The Spring Season > Spring Season III
Fragrance Foundation > Hall of Fame perfumes (listed from most recent to 1987, when first awarded) >
• Eternity, Calvin Klein
• White Linen, Estée Lauder
• Beautiful, Estée Lauder
• Poison, Christian Dior
• First, Van Cleef & Arpels
• Obsession, Calvin Klein
• Paco Rabanne Pour Homme, Paco Rabanne
• Giorgio, Giorgio Beverly Hills
• Canoe, Dana Perfumes
• Coco, Chanel
• Drakkar Noir, [...]
The Spring Season > Spring Season II
Fragrance… some facts >
… responds to diet: High fat, spicy foods will intensify a scent.
… will not last all day, so needs to be refreshed.
… rises: Apply perfume below the head and face, too. Spraying perfume and then stepping through its mist diffuses the scent over more skin.
… holds better on oily skin than on [...]
The Spring Season > Spring Season I
It’s Spring time! The aroma is in the air! > A Special Spring Feature > The Power of Perfume
IN THE HEADY WORLD OF FRAGRANCE, WHAT MAKES SCENTS AESTHETICALLY MAY NOT MAKE SENSE SCIENTIFICALLY
Perfume’s legends, true or not, include these:
Cleopatra uncurling herself before Marc Antony with the fragrance of roses and violets rising from her body.
The [...]
The Spring Season > Spring Poems >
Nature inspired the author, an 18th-century Vietnamese concubine whose subtly risqué poems questioned male authority. The works were published by Copper Canyon Press of Port Townsend, Wash. Used by permission.
A gentle spring evening arrives
airily, unclouded by worldly dust.
Three times the bell tolls echoes like a wave.
We see heaven upside-down in sad puddles.
Love’s vast sea cannot [...]
The Spring Season >
Power games between Father Time and Mother Nature get very public when the two struggle to create the Spring Season.
“I want warmth,” Mom Nature purrs in March, just before she splits open the sky to reveal a steaming sun.
“Don’t you ever look at the calendar?” Daddy Time growls, and the temperature plunges below freezing.
“Let gentle [...]
