On the ABC television program Shark Tank I see four brothers presenting a family business Nardo’s Naturals; a line of organic products. Intrigued, I log onto their clean-cut website and look over their product’s ingredients. Being a fan of skin care products that don’t contain ingredients that I can’t pronounce or read, my excitement begins …
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If you’ve not tried Indie Scents as a source for niche colognes, you’ve been missing out. They have some of the best names in indie perfume… Slumberhouse, Dawn Spencer Hurwitz, and Smell Bent. Take a look. Great prices too.
While layering together more than one cologne can have disastrous effects. Like causing a mass stampede towards the building’s exit doors by people trying to escape the fumes emanating from your skin; leaving behind only those with gas masks or anosmia. I’ll admit that there are a handful of scents I like to layer together. …
The cool aroma of lavender transitions into a warm vanilla dry down. It takes about a half hour on me to change into the latter scent. I find it clever on the part of the perfumer, to go from what I deem a cold aroma into a warm one. A scent journey of sorts- diving …
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Sexy vanilla. Spritz it on and soon the scent of leather, tobacco, and vanilla assails. Fragrance ProfileName: VanillavilleAromas: Chewing Tobacco, Vanilla, LeatherPerfume Line: SoivohleCreator: Liz Zorn On a flight to Los Angeles, I bring this little bottle of Vanillaville along. I travel light & the 11ml size spray bottle is just the right size to …
Oh how I do enjoy opening up that mail box, reaching inside, and tearing into a non-digital letter from a friend. The thought behind it, the time it took to sit and write it with ink, and of course seeing the person’s unique handwriting. It all makes me smile. Anyone get a letter that they’ll …
Am rather taken with the works by Swiss perfumer from reading his blog, scent descriptions, and reading up on his history. He holds a degree in chemistry, and melds that so well with a vivid artistic vision displayed in the pieces of scent art he creates. Love this quote from a Question and Answer style …
Anyone that’s stuck their nose inside a few age-worn books (better yet, surrounded themselves with stacks of them at a library) knows what aroma I am referring to, that of old pages. While reading the book Perfumes: The Guide I was happy to read an explanation into this delightful aroma. “Lignin, the stuff that prevents …
Now before you read on thinking I have a dark association with the black market underbelly of the perfume world. I don’t. (What would I know about that? I am a scrawny actor). I mean my experience with the cologne adeptly named Underworld by Liz Zorn. (Creator of Rivertown Road cologne, a favorite of mine.) …
After reading a few books on the topic of smell (Like NY Times Scent Critic Chandler Burr’s The Perfect Scent & The Emperor of Scent, also Luca Turin’s wickedly funny scent manifesto Perfumes: The A-Z Guide) I’ve been a lookout for great cologne. Hopefully one I can call my go-to scent. Easy enough, right? Um, …
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