Showing posts with label Fashion & Beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fashion & Beauty. Show all posts
My Perfumes & the Travels They Evoke
What a suggestive force smell is. It's this sense with all its Pavlovian powers that makes me want to instantly disrobe and lie face down in anticipation of a massage whenever I catch the spa-like whiff of lemongrass (which is why I should probably avoid Thai restaurants). It's why amortentia - the most powerful love potion in the wizarding world - smells to each person of their favourite things. Mine would be: the seats of a new car, fresh paint, and vanilla ice-cream OMG am I pregnant?! Scent leads us down forgotten paths of memories old and transports us to places we'd rather be. This same aspirational quality is why the head honchos of the fragrance industry are probably cackling all the way to the bank in a perfume cloud of Justin Bieber 'Someday' and 'Girlfriend'. Muahahahaha.
In the theme of this month's travel blogger linkup I thought I'd share with you my collection of fragrances and the journeys to faraway lands that they bring to my mind.
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April 04, 2016
My Perfumes & the Travels They Evoke
What a suggestive force smell is. It's this sense with all its Pavlovian powers that makes me want to instantly disrobe an...
Welcome, Monkey!
Gong Xi Fa Cai, Wan Shi Ru Yi! Wishing you all prosperity in the year of the Fire Monkey!
February 08, 2016
Welcome, Monkey!
Gong Xi Fa Cai, Wan Shi Ru Yi! Wishing you all prosperity in the year of the Fire Monkey!
Winter Skin: My 8 Epidermis Essentials
That's right, lucky number 8. To all my superstitious Chinese homies, can I get a '发发*'?
*发 - fatt, or 'prosperous', which sounds just like '八' (eight).
December 22, 2015
Winter Skin: My 8 Epidermis Essentials
That's right, lucky number 8. To all my superstitious Chinese homies, can I get a ' 发发*' ? * 发 - fatt, or 'prosper...
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