances of scents can be very frustrating. We associate scents with something – a place, a memory, a flavor – but most people struggle to describe smell on its own terms. Perfumers and professional fragrance evaluators overcome some of the co...
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