Monthly Archives: December 2012

Happy New Year!

Posted on December 31, 2012 | 1 Comment

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Wishing all of you a most festive New Year’s Eve! and, at the same time, wishing my husband (if he’s reading this!) a Happy Birthday!

Image: photo by Tinsel Creation, taken today at the wonderful De Robertis bakery in the East Village.

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Posted in NYC

Tagged holiday

Perfume Review: Olfactive Studio Still Life

Posted on December 29, 2012 | Leave a comment

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My latest post at Now Smell This is a perfume review of Olfactive Studio’s Still Life. You can read it here.

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Posted in Perfume

Tagged now smell this, perfume

The Art of Perfume Ads: Houbigant Chantilly (1990s)

Posted on December 28, 2012 | 3 Comments

Chantilly--woman behind lace--various women's mid90s

A while ago, I wrote about a Houbigant Chantilly perfume advertisement from the 1960s and its unlikely visual source (an altarpiece painting by Raphael!). The good people at Houbigant seem to have flipped through their art library more than once over the decades. This ad from the 1990s, which places its model behind a scrim of white Chantilly lace, is very probably influenced by an iconic work of modern photography.

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Posted in Art, Perfume

Tagged houbigant, perfume, perfume advertising, steichen