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Worn by a man in a grey flannel suit

Posted by Robin on 5 October 2009 12 Comments

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.

Filed Under: perfume in the news
Tagged With: iris, serge lutens

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  1. boojum says:
    5 October 2009 at 6:01 pm

    I must be doing something wrong…I can only see the (gorgeous!) pictures, and no text at all.

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    • Robin says:
      5 October 2009 at 7:08 pm

      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.

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      • zeram1 says:
        5 October 2009 at 9:40 pm

        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. . .”

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        • Robin says:
          5 October 2009 at 11:09 pm

          Agree wholeheartedly. Better yet, they ought to simply avoid flash altogether…in 90% of cases I see, it adds nothing but detracts from usability.

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      • boojum says:
        6 October 2009 at 11:50 am

        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.

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        • Robin says:
          6 October 2009 at 12:43 pm

          Ah well then, skip the article altogether!

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  2. Zazie says:
    6 October 2009 at 3:34 am

    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!!).

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    • Robin says:
      6 October 2009 at 9:00 am

      Most perfume writing, frankly, is in blogs….if they want to quote people, they haven’t anywhere else to go 😉

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  3. Bela says:
    6 October 2009 at 10:08 am

    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.

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    • Robin says:
      6 October 2009 at 10:53 am

      Thanks J!

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      • Bela says:
        7 October 2009 at 9:36 am

        The fact she didn’t mention NST (the only perfume blog I read these days) made me go, ‘Grrr!’ too.

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        • Robin says:
          7 October 2009 at 9:46 am

          If it helps, it makes very little difference from a practical standpoint. Mentions in newspapers don’t accomplish much!

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