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Perfume Bottles with Living Flowers
Those hours that with gentle work did frame The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell Will play the tyrants to the very same, And that unfair which fairly doth excel; For never-resting time leads summer on To hideous winter and confounds him there, Sap checked with frost and lusty leaves quite gone, Beauty o'ersnowed and bareness every where: Then were not summer's distillation left A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass, Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft, Nor it nor no remembrance...
FRAGRANTICA BEST PERFUMES 2025: Galina Anni & Sophie Normand ~ Fragrantica ~ Fragrantica
The authors of Fragrantica select the best fragrances of 2025! GALINA ANNI THE BEST 2025 Shalimar L’Essence & Fleur de Bonbon Organ Tale Until the very last moment, two fragrances shared my 2025 pedestal: Shalimar L’Essence — A magnificent flanker and arguably the finest Shalimar of the last two decades. It is thoughtfully and elegantly reimagined, featuring a compelling ambery-resinous foundation beneath an airy, weightless cloud of citrus and vanilla.
The Most Compelling Perfumery Events of 2025
I propose taking stock once again of this year which, in many respects, has been an anniversary one. What truly new, unexpected, and innovative developments emerged in 2025 if we set aside headline-grabbing fragrance launches and professional trade fairs within the industry? Where did contemporary public interest in scent culture manifest itself – alongside fresh ideas, new technologies, and groundbreaking historical research?
Lalique Le Parfum, Dominique Ropion, and Women in Red
Before 2025 comes to a close, I want to pay tribute to a quiet anniversary. This fragrance turned twenty this past year, yet it has not been discontinued, has not been reformulated in any significant way, remains available at a reasonable price, and is still beautiful. And, strangely enough, I only bought it for myself this year. I remember 2005 as if it were yesterday: standing at a store shelf, testing Lalique Le Parfum, and wondering if I needed it—was it too mainstream in its vanilla sweetness?
The Perfumed Mysteries of Painter and Graphic Artist Konstantin Somov
A hundred years ago, in the autumn of 1925 in Paris, the Russian painter and graphic artist Konstantin Somov made another entry in his diary – part of which was devoted to perfume: “... From them to Houbigant: bought Anyuta some Chypre and Dima Verveine, and razor blades for him as well. Then to Printemps, spent a long time choosing taffetas changeants and waited ages while they cut eleven types, one and a half metres each.
Shannon: The First Duty-Free
In the article about Elizabeth Arden and British flight attendants, I mentioned Shannon International Airport, located in County Clare, Ireland. It was there, in 1947, that the first duty-free shop in history was established. An important transport hub and the westernmost international airport in Europe, Shannon opened its duty-free zone two years after the launch of the first regular transatlantic flight by American Overseas Airlines. This is what the airport looks like today.
Blue Grass in the Blue Sky
Seventy-five years ago, in 1950–1951, British and American newspapers and magazines ran advertisements for the new transatlantic route of the state-owned British Overseas Airways Corporation, the forerunner of today’s British Airways. The nonstop New York - London Monarch De Luxe flight on the brand-new, double-deck American Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was, for the postwar era, the pinnacle of air travel luxury.
The Mysterious Bottle of Alphonse Mucha
On July 24, 165 years ago, Alphonse Mucha was born — a remarkable painter, jeweler, decorator, illustrator, and voice of the Art Nouveau era. It was his posters that brought him widespread fame: first theatrical, particularly those for Sarah Bernhardt, and then commercial. This coincided with the rise of printing technology during the Belle Époque and the enactment of the 1881 French law on press freedom.
All Things Red: Behind the Scenes of the Red Moscow Exhibition
Last week, the Zotov Center in Moscow was packed to the brim. In the sweltering height of summer, around 1,300 people showed up for the opening of the olfactory exhibition Red Moscow: A Woman in the Big City. Dedicated to the Soviet perfume industry of the 1920s and 1930s, the exhibition brought together hundreds of paintings, graphic works, films, advertising posters, magazines, newspapers, perfume bottles, powder compacts, soap dishes, boxes, labels, and countless other artifacts.
The One Who Never Came Back
On December 12th 1910, a young American woman named Dorothy Arnold vanished without a trace. A socialite and the heiress to her father’s perfume empire, she disappeared into thin air. Francis Rose Arnold, her father, was a wealthy importer of fine fragrances and cosmetics and traced his ancestry back to the passengers of the Mayflower — the first English Protestants to reach American shores. Born in 1837 into a banking family, he graduated from Harvard and went on to build a thriving business.
A Little Hawaiian Grass Shack — or Aloha, the Fifties! ~ Columns ~ Fragrantica
Inside this little house made of straw or raffia sits a small bottle. And inside it lies a white ginger lily from the Hawaiian Islands — or rather, what's become of it after some seventy years. When the bottle is still, you can make out the flower's silhouette at the bottom. But if you shake it, the bloom dissolves entirely into suspension. Leave it for a couple of days, though, and it slowly settles back into something that resembles petals.
Smolny Institution for Noble Maidens founded by Catherine the Great
by Galina Anni ( 2 comments ) The State Historical Museum hosted an exhibition of seven portraits of the students of the Smolny Institution (Saint Petersburg), painted by Dmitry Levitsky in 1772-1776. It arrived in Moscow in honor of the anniversary of the State Historical Museum, which turns 150 this year.
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