you get more salami with modigliani

I’m not the type that’s hungry to have an engament ring with the size of an ice cube around the finger, but I definitly enjoy the freedom of creativity that jewelry brands take to promote their candy. I like the adds of Van Cleef and Arpels which are dreamy, those of Chanel that feel so intimate but my big fave is definitily the most traditional house jewelryhouse ever: Harry Winston (tell me all about it!). And that because they dare to compensate that image with their great adds that are very simple, but so different because they actually don’t use fancy models (oh no) but birds, they photograph as if it were royals… Finally more respect for animal in fashion (ok, I am guilty here too: I wear my grandma’s old fur scarf)! I was wondering if HW had a special band with birds so I did some research here but couldn’t find anything that gave me a satisfying answer. And if I can’t find it by myself, why shouldn’t I ask: I sent the HW-folks an E-mail… to be continued soon!

-Ok, I received one back but now the poor HW-lads think I want to order some jewel bracelet with birds or something. Mhm, I’ll explain myself more clearly this time…

-They finished our mail traffic… Guess it’s TOP SECRET

I truely believe the world is devided in 2 groups of people: the Sniffers and the Non-Sniffers. I am definitely a Sniffer: I like to snif perfume on others and give compliments about it (some people react flattered, others seem a little freaked out), going to Inno and try out all the new fragrances, collecting old perfume bottles because they almost all have a great design, reading reviews and analysisses about it, … It’s an expensive hobby for a goofy tween like I but I think it’s worth it: perfume is such a good example from everyday’s magic which people just take for granted. Maybe because there are a lot mainstream/boring smells on the market which you can change among each other, hyped by magazines and starlets-of-the-minute, while I think it’s a very individual and personal process to pick one. But some perfumes don’t need all this crap, they smell for themselves: as the fragrance comes floathing on slowly but secure to fill your nostrills, it takes you automaticly on an imaginary trip to the past/a flowerfield/your dreams (as if you were Aladin who awakens the ghost in the lamp)…

And then I come out with Narcisso Rodriguez, a latin-american designer who had a great s/s’12-collection during New York Fashion Week by the way (very fresh and almost looked like it was tattooed on the body: you can watch it here). But when I think about this fashion house, I think perfume: the house has only two fragrances for women and one for men, but that’s enough. And that because I think they all are splendid… For Her by Narcisso Rodriguez was the first perfume I knew by heart. It’s just such an emotional and unusual fragrance (click here for some theory) + the poudre-pink but stately retro bottle/simple but feminin commercial make it perfectly visual. When I am in Paris; I smell it a lot and I love it. It’s everywhere: from the metro to the musea (another sign I REALLY should move to Paris). On my photo you can see the perfumebottle of their last perfume Essence, which is another great smeller. This is how baby-oil (which I think has a great fragrance) would smell if it had grown up. The soft commercial + arty&original bottle with mirror-allures could move me again.

My dad got Narcisso Rodriguez For Men last New Year and when he was in the neighbourhood, I could smell it form meters distance, always again suprised about how good it was. Now he uses some other brand which I won’t even notice. So I’m thinking of giving him another bottle for this New Year. Again: expensive, but hey it’s a win-win situation…