LET PERFUME TALK is an interactive digital experience featuring perfumes made by MANE, a company that specializes in producing fragrances for the cosmetics and beauty industries as well as flavors for the food industry. Following the success of its interactive experience “Find Your Essence”, MANE is launching a second emotionally intense experience, “Let Perfume Talk”, to reinforce its creative image.
Inspired by the way social media works, MANE asks a simple question: "What's your mood today?"
To evoke MANE’s creativity and fragrances, clients are invited to choose from the seven interactive sensory worlds where images, music and interface all work in harmony:
ALIVE
IN LOVE
HAPPY
ZEN
NATURAL
REBELLIOUS
SEXY
The application’s concept and strategy encourage you to share the experience with your contacts—an approach that aims at maximizing the virality of the operation.
The digital experience Let Perfume Talk created by Shakebiz is available on all mobile and tablet devices, with a tactile version available on iOS (iPhone and iPad) and Android, in addition to a desktop version. Click for the iTunes link or the Google Play link.
info via press release
Monday, July 20, 2015
Monday, July 13, 2015
Vive La France! French Style & Perfume
With Bastille Day coming up tomorrow (and with a grateful note to the French for promoting a unified Europe) I decided to do a collective post with all things Francophile.
Obviously lots of fragrances hail from France anyway, so a big chunk of the blog is paying homage to French style, but let's collect some of my various articles for ease; click the highlighted links to get there.
French women (Parisian women in particular and baptized Parisians, since it's not technically ethnicity which accounts for it) are known for their savvy style which looks effortless, but isn't really (grooming and attention to detail go a long way).
My slideshow of 4 Secrets of French Women and Their Perfume has already become an internet classic, but I have also written a concise Perfume Application Guide the French Way.
I have also recently composed a brief history of the house of Christian Dior and highlighted/reviewed 4 Dior fragrances which are worthy of investigation.
For Perfume Shrine aficionados there's also:
The Culture Wars: American vs. French,
Scent in Literature, a series of articles highlighting excerpts from novels and poetry, often French, which elaborate on the fascination of scent and smell,
Easy & Quick Paris Perfume Shopping Guide
"French Style" Perfume: Connotations & Meanings
Best sellers in fragrance in France for 2009, for 2010, for 2011, for 2012, for 2014.
And since Bastille Day incidentally recalls De Sade as well, there's also BDSM and Scents, a series of rather tantalizing posts with lots of perfume suggestions.
Happy July 14th to all Francophiles!
Obviously lots of fragrances hail from France anyway, so a big chunk of the blog is paying homage to French style, but let's collect some of my various articles for ease; click the highlighted links to get there.
Gainsbourg and Birkin by Reg Lancaster, Paris 1969 via |
French women (Parisian women in particular and baptized Parisians, since it's not technically ethnicity which accounts for it) are known for their savvy style which looks effortless, but isn't really (grooming and attention to detail go a long way).
My slideshow of 4 Secrets of French Women and Their Perfume has already become an internet classic, but I have also written a concise Perfume Application Guide the French Way.
I have also recently composed a brief history of the house of Christian Dior and highlighted/reviewed 4 Dior fragrances which are worthy of investigation.
For Perfume Shrine aficionados there's also:
The Culture Wars: American vs. French,
Scent in Literature, a series of articles highlighting excerpts from novels and poetry, often French, which elaborate on the fascination of scent and smell,
Easy & Quick Paris Perfume Shopping Guide
"French Style" Perfume: Connotations & Meanings
Best sellers in fragrance in France for 2009, for 2010, for 2011, for 2012, for 2014.
And since Bastille Day incidentally recalls De Sade as well, there's also BDSM and Scents, a series of rather tantalizing posts with lots of perfume suggestions.
Happy July 14th to all Francophiles!
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Questions & Answers with Alexandra Monet, Perfumer
Alexandra Monet, a young perfumer working for aroma producing company Drom fragrances Specifically she is responsible for the upcoming commemorative 15th anniversary edition of The Different Company, Le 15 (i.e. Le Quinze) out in September 2015. The new unisex fragrance is focusing on the sacred wood of Palo Santo, found in Latin America.
Enthusiastic and spontaneous, Alexandra has a sensitivity that allows her to put in perfume her emotions. She enjoys the gourmet styles and the vibrant notes. After studying at the ISIPCA, she works at DROM. In 2013 she created candles for The Different Company Home Fragrance Collection.
Alexandra has collaborated with Luc Gabriel, The Different Company's CEO and President, to compose the limited edition extrait de parfum, Le 15.
Here are a few insights into what makes her tick which I found interesting and wanted to share with you.
How did you find your passion for this profession?
My sense of smell has always titillated me more than all other senses. I rapidly wanted to transform this ‘‘tickle’’ into a profession.
What is your olfactive universe?
I like playing with edible notes and I am love musky clean notes, that evokes freshly washed linen.
If you were a raw material?
Without hesitation, Patchouli. This is a unique and magical raw material, a vibrant essence that lives as soon as I put it on my skin.
If you were a quality?
Impertinence.
If you were a colour?
Black. Maybe white, but certainly not grey!
If you were a Star?
Audrey Hepburn.
If you were a place?
A big city, at night time.
Enthusiastic and spontaneous, Alexandra has a sensitivity that allows her to put in perfume her emotions. She enjoys the gourmet styles and the vibrant notes. After studying at the ISIPCA, she works at DROM. In 2013 she created candles for The Different Company Home Fragrance Collection.
Alexandra has collaborated with Luc Gabriel, The Different Company's CEO and President, to compose the limited edition extrait de parfum, Le 15.
Here are a few insights into what makes her tick which I found interesting and wanted to share with you.
How did you find your passion for this profession?
My sense of smell has always titillated me more than all other senses. I rapidly wanted to transform this ‘‘tickle’’ into a profession.
What is your olfactive universe?
I like playing with edible notes and I am love musky clean notes, that evokes freshly washed linen.
If you were a raw material?
Without hesitation, Patchouli. This is a unique and magical raw material, a vibrant essence that lives as soon as I put it on my skin.
If you were a quality?
Impertinence.
If you were a colour?
Black. Maybe white, but certainly not grey!
If you were a Star?
Audrey Hepburn.
If you were a place?
A big city, at night time.
I Believe
«Πιστεύω στην υγρασία της νύχτας, στα αγάλματα που ταξιδεύουν μέρα νύχτα μες σε δαπανηρές συσκευασίες και στα κλειστά παράθυρα εργοστασίων που απεργούν. Πιστεύω στη λιτανεία των αυτοκινήτων, στα νευρικά σφυρίγματα ενός εγκαταλειμμένου αστυφύλακα και στην οσμή από σελίδες άκοπες των σχολικών βιβλίων. Πιστεύω στις ποιητικές ανθολογίες, στις διαφημίσεις ταυρομαχιών του '35 και στα σημάδια του κορμιού σου που φανερώνουν έρωτα. Τέλος, πιστεύω στο θάνατο της μνήμης και στην ανάσταση των επιθυμιών εν μέσω ρόδων, γιασεμιών και υακίνθων. Και τούτο εγένετο, Αμήν».
Μάνος Χατζηδάκης
"I believe in the humidity of the night, the statues traveling day and night amid costly packaging and the closed windows of factories on strike. I believe in the procession of cars, the nervous whistling of a lonesome constable and the smell of uncut pages in textbooks. I believe in poetry anthologies, bullfight ads of '35 and the signs on your body revealing love. Finally, I believe in memory's death and the resurrection of desire amid roses, jasmine and hyacinths. And this was done, Amen. "
Manos Hadjidakis
Μάνος Χατζηδάκης
Gioconda's Smile (1965), part 1 by M.Hadjidakis, performed in Athens Megaron Mousikis (1995)
"I believe in the humidity of the night, the statues traveling day and night amid costly packaging and the closed windows of factories on strike. I believe in the procession of cars, the nervous whistling of a lonesome constable and the smell of uncut pages in textbooks. I believe in poetry anthologies, bullfight ads of '35 and the signs on your body revealing love. Finally, I believe in memory's death and the resurrection of desire amid roses, jasmine and hyacinths. And this was done, Amen. "
Manos Hadjidakis
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
The winner of the draw...
...for the Acqua di Parma rose fragrance Acqua Nobile Rosa is MargOn1980.
Congratulations! Please email me using Contact with your shipping info, with ADP draw in the title of the mail, so I can this in the mail for you soon.
Thanks everyone for the enthusiastic participation and till the next one!
Congratulations! Please email me using Contact with your shipping info, with ADP draw in the title of the mail, so I can this in the mail for you soon.
Thanks everyone for the enthusiastic participation and till the next one!
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