Welcome to a new BBJ feature, Fictitious Fragrance Fans. Fragrance is one of the most difficult areas of beauty to discuss and I find myself trying to convey a scent to you, more often than not, by the pop culture character it embodies to me. So why not make it a thing?
So, just as cotton is the fabric of our lives, for my brother Ethan and me, PBS’ Mystery! opening sequence is on the soundtrack of our lives. I just love the Edward Gorey opening.
I used to want to be FANCY like that damsel in distress in the blue dress waving her scarf, all DEVA that part of the building she was lying on crumbled off. Why she lay up there and moaned about it, I still don’t understand. Doll? Just get up. That’s all. But she DOES have a certain sensibility that requires a corresponding eau de quiet despair from which she needs saving, and for that, I have the perf perfume to recommend.
Exhibit A: My new fragrance fave, Lisa Hoffman‘s Japanese Agarwood Fragrance Set ($95). This “flight” of four fragrances seems like just the kind of fancy scent the wailing woman on the wall would rock in utter sophistication whilst awaiting her knight in shining armor to rescue her from that precipice of near-doom. With its mix of Italian Bergamot, Spiced Ginger Accord, and Warm Amber in slightly varied compositions, it could easily take her from her fair maiden breakfast all the way through her evening-on-the-fainting couch festivities. The scent was even a 2009 FIFI Award finalist. The set contains four scent iterations: one for morning, one for day time, one for evening, and one for bedtime. Best of all: You won’t lose any of the petite roll-ons because they come in a gorgeous leather envelope.
But should any go missing, you can be sure it was that wiley Miss Scarlett (with the revolver) in the study.
The Lisa Hoffman Japanese Agarwood Fragrance Set retails for $95 at lisahoffmanskincare.com. BONUS! Use code BBJUNKIE at checkout and receive a 15% discount on your entire order. Have Wadsworth the butler bring you another glass of wine whilst you order your own fragrance set online.
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If you like the artwork from “Mystery” you should check out this site:
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I always loved the theme song from Mystery, too, and the damsel in distress….great childhood memory….
I have simply fallen in love with Lisa Hoffman’s Variations. LOVE LOVE LOVE Madagascar Orchid and Japanese Agarwood. I recently bought both perfumes and I smell the enduring Madagascar Orchid scent all though out my day, I certainly can’t stop thinking about it, and yes how to get more. Same with the Agarwood it is very hypotic as well. The Japanese Agarwood, I am simply mad over and must have one of the two perfumes on at all times. I reached for a jacket yesterday and this fresh and clean but never soapy smell rushed to envelop me. All I can say is that these scents are so feminine and entrancing, I simply MUST wear them. It gives you a similar feeling like when you are walking in the woods after a good rain….you know that l mean…you just take the deepest breath you can because it is so clean, refreshing and revitalizing. It’s not the kind of clean smell that some “clean linen” type fragrances claim to be. This is truly a refreshing sent without being citrus-y or clean linen-y.This is a fragrance you MUST try Sniffers beware you are going to want one or both of these variations. THANKS FOR THE COUPON! I MUST BUY MORE!
I have simply fallen in love with Lisa Hoffman’s Variations. LOVE LOVE LOVE Madagascar Orchid and Japanese Agarwood. I recently bought both perfumes and I smell the enduring Madagascar Orchid scent all though out my day, I certainly can’t stop thinking about it, and yes how to get more. Same with the Agarwood it is very hypotic as well. The Japanese Agarwood, I am simply mad over and must have one of the two perfumes on at all times. I reached for a jacket yesterday and this fresh and clean but never soapy smell rushed to envelop me. All I can say is that these scents are so feminine and entrancing, I simply MUST wear them. It gives you a similar feeling like when you are walking in the woods after a good rain….you know that l mean…you just take the deepest breath you can because it is so clean, refreshing and revitalizing. It’s not the kind of clean smell that some “clean linen” type fragrances claim to be. This is truly a refreshing sent without being citrus-y or clean linen-y.This is a fragrance you MUST try Sniffers beware you are going to want one or both of these variations. THANKS FOR THE COUPON! I MUST BUY MORE!
I have simply fallen in love with Lisa Hoffman’s Variations. LOVE LOVE LOVE Madagascar Orchid and Japanese Agarwood. I recently bought both perfumes and I smell the enduring Madagascar Orchid scent all though out my day, I certainly can’t stop thinking about it, and yes how to get more. Same with the Agarwood it is very hypotic as well. The Japanese Agarwood, I am simply mad over and must have one of the two perfumes on at all times. I reached for a jacket yesterday and this fresh and clean but never soapy smell rushed to envelop me. All I can say is that these scents are so feminine and entrancing, I simply MUST wear them. It gives you a similar feeling like when you are walking in the woods after a good rain….you know that l mean…you just take the deepest breath you can because it is so clean, refreshing and revitalizing. It’s not the kind of clean smell that some “clean linen” type fragrances claim to be. This is truly a refreshing sent without being citrus-y or clean linen-y.This is a fragrance you MUST try Sniffers beware you are going to want one or both of these variations. THANKS FOR THE COUPON! I MUST BUY MORE!