It's "At the movies" Friday! Our community project for today: name a favorite movie, and wear a perfume that fits the movie or a character in the movie.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
Since I did a 1930s classic yesterday, I decided to go (relatively) modern today. I'm wearing Caron L'Anarchiste for the Rob Gordon / John Cusack character in High Fidelity. It's a lucky accident that the fragrance and the movie both came out in the year 2000, because I think they're a perfect fit.
Reminder: on 10/14, wear one of your Top 10 of Fall fragrances. (And I know I need to update the upcoming Friday projects, I promise I'll get that done this weekend.)
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2016, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Vanille Absolument, L’Artisan Parfumeur. Rum. Tobacco heavily infused with vanilla. A cheeky touch of spice. It’s got to be
“If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it.”
I know, let me finish. Ahem… It’s got to be
“Why is the rum gone?”
Seriously? Don’t look at me, I don’t touch the stuff. I wear my alcohol, I don’t drink it.
“But why is the rum gone?”
Oh I don’t know, maybe because you… What are you doing down there? Here, let me help you back up.
“Oh… that’s why. I feel sullied and unusual.”
I’m not surprised, those bottles were full half an hour ago. Can I continue? Right, where was I.. Oh yes, it’s got to be…
“You smell funny.”
I do not. It’s perfume and was quite expensive thank you very much. Anyway, I’m trying to tell everybody how I think it would fit… GOOD GRIEF, WHAT IS THAT?
“An undead monkey! Top that!’
I honestly don’t think I can. Is it real? Ewww it’s disgusting. Where did you… STOP IT. I don’t care. You’re trying to distract me. In a minute you’ll show a little consideration and let me fin…
“I love those moments. I like to wave at them as they pass by.”
I give up. You can introduce yourself.
Go on then.
Oh, now you shut up!
OK. Here’s…
“You’re not a eunuch are you?”
Wh… I… Th… Bugger it. Jack Sparrow.
“There should be a captain in there somewhere.”
Jeez.
Love it!!!
Fantastic!
Cap’n Jack 🙂
You had me at undead monkey 🙂 !
YOU WIN EVERYTHING TODAY. EVERYTHING.
And you smell terrific!
Agreed. All the winning things go to Bob today.
Thanks so much. But we all smell amazing. We’re all winners!
Awesomeness!
Excellent!
Absolutely perfect.
😀
Win, win, win! ????
Boom!! Perfection!!!
what a great post to read this morning 🙂 You smell great !
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Most Excellent!
Applause! Applause!
Excellent! (“Hide the rum!”–one of my fave lines)
Diane Lane as Connie in Unfaithful.
She killed it in the trench coat.
For autumn windy weather in NYC I put her in Ylang 49 on one wrist and for Paul her lover I was going to put him in Santal 33 but I couldn’t find my sample so I went with Gaiac 10 which has the same DNA. ( I wish Gaiac 10 was in the split meet)
Enjoy the long weekend
Adding all of them to lists !!
You smell great.
Let’s just pretend I’m wearing Narcisse Noir as a tribute to Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard.
But I don’t. I’m wearing Aromatics Elixir Perfumers Reserve. At least it suits the cold(ish) and windy weather here.
I LOVE Sunset Boulevard. (Really showing my gay card there…)
“I’m ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille” 🙂
Great movie and perfume choices. Have you tried the J.Hannah &Co Sunset Boulevard scent? I really love Skive and I expect Sunset Boulevard would also be great.
SOTD is Parfumerie Generale Arabian Horse and obviously I am pairing it with The Black Stallion
How is that one?
I love Arabian Horse though I haven’t yet bought a bottle because there just aren’t that many occasions where I want to smell stunning and beautiful and literally like a horse. Still, it’s an amazing perfume that I really do want a full bottle of
Ha! Yes, stunning and beautiful, always. It’s that little horse thing. I hope Osswald gets it soon.
Was addicted to the books in 6th grade, but somehow have never seen the movie.
I suspect it’s only good if you’re twelve or younger. I’ve been afraid to revisit just in case. The books, however, are still good.
Actually I watched the movie again as an adult (with my boys when they were small) and I still think it’s beautiful.
Good to know. It was a favorite when I was young, along with Labyrinth and Born Free and I like to think I had good taste 😉
I was a HUGE fan of that book series! Great book/film/perfume pairing????
TGIF!
Wearring Vaara to match my movie choice The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
The perfume (and even it’s packaging!) pretty much reflects the film: Indian inspired but very “western”-minded. Mild and pleasant and wearable anytime.
loved that movie!
I loved that movie! The sequel was meh (except for the mom and her exquisite saris) but loved that sensibility and sense of humor.
I agree. Mum sure knows her fabric 😉
Nice pairing!
Thank you!
I like the match!
Thanks!!!
I was going to bow out of the challenge today but then koenigsberg gave me a great pairing- Lieu de Reve with the movie Field of Dreams.
But then I decided to use my noodle and came up with pairing Lieu de Reves with Breakfast at Tiffany’s (one of my favorite movies)….I could see Holly Golightly wearing this gorgeous violet. Plus Lieu de Reves was a gift from a real life friend who shares the same name as the main star of the movie. I could also see Holly Golightly wearing vintage Noctures de Caron for the evening.
Another favorite movie came to mind- “A Room with a View”- which I would pair with Orange Sanguine because I always associate Italy with citrus (don’t know why but I do!)
that would be Nocturnes…..
CBIHP did a “Room with a View” frag: dirt, violet, hay and fennel. I have a sample somewhere. (I didn’t like it, but I think that’s more a disconnect between the house style and my brain.)
Will y’all please indulge me in a Friday Film Fantasy? I mean, why just list a film, which you can weave yourself in the story line, right? 🙂
SOTD: Puro Intense. Film: Any Bond film with Sean Connery!
Picture this: Mr. Bond and I have a chance encounter on a tropical beach, location undisclosed. What a good lookin’ fella…pic here.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BLQzj0xAcJ6/?taken-by=jadainga99&hl=en
Fast forward to the next morning….I’m sitting on my hotel balcony, wearing James’ shirt, smelling of coffee, tobacco, tropical fruits, and mahogany. Unfortunately, he’s gone to his next mission, but I have the shirt to remind me of him……YOWZA!!!
Fun! although I only became a Bond fan when Daniel Craig took over.
excellent photo ! he is a manly man
Well, he might have told you he was going on his next mission but…
Sorry about that!
Seems like most Bond girls are highly disappointed the next morning! HA HA 🙂
Great imagery ;- )
So many fun films and pairing possibilities.
Yes Connery. 🙂
The red-head assassin in Thunderball is the bomb! If I could talk like that, and look like that. OMG. Now that’s how to do Bond.
Luciana Paluzzi!
I think you’d make a great Bond girl !!
Nice one!
I love that you imagined yourself into the films–awesome!
The Talented Mr. Ripley.
In the final scene Tom Ripley and Peter Smith-Kingsley are on a cruise together. Peter, wearing Atkinsons 24 Old Bond Street, stays in the cabin working on his score. Tom is in the Eau des Merveilles (he stole from Dickie) and is out on deck watching the sunset when he hears someone calling Dickie? He turns around, and to his dismay it’s Meredith Logue, wafting Chanel No. 22.
SOTD is Eau des Merveilles.
Oh, perfect, right down to the stolen bottle!
Nailed.
Clever!
Didn’t have an Eau time with this challenge but I went with “In the Mood for Love” and chose vintage Dioressence for the perfume. Sexy but soft-spoken, and somewhat restrained despite being “barbare.” Both are quite phenomenal.
Easy, not eau*
but “eau” is so befitting 🙂
My phone knew!
Such a fantastic film..not to mention the music!
its a true work of art-the cinematography is some of the best I have ever seen..
One of my all-time favorite movies! Everything about it. I wish they would release the soundtrack on vinyl. That version of Quisas, Quisas, Quisas alone….
Great pairing!
Thank you!
Brilliant!
Thanks! 🙂
I decided yesterday I was going to wear Safran Troublant, but I felt like wearing Cartier’s Le Baiser du Dragon instead because I hadn’t worn it in ages and it felt fall-ish. Then I had to decide who would wear its mix of sugary-almond marzipan, gardenia, and patchouli, so: someone who likes sweets or is comfortable in the kitchen, a forties noir type or someone who would enjoy that style, and a hippie.
Bingo! The awesome Patricia Clarkson playing Emma Stone’s mom in “Easy A”. (And Clarkson’s movie husband Stanley Tucci would probably wear some, too, because he’s super cool and nonjudgemental that way.)
It’s such a great movie. The scent is not particularly dragon-ish but it’s also pretty great.
I love Stanley Tucci.
Me too! I watched most of Fortitude (well, and the scenery) for Stanley Tucci … Once he, errrrr, was errrrr no longer on the scene (trying not to spoil anything), I gave up. Too weird and disturbing for me. I am always happy when he is on the screen. . . I should see if Big Night is available on Netflix…
Big Night is a great movie! I going to also check Netflix. It would be a good one to watch this weekend.
I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that he’s never bad in anything, however otherwise unworthy that project might be of his talents. He very nearly steals the show from Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada”, and his voice acting is tremendous in “BoJack Horseman”.
Very good!
I had to choose a perfume to go with my favorite movie, Citizen Kane. However, I don’t have any period appropriate scents (except Jicky, but it didn’t seem to fit). So, I’m wearing Andy Tauer’s Noontide Petals in honor of Susan Alexander Kane.
The crazy Sprite, candy and flowers opening? “Wow, I’m married to Charlie Kane! This is the best! Whee!”
The calmer, soapy white flowers middle? “Uh oh. I really don’t want to be an opera star. This isn’t going to turn out well.”
The mellow base notes? Perfect for playing with jigsaw puzzles in an empty mansion.
I love how you’ve matched the developments of the film and the perfume!
I’m wearing Iris Silver Mist for Cate Blanchett’s Elizabeth I – the woman she is by the end of the movie. Powerful and not to everyone’s taste, but unignorable. And as Austefan pointed out recently, the turnip-y element of the scent could refer to the historical period.
On a different note, I went to a public interview with Hanya Yanagihara yesterday and it was great. She is so impressive. I also have a book recommendation (no, not A Little Life) for those who have not read Helen Hanff’s 84 Charing Cross Road – it is charming and heartwarming and the voice of the author sounds a bit like Holly (a huge point in book’s favour, I think). Plus there is a movie based on it, so it fits the theme of the day.
Great choice and both to my taste!
ISM and Cate Blanchett- perfect.
Agreed!
Wow- what great choices- and one of my favorite movies and actresses.
Same here.
Perfect pairing — I love it!
I read 84 Charing Cross Road in my book club a few years ago and loved it. Great recommendation!
Thanks! I think there are many people here who would enjoy it.
Glad you mentioned it again. Saw it on your instagram and meant to write it down; got distracted by a pretty picture and promptly forgot.
Nice! Cate Blanchett rules!
Chiming in from holiday. If I were at home I would wear Dzongkha with the film ‘Himalaya, the rearing of a chief’ in mind, it’s more the whole movie rather than a specific character. It’s not a replacement really, but I’m in une Rose Chypree which matches the movie not in character but in beauty.
Well wishes especially for those suffering from the hurricane.
Oh, I love that movie so much! I saw it on a big screen when it was released and it’s just breathtaking, and so moving.
I can’t imagine any of the characters wearing scent, at all, but you’d imagine something very dry and airy, I think, with a generous puff of wood smoke.
It is, isn’t it. I love the soundtrack too, and read somewhere the lamas who do the chanting had the greatest time with the choir from Corsica A Filetta!
I think Dzongkha is in the district both scentwise and geographically (Butan).
Cuir de Lancôme on a cold and grey day. I think this one would suit Katherine Hepburn maybe in Adams Rib, or, for Bringing up Baby or The Philadelphia Storymy she’d probably where a cool, green floral, maybe No 19.
You smell gorgeous and what about her part in the Lion in Winter? Cuir could match her tough beauty and depth of character! I’m reading an Eleanor of Aquitaine fictional biography, great holiday reading.
What is it? The book that is.
The Summer Queen, and now I’m halfway the second book, the Winter Queen. I am enjoying them very much, and I think they follow the course of her (long!) life accurately. There is a third about her years of imprisonment by Henry II.
Definitely adding those to my list.
Yes, definitely!- Eleanor of Aquitane is such a fascinating character, Alison Weirs biography is really engaging and fascinating too.
Hope you’re having a lovely holiday, we’re just back from Rome, and had a wonderful trip.
Good to read!
You smell stunning.
Wow, yes!
TGIF and our deadline was successfully met 30 minutes ago. This holiday weekend could have not come in a better time!
Wearing L’Artisan Safran Troublant to match it with the movie The Hundred-Foot Journey, where the combinations of spices were the clue to astonishing dishes. The saffron and red rose combination with ginger and vanilla in this fragrance is so, so delicious that it is like being surrounded by the exotic aroma of Indian deserts. Even though it is very fleeting I enjoy it greatly!
ST is one of my favourite L’Artisans. You smell great!
Bravo! Now you can relax and have a great weekend. You smell nice too. 🙂
Perfect pairing!
I’m also in Safran Troublant, but it’s for the movie Umrao Jaan (with Rekha, please and thank you).
It’s so warm here today I went with Tauer desert du marocain for the everlasting Casablanca.
” everyone goes to Ricks”
Wonderful choice.
Oh! You could also do The Sheltering Sky!
That pairing was my runner up for today!
Yes! I thought of LdDM for “Lawrence of Arabia.”
Great choice!
Jennifer Grey is Baby in Dirty Dancing, an unabashedly romantic coming of age film with delightful choreography. SOTD is Chanel No. 5 L’Eau.
Nice choice! Loving that one also.
Good one!
God, I grew up watching that movie and have THREE versions of the soundtrack. How i loved that movie and the amazing and wonderful Patrick Swayze (RIP)
Nobody puts Baby in the corner..
I’m very fond of Dirty Dancing. A good chunk of it was filmed about 20 miles from where I live, too, so I recognize some of the extras.
fun pairing!
Great choice!
Obsession for Molly Ringwald’s character- Claire- in The Breakfast Club. A classic 80’s movie from the master of that time, John Hughes. Both released in 1985.
Claire might have actually been a Poison girl, but I don’t have a bottle of that one in my collection anymore!
Claire is definitely wearing whatever is popular! Could have been Vanderbilt or Giorgio Beverly Hills, too.
Nice picks!
I had trouble with today’s theme, partly because I don’t seem to have any favorite characters (favorite actors, yes; characters, not so much apparently), and partly because my bottle of Tom Ford Noir Pour Femme arrived yesterday and I just Had To Wear It. So I’m retrofitting the Friday challenge by coming up with a character who might wear it. That was a bit difficult because NPF reminds me of film noir and the characters in classic films noir would wear big white florals (if women) or a fougere (if men), and NPF is neither. But I finally settled on Kevin Spacey’s Jim Williams in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – I think Jim would have worn NPF with great style. And I do love that movie, and John Cusack in it … but then, I love him in pretty much everything I’ve ever seen him in.
Great movie! Loved that one. Noir is nice too. 🙂
1) Isn’t NPF a wonderful fragrance? I think that and the version for men are true, lush unisex perfumes.
2) And I did a internship in Savannah after The Book and The Movie came out. God, only not finding the science job I needed kept me from settling in Savannah. It is as awesome and beautiful as the movie made it out to be- even more so.
A good friend of mine went to college in Savannah and has said basically the same thing — that if the job situation worked out she would have wanted to settle there too.
Great character!
I saw the movie after I’d read the book about four times, and was disappointed at all the things that were missing from the film version! All the same, Spacey and Cusack never disappoint.
Nice one. I was wondering if anyone would do a scent with The Single Man today
Ah, that would have been clever to pair with Noir Pour Femme because of Tom Ford’s involvement in the film.
I considered scenting this movie as well! I actually enjoyed the book better than the movie. But ugh today…just saw on TV that Savannah is being pounded by Matthew.
Chanel No 22 as a Tribute to Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada . A beautiful spare scent that can go too sharp if the circumstances are just right – just like Miranda.
Hey, that’s so funny — I thought about wearing Chanel 19 for the same character / movie!
Miranda just has that Chanel aura about her, doesn’t she??
Definitely !
Great Choice
It could not be better!
I also went with The Breakfast Club today. I’m wearing Fat Electrician for John Bender. He probably wouldn’t have worn cologne, but he would smell of faint sweat and marijuana. Which is exactly what I get from Fat Electrician.
😉
Haha-yes! “Smoke up, Johnny!”
AWESOME.
I started the day in Ostara, which I think maybe the second Mrs de Winter (Joan Fontaine) might wear. Think I’ll move on to vintage Aliage for Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird.
Two great pairings!
I have to wonder what scent in a Rebecca or Mrs. Danvers. For some reason Jicky comes to mind for Rebecca….
I can picture Mrs. Danvers in a cruel, whip-cracking sort of leather chypre. Vintage Jolie Madame, probably, or Montana Parfum de Peau.
Well, I can see that. Except that Danny would totally steal dabs of Rebecca’s azalea perfume whenever possible.
I almost picked the second Mrs. DeWinter as my choice today. Rebecca is one of my favorite movies, and Ostara would be a good choice for Maxim’s second bride.
I think the first Mrs. Dewinter would have been a Mitsouko girl.
I can see Mitsouko. For some reason I’d expect Rebecca to wear something a bit jarring.
Those are great pairings!
Awesome choices! Rebecca is one of my favorite movies of all time.
I like your choice for Scout! She’s the best.
I love this project! One of my favorite movies is Big Night, and I decided to conjure Primo, the moral and culinarily brilliant older brother. Really, I imagine him to smell like garlic and espresso, but working with what I have on hand, Primo has just come from a shave and has of course spent most of the day cooking. Thus: CB In the Summer Kitchen layered with Sartorial. It’s working great as a combo!
Summer Kitchen is beautiful.
Very creative!
Ha! I just mentioned Big Night above. Loved that movie. Have to track it down and watch it again.
I love Out of Africa so I picked Timbuktu as my scent. Will switch to Wazamba for the evening since I had a hard time deciding between the two.
I was like “this close” to picking RL Safari for the same movie!
I can really see Safari for OOA.
Out of Africa is my pick for today as well! I love the scenery, the history, the musical score, the story, the characters….it’s glorious! My husband and I were trying to come up with a scent for Karen Blixen and he found a discussion thread that talked about her dressing table in the movie. There was a bottle that resembled 4711. I bought a bottle for today, and it is lovely, but doesn’t last very long, so I’m in Safari. One of my favorite scenes is where she is entertaining her dinner guests with her story telling skills. You can see the wine glasses emptying, the candles burning all the way down. I would loved to have been in that scene hearing her story!
My favorite scene is when he washes her hair… <3
I wish "story telling" would come back..such a fun way to pass the time and use the imagination and creativity.
I agree! I wish I had that skill myself. The hair washing scene is one of my favorites too!
Yes!
Though I think my favorite scene is where she’s crossed hundreds and hundreds of miles to get to her husband, and of course she’s all disheveled and travel-worn… and he is clearly surprised to see her but all he says is, “You’ve changed your hair.”
Totally!
Yep! I know all the lines by heart. My other favorite is when Bror chastises Denys for moving in with Karen without asking (him) first. Denys quite rightly answers, I did ask, she said yes. 🙂
And after that, when Denys and Berkeley serenade her at the end. 🙂
Since fall’s here, wanted to wear an old-school chypre and went with Scherrer. It was introduced in 1979, and looking at movies released that year, this scent totally suits the Dr. Holly Goodhead character in the Bond film Moonraker. And it suits the look of the actress Lois Chiles.
Nice! Love Bond.
Thumbs up. (I need to try Scherrer. I keep running across samples of Scherrer II but never find the original.)
The original Scherrer is well worth tracking down. ScherrerII – not so much on me. I believe I generally use the phrase “hot chemical mess” to describe it
mals, i’ve got lots. Try me at standing dot armsakimbo in geemail land if you would like a sample.
Fabulous scent.
SotD = Jean Paul Gaultier Classique from a sample, worn for Edina Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous: the Movie. Cheers, Sweetie!
Spot on. And she’d wear clouds of it. Come to think of it, can’t remember if there are perfume mentions in the series but there must be (?)
As a fanatic, I can say that there are NO allusions to designer perfume, which is a shame given that Christian LaCroix is a punchline every so often!
Thanks, Robin! 🙂
Gaultier (as himself) is credited with one appearance each in the AbFab movie and the series.
If we had smell-O-vision I’m sure Eddie’s sillage would be huge.
I’m almost certain I saw a display of Jo Malone bottles in Eddie’s bathroom once.
And there was this perfume-related exchange:
Eddie: Sweetie, what are you drinking?
Patsy: Oh, this? Chanel No. 5.
Eddie was so consistently “overdone” and fashion victim-y through the years, yet now she’s quite on trend. Nobody wants to be too matchy-matchy today.
Thanks — you guys have better memories than I do.
Haven’t seen the movie, love AbFab the series! JPG is a perfect pick for Edina! Now Patsy… difficult. She’d probably just nick Edina’s JPG. Or spray something like Fahrenheit form the bed-table of whoever she woke up with!
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I am wearing Guerlain Idylle and thinking of the movie Anne Of The Thousand Days, featuring the very beautiful Genevieve Bujold as Anne Boleyn.
In the scene where she is about to crowned Henry hands her some flowers he picked off a nearby tree/shrub. He then says they are for luck, and Anne says “the flowers of May”. She is wearing a beautiful white and gold dress, and with all the florals for the month of May, I think this scent would have totally suited her for this day. Also, the spicy patchouli would suit Queen Anne quite nicely, as fiery as she was.
Nice.
I loved this movie. I have a flanker, but I do not think I have ever smelled the original.
I was soooo looking forward to today,but just one word:HEATWAVE.It’s a scorcher in South Africa today!I was going to pair Portrait of a Lady with….well Portrait of a Lady!Lol.It suits the dignity of the main character just perfect.I always feel like shaking her by the shoulders though,and saying “Wake up!!!”Lol.
So SOTD Santa Maria Novella Iris,straight from the fridge!I guess I could pair it with My House in Umbria.I can see Maggie Smith wearing this,in her garden in Umbria in that film.X
Yes, I can too! Also, I love the idea of SMN Iris coming right from the fridge 🙂
A heatwave already?!?
Yes,I have NO idea what the hell is going on with our weather.We had two days of “Spring” and one cloudburst(During Sept,which is the start of Spring usually here!),when it used to rain every day in September,in the past.Last week was Winter all over.Today the August winds are howling and my windchimes outside are driving me insane-Yes,August winds in October.It’s 10am and 30C.Welcome to Africa!p.s:I could never live anywhere else!!;-))
I am still suffering from my massive head cold, so I need some serious brain power fragrance. I was struggling with my movie choice today – there are just so many great ones to love. I went with vintage Chanel No 19 edt, and I am wanting to channel Malcolm Tucker from In the Loop. I only wish I could express myself so well today.
Chanel No. 19 is perfection!
I’m feeling you on the head cold, which is now in that annoying relentless cough phase. Hope you feel better!
You too!
I’m amazed anyone linked a perfume to Malcolm Tucker, but it works!
I take great joy in his very creative use of language. Just like No 19 – so appealing and yet so mean/tough!
Happy Friday. I’m wearing Myrrhiad – first freeze of the year in Denver area and it feels cozy. But what movie to associate with it… Any ideas for me? Maybe someone in Four Weddings and a Funeral (just because I like the movie) or …
Ha! I have never heard of Myrrhiad. What does it smell like?
In The Big Sleep Bogart’s Philip Marlowe goes into a bookstore to case a joint across the street. After some banter, the mousy bookseller locks the door, turns the sign to closed, takes off her glasses, takes down her hair and pours a drink. Then she spends an hour or two dallying with Humphrey Bogart. I’m wearing Arquiste J.Crew no. 31, in her honor. She is exactly the type of woman who would have gone to Peggy Guggenheim’s party in New York in 1943, as described on the box of no.31.
I still kick myself for NOT buying those fragrances at the time!
I love that bookseller, and I’m thrilled you thought of her for the challenge.
Love it.
I mentioned yesterday about the BBC’s mini-series of Jane Eyre with Ruth Wilson. I got a lot of good suggestions but the more I thought about it, I could easily see Bertha and to a lesser degree, Jane wearing Nahema. Rochester could very well pull off L’Air du Desert Morocain. Since I’ve read the book one too many times, I could see Helen Burns in something like Giulietta. Or Celine (former mistress) in vintage Bal. Blanche could possibly be no 22 because there isn’t a whole lot of warmth in no 22. Now there in lies the problem, which one am I going to wear.
I have to seek out that miniseries!
This was the BEST version of Jane Eyre!
I decided to keep my movie choice on the light side today. I’m channeling Mowgli from The Jungle Book wearing Felanilla for it’s banana leaf note.
excellent!
Oh, that’s a good one!
Oh, I love that pairing!
Fun!
Clap clap!
I’m testing Atelier des Ors’ Larmes Du Desert. Although she’d NEVER wear perfume, this fragrance could be homage to road warrior Imperator Furiosa. Tough and beautiful.
Mad Max : Fury Road is now on the list of fave movies. Dear goodness, how I loved that flick!
My husband was watching that last night, and while I was in and out of the room, I kept thinking how well it looked like it would lend itself to today’s challenge
Happy Friday!
Back when I was working as a grip and trying (and failing) to break into screenwriting, I would watch movies and break them down into structures. My screenwriting teacher, Blake Snyder, even had a structure that was a disciplined as a Japanese koan that would make plays and screenplays work.
With that in mind, one of my favorite movies is Pulp Fiction. It’s pure modern LA noir, run through a comedy wringer, beautifully structured and performed. Am in Tabac Blonde for Mrs. Mia Wallace. Sexy as hell, edgy and with a veneer of smoky dangerousness.
In a silk t shirt, green scarf, and gray jeans with short camel color ed boots and a full face of makeup – trying to mask the greyness of the recent flu infection!
And Tarantino’s casting of Uma Thurman was a stroke of genius!
Oh God, it really was! Up til then she was starting to be regarded as just another pretty Hollywood face. Se showed some serious chops.
Funny but when I read “Pulp Fiction” I immediately thought of Byredo’s Pulp…and then my mind wandered to “Chinatown”(movie) and Bond no. 9 Chinatown…..
Interesting fragrances of themselves, but so not those LA movies, if you get my meaning.
Great! I need to watch that again.
I remember first seeing it and thinking that it was pure genius.
I was obsessed with soundtrack.
You and me BOTH.
Me three
You look and smell fabulous!
Thank you! 😀
Going with my favorite movie ever, The Princess Bride – specifically, the moment when Buttercup jumps out the window into Fezzik’s arms, that silvery dress billowing against the night sky and the light of hope in her eyes.
Iris Poudre, of course.
Nice!!! My husband and I always joke to each other:
My name is Indego Montoya (sp?), you killed my father, prepare to die.
My husband got me a t-shirt that has that on it. 🙂
Is it the one with the “Hello. My name is-” stickers that make up his face? My husband has that one, but everyone thinks it’s Che Guevara.
The very one. And he does look a little like Che. 🙂
It’s a great shirt. Someone sent it to him as a birthday gift and it took us a minute to “get” it.
We somehow seem to know all the lines.
Allll the lines. (But that’s such a great one.)
Yes! Iris Poudre and Buttercup’s dress would go together perfectly!
They do. 🙂 I mean, my favorite of her dresses is the blue one with the silvery lace, but I love love the way the wedding dress ripples in the wind…
Absolutely perfect – the pairing, and the movie itself. “Bye-bye boys! Have fun storming the castle!”
I have a big smile now!
Ahhh. Perfect! That’s a favorite in this household, too. The hubs cries every time. My most quoted line to my husband is “I am NOT a witch. I’m your wife!”
I think ours might be, “It’s possible… pig. You miserable vomitous mass, you warthog-faced buffoon.”
Yay! Can’t wait to spray Iris Poudre while rewatching Princess Bride.
Perfect pairing!!!
Great movie… that was a very tempting second choice for me.
That’s a great pick!
“True love is the greatest thing in the world. Except for a nice MLT–mutton, lettuce, and tomato–when the mutton is nice and lean and the tomatoes are ripe. They’re so perky, I love that…”
“She’s dying, but I can still hear her big mouth!” Favorite movie is Moonstruck. (The comments have been incredible this week – so great!) I’m repeating last week’s challenge fragrance, which was SMN Vaniglia. Last week, because it was launched in 1828. This week because it’s Italian, boozy and sweet. Just think of the sugar cubes in the prosecco (or champagne.) Alla famiglia!
Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn’t know this either, but love don’t make things nice – it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren’t here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are *bull#$%@*.
Now I want you to come upstairs with me and get in my bed!
I loved this scene. Great movie!
Were you able to do that from memory?? If so I’m mightily impressed. I do have it written down in a file with quotes (all kinds not just movie quotes) along with the two speeches from Bull Durham.
Which two? I love Crash’s speech (just before Annie knocks over his ironing board) where he goes on and on about the things he believes in (good scotch, the hanging curve ball, etc.), but I can’t think of a second speech … other than pretty much all of Annie’s musings, like how bad trades are just a part of baseball and you have to respect a man who’s just trying to finish out a season. Or several others the contents of which are probably not within NST’s comment policy. 🙂
I was thinking specifically of her opening one at the beginning of the movie, “I believe in the church of baseball…”
And definitely the “what do you believe in” one. Sigh…
I always said that I wish someone would throw the Wheaties off of the table for me. 😀
Snap out of it!
Now I am dabbing with a Kleenex the coffee I spilled when I cracked up reading your comments.
HA!
One of the most quotable movies ever! “Someday you’ll be dead and I’ll come to your funeral in a red dress.”
That is a great line????
I remember when that movie came out. My boyfriend
and I went see it and it was so good that when it was over we turned around, went right back into the movie theater, and watched it again.
My college boyfriend and I did that with Monty Python’s Holy Grail. We had to, because we had missed so many funny lines from laughing too hard at the funny line just prior. Plus, the opening credits. Too funny.
The scene around the kitchen table at the end! Great movie and great choice.
I just realized it was Asti Spumanti not prosecco. I know I quote this movie more than any other. “Don’t sh*t where you eat”, “Wear a hat … ok ok I’ll wear a hat”, “She did it to be hard on me”, “Loretta, you’re life’s in the toilet!” and those damn Vicky Carr records! I really wanted that house and that kitchen!
Oh, I’m literally laughing out loud! And as I read your comment I could HEAR it in the appropriate voices. That movie’s going in the DVD player tonight!
I can always make myself laugh when I think of Olympia Dukakis saying, “Ronnie Cammareri, Johnny’s brotha.” with her eyebrow raised.
Your life is going down the toilet!
You’ve got a love bite on your neck! Cover up the damn thing! Put some makeup on it.
“I love him awful.”
“Oh, God. That’s too bad.”
“Do you love him, Loretta?”
“No, but I like him. Johnny’s a sweet guy.”
“Good, because when you love them, they drive you crazy. Because they know they can.”
Bowing out of the community project since I lack the smarts and creativity to come up with a clever match.
Instead, I’m going with my rapidly dwindling sample of Grand Soir.
Predictable is my middle name!
Thinking of all the folks on the southeastern US coastline and sending good wishes your way.
Mmmm good!
Today I chose CSP Amour Cacao in honor of Alexandria, the heroine of The Fall. The movie is about a little girl with a broken arm (Alexandria)and a paralyzed stuntman (Roy) who meet in a hospital during the 1920s. To pass the time, Roy weaves a fantastical tale about heroes and villains. There’s a bit more to it than that, but I would hate to spoil anything. It’s a visually stunning (shot in several different countries), heartbreaking, life affirming movie that I would recommend to just about anyone. And the acting is superb! It’s rated R but I have absolutely no idea why; I’ve seen MUCH worse PG-13 movies.
Oh yes, my reasons! I chose Amour Cacao because of the chocolate notes (Alexandria loves chocolate) and the orange zest notes because she works in an orange grove with her family. It’s perhaps a bit too sophisticated for a little girl, but I think our brave young heroine would love it.
Nice one!
Nice! And I have a bottle of this too which I need to pull out as we get into proper fall.
I” really loving everyone’s pairings today, fun project!
I’ll go with Gucci Rush for Pris from Blade Runner, a movie I never tire of. I think it suits her slightly trashy yet tough and appealing persona. A little synthetic but beautiful all the same.
If scenting Zaora, I’m thinking Bvlgari Black…Rachel is tough for me to match, maybe Chanel 5 as an implanted memory of what her ‘mother’ wore.
Interesting!
Guh, another deep favorite of mine (and Anne Rice!)
Roy Batty would be in Escentric 01- or it would be something woven into his artificially cloned skin. Cold, Aryan, flawless- and yet with the barest hint of something living and mortal.
Excellent choice for Tris and Blade Runner!
Today’s challenge was way too hard for me (I was casually fretting about it all week), but I’m absolutely loving reading other people’s pairings!
Wearing one of my defaults, HOCB Tobacco Cognac, instead. Now that I’m kind of getting into the right mindset, though, I really wish I had thought to wear LADDM for Lawrence of Arabia!
Thinking about what you could’ve worn counts! That would’ve been a good one. I thought of LADDM myself for The Sheltering Sky.
Perfect for The Sheltering Sky. Love that movie.
Today I’m wearing YSL’s Cinema in honor of my all-time favorite movie “Cinema Paradiso” which epitomizes the love of movies!
(I debated over Cinema and and Dolce Gabbana’s Sicily since the movie takes place in Sicily.)
Lovely!
Such a wonderful film!
Wonderful film! Such a great role for Philippe Noiret.
By Kilian’s A Taste of Heaven for The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, the 1947 movie starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. The final scene, when Rex Harrison’s ghost (Captain Gregg) returns from self-imposed exile to Gull Cottage to rejoin Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney), who just died and is now a spirit herself, is one of the most romantic movie moments I’ve ever seen. The 1968-1970 TV series, with Edward Mulhare and Hope Lange, was also nice, but the comedic aspect lessened the romantic tone of their relationship.
Excellent !
Gosh. I remember watching that movie on tv when I was about 10 years old. Lovely!!
I love that movie *and* the TV show. So romantic. A swarthy red-head sea captain? Swooning.
I’m going to have to check that film out.
Le sigh…. This movie made me realize why my mother’s generation used to call him “Sexy Rexy.” 😀
I started thinking about today’s challenge 2 weeks ago and realized I might have a problem choosing a single, stand-alone movie to use because many of my favorites are franchise movies. As chance would have it, I caught the first 2 films of one of them on IFC last week, and my fate was sealed because I realized I had the perfect scent…
I’m wearing Bvlgari Black for ‘The Matrix’:
Leather for all the (p)leather clothes, rubber for the epic car/motorcycle/semi chase (and that awesome entry Trinity has at the power plant) in ‘Reloaded’, lapsang souchong tea for all the kung fu, and vanilla for the Oracle’s cookies! Moreover, the whole modern, urban feel Black is meant to evoke perfectly fits the aesthetic inside the Matrix.
Have a great Friday, all! To those in the path of Hurricane Matthew, stay safe!
Awesome choices!
Brilliant pairing!
Nice!
perfect!
Wonderful choice!
Perfect combo.
This is perfect – I love both and what a match.
Excellent!
Excellent!
That is so cool!
Twins!!! And I love your associations!
Who is the most elegant woman on Earth?
Mary Poppins, of course!
Referring to Russian movie “Mary Poppins, Goodbye” and wearing Chanel 28 La Pausa 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM1YMzBrFt0
Practically perfect in every way!
“You feel so grand!”
One of my fav movies of all time and fav characters, Gone With the Wind – and of course the wonderful, sharp, witty, narcissistic, weak yet strong Scarlett O’Hara Hamilton Kennedy Butler. And my scent paring – and my SOTD had to be – no not flowers – magnolias nor gardenias – Scarlett is not a hearts and flowers kind of girl.
By Kilian, Apple Brandy. Scarlett likes her liquor and she’s a GA girl, (as am I) so of course apples for fall. And y’all remember – she does gargle with the stuff 🙂 It’s boozy and fruity, yet still sharp and then somewhat creamy in the dry down. As is Scarlett because after all, she really did realize she loved him. And which one of us wouldn’t love Rhett Butler, Clark Gable??? Who would so smell like smoke and tobacco with leather – Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille for him maybe? Does she get her man in the end? Why Y’all – of course she does!
Love it!!
Excellent!!
Ditto on excellent!
Vintage Jolie Madame for Inglorious Basterds’ Shoshanna.
Good Pair!
I also like Melanie Laurent in the movie Paris..
Wonderful actress, looking forward to seeing her in more movies in the future.
I really didn’t have any problem choosing a movie today, since it’s our 10th wedding anniversary and we almost always watch the same movie. Don’t know when or why it became a tradition, but we power up the old VCR (yes, we still have one) and watch Space Adventure Cobra.
Mr. Minion is unwittingly playing along with us today by wearing Brut deodorant. Obviously, without the nitro musks and power of the original but still nice (and I don’t know that I really want him to smell like my memory of my uncle’s creepy friend with the hairy arms). Cobra would totally have worn the real thing, obviously, and lots of it.
I’m stretching it a bit by wearing Tropic of Capricorn because it suits the overall trippiness of the film and I’m pretty sure Jane would have appreciated its overripe funk.
Happy Anniversary!
Happy Anniversary!X
Happy 10th!
Happy anniversary! I don’t know that I’d heard of Space Adventure Cobra, but just the title makes me want to seek it out.
I’m not gonna lie and say it’s a great movie, but it is a fun example of early eighties anime and one of the few that were well dubbed and translated for the American market. Call it a guilty pleasure akin to indulging in a spritz of Jovan Musk.
I know I should have chosen a non-animated and less obscure movie for the challenge, but I couldn’t resist. Besides, I don’t have any Minotaure or I would have chosen Labyrinth.
🙂
Happy Anniversary! We still have two VCRs in our house!! Lots of good old foreign films that are out of print to do otherwise.
Happy anniversary! Enjoy your movie and may your old VCR be in working mode for many-many years more!
Happy anniversary!
Happy Anniversary!
Happy Anniversary!
Happy 10th Anniversary!
Happy Anniversary!! That’s so great that you have an anniversary movie tradition. Very cool.
Wearing Bois des Iles today…
I am smell mighty fine.
This bottle is from 2011. I am wondering if anyone has sniffed the EDP. This seems perfect as is. Makes me sad thinking this particular formula is no longer in production… :*
Happy Friday!
Maybe a stretch, but I’m in Habit Rouge Dress Code for Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf. A rose up top that is sharp and masculine, which then withers and dries up revealing the more tender praline heart.
I haven’t seen that one..on my list!
One of my favorites. Very dark and disturbing. Liz Taylor is amazing.
That sounds like the perfect match for that movie.
I almost wore this today, pairing it with Tintin.
Today’s movie is “Star Wars: Episode 4 …”, or as I like to call it, the original Star Wars movie. The scent is Dior’s Dune, which is what Obi-Wan Kenobi smelled like while on Tatooine, keeping a watchful eye on Luke Skywalker and the Lars household.
Excellent!
Oh my gosh…BRILLIANT! My favorite pairing so far! I also refer to this movie as “just” Star Wars because when I saw it in the theater as a kid that’s what it was titled. It was a few years later, in 1981, that they added “A New Hope.”
I always want to take the lazy road and just pair it with Dune (although I prefer the book to the movie).
Me too! I love the book Dune (in fact, it kinda informed what my college major would be!) and I always thought that the perfume Dune would suit it!
Nice pairing! Oh, how I love Star Wars…
I’m wearing Roja Dove’s Unspoken today for Helen Mirrren’s character Maria Altmann in Woman in Gold. A slightly modern chypre for her strength and perseverance, along with a beautiful and sophisticated floral heart, symbolic of her wealthy Austrian roots. I think the name, Unspoken, also carries some symbolism for the movie as well.
My second choice was Vol de Nuit for Ilsa in Casablanca.
So many good pairing today! Happy weekend all!
We were almost twins today! I came close to choosing VdN for Ilsa, too.
Laughing at your “almost” – we both went in another direction. For me it was going to be too hot for VdN (I only have the extrait no edt).
I also thought about Nahema for Susan Sarendon’s character in Bull Durham. I thought that was a natural with her sexuality in the movie along with her love of Piaf’s La Vie en Rose.
Nahema would be perfect for her.
Oh, VdN for Ilsa is such a great idea!
Thanks, Creosote! I’ll probably wear it today as it is finally cooler here.
Like Jalapeno above, my inspiration was also Star Wars and Tatooine, but I went with Timbuktu.
😉
Woot, more Star Wars! Nice pairing!
Rushmore, a movie I love. Charlotte (Olivia Williams) would wear something quiet, sophisticated, and ever so slightly subversive, so maybe Iris Cendre. I imagine Herman (Bill Murray) in something smooth and melancholy and a bit more on the masculine side of the spectrum. Maybe Creed’s original Vetiver? It disappears rapidly, but so good while is there. Max Fisher? Oh that’s hard. But I put my favorite character, Margaret Yang in the juicy fruity Rose Flash or the even bettet Isparta. And that is what I’m wearing today.
Or Sadanne, which matches the movie’s hipster cred but neither Margaret or I have.
Because we are both too geeky.
Gosh, love that movie. I need to watch it again this week.
Your choices are so clever.
I think I might have linked to this blog before, but the perfumes of Mad Men: http://doylesmells.tumblr.com/post/48894464471/smoking-animal-smells-and-perfume-evil
As for me? At 10 am, still paralyzed with indecision. Will update if I get clever.
Hey, thanks for that link. It was awesome.
Tough challenge, this one! My mind usually goes blank when someone asks me about my favorite movie, because I have a lot of movies I love and picking a single one is about as hard as picking a single favorite perfume!
Couldn’t decide on a favorite drama, so I’m going with one of my favorite comedies – Death becomes her! I’m in Carnal Flower for Isabella Rossellini’s character.
I’m imagining Meryl Streep in this film wearing Poison, and Goldie Hawn (past her “makeover”) wearing something equally loud but with more bite – Opium? Or original Chloe? And Bruce Willis is an Old Spice kinda guy.
I have the same problem. I think of a million things or none!
My SOTD is Chanel No.19 in honor of Kate Hepburn in the movie BRINGING UP BABY, one of two family classics!!
So classy, so original for her time, so much her own strong & independent woaan. Well ahead if her time, an icon and trendsetter who bexomea an instant classic…. who never took herself too seriously and had a joie di vivere….And then there’s Cary Grant, all handsome and sexy and understated suoerstar…. That’s Caron pour Homme to me. Both examples of ezcellent chemistry – as is their representative parfums.
Pure Class, style & elegance.
Ok forgive my typos gang, it is really hard to catch them as my hubby hits the brakes in bumper2bumper traffic!
Great choices!! I haven’t seen that forever. Must watch again soon…
Oh, was thinking about doing that movie! Excellent picks.
Film of the day is “Jamon Jamon” from 1992 – good grief, can it really be so old? – starring a young and very fit Javier Bardem alongside Penelope Cruz. It’s one of those over-the-top Spanish films of the period, and not to everyone’s taste, but I like it. Inspired by its panoramas of the desolate plains of Castilla-La Mancha, SOTD is “Salamanca” from Olympic Orchids. The notes of clay and leather don’t quite work for me – there’s a touch of machine oil about it – but they suit the truck stop in the film well enough.
Leather fiends take note, this one is for you and I believe quite reasonable to buy if you’re US-based. :^)
I know the movie and that sounds like a great pairing.
Hi Koenigsberg, I’m IN, I just bought a sample @ STC (using their 15%disc)!! I love that name Salamanca. Did you know it was also used as the delightful yet complicated main character in a book? The title escapes me but it IS one of my all time favorites, I read it w/ our daughter once upon a day as a young girl. I am texting her now for the title, it’s a great read still, and full of important life lessons!!
Thank U for the suggestion AND the fond memories!!
1995 Newberry Award Winner:
WALK TWO MOONS BY SHARON CREECH.
Terrrrrrifffic book!!!!
Oh, I hope you like it, AngelaB! The other Mr. Koenigsberg thinks it’s vile. Thanks for the book suggestion, I’ve saved it for later. I love getting my little nephews good books to read. :^)
If Salamanca doesn’t work as a perfume for you it makes a very pleasant ambient scent. I sprayed some on a n old wool blanket and also used it by spraying my legs and wearing something more floral everywhere else.
I was going to go with either the movie Leviathan , set by the Barents sea or a favourite Dardenne Brothers film, Rosetta…set in a caravan on the outskirts of a city. Both films are grim. Instead, mention of story telling above made me go for a film starring John Berger and Tilda Swinton, Play Me Something. It’s based on a John Berger short story and is set in the airport on Barra about a group waiting to catch a plane to Glasgow, with John Berger telling a story about a group going by bus to Venice. Just a short film. The perfume is Musc Nomade as it evokes the misty weather and travel but it also reminds me of the way strangers are brought together … people I have never met come together by chance on NST and there is a sense of warmth and community and that is how I got to own Musc Nomade.
I’m not familiar with the film, but love how you tied it all together. Especially the last part. Very heartwarming.
Are you enjoying Musc Nomade?
Yes, very much so. I like how monochromatic it is
That last bit was very nice. 🙂
This is a fun one! So many responses I need to go back and read.
My choice is L’Heure Bleue for Arletty in Les Enfants du Paradis. Beautiful and melancholy.
I’m lacking the mental grunt to come up with anything specific, but I am a fan of older vampire movies – Christopher Lee in the old Hammer Horrors and the 1980s version of Dracula with Frank Langella – so SOTE will be something with dark roses.
Today has started off nice and bright, so not in the least vampiric, so starting a rose day in Le Galion’s La Rose.
SOTD is Pacifica Mexican Cocoa Perfume. Its box states that “cocoa ignites passion and evokes notions of indulgence and temptation” and that’s exactly what occurs in “Chocolat” and my favorite Juliette Binoche role, Vianne, She opens her chocolate shop in Lent (she must be ‘a radical atheist!’) in a quaint and very provincial French town and causes quite a stir among its local residents, particularly, the vicar. The cocoa and spice notes in this scent reflect not only the movie’s theme but Vianne’s mysterious origins as well: As a young man, her grandfather, Georges, a pharmacist looking for adventure, makes a trip to Central America in the 1920’s where he drinks an unrefined cacao potion from an ancient Mayan recipe and falls under the spell of Vianne’s mysterious grandmother, who is a native. And who can forget Vianne’s love, the handsome wanderer, Roux – Johnny Depp (Byredo Gypsy Water?). Love, love, love this film – delicious on all levels!
Love it – the film and the pairing!
Perfect pairing, but I thought you were going to say Like Water for Chocolate.
I bought Como agua para chocoalate and Cien anos de soledad when I fancied myself having a passable command of Spanish. I ended up only reading these books in English.
lol! Sounds like something I’d do (only something in French). But it was a great movie!
Ooooh! Good pick!!!
Wow, great choices!
Love this movie, thanks for the reminder. 🙂
SOTD = Bvlgari Black
I am wearing asphyxia levels of Bvlgari Black and I am wafting a beautiful powdery vanillic tea cloud. It’s not a movie but rather a TV series: 3rd Rock from the Sun. Dick Solomon (played by John Lithgow) and really the entire crew want to be badass tough but deep inside they are cuddly.
Hi, twin! [Does the 3rd Rock salute] You smell great! I can totally see Sally, especially, wearing Black.
You know I actually started with Sally but changed my mind but now I am changing it back because it wasn’t that the alien family was trying to act tough but they were trying to fit in as humans. Sally was the one that was tougher because she was a man in a woman’s body. I need to binge watch the entire series again. It was sooooo good!
And Tommy was the old one! ????
I’m wearing Fracas. I don’t really know what film it reminds me of, but Fracas can feel slightly menacing beneath all of it’s radiance. The most menacing woman I’ve ever seen in a film is Jeanne Moreau in La mariée était en noir. So there it is.
I’ll go with menacing. To this day, I have never worn it because it’s on my list of scary perfumes.
I love the idea of a list of scary perfumes. ????
Finally cold enough today to wear Alahiiiine. I always forget How goood it is!
I’m late to post today but I used lys mediteranee shower gel and then the new Guerlain Mugeut for Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables.
*Muguet
I love that movie and was trying to come up with a scent for Anne. I really think you nailed it! Perfect! ( unless, of course, you went with lemon verbena).
Nice pairing!
Yeah, great match!
I’ll have to pretend today, because my movie perfume didn’t get evacuated with me (for those who are interested, Patou Amour Amour, PdN Eau Exotique, Lush 25:43, all d/c’d went with me, along with Andy Tauer’s LADDM just because I couldn’t stand the thought of being without it).
So let’s pretend I’m wearing PdE Amber Russe and the movie is the amazing film shot in St. Petersburg, “Russian Ark..”
We’re all sending out prayers and hopeful thoughts for our NST friends in Hurricane Matthew’s path…
Hope your home’s intact and your perfumes are alright when you get home. Stay safe!
Glad your safe!
That should be you’re safe…. Ugh..
So glad you checked in!
Love that movie so much. So clever in its filming. Good luck over the next few days
Glad you’re ok!! Hope your home didn’t suffer any damage.
Late to the party as usual, but I’m wearing Memo’s African Leather for “The English Patient.” It’s a lovely, smooth, floral leather and conjures up the opening sequence with the views of the desert taken from a plane. Some of the dunes look like a woman’s body, and it’s breathtakingly sensual.
Nice choices!
Oh, another movie I adored. The book is even better.
Yep. The book is almost always better. ????
I decided on a whim this morning to wear Boucheron by Boucheron, from a mini whose age I can’t even recall now. I hadn’t planned to even try to come up with a movie pairing, because my imagination tends to simply fail at such things. At midday, however, Kathleen Turner popped into my mind. Would she have worn Boucheron in “War of the Roses” — after the young love part but before the wars began in earnest — when she was playing the hostess in slinky black gown?…
I almost chose that movie too. I was thinking of wearing two different rose perfumes, one on each wrist, to represent the war.
Ahhh… which rose perfumes would you have chosen to “war” with each other?
I was thinking Mohur and Rose de Petra. They are surprisingly similar.
SOTD was Eau de Cologne du 68 by Guerlain.
Now on a dark, rainy October night,
SOTE is Zombie For Her by Demeter while watching the George A. Romero classic “Night of the Living Dead”
Talk about “smell-a-vision”!
Happy Weekend Everyone ????
Ha! Good pairing.
Like several others I was initially stumped. While away I had Bottega Veneta with me and craved it today. I thought of Madame X – the 1981 version starring Tuesday Weld – and that BV fit her younger self: lighthearted, flirty, with a promising life ahead of her. With limited perfume choices, tonight I went with Mon Parfum Cheri Par Camille for her later wanton, floozy self. I had misgivings, though, thinking that a woman with a ruined life probably wouldn’t be drawn to such a rich, complex perfume. So (assuming I had it) I’d put her in Secretions Magnifiques.
Though this challenge took some thought, it was a fun one.
Interesting! I saw the older version with Lana Turner; I’d have put her in My Sin (or is that too obvious?).