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Catherine Deneuve, Elle magazine, May 1988.

Catherine Deneuve, Elle magazine, May 1988.


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Still life painting practice in Colors Live.

Still life painting practice in Colors Live.


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My New Favorite Fragrance for this season is definitely “Vintage Green” by @bananarepubl

My New Favorite Fragrance for this season is definitely “Vintage Green” by @bananarepublic.
An amazing woodsy scent with leafy undertones which became my everyday-perfume and I love it.
Banana Republic ICON fragrance collection has 8 different fragrances and you can find the perfect one for you at @fragancegroup.
What do you prefer woodsy or sweet scents?
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Carnation fragrance
amid the ruins calms her,
but sadness remains.

~ Poetictouch

Mats van Snippenberg in @faultmagazine #leshommes @dior @calvinklein @viktorandrolf 

Mats van Snippenberg in @faultmagazine #leshommes @dior@calvinklein@viktorandrolf 


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The ability scent has to bring us closer to a certain place or time is so magical. There are a handful of independent perfumers and small fragrance companies here in the US that do a fantastic job of creating unique and beautiful scents and to them,  I tip my hat. (Here’s looking at you, DS&Durga.)

However, it’s some fine folks out in California who prove to be a constant  source of inspiration. Juniper Ridge is an independent fragrance company that’s been defying the formulaic approach to making fragrance since 1998.  In addition to being a fanatical group of perfumers, these guys are also naturalist experts, trail explorers, environmental stewards, kick-ass product developers, clever marketers, and just all-around rad dudes who know a thing or two about what makes a for a good fragrance as well as what makes for a good hike .

For seventeen years Juniper Ridge  has been developing 100% wild-crafted fragrances from the mountains, canyons, forests, and deserts of the west. And every year, their product selection grows to reflect a romantic and textured scent library evocative of their home out west.

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‘Timberline Trail’, their newest Field Lab scent, was released last week in an extremely limited run, and is now available in both a beard and face oil as well as an all-natural incense pack. As with all Juniper Ridge fragrances, this one is unisex in fragrance profile. (However, I do think this one smells especially sexy on fellas.) Perhaps one of the brands most wearable fragrances, Timberline Trail has notes of sappy pine boughs, fresh rain, and a smoked woods accord. Timberline Trail Beard and Face Oil ($45) is; as their website describes;

“an organic jojoba-based moisturizer scented only with wild-fragrance. Formulated with wild spruce resin, lichen distillate, moss infusion, fir oil, and late-summer wildflower enfleurage.  All wildharvested this fall, deep in the Oregon backcountry.”

Boom.  I don’t think I could have written it better myself so I won’t even try. The whole shebang is packaged in a handsome tube with a pretty, granite-crusted bottle — perfect for Holiday gifting.

The incense stick is their first Field Lab incense ever. And it’s pretty dang special too. Made with wood from real fir and pine trees, with 100% natural materials from the mountains of the west. Real leaves, tree trimmings, tree pitch, cambium wood, and wild herbs! At $15 bucks a pop, this stuff will go real fast, so I suggest picking a tube up right away.

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Many commercial fragrances are full of artificial fillers, fake fragrance, nasty petrochemicals, and abrasive alcohols. In addition, all the outsourcing and fakeness involved in the production and wearing of fake fragrances can be harmful to both our bodies and our environment. And while that is all good and well if that’s how one wants to play it, it isn’t how  perfume used to be made.

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Juniper Ridge prescribes to a different type of thought when it comes to making stuff smell good.  Hal NewbeginObi Kaufmann, and the rest of the crew believe that the only way to re-create the true scent profile of a mountain ridge or a Redwood forest  is to strap on one’s boots and actually go there. Harvest the fir needles, pick the wild berries, smell the salty air and collect the fragrant barks and saps. In the Mojave Desert, the peaks of Mount Hood, and the canyons of California, the Juniper Ridge crew crawls around on wet dirt, digs for pine needles and mushrooms, harvests silt from the sides of mountains, and then kits it all together in extremely special low-batch fragrances using ancient perfumery methods like distillation, tincturing, infusion, and enfleurage.

And not only are they one of the few companies to still make fragrances in this way, but they also are the only fragrance company around to be accomplishing all of this hippie magic in-house; in a closed-loop manufacturing  process from their small and very cool workshop in Oakland, California. The result are fragrances that are just as finished, sophisticated, and yummy as the designer stuff — with a whole lot more soul, grit, and courage distilled into each bottle as well.

So, are the guys at Juniper Ridge perfumers? By all means yes. Are they kick-ass marketers? Yes. Punch-drunk with passion product-developers? Yes. Are they stewards of the environment, magicians of Mount Hood, tincture-developers of the trail, wild-harvesters of the West? Yes, Yes, Yes, and YES. And that’s what makes them so special. So spray on my friends, spray on.

+ all photos courtesy of juniperridge.com and the Juniper Ridge Trail Blog.

GROOM: ‘Timberline Trail’ by Juniper Ridge The ability scent has to bring us closer to a certain place or time is so magical.

My review of Le Lion de Chanel, and how it contains a hundred years of perfume history, is now live. I would love if you read it! ❤️

Though Le Lion contains no synthetics meant to mimic the traditional perfumery ingredients taken from animals like hyrax or civet, it does smell animalic. That strange, earthy, slightly disgusting but also comforting smell of living things — that’s what animalic perfumes smell like, and that is present in Le Lion. Animalic doesn’t always mean a horrible funk, and can in fact be quite wonderful — butter smells animalic, honey smells animalic. But more than that it is the smell of us, of humanity, of other people’s bodies. An animalic perfume is always marketed as sexy, and they are, but more than that they are intimate. It’s that quiet moment in the morning when you wake up before your lover and are surrounded by the smell their slightly dirty hair. Le Lion remains at every stage slightly animalic, slightly medicinal, golden and strange.”

Angels Victoria’s Secret for their new summer campaign #fashion #beauty #josephineskriver #rom

Angels Victoria’s Secret for their new summer campaign

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Chanel Coco advert from 1985

Chanel Coco advert from 1985


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How To Choose The Right Perfume for you

“Perfumes are like colours.”

In the same way, not all colours suit our skin tone. Not all perfumes will marry our natural body smell.I used to buy perfumes based on what was trending at the moment.

Advertising and Marketing had a lot to do with that, but now I have a different approach that I am going to share in this blog post.

1.Don’t fall into the trap of Marketing

Sometimes, the packaging, the bottle, and the colours can seduce you and get you to buy a perfume before even you get to smell it.

But you really should not judge a book by its cover. I tried on perfume that had an incredible presentation but was not that great.

2.Shop for perfumes alone

When you go shopping with other people. It is easy to get distracted and eveninfluenced by their opinion. It is best to go perfume shopping alone. It’ll be easier for you to make the right choice for yourself. Without any noise or distraction around you to influence you.

3.Try the perfume on your Hand…

Wait a few hours to see how the perfume alchemizes with your natural body smell.If you still like the smell on your skin, you can safely purchase the perfume knowing that you will enjoy putting it on every day.

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Happy Wednesday everyone!! I know it’s been a while but I hope you are all well and are enjoying your week! If you’re in the North East, I hope you are staying warm, its quite cold up here in NY and I would really like the snow to stop haha! But anyway, to brave the cold I decided to place an order from Glossier and as always I am not disappointed! I picked up their Priming Moisturizer, which I…

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A dupe for YSL’s Black Opium?

Yves Saint Laurent’s Black Opium perfume is a holy grail in millions of girls’ lives and it’s clear to see (or smell) why! Not only does the bottle look pretty, but the scent itself is both sexy and elegant, with strong notes of coffee and vanilla.

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Altitude, Great height or elevation aka the view from the plane window… . . . #vincecamuto #m

Altitude, Great height or elevation aka the view from the plane window…
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#vincecamuto #menswear #mensfragrance #mensgrooming #mensstyle #gentlemansstyle #mensstyleguided #mensweardaily #eterno #fragrance #fragrancediaries #captured #white #travel #traveltuesday #lifestylestories #manmeetsfashion #lifestyle #london #londonlife #mothernature #weather #sky #traveltuesday #escape #notsponsored (at London, United Kingdom)
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The borderline is bold… . . . #vincecamuto #menswear #mensfragrance #mensgrooming #mensstyle

The borderline is bold…
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#vincecamuto #menswear #mensfragrance #mensgrooming #mensstyle #mensweardaily #eterno #fragrance #fragrancediaries #captured #lifestylestories #manmeetsfashion #lifestyle #london #londonlife #mothernature #weather #sky #gentlemansstyle #gentsstyle #menswithclass #traveltuesday #escape #igerslondon #notsponsored (at London, United Kingdom)
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The blanket of Mother Nature… . . . #vincecamuto #menswear #mensfragrance #mensgrooming #mens

The blanket of Mother Nature…
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#vincecamuto #menswear #mensfragrance #mensgrooming #mensstyle #mensweardaily #eterno #fragrance #fragrancediaries #captured #lifestylestories #manmeetsfashion #lifestyle #london #londonlife #mothernature #weather #sky #traveltuesday #escape #igerslondon (at London, United Kingdom)
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The DRG Style Index: Celine, Instagram, Gucci Beauty, Joseph, The Harmonist

Here’s the latest DRG STYLE INDEX ranking, a round-up of the brands and industry stories currently buzzing on my radar…

HEDI’S DEBUT AT CELINE
Celine ss19 by Hedi Slimane
What are we to make of Celine 3.0? I loved Hedi Slimane at Dior Homme and Hedi at Saint Laurent, but I’m not sure how I feel about the exact same look at Celine. It all feels a bit… Sandro circa 2016 (which is kinder than the ‘H&M Divided’ comment on…

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philosophy amazing grace ballet rose fragrance

philosophy amazing grace ballet rosefragrance


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prada infusion de rose“this sublime and luxurious scent is inspired by apparent contradictions

prada infusion de rose

“this sublime and luxurious scent is inspired by apparent contradictions. imagine garden roses of ancient variety, highly scented, infusing in a perfumed water of neroli, mandarin and galbanum… this is the rose’s very essence.”


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