My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of Biehl Parfumkunstwerke PC01. You can read it here.
Month: August 2013
Covet: tenoverten Wall Street Nail Polish
I recently attended the Elements Showcase, a biannual trade fair for “niche” fragrance houses and a few select beauty lines, and between rounds of smelling perfumes, perfumes, a few scented candles, and more perfumes, I sat down for a mini-manicure at the Tenoverten table. I wrote about Tenoverten (“ten over ten”) and the brand’s line of polish last year (see here), and this time around I was able to sample a new shade: Wall Street.
I was so entranced by this polish that I forgot to take a photo of the bottle, and when I got home I realized that the polish wasn’t going to show up well in photographs. Well, I tried. Here’s what I got…
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A Visit to the Aroma M Atelier in Brooklyn, NYC
On Friday evening I took the subway out to Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood. DUMBO stands for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass; you can see the bridge here, from the Brooklyn side of the river, with the lower Manhattan skyline in the background. I took this photo from the roof of the building where Aroma M Perfumes has just opened its new “atelier.”
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Perfume Review: Rosie Jane Tilly
My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of the fragrance Tilly from Rosie Jane. You can read it here.
Quick Reads: Houbigant, Mucha, and La Rose France
I came across this beautiful advertisement from 1909, in which Houbigant used an illustration by Alfonse Mucha to promote a fragrance named La Rose France, and wondered how it came to be. Then I found this post on a blog devoted to Houbigant’s perfumes and perfume bottles, which answered all my questions and then some. Do give it a read!
(To re-read my own take on a present-day Anna Sui perfume ad that pays homage to Mucha, see here.)
Image: H-Prints.
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