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I have a new route to work now. On an overground train that passes parks and houses and a school, that passes other trains. On which I stand closely to strangers for about eight minutes, never more than 10. Sometimes our hands touch as the train lurches and one of us reaches for something to [...]
Filed by vic at October 15th, 2012 under tiny holiday
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Jane Birkin never really liked perfume. And until Miller Harris asked her to create a signature scent, she always preferred to carry pot pourri in her pocket. Her brother, director Andrew Birkin, had a perfume lab set up in his house in Wales where he was experimenting with scents as research for his next film. [...]
Filed by vic at March 8th, 2012 under tiny holiday
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Jacques Polge is Chanel’s Master Perfumer. To create Chance Eau Tendre, he reimagined Chance in a “constellation of tender and vibrant notes, fruity and airy, intoxicating”. He probably had a girl in mind who’d wear it too: someone with kind eyes, hands so nice that people notice, talent to match her passion. He couldn’t have imagine how it’d [...]
Filed by vic at March 7th, 2012 under tiny holiday
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I first smelt Viktor and Rolf’s Flowerbomb when I lived in a heavy city. The sky there was always so close, all over everything. I would go into Selfridges and put it on and imagine things were different, better. I finally bought it when I made the decision to leave and now when I wear [...]
Filed by vic at March 6th, 2012 under tiny holiday
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We went to Romania a few years ago. We caught two buses and a train from Transylvania to Bucharest and walked through dusty, dug up streets to our hostel. They buzzed us in. We pushed open the heavy door. And suddenly, out of nowhere I was hit, thrown, blown off my feet by the smell of [...]
Filed by vic at March 5th, 2012 under tiny holiday
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