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A mild-mannered, subdued floral

Posted by Robin on 4 October 2021 Leave a Comment

When it comes to Lopez’s One, [Tania] Sanchez notes that “J Lo is actually the stealth Madonna, because she's been on trend the entire time she has been working”. The new fragrance is what she terms a mild-mannered, subdued floral – not the glitzy loud scents one would associate with the Lopez of Hustlers or 'Jenny from the Block'. “If you put this in an Hermès bottle and gave it to me and said it was their latest launch I would probably believe you,” she confesses.

—  Read more in Are celebrity fragrances making a comeback? at Harper's Bazaar UK.

Why you’re wearing perfume at home with your cat

Posted by Robin on 6 August 2021 6 Comments

If you’re an introvert, though, you may be hard-pressed to explain why you’re wearing perfume at home with your cat.

Psychologist Carl Jung first popularized the terms “introvert” and “extrovert” to describe inner-directed people, as opposed to those of whom Barbra Streisand sang, “People who need people / Are the luckiest people in the world.” And they are. American life—that includes school, business, and even religion—prizes extroverts. Yet introverts too splash on fragrance. I know because I am one. I’ve also spent my entire adult life deep in perfume obsession, first as a collector, then as a blogger, then as an author translated and published around the world.

— Tania Sanchez, in Scents and Sensitivity at Harper's Bazaar. Hat tip to Kevin!

East of where

Posted by Robin on 27 May 2021 2 Comments

Orient comes from a word meaning ‘East’. The question is, East of where? In this case, France, where the perfume genre was born. This vague, ever exoticized, mysterious Orient includes the Persian Iran of the carpets, the Taj Mahal of Shalimar, and what is sometimes called the Far East. It’s far from France, at least. China and Iran have little in common except their East-ness from Europe.

— Tania Sanchez on the use of the term "oriental" to describe the fragrance family. Read more in Why Are We Still Describing Perfumes as Oriental? at Harper's Bazaar.

A whole new world

Posted by Robin on 26 December 2018 2 Comments

We actually got rather burned out on perfume after we wrote the first guide where we reviewed about 1,800 perfumes more, so we weren't paying very much attention for a few years. And when we looked back at the department stores, it was absolutely amazing what had changed. When we wrote the guide in 2007, celebrity perfume was all the rage, and a lot of things were discontinued, changing, things didn't smell the same. ... We were really depressed about it. And then when we went back to the shops, suddenly it was a whole new world of niche perfume...

— Tania Sanchez talks to NPR's Marketplace. Read the transcript, or listen to the radio spot, at What's that smell? A rise in "perfume culture".

The daily lemming

Posted by Robin on 31 July 2018 68 Comments

Perfumes The Guide 2018, by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez, promises over 1200 new perfume reviews: "Ten years later they bring their inimitably passionate, erudite perspective back to the hugely changed world of fragrance, to sort out which of over 1,200 new individual perfumes deserves celebration (and which condemnation)." Available at Amazon in Kindle ($9.20) or Paperback ($16.99).

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