Happy Friday and happy International Museum Day! (Lots of museums are offering free admission today.) Our community project for today: wear a fragrance to match your favorite painting (or other object, anything you like!) in a museum, and if you can, post a link to an image.
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.
I'm on day 2 of Whistler, this time with Whistler's White Girl (you can see the whole painting here), currently on view at The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The National Gallery says that the painting...
met with severe public derision, but a number of artists and critics praised his entry. [...] Clearly, Whistler was more interested in creating an abstract design than in capturing an exact likeness of the model, his mistress Joanna Hiffernan. His radical espousal of a purely aesthetic orientation and the creation of "art for art's sake" became a virtual rallying cry of modernism.
I would have gone with Comme des Garçons White if I could find any, but instead I'm in Comme des Garçons Ouarzazate.
Reminder: on 5/25 we're doing Oh the Places You’ll Go...wear a perfume with a place name. Suggested by Elisa.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2018, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image shows detail from Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1861-1862.
Wearing ELdO’s Archive 69. So I’m going to pair it’s juxtaposition of hard edged metallic like notes and softer, woodier, creamy facets with the dynamism of Umberto Boccioni’s ‘Unique Forms of Continuity in Space”.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81179
WOW I love that sculpture! I have not smelled Archive 69 but I like your reasoning – the sculpture looks so hard and soft at the same time.
It really is stunning.
Love the pairing!That sculpture is beautiful!
I want it in my house!
Holy cow, that sculpture is awesome! Your description of Archive 69 sounds like a perfect match—well done!
That sculpture is impressive… it really does look like parts of it are liquid, while other parts of it are solid.
Today I am in Bvlgari Eau Parfumée au Thé Bleu. The painting I chose is Springtime by Claude Monet. Its current location is the Fitzwilliam Museum. From the description on the museum’s website: “The tonality perfectly examplifies the ‘violettomania’ or ‘seeing blue’ for which the Impressionists were repeatedly criticised: one commentator described the third Impressionist exhibition in 1877 as having the overall effect of a worm-eaten Roquefort cheese!”
Not sure about other impressionists, but Monet definitely liked blue color. Nothing wrong with it, if you ask me. 
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/frenchimpressionists/monet/2810
Nice pairing
Love the painting and the fragrance!
Nice choices! We’re “bleu” color twins today.
Twins for both the scent and Monet!
Wow! What Monet did you choose?
I chose Blue Water Lillies, which I’d had the privilege to see at the Musée d’Orsay a couple of weeks ago. Loving this week’s theme!
Great pairing! All Monet’s water lily landscapes are gorgeous.
I paired Bruno Fazzolari’s Unsettled with a picture of the Irish Cliffs of Moher. I went with an interpretation of Unsettled as being in a place that brings peace. The Cliffs of Moher is an incredibly peaceful place and I remember thinking as I looked out that I was just a breath away from heaven.
https://www.google.com/search?q=paintings+of+the+cliffs+of+moher&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=ismvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjk1YbNr4_bAhWm3YMKHRWKCKEQ_AUIESgB&biw=375&bih=553#imgdii=p16XnBQPgyCm7M:&imgrc=OXCZXnQ-KjX_JM:
Have a great weekend.
Amazing!
Hajusuuri, is that a cavalier? I have 2.
Yes! He’s my brother’s. He has 3 and they all seem to like moving around as a pack, and that includes escaping from the house.
Oh no. They are very pack oriented.
Beautiful!Would love to smell the perfume one day!
Beautiful place, and not far at all from The Burren Perfumery where they capture some of that local flora in perfume form.
Wearing 4160 Tuesday’s Centrepiece Extrait.
Honey and amber with a deep sensuous underbase
http://www.mikedargas.com/
Wow! I have never smelled that perfume, but those images really convey what you describe it as. I find them…mildly disturbing, yet erotic at the same time. Well done!
Wow..
those images are maybe part of a larger, sensual, …ritual
Would love to crawl inside the that artist brain and take a peek at what he is thinking/ feeling
What a great pairing.
Wow. I like Carpe Diem Baby.
Wearing Maison Francis Kurkdjian Baccarat Rouge 540. I’m still not sure how I feel about it. It is sweet – almost cavity sweet, but on a cloudy day like this it feels good to be wrapped in caramel.
Surprisingly nippy this morning so I’m basking in the warmth of CSP Vanille Cannelle. I guess the matching painting would be that Picasso portrait of Eva Gouel, which is just about every shade of brown in the world.
Pairing the Rousseau painting ‘The Sleeping Gypsy’ with the Lollia perfume Sleeping Under the Stars
I don’t think I knew that one, thanks!
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80172
A Friday Challenge Poem
I’m wearing Ysatis
’cause it rhymes with H. Matisse
If seeing his art is your wish
Then open this link to see The Goldfish!
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi68cgsHVGi/?taken-by=jadainga99
….It’s the best I could do y’all! HAPPY FRIYAY!!!!!
Love it!
Great…
You have such a sweet insta feed..
Awwww THANK YOU! I try to keep it quirky and interesting! LOL!
I’ve been meaning to ask, did you pick up the current Ysatis or vintage? I think the current is still really good, but wondered how the vintage would have held up. Either way you smell glorious!
I will have to check the code tonight and come back! I’m gonna to guess that it’s pretty new…it’s a tester, and looks to be brand new and shiny…..I’ll post again tonight!
The original had a gold cap, the newer one has a clear one, but I’m sure the code is better for verification.
I do have a relatively newer bottle….manufactured in 1/2010. Has the clear top too!
Wonderful!Two Friday challenges in one!????????????????
what a sweet poem!
Encens Mythique
chai tea
This art https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/91.1.2064/
Listening to Le Trio Joubran
A middle eastern inspired morning
I envy you the chai – I will make due with butterscotch coffee
I have all the ingredients my father in law uses.. he even shredded the ginger and froze it for me. He is the master of chai
Great pairing! I always get list when I’m in the Met. I seem to recall this from a lost moment.
Incredible doors. What skill.
Those doors are so beautiful.
The detail up close is exquisite
Great pairing.
The doors are stunning.
Gamiil ‘awwi!
The inlay on those doors probably looks much better in person than on the Internet… and it was lovely on the Internet.
I chose Marc Chagall’s La Mariée, and was going to pair it with Vol de Nuit. But that seemed just a little too on the nose (flying in a night sky … with one’s violin-playing goat, of course), and I really really really just wanted to wear De Profundis today. I managed to convince myself that DP also pairs reasonably well with the Chagall (https://goo.gl/images/71urYB), so I’m pretending that I’m participating in the CP.
Any pairing with Chagall is a great pairing. And I envy you the De Profundis, a wonderful fragrance in honor of a wonderful painter!
It actually does!That painting reminds me a lot of the artful pics Lute s does for Shiseido!
LuteNs.Dunno why my pad loves invisible letters so much…
Oh, good to know! I thought I was deluding myself.
Will have to do some research.
Artist twin! I chose Chagall as well.
Chagall’s work is wonderful.
It’s a strange day when an association with a flying violinist goat is too obvious
Hah! I know you know what I meant – don’t try to fool me.
Lovely!
Thank you!
Every morning I drink my coffee out of one of two mugs received as a wedding gift. This morning it is:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/579982010/chaleur-renoir-coffee-mug-tea-cup-master?ref=pla_similar_listing_top-1
The painting itself hangs in a Boston musuem. I am pairing Estée Lauder’s Beautiful with it, as that was my wedding perfume. Yeah, it was the nineties. I wasn’t really a Beautiful kind of girl, my signature scent at the time was Casmir, but I felt that might be a bit much on a hot August afternoon. Estée Lauder marketed this scent to young brides, with the beautiful Paulina Porizkova in a wedding dress featured in the ads. I’m sure I’m not the only girl who chose this for her day back in 1993. I still have a mini that must be considered vintage by now, guess that means my marriage is too. Lol.
I think Beautiful is still a lovely..
It is pretty, though it does feel a bit dated to me. Good scent memories attached to it though.☺️
I have a mini of Beautiful too….I definitely get in the mood for it from time to time!
The art is gorgeous!
Thanks!
I love the idea of a vintage marriage!
He he. Like fine wine, right?
IFRA really ruined marriages, in my opinion
Ha! I guess my vintage bottle of Obsession is serving more of a purpose than I had realized.
I love Paulina Porizkova. I never would have tried Knowing, if not for her.
Estée Lauder was on to something using her in their ads then…same for me with Beautiful…she is still just as stunning as ever imo. I admired that she was one of the super models that seemed to keep a lower profile back in the day. I just read recently that she and Ric Ocasek split, which made me sad.
Oh no! That makes me sad too.
In the early days of Etsy, one could sell handmade, supplies or vintage. The definition of vintage per Etsy is at least 25 years old. 1993 to 2018 = 25 years! I guess it’s happy 25th year anniversary!
Thanks! Some days I definitely feel more “vintage” than others, lol.
That’s beautiful. I love wearing my wedding perfume (Songes); even on a regular ‘ol Tuesday it makes me happy.
Thanks. It’s nice to have scent associations that make us happy.????
Wearing by Killian’s Rose Oud today to match John Singer Sargent’s Madame X. I think of this scent as being beautiful, poised and still. Alas, I look nothing like Madame X, and have never owned a gown like that in my life, but at least I can smell like that!
I never knew the story of JSS repainting the strap!
http://www.roh.org.uk/news/the-real-madame-x-the-true-story-that-inspired-christopher-wheeldons-ballet-strapless
Lovely!
Worked at a book drive all day yesterday & woke-up this AM thinking of a dry, dusty, leather perfume. Sprayed myself with Cuir de Lancôme. I have few leather scents, but this 9 or 10 year old bottle hit the spot today. Enjoy the wk-end !
You smell wonderful!
Such a fantastic scent
You smell fabulous!
I’m in Mark Buxton Sleeping with ghosts today, it wears well in the pre-summer sun.
I can’t understand why he changed the name to Dreaming with ghosts? It’s the same scent, just a new name.
Lovely choice. This scent is wonderful for summer.
Thank you! I think it’s quite special. I love a good fruity floral, but nice brands rarely do that segment so I’m happy about this.
Possibly trademark issue?
Aha, because of the song, that’s probably it!
I chose this painting…https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.46303.html, because my mom hung a print of this picture in my bedroom when I was a preteen. She always said the girl looked like me. I am wearing Caswell Massey Honeysuckle because I loved their fragrances when I was this age. Plus, Caswell Massey started business in 1752 and would have been around when this young lady was alive.
Looks lovely – what a compliment that your mom said it reminded you of her!
What a lovely painting and match!
Another cool windy morning, another opportunity to wear a delicious oriental.
I’m in MFK Grand Soir.
Ooh, yummy!
Nice!
I wanted to do something with Pop Art, so I am wearing ELDO Vraie Blonde, and I paired it with Andy Warhol’s Gold Marilyn Monroe from 1962.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79737
I really wanted to do something with James Rosenquist, but I had trouble coming up with something that I thought worked.
Perfect pairing
Great pairing!
We left Corsica yesterday (after almost a week), I am in Florence now for a few days.
Its my third visit so I dont feel the urge to join the crowds an run to all the highlights.
So we visited the Iris Garden today (next to the Piazzale Michelangelo, on the hills on the south bank). If you ever visit this city between 20 april and 20 may, I highly recommend it. Its quiet and very beautiful! I bought a soap bar as a souvenir and to support this ‘Società’ of iris lovers (entrance is free).
SotD is Gelsomino by Santa Maria Novella. I bought a bottle in their beautiful store, yes it IS very touristy, but so beautiful inside, and the employee who helped me was very friendly.
I am pairing it with this painting by Lorenzo di Credi of Caterina Sforza! Also known as “La dama dei gelsomini”
https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caterina_Sforza.jpg
She is a very interesting lady by the way!
I would love to visit that iris garden one day!Love your SOTD!
Lovely painting. Sounds like a great pairing.
I am enjoying your travel updates. It means that I can have a lovely virtual trip from my living room.
SotD = L’Heure Bleue
Artist = Louise Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun
Art = Self Portrait with Her Daughter, Julie
https://www.wikiart.org/en/louise-elisabeth-vigee-le-brun/self-portrait-with-her-daughter-julie-1786
The gently glowing brown and blue of the painting echo L’Heure Bleue’s label. Le Brun’s headress brings to mind the bottle’s cap. The painting’s mood reminds me of a quiet evening, when parent and child can simply be together. And I love this work because the artist’s sweet smile reminds me of my own beautiful mother.
A Friday feel good moment (that made me happy-cry): This Man’s Rare Blood Is Responsible for Saving the Lives of Over 2.4 Million Babies
https://mymodernmet.com/blood-donations-anti-d-james-harrison/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds
Pictures of a hero! and cute babies!
Perhaps you might like this painting also..
http://www.sothebys.com/fr/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/impressionist-modern-art-evening-sale-n09860/lot.11.html
oh goodness yes, I like that one a lot, Cassat paintings can be so tender.
Worth every penny, and that would be close to half a billion pennies!
An excellent match, and you smell beautiful! That story is so great.
thanks, Creosote! L’Heure Bleue feels beautiful.
Glad you liked the story, it really warmed my heart at the end of this looooong week.
Both LHB and the picture that you chose seem to have the same mood to them, IMO. A little tender and a little melancholy.
Thanks, Jalapeno! Tender and melancholy is exactly right for LHB and Le Brun’s painting. I also think LHB is a little bit “mumsy” but that’s just me.
https://goo.gl/images/dHXmtF
Sir John Everett Millais.Ophelia.
My favorite work of art ever!Standing infront of this at the Tate Gallery early 2000’s,on a crisp cold British winters’ day,is one huge highlight of my time spent in the UK.I probably stood there for an hour,just in awe,trying to identify the flowers and looking at the detail of her dress.It struck a chord with me that is deeply personal,and I always feel emotional when I look at photos and images of the painting.
Paired with The Different Co. Rose Poivrèe,which I have not worn in ages!
Soft but comforting Rose perfume,with a little skank thrown in from the civet.It has a slightly cold metallic edge to it,which is what I imagine the water where Ophelia lies must have felt like.Cold and wet,fragrant icicled petals in her hands and on the river bank.Beautiful.
Happy Weekend all!
X
Yesss, that IS a gorgeous painting.
I saw it long ago, maybe too long, but its an image that just haunts you. I love Waterhouse Ophelias as well, but Millais made the best Ophelia ever!
Waterhouse perhaps made the best Lady of Shalott
I shall go seek the Lady of Shalott!Thanks!✌????
I mean this one:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_of_Shalott_(painting)
Because Waterhouse has made at least one other Lady of Shalott.
He repeats most themes. He was quite obsessed with femme fatales and damsels in distress.
He also has a few Circe/scorcereress paintings. I love this one:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circe_Invidiosa
I was so lucky to see that one irl years ago, in Groningen, the netherlands. No pic online or in print can reproduce the deep greens.
Thanks so much!
If you like Pre-Raphaelites you need to pp over to Birmingham, only 90 minutes from Brussels or Amsterdam.
Medea: http://www.bmagic.org.uk/objects/1925P105/images/136222
Morgan le Fay: http://www.bmagic.org.uk/objects/1925P104/images/136216
The Last of England: http://www.bmagic.org.uk/objects/1891P24/images/137569
I love Dutch paintings, so when I thought about choosing a scent for today, I knew it had to be 4160 Tuesdays Captured by Candlelight. To go with it, I picked Gerrit Dou’s Astronomer by Candlelight (http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/801/gerrit-dou-astronomer-by-candlelight-dutch-late-1650s/?dz=0.5861,0.6922,1.21) because both feel so glowy.
What a brilliant pairing!
Oh wonderful pairing!
Great picture, and terrific pairing!
Clever pairing!
Happy Museum Day! I have been loving this CP so much all week. I have learned a ton – and that’s with a busy work week where I haven’t had time to read at leisure; I am planning on checking out every single choice this weekend. I am also feeling the richness of being part of a community that is so literate in both art and perfume that it can make such great comparisons.
Here’s my museum choice for the day, on Google Arts where I am very impressed by the level of detail you can get:
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/la-primavera-spring/yQER9P-WIU2k9A
I had loved Boticelli’s La Primavera since I did a puzzle version of it in high school (art puzzles are kind of neat in that they get you to focus on the little details.) But when I saw the real thing hanging in the Uffizi in Florence, I knew instantly it was my favorite painting, the way favorites can sometimes just be crystal clear. The perfume choice seems obvious to me – the spring-and-darkness of Magie Noire.
This makes me want to sniff Magie Noire
Excellent painting choice!
Unlike the Boticelli, Magie Noire took me a long time to love – but now I can’t imagine why I ever didn’t.
I love magie noire. Nice pairing
Did you ever hear of a perfume shop on St. Armand’s Circle called Body Scentsations?
They were open during the 1990’s and sold Henry Jacques, Parfums di Nicolai and Annick Goutal perfumes.
SOTD is Epidor from the splitmeet (Thanks mals!), which is a bunch of purdy flowers I never thought I would like. Cause it’s all flowery, but in the best way ever.
Seems to go well with this:
https://jazzerstenhdr.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/roman-courtship-at-the-john-and-mable-ringling-museum-of-art/
I saw the real thang at the Ringling Museum just down the road from were I live in Florida, and fell in love with it. I had to buy a print and get it all framed up professional like, and now it hangs in my house. Until I sell my house and off load the rest of my stuff, including this print.
This painting has everything and then some. I could look at it all day- the flowering of love and the doom of time. It makes me want to get crack-a-lackin with life.
Twins! I’m in Epidor too.
High 5, Twin! I will admit I never, ever thought we would be twins because we seem to have diametrically opposed scent-sibilities, but happy we can both agree that we love this perfume✌????
That painting is beautiful and chilling and I love the explanation! And the colors. And the specialized gardening shears that Fate apparently uses as scissors.
Also, have you noticed that fate is looking at US?
Yes, that’s the BEST part!! ????
Do you think she likes her job? I’m sensing some ambivalence.
It’s a great touch (as are the garden shears).
When I saw them, the first thing I thought of was “Sheep shearers!” ????
That’s a really striking image! The composition is interesting. I like neoclassical works along with my ancient stuff! ????
I was just in Sarasota in February, I love the Ringling, especially the circus museum! We used to go to the Renaissance fair held in the Spring.
Did you ever hear of a perfume shop on St. Armand’s Circle called Body Scentsations?
They were open during the 1990’s and sold Henry Jacques, Parfums di Nicolai and Annick Goutal perfumes.
It’s cool and verging on rainy this morning, and I found myself reaching for the Mitsouko. I went looking for an ukiyo-e print of a beautifl woman to go along with it and stumbled on this, https://data.ukiyo-e.org/jaodb/images/Kasamatsu_Shiro-No_Series-Evening_Sky_at_Suwa_Shrine_Nippori-00044245-121014-F06.jpg , which somehow seemed to fit better.
Beautiful!
Beautiful
Perfect fit
Excellent match!
Side yesterday I tried to match the Menil, I thought I’d walk over a few blocks to the Rothko chapel. I wouldn’t wear anything strong there, maybe just a dab or two of Dzongkha, my SotD. I won’t be stopping by the chapel today sadly, so I sprayed as much as I wanted.
Happy Friday all!
That’s an excellent choice for the chapel.
Does the chapel get very crowded or does it still feel very calm when you visit?
No, it’s almost never crowded, and is always calm and extremely quiet in there. As soon as people go in, they become hushed. I have been there twice for religious services, and it was quite surprising when they had pews set up in there how many people it will actually hold. It has wonderful acoustics for music too. Once was for a funeral and they had big candelabra and those paintings truly come more alive in candlelight. I was reminded of cave art and seeing images dance in the flames.
Thank you Calypso. I have wanted to visit the chapel for such a long time and I am so glad it still feels like a sacred place.
What an amazing church!
Epidor today, to counteract the rain.
https://theartstack.com/artist/emile-claus/la-faneuse-de-hooister
Blue and gold, ripe wheat, everything lit by golden sunshine.
I really like that painting. Makes me want to go hiking in the Alps, stat!
Very gorgeous!
Beautiful painting, beautiful scent!
On a class trip to Chicago in 2000 I saw Yoshitomo Nara’s Little Pilgrims installation at The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. https://mcachicago.org/Exhibitions/2000/Walk-On-Yoshitomo-Nara
I loved it so much, and I’ve never forgotten the pure joy I felt viewing it. I’ve paired it with Comme des Garcons x Undercover Holygrace.
What an amazing installation!
That looks so cool!
In April Aromatics Precious Woods today … all-natural woods and resins (no Iso-E-Super, yay). The opening has that touch of sourness you get with freshly-cut wood, then it moves into rich, smooth, polished wood.
I chose a gorgeous carved 18th-ct wood cabinet in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (be sure to use the zoom!). It looks exactly like Precious Woods smells.
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/BK-1989-16
Oh that is one gorgeous piece of furniture!Love love!!
SOTD is Impressions de Giverny by Fort & Manle. So obviously, the painting is by Monet… this one will do nicely:
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-water-lily-pond/nQExbyttj8z58A?hl=en
That one (out of the water lilly series) is VERY dreamy.
Classic.
I wish I could be in a museum today! Big talk yesterday went well, and now I’m having trouble motivating myself to work
Chergui today, with this painting: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/courtyard-cafe-tunis-peter-graham.html
Hot and dusty, like the eastern wind.
My vocal group’s show is tomorrow night! Have I memorized all the lyrics to every song? Uhhhh….
Glad your talk went well! Love the painting. Good luck tomorrow night!
Thanks, KellyC!
I like that website,where you can transform art into anything from a canvas to a beach towel!Loving that painting,the colors are gorgeous.
Congrats on the talk!
Thanks, Liza
Glad to hear that your big presentation/talk went well! Those can be SO unnerving!
I have been so intrigued by this project. I’ve loved being able to see such beautiful art, i usually don’t give myself time for. I chose the drip painting work of Jackson Pollock. I don’t have a particular one in mind, but I’ve always loved this style. I am matching it with FM Superstitious, for its texture, layers, vintage vibe, and general craziness. Also, both perfume and paintings seem to be a love or hate reaction for people.
Perfect
2nd that!
Wearing Worth Courtesan after yesterday’s Ubar mistake. Tomorrow I will dab on L’Heure Bleue and think about Girl with the Pearl Earring.
I love that one! I picked Vermeer today as well.
I love Vermeer’s work and one of my favorites is The Astronomer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astronomer_(Vermeer)#/media/File:Johannes_Vermeer_-_The_Astronomer_-_WGA24685.jpg
I am pairing with CdG Black which I love (thanks to a sample from a generous NSTer). I would not turn down a bottle if someone threw it my way, although I’ve got so many on my FB list I don’t know if I’d ever get around to purchasing it myself.
Happy FRIDAY! Thanks for a fun week, Robin.
And I should say, I’m pairing it with Black because of the night sky…
Hmm. I smelled that on a really hot guy. You smell SEXY.
I’d love to smell it on my fiance!
Yeah, I love Black on my guy. I’ll probably buy a bottle when his decant runs out.
Love both your painting and the CdG Black!Wonderful.
Yeah Black is so good, you smell great. And that painting is awesome!
Great picture and pairing!
I like Vermeer too and do not remember seeing this picture. Thanks for the link.
Happy Friday! Looks like tonight is cocktails and the Portland Art Museum!
A mild lovely day- gray and in bloom all over, but there will be sun in the afternoon. I chose Vanille Iris and look to an artwork here at PAM:
http://www.portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=78463;type=101
It’s “After Shitao’s Landscape Album: Shitao–Van Gogh”, by the artist Zhang Honfu (張宏圖) Just a lovely, lovely work.
Beautiful picture and it fits the scent and the day perfectly.
Oh, love that!
SOTD = Annick Goutal Nuit Etoilee EDT
Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-starry-night/bgEuwDxel93-Pg
✅ Name
✅ Blue color of bottle
✅ the juice gives me the impression of what it feels like to be sitting around a campfire at night
I really enjoyed this CP. There are a few more artwork I would like to scent and I will do that randomly!
Starry Night is my favourite Van Gogh painting (with Crows Over Cornfield a close second). Great pick ????
love this!
Yes! As I was looking through Van Gogh’s pictures, I saw this one and thought, “Nuit Etoilee would be perfect for it”.
Well played! Difficult to imagine there being a better match for the painting!
(His brush strokes never fail to really grab me.)
Heh, I had considered that match for today also! Great minds think alike. ????
Good morning everyone,
As a young teenager, I had a poster of Raoul Dufy in my room – I think it may have been this one:
http://kerrisdalegallery.com/print/dufy-le-casino-de-nice/dr110ph-raoul-dufy_le-casino-de-nice-1934/
I’d like to think I bought this poster in Paris, but I think it’s much more likely I picked it up in a poster shop in my home town.
Next to the Dufy, I had a huge poster of this guy who I thought was the most handsome man who ever walked the earth (likely bought in the same poster shop):
https://www.allposters.ie/-sp/THE-RED-AND-THE-BLACK-Le-Rouge-et-le-Noir-Gerard-Philipe-1954-posters_i9918276_.htm
….but since this was many years ago, I paired my fragrance with this painting by Dufy:
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/raoul-dufy-1038
Safran Troublant – I wanted something with a gourmand, non floral vibe and hot weather capability and this is the only thing I have that matches that. Were it not for the calones in it, Weekend by Nicolai would be a super match.
Happy Friday!
I love the way Dufy applies paint and washes with such a light, free and expressive hand. What happened to Gerard Philippe?
I gave away my painting choice yesterday, but here is another beautiful Zurbarán that would make for an interesting challenge in a perfume pairing:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Francisco_de_Zurbarán_-_Cup_of_Water_and_a_Rose_on_a_Silver_Plate_-_WGA26060.jpg.
For the one I chose, “Still Life with Lemons, Oranges, and a Rose,” I’m wearing the cool bracing Agua de Sevilla for women, which I did indeed buy in Sevilla. Just sharpish orange/lemon/orange blossom, great for the tremendous heat I experienced during that August visit there. I remember my friend and I were sitting in a cafe under the (omnipresent) orange trees when one fat orange fell off the tree and almost bonked her on the head. We decided to open it up and taste it, and omg–bitter as bitter could be. They only market them to the Brits to make orange marmalade. But despite the heat exhaustion, the churches and museums there were transcendent especially for a Spanish baroque art-lover like myself.
Beautiful painting. I bet it is even more wonderful in real life
I love all his paintings but I must admit that some of them go too far in the religious nuttiness direction. He has a lot of monks, saints, martyrs, etc.
Today’s SOTD is Niki de st Phalle vintage extrait, artist is Niki de st Phalle’s works from The Galerie Mitterrand in Paris.
http://galeriemitterrand.com/en/expositions/presentation/79/nanas-60s-90s
Well I mean that is just a perfect pairing.
Thanks!
I’ve been waiting for this all week!
Can’t really do better than that (and both the scent and the scultures make me smile).
Whistler is one of my favorite artists. I wanted to wear something that represents his ‘Nocturne in Black and Gold,’ but the fragrance I had in mind is just too heavy for spring temps. Instead, I chose Fantin-Latour’s ‘Narcissus’ (https://goo.gl/images/rax7WU), inspired by the paperwhites growing in my neighbor’s front garden. I matched it with DSH Perfumes’ new spring fragrance Paper White, which I tested and immediately bought during a visit to Dawn’s studio 2 weeks ago. Cleverly, it’s a green narcissus fragrance that also contains a rice paper accord. The rice paper and sandalwood notes are neatly balanced against the narcissus, to make it green, yet slightly powdery. What’s really unexpected is that it dries down to a green chypre, thanks to a generous dose of oakmoss. It’s quite a difference fragrance from Ostara, Fleur de Narcisse, or even Au Dela. I’m really loving it; a perfect green spring fragrance. HAGW, all!
I almost paired something with that painting this week but was never in the mood for a narcussus perfume. Narcissus is part of the Seattle Art Museum collection (that’s where I live).
I can’t wait to try that DSH one of these days.
Fantin-Latour is another of my favourite painters!
My favorite artwork is Marc Chagall’s America Windows. The size, light, and feeling of that piece always grabs my soul. The picture linked doesn’t do them justice, but the explanation is really neat.
http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/Chagall
My perfume pairing is Eau des Merveilles.
My heart is very heavy today. I just wish there could be more peace.
That artwork must be impressive irl!
Chagall’s work is magical, I love it.
And you smell great!
And I agree, we totally need more peace
You smell just lovely.☮️
I love those windows (and it’s a great pairing).
Perfect.
I’m pairing Tam Dao with https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/55733
It’s not the subject of the print that matches the scent so much as that it’s a wood block, and I imagine the wood smelled beautiful and rich as the artist was carving it. This is probably my favorite Hiroshige.
Love Tam Dao- you smell wonderful!
Thanks! Tam Dao was my first niche purchase. I remember feeling like I had made a secret discovery.
Fantastic image!
great image..really powerful
I love Hiroshige and planned to match one of his prints, but didn’t have anything to go with the ones I picked.
Pairings of any kind are hard for me: I do not see one type of something through another. But I tried.
Aivazovsky Among the Waves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Among_waves.jpg). I saw it many years ago at the gallery in his home town. It is impressive on its own but also I am in awe knowing that the painter was 80 when he did this one (and it’s a huge painting – almost 3m x 4 m). Also, the story has it that initially the painting had a boat in the middle of it but the painter removed it in response to some critical remark from the early viewer).
Perfume I’m paring it with is Antonia’s Flowers Sogni del Mare (Dreams of the Sea).
Have a good weekend, everyone!
Good pairing!
Sotd is Le Couvent des Minimes Eau Sereine. This art installation at the 9/11 Memorial Museum is quite moving-
https://www.911memorial.org/blog/look-museum’s-memorial-hall
Hope the link works. Wishing all who are weary find hope and peace today.
Thanks for the link, and the wish.
Busy day so didn’t have much time to think about the CP in relation to my SOTD which is the pretty, but fleeting ELDO Yes I Do. Dumb name.
This print hung in my bedroom growing up and I loved it.
https://goo.gl/images/xYxwjK
Something was always comforting about it. But I’d venture to say that these Victorian women better suited the Don’t Get Me Wrong, Baby… name this scent used to have.
Ha!! I would venture to say that you are right!????
Is it the same scent or have they tinkered with it? I really like I don’t… and haven’t tried the replacement yet.
I think they just changed the name? It’s the same note list.
Wearing Douceur de Siam, and it is like a sketch on a Buddha Board: lovely but fleeting…
You smell wonderful. I did not have longevity issues.
I’m wearing Tubéreuse Criminelle which I can’t seem to link to any work of art at all. Still a stunning fragrance and together with ISM and Sarrasins my first bell jars.
I might be being a bit too literal, but what about http://www.thedoradoproject.com/exhibitions/2016/7/14/rob-ventura-les-fleurs-du-mal or http://www.elsinoregallery.com/product/les-fleurs-du-mal-by-paul-griffitts-original-fractal-artwork ? Regardless, you small lovely.
Oh, those are both magical!
https://artsearch.nga.gov.au/detail.cfm?irn=15552
One of my favourite artists is the NZ born, Australian artist Rosalie Gascoigne. She started exhibiting at the age of 57. She was an assemblage and installation artist and she had an incredible eye for colour and form ( hard to see in photos). She used domestic pieces ( chipped crockery, lino flooring, ) and also things linked to an Australian vernacular: rusted corrugated iron, weathered timber, gum trees, road signs). Her work was beautiful and modest but it was also a bit nostalgic and peaceful. I visited her once and she lived in Canberra in a small house and everywhere were small ‘doodles’ of arrangements: white pebbles in bowls, red leaves, tins of pencils. I would match her with a Jean Claude Ellena perfume, one of the jardin series…maybe one with pear notes
Oh I love that sculpture!
Ooh, that is a wonderful piece! Wow, the colors, the form, the materials—just like you said!! …And thanks for sharing the description of her house. I can picture the ‘doodles’.
Thank you for introducing me to a fascinating artist I’d not seen before–I just spent a very happy chunk of morning looking through her work.
This project is book-worthy.
I saw this painting many years ago — turned a corner in the gallery and there it was: so large and colorful and alive that I almost felt I’d been smacked. https://www.wikiart.org/en/franz-marc/large-lenggries-horses-1908
Habit Rouge today, that’s as equestrian as I can get.
That sunny,dusty orange blossom in Habit Rouge is a perfect match with the colors of that painting!Love the pairing!
I think we have a big red horse by him in the Houston Museum–I like that one a lot too.
I bet this one was sooo much more impressive in real life! But still, it’s magical – thank you for sharing!
SSS Jour Ensoleille. I’m sure there’s a matching painting out there, but it’s not happening for me to today!
I recently thought about the fragrances I’d wear (or will wear!) to see “Heavenly Bodies” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute!
https://perfumeprofessor.net/2018/05/10/what-to-wear-perfumes-for-the-mets-heavenly-bodies-show/
how about in the garden of good and evil!
See that exhibit this weekend.
Wonderful article, thank you for linking for us.
Really enjoyed your article. Thanks!
Loved your post and the matches you made! I’m off to London soon and plan to see the exhibit at the V&A “Fashioned from Nature”, https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/fashioned-from-nature, so maybe I’ll come home with a whole new set of inspirations for blogging! I’m almost done with my May Muguet Marathon.
Woo, today rules! It’s Friday, it’s my birthday, and this week’s project is right in my wheelhouse.
I had a good stock of choices for today from the museum items I’ve been fortunate enough to see or handle. I ended up choosing Shalimar as a match for one of my absolute favorite pieces, this wonderful figured ostracon:
http://petriecat.museums.ucl.ac.uk/detail.aspx
While a lotus scent would be an obvious choice, an oriental perfume would also be appropriate. I liked the idea of reflecting the various elements in the image: the monkey, the lotus, and the fragrance/incense cone. Shalimar has a great mix of floral/vegetal, animalic, and incense facets. There’s also a bit of an ode to Egyptian fragrances, which were either made with oils/animal fats or burned as incense.
Have a lovely weekend, you fantastic NSTers!!!
Ugh, if that bookmark doesn’t work, just enter UC15946 into the search box to see the ostracon.
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Love the piece you have selected. Have a very happy birthday!
It’s such a charming little thing. I’ve stared in awe and admiration at all manner of Egyptian art and architecture, but looking at this and thinking about the artist/scribe painting it always brings me joy.
I had never heard of ostracon so have spent a happy morning reading about them. Thanks!
I looked it up!
Very cool…
Shalimar seems fitting for that image..
Figured ostraca are a fun group of objects. With a few exceptions, they weren’t intended as ‘finished’ pieces. They were generally practice sketches, and some were more like ‘doodles’.
Happy Scented Birthday, Creosote! ???? ????
Happy birthday!!
Hope it is a birthday to match your perfume, Creosote!
Happy birthday!! Enjoy!
Thanks for the kind wishes, you guys!!!
Happy birthday!
Great art choice. Yesterday something had me wondering if there is a “god of perfume.” Google says it is Nefertem from Egypt, he has a lotus on his head.
SOTD was Parfumerie Générale “Felanilla”, worn because inoffensive rather than for any resemblance to a picture. Notes are iris, amber, hay, saffron, vanilla and banana leaf.
Yesterday I was down in London for an evening networking event and today I had planned a casual coffee meeting with a friend and contact in a big consultancy to which I am affiliated. It unexpectedly turned into an interview for a potential new contract, so I was slightly rueful to have rocked up in a blue check suit and pink Hawaiian shirt, as that is not, shall we say, “traditional consulting gear”. Anyway the chat was fine and I’ll pop up to Manchester next week to meet the people and see if we can work together. Also next week I’ll be talking about another possible contract back in Düsseldorf, while technically I am still in the running for the Barcelona gig, but the decision process there is dragging on and I need to be working soon, so as an opportunity it’s fading away.
I am enjoying the (mostly) good weather and doing a reasonable job of avoiding the major news stories which seem either grim or preposterous or both.
Hey good for you on all the opportunities! I have no doubt, you are charming enough that it doesn’t matter what you are wearing. Good luck with everything!
Thanks Lillyjo! At least I looked coordinated… :^D
I envy those who avoid the news..you must sleep better at night!
Good luck with everything
Thanks LTSG!
Good luck with your meetup next week!
Grim and/or preposterous indeed. I appreciate your perspective.
Thank you for mentioning Birmingham in reply to my other comment.
That is a city that is just not on my radar, and it looks there is other interesting stuff to see/do.
I really need to visit UK again soon, i just realised its been too long. Last time was a trip to Edinburgh…6 years ago, argh!
It’s not a top tier city and there is so much else to see in this world. But it’s one of the top places for the Pre-Raphaelites, has invested many millions in regeneration, and you have Warwick Castle, Shakespeare’s Stratford-on-Avon and Dr. Johnson’s Lichfield Cathedral practically on the doorstep. :^)
Thanks for your good wishes!
..and i wish you good luck in your hunt for a contract!
This has been a fabulous project, I have discovered so many amazing things by following your links, although I’ve been sadly unfocused and unimaginative myself. It’s Saturday morning here and I’m shortly heading out to a fabric sale. I need more sewing fabric in the same way as I need more perfume, that is not at all, but I can’t resist the temptation. The sale is a fundraiser held twice a year, and you never know what you might find. In the hope of luring out interesting old fabrics, I’ll wear Sortilège – I have the new version, not an actual vintage, but it seems appropriate.
Isn’t it fun (and fascinating) to see the variety of pieces NSTers know and like?
Hope you found some good fabrics!
Enjoy your fabric shopping, my mum made many of her clothes and my clothes when I was young. I have lots of happy memories of fabric sales, hiding under the tables, getting lost in the maze of stacks. And the smell of cotton and dye.
I feel the same way about perfume and yarn, don’t need more and can’t stop accumulating it. I decided to knit a sweater using only yarn from my stash. Well, lo and behold, I’m three skeins into the project and yesterday realized I would need a fourth. So did I toss the stash and look for something that I could make do, or did I buy more yarn? Of course I bought more. SIGH.
I don’t like to bring everyone down but I have to comment on the latest school shooting which is in our area, Santa Fe just south of Houston on the way down to Galveston. The images are so heartbreaking. I have had my TV on all day and keep trying to tear myself away. There have been some good speeches (even by Senator Cruz) but still not enough emphasis on GUN CONTROL. I can see every our local newscasters and one doctor interviewed are near breaking down as they think about their own kids. It just cannot keep happening like this!
It is horrific.
It is very hard, but I have to remind people that we cannot really debate gun control here.
Robin, let me just say that I love you for your grace here.
Well, today I just had to put on a little bit of Delrae Emotionnelle. It seemed kind of like this.
https://www.wikiart.org/en/claude-monet/still-life-with-melon
If you put too much on, however, you might get this reaction from others.
https://www.wikiart.org/en/edvard-munch/the-scream-1893
Hope these can be accessed; something doesn’t look quite right!
LOL — excellent!
Thanks for the laugh with link#2! I needed it!
Another grey day, but there has been a break in the rain for while today. I’ll take it.
SOTD = Tauer Lonesome Rider, from the sample stash. The art to go with it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bronco_Buster#/media/File:BroncoBusterRemingtonSculpture.png
That right thar is a darned perfect match! I like Remington sculptures a lot.
What is this “rain” thing of which you speak? I’m not familiar with it.????
Ayup! Sure nuff is. There is another artist who is roughly contemporary with Remington, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, whose works have a similar feel to them.
Yeah, I’ve heard about the current weather issues in NM. I don’t envy you all those red flag warnings one bit.
I was in the National Art Gallery at the end of April. I saw Fragonard’s Blind Man’s Buff of which I had a framed print back in the ’80’s. My perfume to match is my all -time favourite: Jessica McClintock.
Great match of painting to perfume! I really like Jessica McClintock too — hardly surprising, as I like most fragrances with a focus on lily of the valley. I reviewed it on my own blog this month during my “May Muguet Marathon” and was reminded how good it really is.
Dear Old Herbaceous, I’m so glad to have found you here. I’m heading out quickly to watch the Royal Wedding with a friend and I am wearing my Jessica which I wore to my own wedding. Can’t wait to have the time to read your fabulous blog. Love it!
Celestia
L’ Artisan Parfumeur Oeillet Sauvage for me, with the painting Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose; a picture of the painting is in this post: https://scentsandsensibilities.co/2017/10/13/fragrance-friday-carnation-lily-lily-rose/
Beautiful scent and painting, I love them both.
I am INTJ too. Thanks for the link to your blog. I added you to my feedly.