tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post7392292998283115223..comments2024-03-29T05:13:21.130+00:00Comments on Perfume Shrine: Valentine's Day Special: The Scent of Unrequited or Impossible Love (Valentine's Countdown part 5)Perfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-20574246164276753072014-02-10T09:24:56.640+00:002014-02-10T09:24:56.640+00:00Thanks Barbara!Thanks Barbara!Perfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-81659499469180741262014-02-10T09:24:43.014+00:002014-02-10T09:24:43.014+00:00Gaia darling,
thanks for saying so, coming from y...Gaia darling,<br /><br />thanks for saying so, coming from you it's high compliment indeed. :-)<br /><br />Isn't the idea of Soleil Vert very attractive? Even the name is carefully masterminded. And although my first instinct would be to think that it might had been influenced by Vent Vert (which uses a similar schema of metaphor) the reality we know is very different and quite the Perfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-85495613037081690742014-02-10T09:20:53.490+00:002014-02-10T09:20:53.490+00:00MH,
yes, I assumed you'd chime in and post yo...MH,<br /><br />yes, I assumed you'd chime in and post your very understandable dissent. <br /><br />It IS about someone who abuses a child (horribly) and yet the mastery of the writer is that we're engrossed by the story and (more importantly) the delivery of it and feel for the characters (without at any point feeling sympathetic, mind you!). I don't consider it "a love story, Perfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-84805423872545056002014-02-10T09:16:42.236+00:002014-02-10T09:16:42.236+00:00Gina,
I always loved that poem! Thanks for bringi...Gina,<br /><br />I always loved that poem! Thanks for bringing it here and in its English translation too. Perfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-18846168330898301772014-02-09T21:15:15.012+00:002014-02-09T21:15:15.012+00:00Good link Good link Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-53965374210655165512014-02-09T00:29:06.558+00:002014-02-09T00:29:06.558+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Parfyme Norgehttp://www.eaudeonline.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-67276736665269150072014-02-09T00:02:06.007+00:002014-02-09T00:02:06.007+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Parfyme Norgehttp://www.eaudeonline.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-5041203280195907272014-02-08T16:03:40.829+00:002014-02-08T16:03:40.829+00:00Like Gaia, I too would be very interested in Solei...Like Gaia, I too would be very interested in Soleil Vert!<br /><br />The poem is beautiful and describes L'Heure Bleue so perfectly. Thank you for this.<br /><br />JillieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-18386252633598834032014-02-08T15:35:38.475+00:002014-02-08T15:35:38.475+00:00Dearest Elena, I love the different approach you t...Dearest Elena, I love the different approach you took here. I know I can always count on you for a thoughtful post. I'm highly curious about the idea of Soleil Vert. I want a perfume with that name.Gaiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11561470171631737626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-21639604724674830972014-02-08T05:41:27.289+00:002014-02-08T05:41:27.289+00:00While I do love the way perfume is used by literat...While I do love the way perfume is used by literature to represent and symbolise so much, I have a (a previously discussed) problem with this post (I assume it was expected).<br /><br />Lolita is, by my reading, not something I care to associate with love. Yes, Nabokov's use of scent does seem to be clever (I assume he made up the scent mentioned) - indeed, the entire novel is a literary Miss Heliotropenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-46738498378238820722014-02-07T16:58:53.125+00:002014-02-07T16:58:53.125+00:00Correspondences/Charles Baudelaire
As distant ver...Correspondences/Charles Baudelaire<br /><br />As distant verberating echoes can resound<br />Together, mingling deep and shadowed harmony<br />As vast as midnight and as vast as clarity,<br />So can each scent and hue and sound to each respond.<br /><br />Some perfumes are as fragrant as an infant’s flesh,<br />Sweet as an oboe’s cry, and greener than the spring;<br />-- While others are Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-52591908371969163532014-02-07T13:58:29.874+00:002014-02-07T13:58:29.874+00:00Thank you Lucas!
Aiming to be different is a mis...Thank you Lucas! <br /><br />Aiming to be different is a mission; as Chanel used to say, it's essential in order to be appreciated. ;-)<br /><br />Thanks for playing with me and off to comment on your post! <br /><br />Perfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-46249700528783226452014-02-07T13:48:58.255+00:002014-02-07T13:48:58.255+00:00Elena!
That's a great post for our early Valen...Elena!<br />That's a great post for our early Valentine's Day event.<br /><br />Literature talks about love in so many different way yet you chose those that speak about if from a different approach.<br /><br />Yours "happily single" LucasLucashttp://chemistinthebottle.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com