tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21382063.post114651703417112146..comments2007-03-25T17:06:57.965-04:00marlenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15517498645205703331noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21382063.post-1147114909096326392006-05-08T15:01:00.000-04:002006-05-08T15:01:00.000-04:00La Différance (for men and women).<BR/><BR/>Night-blooming wisteria wraps around a heart of fruits rouges (Cassis, <BR/>Plum <BR/>as in Japanese plum wine), resting on a leather accord that is not dry, <BR/>but <BR/>pliant and sweet/“buttery,” like a leather jacket. Stitched through <BR/>this <BR/>cool floral/leather/fruit mixture, a dry, sharp wood that might <BR/>approach the <BR/>mustiness of a recently removed cork from a bottle of red wine…like <BR/>cedar, <BR/>with cured tobacco leaf. Bottom notes: vanilla absolute, candied <BR/>chestnut, <BR/>musk.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21382063.post-1146913150785544442006-05-06T06:59:00.000-04:002006-05-06T06:59:00.000-04:00Octavian, Justin - thanks for your creative imaginings!marlenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15517498645205703331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21382063.post-1146886665808557262006-05-05T23:37:00.000-04:002006-05-05T23:37:00.000-04:00A few years ago I came across a tea (in an off the beaten path family owned Chinese restaurant in Michigan of all places) it was very fragrant, a mixture of the light delicate sweetness of jasmine and the bitterness of the green tea it was mixed with. My idea is not so much to duplicate the tea itself (as that has already been attempted by various other houses) however, that is where my idea comes from.<BR/><BR/>My idea, creates a fragrance of composing parts that I do not feel makes the same mistake that is fatal for Versace’s Man; that is, having too many potent ingredients contradicting each other at once. <BR/><BR/>Components: (here shown in the simple manner of top notes and bottom notes which are meant to create a paradox)<BR/><BR/>Everblooming Jasmine – Tobacco<BR/>Vetiver – Atlas Cedar<BR/><BR/>Other than those, to add the rarity of the fragrance and to provide more subtle depth, I believe that Yin Zhen (aka white or silver needle) tea would be an appropriate edition. <BR/><BR/>In the top, the delicate yet fragrant scent of jasmine is contrasted by the smell of tobacco (think Versace Dreamer for the type of tobacco). The jasmine is the focus with tobacco playing a back up role. During the dry down, the vetiver (along the line of vetiver extraordinaire in terms of earthy/raunchy potency) becomes the prominent note while the crisp, lightness of the cedar (here think of the cedar found in CdG’s Kyoto) rounds it off and adds another dimension to the fragrance. The result, a fragrance that is both seemingly anarchic and balanced. A fragrant interpretation of Ying Yang.Justinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21382063.post-1146710888409139422006-05-03T22:48:00.000-04:002006-05-03T22:48:00.000-04:00Denstyle - nice job! Thanks for reading and posting!<BR/>marlenmarlenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15517498645205703331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21382063.post-1146608679686376142006-05-02T18:24:00.000-04:002006-05-02T18:24:00.000-04:00Boronia<BR/><BR/>A rich green floral (violet) with aromatic notes. It should explore the violet note on an aromatic (herbal) base (with immortelle) without its classical creamy sweet or woody notes. The top notes should be sharp, aldehydic, green evolving into a rich floral (violet, cassie absolute) with spices and black truffle. Imagine a violet rain with delicate flowers falling into a spiky dry shrub. The fragrance would express the contrast between delicacy and hardness.<BR/><BR/>Aldehydes, folione, geranium<BR/>Ionones and methyl ionones, violiff, black truffle accord, spice basket (cardamom, nutmeg), cassie<BR/>Helycrissum, IBQ, amber notes, grisalva, oudh<BR/><BR/>Champaca<BR/><BR/>Jonquille<BR/>The fragrance should explore the dry side of the opulent flower on a slightly leather base. The intoxicating flower with saffron notes and aldehydes (quite mettalic) will explode into a multi sided flower accord were the powderiness becomes a spicy breazy air. The final notes are a dry leather accord with green (vegetable) spots and a mushroom accent.<BR/><BR/>Aldehydes, saffron, ginger, camomille<BR/>Jonquille, jasmin, Hedione, toscanol, cetonal, helional<BR/>Leather, civet, mushroom, oakmoss, pyralone<BR/><BR/><BR/>Kewda<BR/><BR/>Imagine a green honey flowing from an exotic tree retaing on in its sticky way little flowers falling into a rainy day. The fragrance should explore the extreme green and sharp note of the kewda contrasting with its honey - honeysuckle note. The green note will be powerfull, sharp, spicy (white pepper, ginger, cardamom) evolving into a hyacinth (rather bitter than creamy) and finally into a indolic honey base with costus and "skin" odor. <BR/><BR/>Folione, glycolierral, vandor, white pepper, ginger, <BR/>Hyacinth base, Jasmin, freesia accord, traces of rose oxide + damascone<BR/>Honey base, iris, costus, velvione, myrrhaOctavianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18342689176413052674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21382063.post-1146567824555915102006-05-02T07:03:00.000-04:002006-05-02T07:03:00.000-04:00My ideal TDC fragrance would be VIBURNUM...I am not sure if you can capture the scent of them. The Viburnum in my garden is just bursting into bloom, and the snowball shaped flowers smell wonderful, less sweet than orange blossom and heavier somehow.<BR/><BR/>Notes (linear fragrance - not pyramid)<BR/><BR/>Viburnum<BR/>Green wood<BR/>"rain" accord<BR/>something sharp, pepper?<BR/>iris root<BR/>earth note<BR/><BR/>Nice to think of your fantasy fragrance! Great blog btwDenstylenoreply@blogger.com