I would be bored out of my mind when so many other aspects of Planet Perfume are so fascinating. For another, words – even fragrant words – havepower. Since the advent of social media, more power than I ever anticipated when I thought out loud this summer on TAG aboutPlanet Perfume,...
Attar: Attar is the English form ofitr, the Arabic word for fragrance or perfume. A traditional attar is made from the distilled essence of floral or other fragrance materials in a base of oil, often sandalwood. Traditional attars are made from natural materials, and do not contain added alc...
Perfume, the English word perfume is derived from two Latin words, per, meaning through, and fumus, meaning smoke (the English words fuming and fumes, meaning burning and smoking, are from the same "fume" as in perfume). While perfume literally means through the smoke, it has come to ...
The word "perfume" comes from two Latin words per, meaning "through" and fume, meaning "smoke". This suggests one early way of creating a sweet smell was by burning fragrant woods. Perfumes have certainly been used for thousands of years. Archaeologists who opened King Tutankhamen's tomb ...
Lucy Gordon, a rising British actress whose biggest claim to fame was a minor role inSpider-Man 3, was found dead of an apparent suicide in her Paris apartment Wednesday—two days before her 29th birthday. Per French police, Gordon hanged herself while her boyfriend was sleeping. No word wh...
When I was given the next word for Scent Semantics, I knew precisely which perfume to write about. The Seismic Shift that was, and indeed is,Spiritueuse Double Vanillefrom Guerlian’s L’Art et La Matière line of perfumes, created by Jean Paul Guerlain in 2007. ...
Bay, which takes its name from the Anglo-Saxon word for “crown”, was one of the few to grow and was made into crowns for returning generals, as perfume itself was either too scarce or too expensive. They also put bay leaves into their baths to not only perfume them but soothe tired...
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by the Divine SA. I had a sample of L'Inspiratrice for a while, tried it and didn't like it, so I was not interested in his wares. Going through my box(es) of samples the other day, I found the little vial and decided to give it another shot. ...
Here’s another one. The only disclaimer is that anything I review on these pages is usually something I bought myself, or was gifted, unless I tell you otherwise. And of course, that my attempts at grasping the ethereal, the ephemeral are here for the taking, the commenting. I can...