Sunday, October 18, 2009

WE WERE ONCE FAIRYTALES ( KAYE WEST / SPIKE JONZE )

THIS IS AMAZING ..SPIKE JONZE IS A GENIUS AND KAYE WEST A MAD MAN WHAT THEY HAVE CREATED TOGETHER IS PURE ART , DRENCHED IN BEAUTY ...ENJOY



Sunday, October 4, 2009

Alex Grey Aritist to Watch ( MUST SEE THIS)


ANNE FRANK FOOTAGE DISCOVERED!

Under water art gallery !!! Beautiful



http://www.wayfaring.info/2009/06/02/the-worlds-first-underwater-gallery/




Fun Fact : I was standing outside on my lawn with a friend of mines and she told me this little fun fact and it actually true .... did you know that sharks eat each other inside of the womb ... Out of 60 baby sharks only 2 will be born . Now that's survival of the fittest .

The Lovely Bones ( Book Review and Movie trailer)



I am officially reading this book right now ... and although I haven't finished it yet , so far it proves to be a work of art . I am convinced that Alice Sebold the writer of "The Lovely Bones" is a poet disguised as an author . Her work is illuminating , steadfast and full of so much hope and heart one can barely take it . ( it brings shivers and chills to my body as I read each page ) . Read this book with the need to go on a long and luminous journey thru the lives of strangers you will learn to love and feel great sorrow for .


I can only hope that the movie does the book some justice !!





Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

DIARY ENTRY : "COLOGNE REVIEW" JOHN VARVATOS "ARTISAN"




I spent the night before up very late watching that Woody Allen Film " Vicki Christina Barcelona ". So when I finally woke up the next morning .. ( clears throat) I mean this afternoon feeling like high hell , and he suggested getting drinks and going to Sephora. I couldn't think of a more splendid was to spend the evening . Three screwdrivers and one rum and coke later , I was on my way to the local Sephora . Let this be a bit of a cautionary tale my friends , don't ever go to smell perfume/ cologne drunk ! While crossing the street to get inside of the store I shrieked "oh my god we made it to the promise land " . Running in my heels like a lazy hooker I bust threw the doors only to be greated by a faboulous and might I say very helpful gay man dressed in all black . Needless to say I pulled my shit togethere as qiuck as I could . I was also happy my makeup had been carefully applied and the outfit was up to par unlike the chic begger look I was rocking earlier . You see it's one thing to be drunk in Sephora and its another thing to be drunk and looking a hot mess in Sephora while a stylish gay man shows you the "new products " . I'm sure I reeked of booze . I started out in the colgne section quickly siffting thru each fragrence complaing like a spoiled 50's socialite that something smelled "god awful " and "like shit " . After smelling several awful "vodka vomit" inducing scents I arrived at one that was worth a review . It is " Artisan by John Varvatos " . I'd like to say at first spray Artisan intersted me and repelled me at the same time . It smelled like this woman's purse that use to sit next to me and my mother in church every sunday . I would be half asleep ( as a result of staying up the night before playing sonic the hedge hog ) and my mom would pop me in theback of my head and say "Wake up , don't you embarrass me " . I would sluggisly move around and the woman sitting next to me would open up her beaten leather purse and offer me a mint , that looked like it had been sitting in the darkest deepest depths of her purse for centuries . I would take it put it in my mouth and savor it . And so I coined the phrase "Church mints " . And that is exactly what Artisan intially smelled like . It is neither boring nor inviting . But it has an awful "throwback smell" that I just didn't care for in the beggining . But I nabbed a sample any ways because you never know how a scent my change ( and I'm happy I did) . So now it is about 1 am , and I am smelling Mr. Varavato's latest concoction again , this time after it has settled and it's turned into what I could only decribe as the reminesinse of a scent that a lover would leave behind on shuffled bed sheets after they have left . Maybe they have left money on the dresser maybe they havan't , but with this scent one can only hope that they return . John Varvatos "Artisan" is one word "Distinct" . And the bottle is a keeper to it looks like something a tour guide for the congo river would keep his booze in . . So if you can get past the Minty mess that happens in the beggining of this fragrance and and have a bit of patience it may just grow on you!

ps : DONOT BATHE YOURSELF IN THIS FRAGRENCE . ALOT GOES A HELLAVA LONG WAY !

Sunday, August 16, 2009

KANYE WEST POETRY***** AWESOME

" YOU CUT ME DEEP BITCH LIKE , SURGERY " LOL

ESCADA IBIZA HIPPIE SMELLS LIKE ?


HE LOVES ME , HE LOVES ME NOT ( MOVIE)

ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK ? ( MONSTERS AND SUCH)


MOVIE ****BEAUTIFUL

fUR ( MOVIE TRAILER)*****

ARTIST TO WATCH ALWAYS ***** ( JENNY SAVILLE)



Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Used by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural speech

Music : Ludwig Van Beethoven-- Fur Elise

If you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, On Love

Where can I get free perfume samples?


*****Sephora gives 3 free samples online or in the store, you can always request three fragrance samples

*
Buy women’s fashion magazines.

Lacoste perfumes gives out samples while they last. Check the perfume website at www.lacoste.com and click on the perfume you want to sample

A dream Collection of Oils *****Heaven


Anne Morrow Lindbergh:

Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.

Alabama ( True Romance

Amid the chaos of that day, when all I could hear was the thunder of gunshots, and all I could smell was the violence in the air, I look back and am amazed that my thoughts were so clear and true, that three words went through my mind endlessly, repeating themselves like a broken record: you're so cool, you're so cool, you're so cool. And sometimes Clarence asks me what I would have done if he had died, if that bullet had been two inches more to the left. To this, I always smile, as if I'm not going to satisfy him with a response. But I always do. I tell him of how I would want to die, but that the anguish and the want of death would fade like the stars at dawn, and that things would be much as they are now. Perhaps. Except maybe I wouldn't have named our son Elvis.Alabama ( True Romance ):---

bjork (enjoy) music

Angels have no gender. Their true form lies far beyond our current ability to fully understand, being somewhat akin to complex geometric patterns, incandescent like fire-works. But angels do take on forms that we can grasp. They do this for two reasons: so that we can perceive them on a level closer to our own; and to veil, or step down, the intensity of their vibrations so that we can endure them.

DAVID GODDARD, The Sacred Magic of Angels



cat power ( AMAZING*****

music ( enjoy) ( listen to this every morning :)


Lauryn Hill - I Find It Hard to Say (Rebel)

Suheir Hammad - Def Poetry ( Chills *****)

Francesco Clemente ( Artist) *****

If I've killed one man, I've killed two--
The vampire who said he was you
And drank my blood for a year,
Seven years, if you want to know.
Daddy, you can lie back now.

There's a stake in your fat black heart
And the villagers never liked you.
They are dancing and stamping on you.
They always knew it was you.
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through.--Silvia Plath

BEAUTIFUL THINGS ****

VINTAGE TORI ( and on the third day )

THIS SOUNDS LIKE , HOW I'D LIKE TO SMELL ( ENJOY)

Saturday, August 15, 2009

STRANGE BUT BEAUTIFUL

ADDICTIVE , INTERESTING SCENTS *****

a beautiful treat !!!! ( ENJOY)

THIS SOUNDS LIKE , HOW I'D LIKE TO SMELL ( ENJOY)

tHE HUMAN CONTRACT ***** ( MOVIE TRAILER)

Perfume Movie Trailer

http://www.legendarydevils.com/blog/rsmu-perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer-2006-m-hd-x264-us/

Chanel Commercial *** ( I don't know why but this commercial make me crack the hell up.. . Its so chessy and sensual

Perfume Facts


So nowadays with modern technology of perfume manufacturing and synthetic aromas, new categories have been created. Categories that can be best described as: 1 - Bright Floral - very popular and meant for almost everyone and all occasions; 2 - Woody - it evokes the forest refreshing smell; 3 - Green - it has a lighter fragrance and is meant for casual wear; 4 - Oceanic - it is very popular among the younger generation; 5 - Spicy Fruit - a good choice for tropical weather or during summer; 6 - Oriental - it is meant for special occasions. Spicy scents.

It is very important the composition of perfumes, because the right combination of scents (as rose, jasmine, cola), modifiers (esters), blenders (linalool, hydroxycitronellol) and fixatives(like resins, wood scents and amber), can provide the unique smell by which brand name perfumes are so famous and desired for. Some famous brand name perfumes are:

1 - Eau de Cologne (1709)

2 - Chanel No. 5 (1921)

3 - Opium YSL (1977)

4 - Azzaro Pour Homme (1978)

5 - Anais Anais (1979)

6 - Poison Christian Dior (1985)

7 - Eternity Calvin Klein (1988)

8 - Envy Gucci (1997)

9 - Nu YSL (2001)

10 - Rose 31 (2006)

Also, preservation of perfumes is of vital significance as it degrades if kept carelessly. Previously all perfumes used to come in open bottles with caps. These bottles kept the fragrance intact for about a year. As it was used, the level of the perfume went down, and it was exposed to oxygen contained in the empty space of the bottle. This eventually changed the perfume`s fragrance. Heat, light, oxygen, and extraneous organic materials, further distorted the fragrance. Thus glass bottles, though extremely decorative, allowed light, and contributed to the degradation of the scent.

It is now a well known fact that light-tight aluminum bottles are best for the preservation of perfumes, especially when they are refrigerated at low temperatures from 3 to 7 degree Celsius. The oxygen contained inside the bottle cannot be removed completely but it can be minimized by the use of rollers instead of open bottles. Further minimization of oxygen exposure can be attained by the use of sprays.

Thus almost all modern day perfume come in spray bottles, which isolate the perfume from mixing with outside oxygen, skin, detritus, and dust, thereby promoting the longevity of the olfactory quality of the perfume.

ThrowBack Perfume ad : Obsession ( still one of our favorites , but Kate Moss could really benefit from a hot meal and a hug)

How does perfume make you feel ?

Thursday, August 13, 2009

PERFUME VOCAB


sillage

Sillage is the term used to describe a perfume wearer’s aura of fragrance. The term also refers to the ghost trails of scent briefly left in wake as the wearer moves.


Wednesday, August 12, 2009

A POEM ABOUT PERFUME : EXCERPT

THE SCENT OF BLUE
A concert in Edinburgh, years ago.
She manages to find a single seat.
Two people sweep past, ushered by the
front of house manager in his dark suit.
He's a famous conductor,
silver haired, sharp featured like some
bird of prey, but smaller than you would
expect, in evening dress.
On his arm a thin woman,
taller than he is, strides with
striking face and hair, a cloud of
grey blonde curls around her head.
Not a young woman but a
diva surely, inhabiting her clothes,
inhabiting her skin with such confidence.
She wants to be like that some day,
longs for self possession.
And she remembers the scent of her,
musky, mysterious, a heavy, night time
scent, like flowers after dark.
The scent of passion.
The scent of money.
The scent of blue.

She searches for the scent for years.

bY : Catherine Czerkawska http://wordarts.blogspot.com/2007/07/scent-of-blue-poem-about-perfume.html


WORLDS MOST EXPENSIVE PERFUME!!!!

Clive Christian's Imperial Majesty
Clive Christian's Imperial Majesty: Price $215,000
British designer Clive Christian's creation has recently been voted in the Guiness Book of World Records the most expensive perfume in the world. The 16.9-ounce perfume bottle is stuck into the 18-carat gold collar that is adorned with a five-carat diamond. Only five bottles are made annually, justifying the eye-popping price.

SOME FACTS --

The word perfume comes from the Latin phrase, "per" meaning "through" and "fumus" meaning smoke." The French later gave the name parfum to the pleasant smells that drift through the air from burning incense. There are few periods of history that have not been influenced by perfume. The history of perfume is often intertwined with the history of the human race.http://www.perfumes.com/eng/history.htm

WHAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF : PERFUME BOTTLE



Item Description : This beautifully designed black perfume bottle was handcrafted in a small town in France. The bottle and stopper were carefully carved and polished, the heart shaped accent with pink crystals and a lady relaxing and dreaming completes this elegant look. Bottle measures 41/2" tall and 5" wide.:

http://www.gifts4allevents.com/perfume-bottle-french-black-p-548.html

Sunday, August 9, 2009

WEIRD PERFUMES OF THE WEEK : VULVA



This particular scent was brought to my attention and I have no clue how I feel about it ...OK, actually I do, this might be the perviest, nastiest, yet innovative perfume I've ever come across in my life . Check out the link, it is described as the "beguiling vaginal scent" of a woman. Solely for research purposes will I order a bottle of it , just to post a review of it for you guys . ( I'll take one for the team this time)

http://smellmeand.com/index_2.html

Perfume Collection of the Day


He still had enough perfume left to enslave the whole world if he so chose. He could walk to Versailles and have the king kiss his feet. He could write the pope a perfumed letter and reveal himself as the new Messiah. He could do all this, and more, if he wanted to. He possessed a power stronger than the power of money, or terror, or death - the invincible power to command the love of man kind. There was only one thing the perfume could not do. It could not turn him into a person who could love and be loved like everyone else. So, to hell with it he thought. To hell with the world. With the perfume. With himself. ---"Perfume"

Friday, August 7, 2009

Next up : "Amor , Amor ( A story of Obssesion , Lies , and Love )

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.

- Captain Corelli's Mandolin6. "Love is the beauty of the soul."
--St. Augustine

What's the Difference ?

Eau De Cologne. Originally the name applied to light refreshing citrus scented fragrance. See Cologne. Now more widely used to relate to a solution of about 3% Perfume Compound in an alcohol/water base. Much lighter than a concentrated perfume.

-Cologne (Women's). A light form of a specific fragrance with about 3% concentration of perfume compound in an alcohol water base.

-Cologne (Men's). More concentrated than women's colognes (5-8%), similar to the strength of toilet water (Eau de Toilette). After Shave by comparison will usually only have 3 - 5%.

Eau de Parfum. An alcoholic perfume solution containing 10 to 15% perfume compound.

Eau de Toilette. An alcohol/water based perfume solution containing 3 to 8 % perfume compound.

Perfume (or Parfum). Most highly concentrated form of fragrance, containing between 20 - 50% perfume compound. The strongest and the longest lasting.

DEAR DIARY : Fahrenheit - Christian Dior

Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, "Italy."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning



The year is 2003 , I am standing on a dimly lit corner in Florence , Italy with my roommate the air is damp and we are waiting for her friend Alex and his new girlfriend . Before we left the house we smoked some hash . We came to the conclusion that no matter where you need to go in Italy if you smoke some hash before you leave the house you will arrive there in what feels like five minutes . Hash was our own secret "Time Travel Machine " . I am dehydrated , I tilt my head upwards to look at the sun beaming down on me . The giant star in the sky is having no mercy on me today and I curse myself for wearing all black again ( a torn iron maiden tee shirt that an ex - boyfriend got for me , and black tights I got from a street vendor the day before ) . My roommate and I hold hands , we fear that we may get lost in shuffle of all the beauty that is Italy . There are what seems to be beautiful people everywhere . And we are the Americans ...and the truth is you never really feel American until you visit somewhere else . There customs seems so much more flavorful than my own . There is a steadiness in Italy's . One gets the feeling that the Italians know something about "time " that the Americans just don't know , and that whatever it is they know , they have accepted it , even embraced it and managed to seduce it into submission . I have grown tired of waiting and I am considering leaving ..Until "Have you guys been waiting long " Alex says . "No" my roommate says . Standing next to Alex is a thin , very long legged Japanese girl , who looks like a boy who looks like a beautiful girl . She is wearing all black . She is wearing shoes that seem as if she just plucked them out of the box only seconds before they came to see us . Her hair is dark black and neatly pulled back towards the nap of her neck . Her ears are noticeably large and bare of any earring holes . And she smelled like leather , like something that has been written in stone , like bravery , like blood , paper , straw , something sweet , like how you'd expect a Greek God to smell if you'd ever had the pleasure of meeting one . Ah Androgyny ..... That night we went off to a dimly lit bar that we would later on in the trip refer to as "Our spot " . While there he met some local drug dealers who explained to us that he had owned several blocks in Italy and that if we stuck with him " Nobody would Fuck with us " ( and no one did that entire trip ) . Later I found myself alone with her and I asked the magic question while having a forth vodka shot .."What are you wearing" ..she smiled confidently and said "It's called Fahrenheit , it's by Christian Dior.. It's for men .. but I like it anyways ".. Hours later in a dark alley in Italy I would pull her close to me by her waist and softly touch her face , her mouth tasted of alcohol and expensive cigars . While tearing at my clothing she would tell me... while I pulled her hair ,kissing her wet mouth ferociously , passionately that she also uses the after shave...and the damn shampoo ( a girl after my own heart) . I would tell her that I wanted her to come home with me , and she would say "Yes ". While walking back into the bar I would be confronted by a drunk Alex who didn't take to kindly to me tasting the cologne on his girlfriend who smelled like she could be someones boyfriend. S o I never saw her much after that . Although I did manage to purchase a little bottle for myself later on during the trip and it was as the Italians say "bella" ...

j

Perfume Collection of the Day

“Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume” Jean de Boufflers quotes

DEAR DIARY : The Love Spell


~~~Ingredients (Love Spell)~~~
Water, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Isopropyl Palmitate, Glycereth 26, Cetyl Alcohol, Fragrance, Hydrogenated Polydecene, Polysorbate 60, Cyclomethicone, Steareth 2, Sodium Polyacrylate, Propylene Glycol, Ethylhexyl Stearate, Diazolidmyl Urea, Aluminum Starch Octenylsucconate, Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Methylparaben, Sweet Almond Oil, Trideceth-6, Benzophenone 4, Propylparaban, Borago Seed Oil, Ext. Violet 2, Red 33.

Simone de Beauvoir quotes




The
year is 2002 and I am working in a small upscale art supply store downtown . I am young , I am bored . I am perhaps thinking of stealing a couple of bucks out of the register to pay for a box of chocolates and a coffee on my break ( But I don't , not this time at least) . My boss has come down stairs from his office to see why it is I'm not diligently stocking the new horse hair paint brushes that we've just received in . ( He's really just coming over to stair at my breast ) . Just before he starts to speak I smell Candy , a thick , syrupy , musk .. . A girl walks in ... i can still hear the click of her high heels . My boss stops mid-sentence to stare at her . I am staring too . She is short maybe 5'5 . She has brown skin that is shining as if she just emerged from some royal steamed bath . There is sweat on her upper lip , lingering as she slowly takes her time to walk around the store . It looks as if she is inspecting it . And then suddenly she finds it (what she's looking for ) . She reaches out her small slender hands full of rings , and shiny bracelets , and makes her way up to the register . " Is that all I say " ..."Yes " she says . Her lips move what seems to me lazily , full of discontent and pleasure all at the same time . They are caked with what looks to be at least three layers of chocolate cherry lip gloss .She breaths and her breast rise to the surface like a tide coming in , and I am instantly made nervous. "Excuse me , what kind of perfume are you wearing " I ask . " It's called Love Spell " she says . And I feel that I am made whole again by those words . Love spell I think to myself . And then just as quickly as she appeared .. she disappears . And her spell has been undone . But not Forgotten .

My boss looks at me with a straight face and says "Did you see that girl ... did you smell her , she smelled like candy !! Did you see her lips ? they were shinning ". And I look at him like he's crazy ..he walks away . But alas I had seen her ... I had smelled her ... I had wanted her ....maybe even too be her

Since that day I have smelled "Love Spell " on a stripper
, a cheating man and a business woman in passing , as well as many Victoria secret employees . I once played pool with a friend of mines who's girlfriend had dumped him ..she also wore "the scent" . After smelling it on me he was reduced to tears . Love spell has been a constant companion ..in my own perfume collection . And I have had many men and women stop and ask me what I'm wearing . More often than not women recognize the scent right away . They say "Love Spell " and I say "Love spell " and we both giggle , knowing its powers over the opposite sex ( And in some cases the same sex )

ps : Just like a real love spell it requires constant careful application ... this one needs to be layered on with the lotion to get the full effect ( Buy the perfu
me not the Body spray for longer lasting results )

j