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L'Artisan Parfumeur Bana Banana (1976 / 2019): The Scent of a Costume at the Folies Bergères {New Fragrance}
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Serge Lutens L'Innommable is Latest Release in Skyscraper Collection (2018) {New Fragrance}
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Serge Lutens Le Participe Passe (2018) {New Fragrance}
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Chanel Paris - Venise, Paris - Deauville & Paris - Biarritz (2018) {Perfume Review & Musings}
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L'Artisan Parfumeur Champ de Baies (2018) {Perfume Review & Musings in English & French}
The new Champ de Baies by l'Artisan Parfumeur smells like a long, musky melopeia. It is heavy, silent and voluntarily unilinear in its structure. The blackberry / cassis inflects the musk with its tart, green and fruity nuances. There... -
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L'Artisan Parfumeur Champ de Fleurs (2018) {Perfume Review & Musings in English & French}
The new Champ de Fleurs by l'Artisan Parfumeur offers the delightful crispness with green accents of springtime flowers emerging from a black, cold arable earth. It is as if you smelled and saw them encased in ice thanks to... -
How to Make the Snow Melt // Comment faire fondre la neige {Paris Street Photography & Poetry}
How to Make the Snow Melt // Comment faire fondre la neige © Chant Wagner 2018 How to Make the Snow Melt // Comment faire fondre la neige If in the first hours of spring, you are seeing snow,... -
Happy International Day of Happiness // Joyeuse Journée Internationale du Bonheur {Paris Street Photography}
A Version of Happiness // Une version du bonheur © Chant Wagner 2018 You can be happy every day, but you can show happiness on #InternationalDayofHappiness, one of the most unfair celebrations in the world...... -
Jo Malone Cologne Intense Jasmine Sambac & Marigold (2018) {New Fragrance}
British perfume house Jo Malone, part of the Estée Lauder cos inc. since 1999, will launch a new unisex perfume from April 2018 called Jasmine Sambac & Marigold, which is inspired by the scents of a floral market in... -
Waiting for Spring - Opening Act // L'attente du printemps - 1ere partie de concert {Paris Street Photography}
Waiting for Spring - Opening Act // L'attente du printemps - 1ère partie de concert © Chant Wagner 2018 In an alley way, rows of chairs and flowers were nearly facing each others giving you the sense that the... -
Parisian Landscape // Paysage parisien {Paris Street Photography}
Parisian Landscape // Paysage parisien © Chant Wagner 2018 This view was taken from a bus. Since the windows are tinted green, it colors the landscape slightly, which otherwise exhibits the palette of grays and beiges, which is so... -
Cartier Declaration Parfum // How to be Acceptably Indecorous (2018) {Perfume Review & Musings}
The tenets of the original Déclaration have been preserved, and in particular, the cardamom + cedarwood accord, with a cedar that's now amplified in its creamy-powderiness, its cake-likeness, its sing-song sweetness and let's face it - its frontal dirtiness......
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