For Iris Silver Mist, for instance, the idea came to him in a Moroccan bookshop that he should look for an iris so refined, so almost grey, that it could be worn by a man in a grey flannel suit as easily as by woman.
— From Seducer of The Senses, a long profile of Serge Lutens in the Financial Times.
I must be doing something wrong…I can only see the (gorgeous!) pictures, and no text at all.
When you first pull it up, click on the “printed page” behind the first picture, then sit through a quick ad, then the text comes up.
You know, I wish page developers would test there grand creations on at least the 2 major OS’es (WIn + Mac), before they try to make such fancy flash-driven sites. As the saying goes, “all flash and no. . .”
Agree wholeheartedly. Better yet, they ought to simply avoid flash altogether…in 90% of cases I see, it adds nothing but detracts from usability.
Ah, thanks…I’d tried that but tried to click through the ad and wound up at some crazy menu instead. Patience!
I do wish I had Serge-friendly skin; with few exceptions, I get 5 minutes of something fantastic followed by a sweet gooey mess, and the weirdness for which he is known is completely absent on my skin.
Ah well then, skip the article altogether!
Has anyone noticed the number of times blogs are mentioned and quoted in the article?
And it is not only happening in perfume land!
I like it!
I thought the interview was very well written…it left me with a haunting feeling and a craving for FdB. Instead of what I’m wearing right now (Fracas).
(yes, I wear it to the office. No, no one will notice: I always underapply everything, even l’AP!!).
Most perfume writing, frankly, is in blogs….if they want to quote people, they haven’t anywhere else to go
Very interesting article, but in case you’re reading this, Lucia van der Post, it’s ‘le dégoût très sûr’ (not ‘sur’ – sorry, not the same at all). And there is no such word as ‘au boutiste’: it’s ‘jusqu’au-boutiste’. ‘Au boutiste’ is complete nonsense.
Thanks J!
The fact she didn’t mention NST (the only perfume blog I read these days) made me go, ‘Grrr!’ too.
If it helps, it makes very little difference from a practical standpoint. Mentions in newspapers don’t accomplish much!