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We don't know what Marie Antoinette wore to her execution. But the Austrian-born beauty and Queen of France lived in a time and place that valued perfume. The art of the perfumist in her day involved taking natural essences to create relatively unstable fragrances that had a short shelf-life. Perfume was dazzlingly expensive, but the French Court at Versailles lived lavishly. A woman at Court at that time literally would spend a year's wages on a single gown. By the way, the palace of her day had no central heating, but French aristocratic ladies went about in bare shoulders and plunging necklines even in winter. (Voltaire's mistress wore dresses so low cut she rouged her nipples.) While fancy hair ornaments, elaborate jewelry and cosmetics (including perfume) were normal, underpants were not, at least not for ladies.
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We have just added a new ThePerfume-Reporter Goes Shopping department so that you can shop around for all of our favorite scents without having to wade through everything on the perfume counter. In case you haven't noticed, there are thousands of scents on the market, hundreds introduced each year, and it's hard to know which is which. While trying new scents is fun, our shopping page aims to give you delightful scents we know about and things we've talked about or reviewed here. Click here.
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Come visit our store on CafePress!
Just click on the pink type and you'll be re-directed to our new online shop. You can also get there the old-fashioned way: Perfume Reporter Shop.
Our debut offerings:
JOURNAL entitled "Confessions of a Perfumista," perfect for keeping clandestine notes, secret documents, trade secrets, and your own musings. Jaunty pink.
COFFEE MUG with our favorite saying, "Wake up and smell the perfume!" Hey, sometimes life takes an ugly turn and you veer off into the mundane world of drinking coffee at a desk. Celebrate perfume even in those dark moments.
CLOCK with our other favorite saying, "So may fragrances, so little time." Not only does this handsome wall clock keep actual time (subject of philosophers for millennia) it reminds you of how many perfumes you still need to go out and sample.
And more! Check it out! We've got some more items in the works. |
