Luca!! Luca!!! Yep this interview w. Luckyscent was fun-zone. Cherry Bliss. I am 73. Too old? Meanwhile. ... Le Galion vintage original: BRUMES. BOURRASQUE. I've gone to the ends of the earth and the ends of my credit card limit to buy some capacious bottles of extraits of both. Have you experienced them? Vacher's Jasmine is dandy too. But: I ask the Universe! is there anyone out there who loves Brumes and Bourrasque as much as I? It is lonely out here.....ping. ping. ping.
Oh and original Sortilege is very nice too, thank-you. zzzzzzzz compared to Bourrasque et Brumes. BTW I bought the new version of Bourrasque from the new version of Le Galion. Keep your eyes peeled, as I will be dumping it soon onto Ebay. I hope to get $50 for it.
This was a truly nice moment of joy, to see real passionate people sharing and talking about what they love most. Life is full of small pleasures, you have to be lucky and wise enough to capture them.
I have all three guides at my nightstand as well! (Just bought the smaller original French one, there is a bilingual edition which is a pure poetry book.) The way it went for me is that I got so frustrated with some older classic perfumes references that I am now on a vintage perfume journey. I grew up in a perfumeless country so there is not such a thing for me as an old lady perfume, or a grandfather signature, which is an a way very liberating.
Sorry to be back again, dear Luca after watching your face when you smelled the perfume.. I could not stop myself and order a bottle of Un bel amour d´été… parfois je suis aussi impulsif… oh my... this is one of the most wonderful fragrances I´ve ever had… here I do really appreciate the gardenia (not as in Saskia) what a wonderful perfume and what an amazing house... Perfume d´Empire is… the only issue, besides of speaking french fluently…, is that the name of the perfume, though understandable, is a bit of an “issue” when have to tell to someone (even to my french friends)… but still… what a pure delight!
My experience with the Guides is much like Steve's—and it was much like my experience with reading books of rock criticism in my teen years, with *Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies* being the signal example. I'd dip in and dip in and dip in, every time getting lost for an hour or so, and end up learning everything by heart...and parroting opinions more than is dignified. Four decades later I have the first A-Z Guide on my phone and it's what I read with my salad after my gym workout. (I wish the second one and the expanded version of the first was available on NOOK.)
Wait a minute...Canoe is supposed to be pronounced Canooay? The commercials I grew up clearly with simplified things for the American market: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH3Ya2rpsdY
Luca!! Luca!!! Yep this interview w. Luckyscent was fun-zone. Cherry Bliss. I am 73. Too old? Meanwhile. ... Le Galion vintage original: BRUMES. BOURRASQUE. I've gone to the ends of the earth and the ends of my credit card limit to buy some capacious bottles of extraits of both. Have you experienced them? Vacher's Jasmine is dandy too. But: I ask the Universe! is there anyone out there who loves Brumes and Bourrasque as much as I? It is lonely out here.....ping. ping. ping.
73? Too old. It says on the bottle 71 is the limit. Tiny print, I had to ask my daughter to read it for me. Just squeaked through!
Oh and original Sortilege is very nice too, thank-you. zzzzzzzz compared to Bourrasque et Brumes. BTW I bought the new version of Bourrasque from the new version of Le Galion. Keep your eyes peeled, as I will be dumping it soon onto Ebay. I hope to get $50 for it.
This interview was such a delight. I enjoyed every minute of it.
This was a truly nice moment of joy, to see real passionate people sharing and talking about what they love most. Life is full of small pleasures, you have to be lucky and wise enough to capture them.
Really fun and engaging conversation! Not sure if my bank account shares my excitement of trying some of the perfumes discussed but lots to explore!
Thank you, great interview!
I have all three guides at my nightstand as well! (Just bought the smaller original French one, there is a bilingual edition which is a pure poetry book.) The way it went for me is that I got so frustrated with some older classic perfumes references that I am now on a vintage perfume journey. I grew up in a perfumeless country so there is not such a thing for me as an old lady perfume, or a grandfather signature, which is an a way very liberating.
Sorry to be back again, dear Luca after watching your face when you smelled the perfume.. I could not stop myself and order a bottle of Un bel amour d´été… parfois je suis aussi impulsif… oh my... this is one of the most wonderful fragrances I´ve ever had… here I do really appreciate the gardenia (not as in Saskia) what a wonderful perfume and what an amazing house... Perfume d´Empire is… the only issue, besides of speaking french fluently…, is that the name of the perfume, though understandable, is a bit of an “issue” when have to tell to someone (even to my french friends)… but still… what a pure delight!
Hi Francisco thank you for your comment!
Enjoyed your "drapeau français" themed suspenders. Well played Sir!
Thank you! From Le Laboureur.
My experience with the Guides is much like Steve's—and it was much like my experience with reading books of rock criticism in my teen years, with *Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies* being the signal example. I'd dip in and dip in and dip in, every time getting lost for an hour or so, and end up learning everything by heart...and parroting opinions more than is dignified. Four decades later I have the first A-Z Guide on my phone and it's what I read with my salad after my gym workout. (I wish the second one and the expanded version of the first was available on NOOK.)
Wait a minute...Canoe is supposed to be pronounced Canooay? The commercials I grew up clearly with simplified things for the American market: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH3Ya2rpsdY
Hmmm... maybe Canoë is my problem.