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Snippets: Details, chocolate

Posted by Robin on 27 November 2007 6 Comments

The "Holiday" issue of Details magazine stinks.

I mean that quite literally. It reeks. It is pungent with odor. This is because the magazine is stuffed with ads for cologne or perfume or parfum or whatever you call the stuff desperate guys swab on their bodies in the hopes of getting lucky.

— Columnist Peter Carlson of the Washington Post in Pungent Details: All It Needs Is an Atomizer. He'd better stay away from Allure.

At Coco of Bruntsfield in Edinburgh, Rebecca Knights-Kerswell’s bold and dramatic confections are fragrance-led. “One of the girls who works with me has a background in perfumery, so, for example, we made a jasmine chocolate that tastes as wonderful as it smells,” she says.

— From Food detective: The rich list in the UK Times Online (go to page 2, and look for the "Handmade chocolates" section).

Desire in Sunlight Chocolat Jasmin

Posted by Robin on 12 September 2007 40 Comments

Warning: this post is about food. If all you care about is perfume, come back tomorrow, when we'll almost certainly be talking about perfume again.

I think I've mentioned before that I like chocolate. I do. Very much. I've explored a few chocolate perfumes, but relatively few perfumed chocolates. Dagoba makes a lovely dark chocolate bar with lavender and blueberries, and perhaps that qualifies? But the Chocolat Parfumé line at Desire in Sunlight might be the closest I've come to blending my two biggest addictions…

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Hot Fudge Sundae from the Demeter Jelly Belly Collection ~ fragrance review

Posted by Robin on 30 May 2007 29 Comments

Demeter Jelly Belly Hot Fudge Sundae perfume

I like candy, but in general, I’m a chocolate kind of person. I love dark chocolate, the darker the better, but I’m not a snob about it: I also love Hot Fudge Pop-Tarts, and several other treats that might more properly be called “chocolate food product” than “chocolate”. Fruit candy doesn’t interest me at all — to eat or to wear as perfume — so the recently released Demeter Jelly Belly Collection didn’t seem like likely to wow me, and by and large, it didn’t. The fragrances are based on Jelly Belly recipes, which call for popping a specific group of flavored jelly beans into your mouth to produce the desired taste effect…

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Serendipitous by Serendipity 3 ~ fragrance review

Posted by Robin on 19 April 2007 25 Comments

Serendipity 3 Serendipitous perfume

Many thanks to everyone who listed their favorite chocolates* in the comments to yesterday’s post about Sonoma Scent Studio’s Bois Épicés. I ate a lot of chocolate last night while reading the recommendations, and I figured I might as well do a chocolate perfume today. Chocolate is used as an accent note in any number of fragrances, but chocolate “soliflores” (solifoods?) are relatively scarce. There is Aquolina Chocolovers, also Aftelier Cacao, the Temperare Chocolate trio by Yosh, Comptoir Sud Pacifique Amour de Cacao, and a handful of others. Serendipitous by Serendipity 3 is today’s subject; it features notes of cocoa, Tahitian vanilla and blood orange.

The ice cream parlour Serendipity 3 is something of a New York institution…

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Sonoma Scent Studio Bois Epices fragrance review, with a long tangent on comfort scents

Posted by Robin on 18 April 2007 39 Comments

Sonoma Scent Studio perfumes

We’ve featured an unusual number of mainstream designer fragrances here over the last month, so today we’re going all the way to the other end of the spectrum. Sonoma Scent Studio is the California-based indie perfume house of self-taught perfumer Laurie Erickson, and she is one of several small etailers who have gained a following on the fragrance forum at MakeupAlley. My favorite from the line is Bois Épicés, described as “soft, warm spices over a musk/wood base”, with notes of musk, sandalwood, nutmeg, cardamom, ginger, mandarin, cedar, cypress and coffee.

I suppose everyone has their own idea about what constitutes a comfort scent. There are fragrances that so extraordinarily soothing that they function almost like spray-on Valium (Diptyque Tam Dao, Comme des Garçons Kyoto) but that don’t quite qualify as comfort scents in my book. A comfort scent must be more than just soothing: it must be the perfume equivalent of putting on your favorite pair of beat-up jeans and a sweatshirt…

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