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5 Perfumes: Dressing Table Fragrances

Posted by Angela on 22 February 2016 97 Comments

Carole Lombard at her dressing table

Sometimes I want a glamorous perfume. I don’t mean a blatantly sexy fragrance, but one that oozes retro allure. Imagine Carole Lombard, swathed in silk charmeuse, warm from the bath, with bowls of roses in every room. That kind of perfume. I think of these fragrances as “dressing table” perfumes. They’re resolutely feminine and are usually dosed with rose, violet, iris, and powder. The best of them carry an animalic purr. They’d be right at home perched on a vintage dressing table with a postcard from a lover in Paris clipped to the mirror.

Here are five of my favorite dressing table perfumes. With each perfume, I add a dressing table accessory that suits it. In the comments, please share your favorite dressing table perfumes…

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Dita Von Teese Rouge and Erotique ~ fragrance review

Posted by Angela on 27 July 2015 19 Comments

Dita Von Teese Rouge and Erotique

Like drag queens, burlesque performers fascinate me. They’re courageous enough to flout convention and adopt a persona that isn’t accepted at P.T.A. meetings, and they do it all in front of an audience. Although they might perform simply for their own satisfaction, there’s a reason the house is full. Some us wish we had the guts to be ourselves in such an outrageous way.

Dita Von Teese is counting on it. Besides her first perfume, Dita Von Teese, she’s released three other fragrances playing on angles of her burlesque persona: Fleurteese, which I haven’t smelled; and Rouge and Erotique, which I review here. You may not want to put on a corset and dance in a giant martini glass, the fragrances seem to say, but give us a try for a taste of that feeling…

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Dita von Teese by Dita von Teese ~ perfume review

Posted by Jessica on 14 February 2014 26 Comments

Dita von Teese by Dita von Teese, fragrance advert

I happen to be a fan of the model and burlesque performer Dita von Teese; I like her retro style in fashion and grooming, as well as her highly stylized and seductive performances (at least, the bits I’ve seen online). She really does seem well-versed in the feminine style of the 1920s-50s, and she has occasionally mentioned her favorite perfumes in interviews: Love’s Baby Soft in her teen years, followed by Cacharel Lou Lou and Houbigant Quelques Fleurs.

Her first fragrance in her own line, released simply as Dita von Teese in 2011, was developed with perfumer Nathalie Lorson…

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I had this visual of this gorgeous rose bouquet held by a leather-gloved hand

Posted by Robin on 8 December 2013 9 Comments

Dita von Teese talks about her latest fragrance, Erotique, and poses for the fragrance ads. Probably NSFW. 

Dita Von Teese Erotique ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 6 September 2013 18 Comments

Dita von Teese Erotique

Burlesque model and actress Dita Von Teese will launch her fourth fragrance, Erotique, in October. Ms. Von Teese noted on Twitter that…

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