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fragrances
evoke a season, a person, a moment
this- a fragrance and flower I could never fore go in the summer
"that was the moment I first saw the lilies. and that was the moment when, having seen them,I mentally signed the contract to buy the house...I had to possess those lilies...The lilies were a variety known as Regale, and they stood in rows of glistening white down the whole length of one side of the kitchen garden.a faint breeze was stirring, & as they nodded their heads there drifted towards us a most exquisite fragrance.never before, in any garden of the world, have I seen such lilies; their loveliness was literally dazzling;the massed array of the white blossom was like sunlit snow. nor was this shining, shimmering beauty merely the result of mass, for as I walked closer I saw that each individual blossom was a perfect specimen, with a stem that was often four feet high, bearing on its proud summit no less than a dozen blossoms." BEVERLY NICHOLS
"Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it." Patrick Suskind
Hermes here
Diptyque here
the Style Saloniste writes about Coup de Foudre by DelRae Roth here
Read the extraordinary post by Hawkwood about the sitter of Breitner's painting here
Rose C'est La Vie draws violets here
a Tobacco History here
Tobacco warehouse image here
the Esoteric Curiosa on the Baroness here
LUXE APOTHECARY here from Voluspa candles here
Fiquet Bailey on green here
Dissey & Piver label, 18th c. cabinet images from The Book of Perfume,by Barille & Laroze
Das Perfum by Patrick Suskind here
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image from Hawkwood here
"Let a noise or a scent, once heard or once smelt, be heard or smelt again... & immediately the permanent &
habitually concealed essence of things is liberated & our true self which seemed to be dead but was not altogether dead, is awakened & reanimated." PROUST
what fragrance moves you?
why?
why?
photograph by Eugene Atget, around 1910
my perfume cabinet
fragrances
evoke a season, a person, a moment
violets ~
Viola odorata
my GranMa carried a violet bouquet at her wedding, Dec. 1918
the smell of violet, hidden in green
the smell of violet, hidden in green
pour'd back into my empty soul & frame
the times when I remember to have been
Joyful & free from blame-Tennyson
in the cabinet, Napoleon Bonaparte presides
as candle by CIRE TRUDON
candle maker to the French Royals since 1643
why should we settle for one signature scent?
the scents that say summer for me-
a rose- a bouquet of violets- rows of tuberose- tobacco- lily
my grandparents had a field of tuberose each summer
Polianthes tuberosa
the scents that say summer for me-
a rose- a bouquet of violets- rows of tuberose- tobacco- lily
Polianthes tuberosa
tuberose is night-flowering-the Aztecs called it bone flower
Tokyo Milk fragrances
(click on each fragrance to read the contents)
Poe's Tobacco No.1
Contemplation No.7
Waltz No.14
Ex Libris No.16
(click on each fragrance to read the contents)
Poe's Tobacco No.1
Contemplation No.7
Waltz No.14
Ex Libris No.16
NICOTIANA
the overwhelming heady scents of a tobacco warehouse
a constant summer memory for me- en masse, or
the sweet remains of the day on my father's collar
Scents & Buddha
from diptyque- L'Ombre Dans l'Eau
from diptyque- L'Ombre Dans l'Eau
from Hermes 24, Faubourg
Hermes Eau de Pamplemousse Rose
summery citrus with rose notes
George Trumper Extract of West Indies Lime
a favorite of Pauline de Rothschild so says Mitchell Owens-de Rothschild expert
Pauline de Rothschild
photograph here
BELLE FLEUR ~MAYAN TUBEROSE
a heady single note
around the house, Candles, Diffusers
in summer I prefer a single note floral, or lemon
in summer I prefer a single note floral, or lemon
AGRARIA~ LEMON VERBENA
CITRUSY fragrances in any form are summer favorites
inexpensive & addicting-
this- a fragrance and flower I could never fore go in the summer
Lilium Regale, drooping their heavy heads
my own in the garden
Fumée d'Ambre Gris
John Singer Sargent
& Incense
ESTEBAN ~CEDRE
the only one I use year round.
ESTEBAN ~CEDRE
the only one I use year round.
Eau d' Teou
by Dissey & Piver
a label for the perfumer with Chinese figures & a dressing cabinet
my perfume cabinet is in the bedroom
a rare perfume cabinet made of marquetry from the 18th century used for traveling
from the Natural History Museum in Paris
Hermes here
Diptyque here
the Style Saloniste writes about Coup de Foudre by DelRae Roth here
Read the extraordinary post by Hawkwood about the sitter of Breitner's painting here
Rose C'est La Vie draws violets here
a Tobacco History here
Tobacco warehouse image here
the Esoteric Curiosa on the Baroness here
LUXE APOTHECARY here from Voluspa candles here
Fiquet Bailey on green here
Dissey & Piver label, 18th c. cabinet images from The Book of Perfume,by Barille & Laroze
Das Perfum by Patrick Suskind here
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