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Scent-ences from the Smelly Interwebs
From the hidden corners of all things perfumed in media, here’s your weekly CM roundup of goings-on from the mad, mad world of fragrances and beyond: (??) Some new and noteworthy nose candy for the nasally inclined. In this week’s scented sagas…
—Thanks to the Institute for Art and Olfaction, CM took a little something called Nothing 2 See out to Los Angeles’s Hammer Museum and the results included hours of people lining up just to stick their noses in our boxes…Find out why…
[Recapping LA Adventures & AIX Scent Fair | Charenton Macerations]
—Speaking of AIX Recaps… Basenotes’ Deadidol was also on site for the Art and Olfaction Awards. The write-up even includes a little shout out to CM’s upcoming “sandy beige” launch, Eye, Hatshepsut. (In unrelated nonsense, Sandy Beige would be an excellent drag name.) Head over to Basenotes now for an alternative take on the weekend…
[An Overview of the 3rd Annual Institute for Art and Olfaction Awards | Basenotes]
Photo Credit: AIX Scent Fair, Hammer Museum
—While at the AIX Scent Fair, I was eagerly anticipating getting a whiff of the latest little Surrealist experiment from Bruno Fazzolari and Antonio Gardoni: Cadavre Exquis. Yay for Bretonian parlor games. Check out Scenthurdle’s first impressions of the exclusive olfactory back-and-forth here…
[Cadavre Exquis, 2016 | Scenthurdle]
—Briefly met Andy Tauer while in LA, too. As a longtime admirer of his writing and work, it was brilliant to finally be able to connect with the man himself. Enjoy reading some little playtime musings with Mr. Tauer here…
[Playtime Creations | Tauer Perfumes Blog]
—And speaking of awards… Congratulations to Colognoisseur’s Mark Behnke on his recent well deserved Perfumed Plume win. Always looking ahead, he’s using that energy to draw attention to the importance of transparency in these olfactive proceedings in his latest editorial…
[The Importance of Transparency | Colognoisseur]
—More post-AIX Scent Fair, event speaker Avery Gilbert is back at First Nerve with the latest details from the Jay Z-Parlux lawsuit. Still wondering whatever happened to the mysterious fourth license that was part of the original Jay-RiRi-Ye deal but… let the countersuing commence… Who’s bringing the lemonade?
[Parlux vs. Jay Z: Why does a celebrity stop promoting his own fragrance? | First Nerve]
—On the topic of controversy and fragrance… Bois de Jasmin’s Victoria Frolova takes on the subject of Orientalism and Western olfactive fantasizing of the East in a scented snippet from the Financial Times. Especially loving her non-preservational point regarding Shalimar…
[Scents of the east | Financial Times]
—Always good for some additional controversial words, perfumer Francis Kurkdjian is back for another round with Persolaise …
[“An Easy Subject To Lie About” – An Exclusive Interview With Francis Kurkdjian | Persolaise]
—“How do you make sense of a scent? What makes a good perfume?” Denyse Beaulieu of Grain de Musc heads to Paris for a couple of fragrance history teaching gigs in June (à la française). Part of the Versailles School of Perfumery’s “French Touch” Summer School program…
[Join me at ISIPCA’s Summer School | Grain de Musc]
—Finally, Luca Turin is venting… “There is a basic distinction between the sublime and the beautiful [in fragrance]. The sublime is natural beauty, i.e. rose, lemon oil, oud, musk etc. The beautiful is what you do with it.” (Note to self: learn to be this eloquent when venting…)
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That’s all for now folks. See you back here next week for more from the mad world of olfaction.
Until then…
