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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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.) …
Makes perfect sense to me now (and probably anyone who thinks about it for a moment). I was surprised though that all of the niche colognes I am sampling seem to have the indelible mark of their creator carved into the molecules of the scent. Which becomes noticeable once you smell several of any one …
Following my challenging trip of filming out east last week, it’s a welcome distraction to receive an order of cologne from independent Portland based perfumer Slumberhouse and to have a great book to read over the weekend. The scent I ordered from Slumberhouse is called Rume. A spicy rendition that brings to mind the visits …
So excited today to introduce you to guest blogger & my good friend Kathryn Vento. (@KathrynVento) She’s a fellow actor who shares many of the same interests as I do, and many of the same zany quirks. I asked her to do a guest post for me about the triple milled Pre de Provence Soaps. …
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Am hyper-aware of the state of my skin lately. Seeing that I am making a trip out east in two days, where I’ll be on-set playing a sci-fi Alien, this is a good thing. The Alien costume/full body suit requires a lot of special effect make-up and rubber. So there is a good amount of …
My eyes have been feasting on all the great gift guides around. Seriously, I need to remind myself that I don’t need ALL of it. I just want ALL of it. So, in classic mimic-style, I’m sharing too. Most of these are items from independent artists I’ve come across. I like indie artists, certainly because …
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Why is it whenever I turn my nose up to be snobby that I inevitably have a big green bugger hanging for all to see? I laugh with friends over Justin Bieber releasing a perfume fragrance called Someday. Feeling so much more enlightened than all the masses of consumers being duped into another celebrity cash …
Wandering the shelves of the library this morning I glimpse Luca Turin’s latest addition to his series of perfume review books. The Little Book of Perfumes: The Hundred Classics. I’ve read some of Luca’s work before and always bust out laughing from his sometimes snarky words. Not that it’s all acid, there’s some very beautiful …
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First encountered hair/body oil in a review of Aveda Men’s Pure-formance online at The Chap Blog (See Chap Blog Review). I liked his description of the scent, skin moisturizing, and hair softening effect it had on his hair. So I ordered a 50ml jar of it for myself. The fragrance includes: Kunzea, citrus, Spearmint, Vetiver …
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