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TUBEROSE IN THE FLESH
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HOT IN THE CITY : : JUNGLE JEZEBEL by SARAH BAKER (2016)
After emerging scathed, from a well ventilated but still suffocating windowless room, I took great lungfuls of the hot city Yokohama air the second I stepped outside thinking : this it : I am outside in the second biggest city … Continue reading
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PINEAPPLE MONDAY : : : : : OUD by THE SPIRIT OF DUBAI (2015)+ ORION BY TIZIANA TERENZI (2015) + PAS ENCORE NOMMÉ by PINK MAHOGHANY (2016)
Pineapples were thrust into the public limelight by Japanese comedian Pikotaro with his novelty single ‘Pineapple Pen’ in 2016, In perfume, the fruit was popularised earlier in Creed’s macho superhit Aventus (2010), which took quite an original accord of sharp … Continue reading
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VICARIOUS TRAVEL : : : : : : 5th AVENUE + SLOAN STREET + VIA VENETO +AVENUE MONTAIGNE by STRADA PARFUMERIE (2020)
No one can travel anywhere now, except domestically. In Japan we are not even supposed to do that: to cross into other prefectures. Some have taken to ‘online travel’. I can’t be bothered. … Continue reading
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BLANK SLATE ::::::::::: SESAME CHAN by ANIMA VINCI (2018) + MUGLER COLOGNE : LOVE YOU ALL (2018) + ALL ABOUT THE BOOK LAUNCH AND MY STRANGE, INTENSE, TRIPLE LIFE
Sometimes it is difficult to distill experiences into words. Especially when they have been among the most intense and memorable of your life (this post might take several chapters; or alternatively, realistically, as time gets swallowed up … Continue reading
TUBEROSA
Burning Bush, a creature from my imagination made flesh by my person ( see above ), an occasional entity I find quite necessary to embody in these dumb, fascistic times (no matter how ‘horrifying’ some of my old … Continue reading
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TUBEROSE, IN THE FLESH
Originally posted on The Black Narcissus:
And there they were. We walked into the flower-strewn lobby of the Hotel Tugu Malang. And to my…
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NINE AND A HALF WEEKS: : : : TUBEROSA by SANTA MARIA NOVELLA (1939)
Off-white lipid tuberoses float in musked, Italian water: looming, moonstruck flowers that exhale blushlessly with a pure and florally animal sexuality – full, rude skinned smells to make the introspective, the loveless, and the anaphrodisically … Continue reading
AMERICAN SILLAGE : : : ESTEE LAUDER PRIVATE COLLECTION (1973) + PRIVATE COLLECTION TUBEROSE GARDENIA ( 2007 )
Private Collection is an American classic. Extremely distinctive, there is nothing else quite like it. Green, lush, austere but yearningly romantic, … Continue reading
VERO PROFUMO :ROZY EXTRAIT (2014)
“I HATE RESPECTABILITY. GIVE ME THE LIFE OF THE STREETS, THE COMMON PEOPLE”. (Anna Magnani) (by Olivia) A couple of years ago, I attended … Continue reading
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