01 Wednesday May 2013
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100% Natural, Etsy, Floral, Floral Gourmand, floriental, Full Bottle Wishlist, Indie, Liz Zorn, Loreto Remsing, Mandy Aftel, Natural Perfume, Niche, Noses, Perfume, Perfume Review, Season, SF Bay Area Perfumers & Artisans, Sharra, Spring, Tom Ford, Trish McEvoy, Wishlist
April showers bring May flowers! My mini-review of randomly chosen floral scents in my sample collection… Continue reading
16 Tuesday Apr 2013
Posted in Everything But the Juice
My favorite movie of all time is Harold and Maude. Have you seen it? There is one scene in the movie where Maude introduces Harold to a fascinating contraption… Continue reading
02 Tuesday Apr 2013
Risotto requires a lot of patience and TLC but it is worth it! Yum!
I got the recipe from Laura in the Kitchen. She makes it easy for a novice like me. Click the pic for her easy tutorial.
Posted by olfactoryobsessed | Filed under Butternut Squash Risotto, Laura in The Kitchen
20 Wednesday Mar 2013
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Almond, Amber, ambrette seeds, Antoine Maisondieu, Bergamot, black cumin, bulgarian rose otto, Camille Goutal, carnation, cedar, centifolia rose, Chypre, Cinnamon, civet, cloves, cocoa beans, concrete, Dark Amber, Dawn Spencer Hurwitz, Favorite Flowers, floriental, fresh turned soil, gaïac wood, Gourmand, hay, heliotrope, incense, Indie, iris, Isabelle Doyen, jasmin, Labdanum, Laurie Erickson, Leather, Lemon, Liz Zorn, Loreto Remsing, magma, March Violet Series, Men's Fragrances, meteorite, mimosa blossoms, Musk, myrrh, Niche, Noses, Oakmoss, olfactory snapshots, opium, ozone, parma violet, Patchouli, plum, powdery orris root, purple violets, rainwater, Reality Scents, Rose, Sandalwood, Series, Sharra, star anise, sweet clover, tonka bean, Turkish Rose, Vanilla Bean, Vetiver, Violet, violet leaf, violet petals
8 samples of violet perfume have been sitting in my collection for a year now. I never got around to them for some reason or another. Now that it is the first day of Spring, I thought this would be a good time to dust them off and give them a sniff…
14 Thursday Mar 2013
Posted in Lei Flower, Providence Perfume Co.
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100% Natural, bitter almond, chamomile, Charna Ethier, cocoa, currant bud, Floral, Floral Gourmand, frangipani, Graveyard, Jasmine, Natural Perfume, Noses, Patchouli, sweet orange, tarragon, Vanilla, Ylang Ylang, yuzu
Natural perfumery is still a world I haven’t really delved into. To be honest, it’s a genre of perfumery that actually scares me. Continue reading
11 Monday Mar 2013
Posted in American Tea Room, Brioche Organic Tea, Choco*Late, So Coconut
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almonds, Black Tea, cacao husks, chocolate tea, Cinnamon, Coconut, rooibos red tea, safflower blossoms, Series, tea review, The Tea Diaries, Vanilla Bean
My review of tea samples from American Tea Room, a chic and trendy tea shop located in Beverly Hills that caters to the rich and famous… Continue reading
10 Sunday Mar 2013
07 Thursday Mar 2013
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Muffins baking in the oven. I can smell vanilla and bittersweet chocolate wafting throughout the house. The scent of warmth and comfort.
Posted by olfactoryobsessed | Filed under Uncategorized
16 Saturday Feb 2013
Posted in Chantal Guillon Macarons & Teas, Macarons
14 Thursday Feb 2013
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bellodgia, billet doux, carnation, caron, fragonard, Occasion, olfactory kitchen, olfactory snapshots, Valentine's Day
Mmmmm…there is nothing like freshly baked chocolate chip scones in the morning!
I woke up very early to leave a plate by his bedside and a card.
Later tonight we will probably hit up our local sushi hole-in-the wall restaurant. We like to keep things simple around here.
My scent of the day is Fragonard Billet Doux. Not only is the name appropriate for the occasion, Love Letter, so is the scent: A soft, dreamy carnation. Feminine and romantic. You can read my review here: https://olfactoryobsessed.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/olfactory-snapshots-caron-bellodgia-fragonard-billet-doux-serge-lutens-vitriol-doeillet/#more-4133
What is your favorite Valentine scent?
Posted by olfactoryobsessed | Filed under Uncategorized
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