Tag: perfume

Illusions Noires Le Premier Parfum Eau de Minuit by Lolita Lempicka

Weird plastic vanilla licorice, strange, sinister, I feel like there are violets but there are no violets. It’s a horror movie sort of a scent, not a blood and gore horror movie, but a slow, subtle psychological horror movie scent… no, that’s not right. This is a horror novel scent a scent like House Of Leaves or We Have Always Lived In A Castle, there’s something off and dark in this scent. It smells like creeping insidious madness, not the loud raving kind, but the wrong thoughts that slowly creep in and take over without you noticing.  A whiff of trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid perhaps?

I am conflicted.
I don’t think I have ever been frightened of a perfume before.

Armani Code For Women

Soft citrus vanilla, somehow both warm and fresh. I find it very pleasant and gentle with soft sillage but really reasonable lasting power.

I can see it being sexy for some people, for me it’s just a sweet, gentle, friendly and open sort of a scent, definitely a deviation from my heavy incense and spice bombs but lovely none the less, I mean definitely a little on the “basic bitch” scent side, but you know what?

Basic bitches are nice people, they bring enough coffee for everyone and are generous and considerate.  We should all be grateful for the basic bitches in our lives, bothering to send out birthday cards and actually caring about your baby pictures.

This scent is like that, easy to like, good hearted and a pleasure to be around.  It may not be the most unique scent in the world, but you know what?  It’s a nice scent, and I’m glad it’s popular, just like I’m glad that “basic bitches” are common because they too are nice and the world would be a sadder place if they were rare.

I Seriously Wonder Who Decided Civet Was A Viable Perfume Ingredient?

Because natural civet musk is the anal gland secretion of a species of civet.

My guess is it began as a prank, someone was like “I’m going to make eau d’ ass and it’s going to be hilarious” and then they like left it out (because civet oil must be aged before it smells even a little okay) and then when they tried to deploy their prank they were shocked to find people liked it.

As Much As My Perfume Reviews Are Often Flip And Funny, Perfume Is Magic

Perfume is sensual, animal, dirty and luxurious.  Perfume evokes emotion on deep levels.  Scent is possibly our least understood sense, and to me the one with the closest connection to magic.

It brings rushes of memory.  It is considered unAmerican, overly sexual, overly sensual, and dirty.  In American offices it is often banned, I think because it scares people.

For a long time women were not allowed to buy their own (Estee Lauder’s Youth Dew changed all that) because it was too sexual.  

It evokes things, and I think all that magic, all that sex, all that being dragged back into memory by a whiff of the air passing by is very frightening to the American establishment.

Perfume is revolutionary.  I really do believe the right scent can change the world.  The scents of the 80s are ideological, big and don’t care about who they offend, with both the good and bad individualism of the age, Thatcherite and yet also punk rock.  90s are watery and gentle, a pull back from the oversized 80s.  The history of perfume is the history of everything.

Perfume is evanescent and precious and not something to underestimate the power of.