Friday scent of the day 6/26

Posted by Robin on 26 June 2020 286 Comments

It’s the last Friday in June already! Our community project for today: wear a perfume by Une Nuit Nomade, Ulrich Lang, Vilhelm Parfumerie or Vero Profumo if you have one. Partial credit for any other small-ish brand that starts with the letters U or V.

What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.

I am not overwhelmed with choice for this community project, but I am smelling great in Vilhelm Parfumerie Don’t Tell Jasmine…

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Charm and knowledge

Posted by Robin on 26 June 2020 Leave a Comment

Tsefalas had the charm and knowledge to make any customer feel they were special. While a businessman, he never was a pushy salesman, instead handing out samples and giving recommendations after learning what impact a customer wanted to create with a fragrance.

— Chris Theodore Tsefalas of Portland's Perfume House has passed away at the age of 94. Read more in Perfume House founder Chris Tsefalas has died, leaving a legacy of class, charm and kindness at Oregon Live.

The daily lemming

Posted by Robin on 25 June 2020 18 Comments

Will Cire Trudon ever stop trolling me? I’ll take a few of the new L’Œuf diffusers, please (and a few rolls of that wallpaper shown in the background at right, while you’re at it). In biscuit porcelain with a satin-black turned wood base, available in the Ernesto, Abd el Kader and Cyrnos fragrances, and sold with 300 ml of the fragrance, $350. Below the jump, a video showing the production, and then below that, so long as we’re here, a video about Trudon’s partnership with the Orne Dark Bee Conservatory…

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