Showing posts with label Lizzie Ostrom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lizzie Ostrom. Show all posts
Thursday, 6 December 2018
CULT PERFUMES by Tessa Williams
Thursday, 22 June 2017
PERFUME at Somerset House
Thursday, 16 March 2017
THE JASMINE AWARD WINNERS 2017
Thursday, 28 April 2016
THE CELEBRITY FRAGRANCE
They arrive in a blaze of publicity and either hold onto their market share or silently disappear. I'm talking about CELEBRITY FRAGRANCES. There has been a lot of talk about the scourge of this genre recently, but in my opinion the reviewers are missing the point. The world has changed since Guerlain launched Mitsouko in 1919 and L.T. Piver gave us Rêve D'Or in 1889, not least because of the number of releases every year, so are Beyoncé and Rihanna being unfairly criticised? Let's compare a century of perfume habits and see whether twelve months might actually become the norm for a fragrance's life.Saturday, 24 October 2015
Lizzie Ostrom's Century Of Scents
When Lizzie Ostrom (aka Odette Toilette) first told me that she was writing a book about perfume I remember thinking, how will you get the character of this eccentric into print? Lizzie is anything but predictable, and she has made her reputation by taking perfume and turning it on its head. Anyone who has witnessed her in action knows that her quirky style and approachable manner is what keeps you coming back for more. So, would this translate into print? There have many dry, dusty and pretentious books about perfume over the years which use language that even Countdown's Dictionary Corner would struggle with, but this is not one of them.
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