This is a painting titled Profumo (Perfume) by the Italian Futurist artist Luigi Russolo. It is dated 1910 and it belongs to the collections of Il Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, in Italy.
I like the way Russolo shows the sensory experience of smell, translating fragrance into colors and lines that engulf the female subject.
Image: Luigi Russolo, Profumo, via Il Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto.
My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of Diptyque’s Softening Hand Wash and Velvet Hand Lotion. You can read it here.
It’s that time again: Barneys is offering a gift bag of deluxe samples with your beauty and/or fragrance purchase of $250 and up. (I know, that’s ridiculous. I’m just the messenger!)…
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Are you old enough to remember the Wacky Packs trading cards sold by Topps in the 1970s and 1980s? Did you own any? They were very popular at my grade school. Although I didn’t personally own any, I could appreciate their parodies of popular consumer products. I don’t remember this card specifically, but now that I’m looking at it, I’m finding it pretty humorous. It’s a direct parody of Lanvin’s classic fragrance My Sin, released in 1924 and discontinued in 1988.
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Image: Bergdorf Goodman, December 2013, photo by Tinsel Creation.
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