#le parfum

[austinslounge]

Austin for YSL - MYSLF

[gildedrazzmatazz]

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[concombre-2-mer]

"Grenouille, qui n'avait pas plus d'honneur qu'il ne croyait aux saints ni, encore moins, à l'âme de sa pauvre mère, jura."

Süskind, Le Parfum

[itsthegossipboy]

The Unforgettable Allure of Elie Saab Le Parfum

[goliadkine]

“LOUIS: You smell nice.”

 “JOE: So do you.

LOUIS: Smell is . . . an incredibly complex and underappreciated physical phenomenon. Inextricably bound up with sex.

JOE: I . . . didn’t know that.

LOUIS: It is. The nose is really a sexual organ. Smelling. Is desiring. We have five senses, but only two that go beyond the boundaries . . . of ourselves. When you look at someone, it’s just bouncing light, or when you hear them, it’s just sound waves, vibrating air, or touch is just nerve endings tingling. Know what a smell is?

JOE: It’s . . . some sort of . . . No.

LOUIS: It’s made of the molecules of what you’re smelling. Some part of you, where you meet the air, is airborne.

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 Angels in America (PERESTROIKA), Tony Kushner, 1991

Sacred odors then were notably complex. As in the graves of would-be saints, the smell of sanctity often mingled with the stench of decay and death. Ancient cities, Thurkill wrote, were characterized by “the stench of human excrement, refuse and disease, accompanied with soothing floral scents and perfumes.” Sacred smells like frankincense and myrrh were used over the centuries to demarcate sacred space — but also to disinfect and disguise putrid areas. […]

This gave holy smells a fundamentally paradoxical nature. In a world where breathing foul-smelling air was seen as the cause of many diseases, incense was seen as a barrier against illness, and, with its holy associations, against demonic possession. But equally, powerful scents could be used to disguise a deeper decay, or to tempt the pious with worldly delights and bodies. Even bad smells had an ambiguous quality. After all, the rotting stench of a starved ascetic’s mouth was simply more proof of his profound holiness.

It’s this ambiguity about smell, […] that gives scent its power as a theological tool. In addition to its flexible moral significance, the experience of an odor often reflects our understanding of divinity. Like God, smell can surround you from an indeterminate source, filling spaces with its invisible presence. But unlike sound, which might do the same, to experience a smell it must first be taken within, in an act — breathing — that is both life-giving and volitional.

—John Last, The Centuries-Long Quest for the Scent of God, Noema Magazine

[016-prfm]

Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Le Parfum

Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Extreme

[zooey-glss]

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[keepingitneutral]

Le Labo Kyoto Machiya,

206 Banchi Shimokorikicho Nakagyouku, Kyoto

[m-eltdown]

[rogerdeakinsdp]

PAMELA ANDERSON as Jessica Fox in NICKY LARSON ET LE PARFUM DE CUPIDON // CITY HUNTER (2018) dir. Philippe Lacheau

[prosedumonde]

Où qu’elle aille, où qu’elle se trouve, il y avait toujours cette forme d’étrangeté qui persistait, l’intuition d’un monde qu’elle ne comprenait pas très bien, et dans lequel elle tentait désespérément de mettre du sens. Un monde dont elle n’était qu’une occupante éphémère, curieuse et un peu perdue, une invitée de passage qui s’efforçait, le temps de son séjour, d’apprendre les lois locales et ses codes inconnus.

Marie Mangez, Le parfum des cendres

[austinslounge]

Austin | New Ad for YSL MYSLF Le Parfum 💫

[letterful]

scent of the day!

[concombre-2-mer]

"Qu'à l'origine de cette splendeur il y ait eu un meurtre, il n'est pas sûr qu'il en ait été conscient, et cela lui était parfaitement indifférent. L'image de la jeune fille dans la rue des Marais, son visage, son corps, il était déjà incapable de s'en souvenir. Car enfin, il avait conservé d'elle et s'était approprié ce qu'elle avait de mieux : le principe de son parfum."

Süskind, Le Parfum

[itsthegossipboy]

The Unforgettable Allure of Elie Saab Le Parfum https://themarvingloria.wordpress.com/2024/11/26/the-unforgettable-allure-of-elie-saab-le-parfum/

[les-portes-du-sud]

« Il est des parfums frais comme des chairs d’enfants, Doux comme des hautbois, verts comme des prairies » écrit Baudelaire dans Correspondances, comme pour décrire les saveurs d’un agrume.