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Friday scent of the day 2/12

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five-star-s

Happy 5 Star Friday! Our community project for today: wear your favorite perfume ranked five stars by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez in Perfumes: the Guide or in Luca Turin’s Style Arabia columns. Partial credit for a four-star perfume!

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’m wearing Chanel Bois des Iles (which made a nice showing here over the last week), in not-quite-new but not-quite-vintage Extrait. Tania Sanchez: “It is basically perfect and, though over eighty years old, seems as ageless as everything Chanel did in those inventive years…”

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Friday scent of the day 2/5

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starfish

Happy 1 Star Friday! Our community project for today: wear your favorite perfume ranked only one star by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez in Perfumes: the Guide or in Luca Turin’s Style Arabia columns. Partial credit for a two-star perfume!

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’m wearing Serge Lutens Miel de Bois. Tania Sanchez: “smells like a New York sidewalk in July”, and yes, it does smell like that, especially in the early stages. I wouldn’t recommend it to any but the craziest of perfumistas.

Reminder: on 2/12 we’re doing 5 Star Friday…

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Enjoy

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I cannot imagine why a woman would want to smell like her soul has been scorched, unless she is a dentist’s assistant in white scrubs and clogs trying to convey the eradication of microscopic life forms.

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By then, if you sprayed this thing on just before going out, your taxi has arrived, while your fragrance already smells like you’re on the way home, and your mascara is all over the place. Enjoy.

— Luca Turin, on Miu Miu and Marc Jacobs Decadence, respectively. Catch up on his column at Style Arabia here.

A very fresh citrus but with an edge of nastiness

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Diorama (Edmond Roudnitska for Dior 1949): Mouret’s Rondeau

Cristalle (Henri Robert for Chanel 1974): Martinu’s Concerto for flute, violin and chamber orchestra Mvt 1

Apres L’Ondee (Jacques Guerlain 1906): Debussy’s Images ‘Reflet dans l’eau’ and ‘Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut’

— Those are the first three fragrance and music pairings chosen by Luca Turin for his recent appearance as the presenter on BBC's Saturday Classics radio program. You can hear them all at BBC Radio 3 (or scroll down on that page to read the complete list). It looks like the program will be online for about 5 more days; it's about 2 hours long. The title above refers to Chanel Cristalle. (found via India Knight at Twitter)

Folio Columns: 2003-2014 by Luca Turin ~ book review

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Folio Columns: 2003-2014 by Luca Turin

If I were Luca Turin (forget for a moment that this is a review of his book), I might start this article with a story seemingly unrelated to Folio Columns: 2003-2014. For example, maybe I’d tell you about standing at a confiserie window as a child, pondering the tiny green leaves or dot of red or praline flower adorning each bonbon and guessing at its relationship to the candy’s hidden center. Once you’d finished the article — which has nothing to do with chocolate, by the way — you’d understand that I’d delivered a curious, but apt, way to explore something entirely different.

Fans of Turin’s writing already know this roundabout way of addressing a subject. (They also know to expect a smattering of evocative metaphors as well as frequent references to classical music, scientific theory, and rare automobiles, no matter what the essay’s subject is.) If you enjoy Turin’s perfume reviews in his and Tania Sanchez’s Perfumes: the A-Z Guide for their style at least as much as their insight on fragrance, you’ll definitely want a copy of Folio Columns…

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