https://believermag.com/the-ghost-who-refused-to-die/
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
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Tuesday, October 06, 2020
Saturday, September 12, 2020
“ 1 I am from Birmingham in the centre of the UK and I lived in London and Rome before coming to Japan. I have always loved reading books, and was known by my friends for being an avid letter writer ( I would quite often send people thirty page letters from wherever I was), but it wasn’t until I started trying to capture smells and perfume in words that I realized where my real niche as a writer lay. One day I just started an evocation of Guerlains’ Mitsouko on a paper and find it incredibly exciting – the challenge of making something as ephemeral and ungraspable as a perfume come alive on the page. I then came up with an idea for a book, a guide to perfume note by note, found a literary agent, started my perfume blog The Black Narcissus, wrote some articles on olfaction for some magazines and then ended up publishing ‘Perfume: In Search Of Your Signature Scent’ last year.
answers to an interview that never happened
Tuesday, September 01, 2020
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Friday, August 14, 2020
Saturday, June 27, 2020
Sunday, June 14, 2020
it seems lot has changed since i closed the perfume cupboard nearly 20 years ago. hové has moved its location from rue royale again, CM has discontinued its revived special edition line again and, somehow, there seems to be no picture anywhere on the web of hové’s lovely glass stoppered half moon perfum bottle, now apparently discontinued as well! i need to rectify that. and also to open up the perfume cupboard again...tresor, chloe, fracas, even white shoulders, all either “reconstituted” now— which is what i take to mean approximated with industrial chemicals so they can all smell like each other and mow people down at the mall—or simply gone.
https://flickr.com/photos/59724009@N00/sets/72057594069705745
Friday, June 12, 2020
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Thursday, June 04, 2020
Sunday, May 17, 2020
timegoogle 1955/1972/2020
Sunday, May 10, 2020
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
earth day
and now i am devastated. i spent so much time getting this earth day walk down memory lane just right that i completely missed my first brasstown party meeting! and i spent so much time practicing zoom yesterday, and tuning in only to realize i was 24 hours early, i was sooo looking forward to it! i have been alone in this house for 37 days and now i don’t know how long i’ll have to wait for another one—it took me so long just to get included as it is...
i am truly devastated. i guess it all must be wearing on me more than i’m aware because missing the meeting, even though it was just a meeting of some people i don’t see very often, most of whom i really don’t know very well, but missing it feels like everything. it feels like...what’s the point?
i am bereft. truly.
...only now it is a couple of hours later and i’ve had conversations with margaret, and nettie, and julie (and even a heart from franklin!) and it’s better. doesn’t take a lot but it does take some. and i was very conscious that this is not the time for full on dramatics, any more than it is for emotional supression.