The odour of the “clean” smelling detergent

Posted by Robin on 20 August 2020 2 Comments

That makes enduring the hauteur of his latest client, professional “nose” or fragrance designer Mademoiselle Anne Walberg (Emmanuelle Devos), all the more challenging given she expects him to not only drive and carry her luggage, but also help her change sheets at hotels because she can’t stand the odour of the “clean” smelling detergent they’ve used, and take notes for her while she analyses the smell of a cave that needs to be copied for a client.

— From a review of the 2019 French movie Les Parfums. Read more in Perfumes review – admirably refreshing French comedy-drama at The Guardian, or see the trailer below the jump…

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Lazy weekend poll ~ spring viewing list, episode 1

Posted by Robin on 21 March 2020 339 Comments

Saturday is International Fragrance Day and the International Day of Forests. Sunday is World Water Day. With so many of us stuck at home, though, this weekend’s poll is on a topic we usually only cover once a year, in the winter: visual media. (And we’ll do a spring reading poll soon, in April.) Tell us…

…what fragrance you’re wearing today?

…any great tv shows or movies you’ve discovered recently, and/or

…anything else fun you’ve been streaming to stay occupied (exercise videos? music? anything),

Or, as always, just talk about something else. And if you can think of anything else you’d like us to talk about in a weekend poll, do speak up…

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Lazy weekend poll ~ winter viewing list, episode 6

Posted by Robin on 4 January 2020 190 Comments

The weekend! Saturday is the 11th night of Christmas (pipers piping) and Sunday is Twelfth Night (drummers drumming) and National Bird Day. We’re marking all the occasions with the “visual media” version of our winter reading poll. Tell us…

…any great tv shows you’ve discovered recently, and/or

…any great movies you’ve seen lately, and

…of course, tell us the matching perfume(s)!

Or, as always, just talk about something else…

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Carrington Perfumes Forever Krystle ~ fragrance review

Posted by Angela on 13 May 2019 27 Comments

Last week, a good friend set a bottle of Carrington Perfumes Forever Krystle Eau de Toilette on my table. “I put it in the box to bring to you. Took it out, then put it back again. Here. Maybe you can find it a home.”

Years ago, I’d found the bottle of Forever Krystle at Goodwill and passed it to her when we were both deep into Dynasty reruns, even sometimes giving episodes our own Mystery Science Theater treatment.¹ I couldn’t remember the fragrance at all, but I did remember that Krystle wore Bal à Versailles…

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