tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post5974670532732671237..comments2024-02-24T18:30:26.749-07:00Comments on prairiemary: THE NOSTALGIA OF SMOKESTINKUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-3472588273896335362011-03-12T12:36:54.390-07:002011-03-12T12:36:54.390-07:00This comment comes from aad de gide, my poet frien...This comment comes from aad de gide, my poet friend in the Netherlands, who is also a perfume aficionado:<br /><br />a lovely blog mary,about the smokey scents.<br />how this genial man (octavian coifan) writes about empyreumatic scents is alluring. pyromaniacs,pyrotechnics. i also never heard of this word. but it clearly burns.<br /><br />i also like smokey scents. in nature,which i have scented far less than you,<br />and in....perfumes. because they are already there. now i take a walk to my vitrine,and seek some out for ya......<br /><br />out of my head,is “aromatics elixir” from clinique definitely a smokey scent.<br />people either abhorr or love it. it is very pungent,also orientalistic,but the strangeness of the smokeyness prevails,i think.<br /><br /> (patchouli.)<br />“noir patchouli”,from “histoires the parfums.paris,is definitely also a smokey scent.<br /><br />“cuir ottoman”,from “parfums d’empire”.paris, also,is a smokey perfume.<br /><br />“cabochard” de “grès”.paris. patchouli based,a kind of sharp,smokey scent.<br /><br />“arabie” de serge lutens.paris. <br /><br />“daim blonde” de serge lutens.paris.<br /><br />“black orchid” from tom ford. new york. <br /><br />“labdanum” from “le labo”. grasse.new york.<br />so.<br /><br />i have them all because i like smokey, heavy, whorey,sinistre,a bit wrong.Mary Strachan Scriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00538160009129822362noreply@blogger.com