To me, chocolate tastes like biting into raw sewage, chicken is muddy and rubbery, peanut butter and Marmite are like trying to eat diarrhoea. There are a couple of exceptions: raspberries, carrots and parsnips don’t taste vile. Nor does gin, which really helps.
— Louise Woollam of Get Lippie talks to The Guardian about her experiences with anosmia, phantosmia and parosmia. Read more at Experience: everything smells like sewage to me.
Way back in 2008, Erin wrote a post called 5 Perfumes for: Gourmand Deniers. Her selection emphasized gourmands for people who are wary of gourmands; in her words, gourmands “that camouflage their intentions”. Like Erin, I don’t think of myself as a huge fan of sweet, dessert-based gourmands, although as time goes on I find more and more exceptions to the rule. Today, however, I’m thinking about an entirely different kind of gourmand. Here are five fragrances that smell like food without calling to mind the conventional offerings on a dessert tray.
Lush The Voice of Reason: If Dinner by Bobo were still on the market (and if it is, do comment), it would surely take top honors in any list of gourmand oddities, but as a reasonably meaty substitute I offer The Voice of Reason, which I described in my review as “rather alarmingly meaty”…
Terry de Gunzburg of By Terry will launch Terryfic Oud L’Eau and Terryfic Oud Extrême, two new flankers to 2013’s Terryfic Oud…
A quick animation for Guerlain's new La Petite Robe Noire Eau Fraîche.
It’s Spicy Friday! Our community project for today: wear a spicy fragrance. What did you pick?
As always, do chime in even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I’m in vintage Givenchy Organza Indecence. I smell pretty darned great. And yes, it’s still on the market. The full sized bottle is $95 for 100 ml.
Reminder: next Friday, 6 March, we’re celebrating International Women’s Day…