tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922907157797061660.post1100137661527658817..comments2024-03-28T10:30:51.283+01:00Comments on Grain de musc: 2012, the year of the perfume bookcarmencanada /Grain de Muschttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04046101625425953248noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922907157797061660.post-13639412261978421382023-01-23T15:26:07.126+01:002023-01-23T15:26:07.126+01:00This is really an awesome article. Thank you for s...This is really an awesome article. Thank you for sharing this.It is worth reading for everyone.<br /><a href="https://www.ahsanfragrances.com/attar" rel="nofollow">Attar Online | Best Attar Perfume Price for Men and Women</a>Bhavin Kumarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15240963621914982659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922907157797061660.post-56076709252160549822012-05-22T15:29:52.151+02:002012-05-22T15:29:52.151+02:00Nicola, I'll be saving the novels for this sum...Nicola, I'll be saving the novels for this summer (hopefully at some point I *will* be able to take a break!), and I'm quite partial to a good crime mystery as well!carmencanada /Grain de Muschttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04046101625425953248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922907157797061660.post-13075677918545285022012-05-22T15:28:50.288+02:002012-05-22T15:28:50.288+02:00Annemarie, I'm always wary of looking down my ...Annemarie, I'm always wary of looking down my nose, as it were, upon people's choices of fragrances -- it might be the most indigent blend, and yet who can tell what 1001 nights are being woven into it? Of course, a beautiful perfume might make the tales all the richer...carmencanada /Grain de Muschttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04046101625425953248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922907157797061660.post-44876148850112645652012-05-22T15:25:31.860+02:002012-05-22T15:25:31.860+02:00Today, the first true Spring/Summer day this year ...Today, the first true Spring/Summer day this year in London, I am wearing Ninfeo Mio and although I have in reality walked the streets of the City in my head I have walked in that Italian garden. Nuit de Tubereuse tomorrow! It is such good news that the type of narrative featuring perfume is extending. I have become quite partial to a good detective novel and so appreciate that analogy especially. NicolaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922907157797061660.post-56846885561759295262012-05-22T10:57:06.133+02:002012-05-22T10:57:06.133+02:00Oh thanks for clearing up the mystery for me about...Oh thanks for clearing up the mystery for me about the Guerlain ads. That makes total sense.<br /><br />So does your point about the Chanel books. I bought Mazzeo and the two Chanel biographies because I'm a nerd, but even I baulked at the one about Chanel having been a Nazi sympathiser. Too much. <br /><br />I agree with your reply to Nozknoz. Everyone's story matters supremely to them, and rightly so.annemariecnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922907157797061660.post-12104574988352953842012-05-22T07:30:58.542+02:002012-05-22T07:30:58.542+02:00Annemarie, I imagine that those old Guerlain ads a...Annemarie, I imagine that those old Guerlain ads are based on the once-popular notion that there were perfumes for blondes, brunettes and redheads. There's an old book on the psychology of perfumery that even classifies some aromatic ingredients according to brunette/blonde/redhead bodily odors!<br />As for the Chanel N°5 book, it might be because there were several Chanel books out recently, so that even the staunchest fan would have a bit too much choice. Still, in my own editorial tribulations, it's true the notion that "perfume books are too niche" was often repeated.carmencanada /Grain de Muschttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04046101625425953248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922907157797061660.post-35509160437296543912012-05-22T07:23:45.155+02:002012-05-22T07:23:45.155+02:00Nozknoz, I think it's the case for any fragran...Nozknoz, I think it's the case for any fragrance a person is attached to, even if to a connoisseur that fragrance might seem boring, and even if the story is just: "This makes me feel lovely" or "I was wearing this when I met him". Or even if the reasons for picking it were largely subconscious...carmencanada /Grain de Muschttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04046101625425953248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922907157797061660.post-5710222796013874212012-05-22T06:27:47.625+02:002012-05-22T06:27:47.625+02:00Seconding nozknoz's comment - I love this idea...Seconding nozknoz's comment - I love this idea too. We all have to make a perfume our own in some way, if we are too love it. Hence, I suppose, our disappointment when a perfume seems to 'wear us' rather than the other way around. <br /><br />Do you recall those old Guerlain ads: 'Are you her type?' They were a direct challenge to the wearer to conform to the type that the perfume house puts out. I have often wondered how successful those ads were.<br /><br />Speaking of success, I am very surpised that Mazzeo's Chanel no 5 book has not performed as expected. I didn't think it was a great book, but you'd expect any book with 'Chanel No 5' on the cover to just walk out the door.annemariecnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922907157797061660.post-57662289880400921492012-05-22T04:39:25.397+02:002012-05-22T04:39:25.397+02:00I love your thought that narrative is inbuilt in t...I love your thought that narrative is inbuilt in the very nature of perfume, because we weave it's story into our own. Life is too short to wear boring perfume! ~~nozknozAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com