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Death and sex, entropy and excess

Posted by Robin on 17 May 2021 13 Comments

The scent, created by the legendary French parfumier Bernard Chant, was tangy, feral, and almost too naughty to wear to work, but this mildly transgressive quality was a big part of the appeal. The seventies were an unbridled and messy time, when loucheness was a life style born of postwar nihilism and economic decline. If the city was crumbling around you, why not smell like death and sex, entropy and excess? The new formula does not smell like these things. It cannot clear elevators or persist through a night of heavy dancing. It evaporates quickly and smells a little like soap. Still, I bought a bottle recently, because I knew that a new Netflix miniseries about Halston (called, simply, “Halston,”) was coming, and I wanted to turn my viewing experience into a kind of Smell-O-Vision. As it turns out, the synthetic, exasperating reformulation was a perfect match for watching the series.

— Read more in The Freeing Fashion Behind the Halston Saga at The New Yorker.

5 perfumes: At the Discounters

Posted by Erin on 11 April 2013 86 Comments

Kenzo Ca Sent BeauGeoffrey Beene Grey Flannel

Before I collected fragrance, my “hobby” (read: single-minded fixation) was used books. When I first started buying perfume, my husband rather encouraged the interest, because he thought it might distract me from my bibliophilia: he was tired of hauling dozens of very heavy boxes full of my dusty, smelly, fragile purchases each time we moved, and besides, how much perfume could one bluestocking wife buy?1 HA!

We still have many, many books about the apartment, including the out-of-print literary fiction and back issues of The Paris Review of those times. Reading the acknowledgements and writer interviews, I’ve noticed there are some authors so frequently mentioned as “underrated” that it’s a wonder how anyone manages to overlook them. Occasionally one will reach a critical mass of “underratedness” and then a clever publisher will reissue a handsome series of books from his or her back catalog, hopefully while the writer can still enjoy the attention and royalties. Just as I was starting this post2, I found out one of my favorite authors, Evan S. Connell, died in January, in Santa Fe, New Mexico; if you know his work, you’ll join me in a moment of silence for a great literary stylist who long toiled in relative obscurity. Luckily, in recent years Connell had his revival and much of his fiction and non-fiction has been reissued, including a book I think would find an appreciative audience here, The Connoisseur. While I was delighted to see Connell recognized with glossy new editions, there are some books best encountered among the overflowing shelves and random piles of a good used bookstore, and The Connoisseur is one of them. Any fragrance nut will recognize the path to obsession charted by Connell’s recurring protagonist Karl Muhlbach: the chance find of a fascinating thingy, the curious way time and space collapse as the new interest is researched and money is spent, and the hungry and vaguely alarming welcome one is given by more experienced collectors…

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Halston Woman Amber & Man Amber ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 29 July 2010 23 Comments

Halston Amber Woman & Amber Man

Halston has launched Halston Woman Amber and Halston Man Amber:

Woman Amber ~ “A sophisticated Oriental fragrance, Halston Woman Amber is a hypnotic blend of the most precious Ambers…”

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Halston Woman & Halston Man ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 1 July 2009 35 Comments

Halston Woman perfume 2009

Halston will update their iconic Halston for Women (1975) and Halston Z-14 for Men (1976) fragrances with the new Halston Woman (shown above) and Halston Man. The Halston fragrance license, which has passed hands several times, is currently held by Elizabeth Arden, and the fashion brand is hoping to find new life under recently appointed creative director Marios Schwab…

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Perfume in the news: Nascar & Mom

Posted by Robin on 12 March 2006 7 Comments

Eau de Nascar, in the New York Times, discusses the new Daytona 500 fragrance and all the other items being marketed to Nascar fans, ranging from crock pots to Harlequin romance novels. Thanks to Ruth for the link! Elsewhere in the Times, Chandler Burr, who says "I'd rather wear paint thinner than most men's cologne", picks four worthy new releases (scroll down to "Scent of a Man").

And in the London Times, read columnist Bethan Cole's All about my mother, starting with "the drift of amber breath that was Halston’s signature fragrance..."

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