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A spirit of humor and poetry

Posted by Robin on 28 September 2010 16 Comments

Perfumer Olivier Polge talks about his collaboration with Italian design firm Fornasetti on their new home fragrance line, Fornasetti Profumi Per La Casa. [note: unfortunate camera shake and background noise] You can read more about the line, and see some pictures, at Cosmetics Business.

Update: The line will reportedly be available at Barneys in the US.

Filed Under: perfume in the news
Tagged With: olivier polge, video

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  1. Zazie says:
    28 September 2010 at 2:29 pm

    I smelled the candles yesterday: wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
    They’re also very beautiful objects, if like me you’re a fan of that style.

    I didn’t dare to ask for the price: for once I’m glad I am not a candle person. Fornasetti makes lemmings I usually can’t afford…
    :(

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    • nathanthomas says:
      28 September 2010 at 2:49 pm

      i agree – they smelled lovely, but £95 for a candle & £125 for some incense is a lot even if the containers are collectable!

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    • Robin says:
      28 September 2010 at 3:44 pm

      They are so beautiful I can see buying them even if they weren’t wonderful smelling, but glad to hear they do smell wonderful…

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  2. Joe says:
    28 September 2010 at 2:45 pm

    Oy. Distracted by bad teeth, sorry…

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    • Robin says:
      28 September 2010 at 3:44 pm

      LOL…and I was thinking how charming that was! Nobody is allowed to have crooked teeth in the US these days.

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      • Joe says:
        28 September 2010 at 4:05 pm

        LOL. There’s a fine line. I agree a little flaw is a bit charming, but this crossed the line for me… especially since it’s so apparent in the still version of the video.

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        • Robin says:
          28 September 2010 at 4:29 pm

          It is not a kind camera angle in any case…it looks like they had the camera right in his face. Anyway, he seems nice and unassuming and likable, I’ll take that over straight teeth ;-)

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          • Bela says:
            28 September 2010 at 5:02 pm

            Me too.

            Is there anything more ridiculous than some older person with bright, snow-white, straight as anything teeth? It looks weird. No one has naturally pristine teeth after a certain age.

          • Joe says:
            28 September 2010 at 5:54 pm

            If it weren’t clear to all, I tried to indicate in my reply was that in my opinion there’s some happy medium; goodness knows I’m a critic of over-cosmetized and artificial (and expensive!) attempts at perfection in any area of personal appearance.

          • Robin says:
            28 September 2010 at 7:10 pm

            Joe, ack, did not at all mean to suggest that you were being shallow, I’m sorry if it came across that way…

          • Joe says:
            28 September 2010 at 7:21 pm

            No! Not at all. I just didn’t want to make anyone else self-conscious either!

  3. Nina says:
    28 September 2010 at 4:09 pm

    I noticed the crooked teeth and thought a) crooked teeth , b) these are his natural, genetic teeth – what’s wrong with that?, c) I am British and have crooked teeth, d) my kids have not inherited my crooked teeth, so presumably it’s down to post-war poverty in Scotland, and d) will Americans despise me for not having invested in expensive tooth straightening technology? Then I wondered where in Selfridges this could possibly be. No-one, but no-one gets real daylight in Selfridges. All that from a two minute video segment. Who says perfume is shallow?

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    • Robin says:
      28 September 2010 at 4:31 pm

      Ha…more likely everyone hates Americans for spending so much $ on teeth straightening & boob enhancements & botox & whatnot.

      I was mostly thinking: please show me more of the products! Where are the products! Please hold the camera straight!

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    • Bela says:
      28 September 2010 at 5:00 pm

      I don’t think it’s inherited. Like a lot of people, I had perfectly straight teeth until my wisdom teeth started coming through and there wasn’t enough space for them in my jaws, so my bottom teeth are crooked (it happened gradually over the years; I didn’t even notice it). The ones on top are still straight because the wisdom teeth gave me grief and were removed. The bottom ones are much more difficult to remove, unfortunately.

      I don’t mind that much. Nor do I mind it in other people.

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  4. Bee says:
    29 September 2010 at 12:29 pm

    oh no, I’ve been oogling Fornasetti objects for a while now, and the combination with scented candles will probably break down my resistance. I’m thinking really hard here: double use, so you should actually divide the price by two, which could make it quite reasonable.
    An aside: I find Mr. Polge quite sweet, being in the crooked teeth team myself, it’s not such a big issue :-)

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  5. eminere says:
    2 October 2010 at 5:18 am

    Olivier has um quite bad teeth.

    Sorry to be mean but that was the first thing that jumped out at me.

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