My latest post on Now Smell This is a perfume review of Roses de Chloé. You can read it here.
Passing Fancies: February 2014
I’ve had the “mean reds” for much of the past month, which may be why I almost forgot to write this post!
Reading: I finished The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, and I’m trying to make a dent in my pile of unread New Yorkers.
Video: Downton Abbey and Sherlock, of course… and now they’re both over!
Audio: Beck’s “Morning Phase”
John Sloan: Backyards, Greenwich Village (1914)
Winter in New York City, one hundred years ago.
Let’s hope that we’ve seen the last of the snow for this winter!
Image via Whitney Museum of American Art.
My Back Pages: Scent and Sound in John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”
When I was writing my recent review of LUSH’s Tender is the Night massage bar (scented with jasmine, ylang ylang, and vanilla!) I looked up John Keats’s poem “Ode to a Nightingale” in order to refresh my memory about the phrase that gives this product its name. Well, LUSH actually names F. Scott Fitzgerald as the source, but he was borrowing from Keats!
“…tender is the night,
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Cluster’d around by all her starry Fays…”
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Product Review: LUSH Tender is the Night Massage Bar
My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of LUSH’s Tender is the Night Massage Bar. You can read it here.
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