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Smells Scary
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), one of my all-time favorite scary movies. Last weekend Mr. Howe and I had a horror-movie marathon, filled with zombies (the French kind, and also the Nazi variety),...
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Carbone de Balmain
Nathalie Lorson created Carbone de Balmain in 2010, and it got some nice attention for bottle design at the Fifi’s, and some attention for the juice itself at the Duftstars. Kevin reviewed it recently...
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Guerlain Bois d’Arménie
Bois d’Arménie, by Annick Menardo for the L’Art et la Matiere collection, feels less a classic Guerlain, and more an Hermessence; sharing closer kinship to the transparent grace of Amber Narguile than...
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Retrospective: On the road with Carbone de Balmain
As you may remember from my earlier post on Carbone de Balmain, I chose it as my “travel to Texas” scent. We packed all our worldly goods into a U-Haul in Oregon, then hit the road for… Hotter...
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It’s not you, it’s me: Chanel Cuir de Russie EDT
Instead of merely writing Chanel’s Cuir de Russie off as a scrubber, and attempting to write a hilarious “Things I Hate” post, I’m going to test the theory that our sense of smell is highly...
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