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CINESCENT by Gabriela Guidetti: Chanel Nr.5 VS Moulin Rouge (April 2016)
"Je lance ma collection le 5 mai, cinquième mois de l'année, laissons lui le numéro qu'il porte et ce numéro 5 lui portera chance" (Coco Chanel)Satine - “Christian, I'm a courtesan. I'm paid to make...
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"Perfumes I love", by Luca Turin.
Disclosure: since we are italians, there could be a little bias in what we follow.... and Luca Turin is not a simple name, but "The Name", since his early, magnificent book "Parfums: le Guide",...
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CINESCENT by Gabriela Guidetti: "Barbarella" vs. "Calandre".
"Barbarella" (Roger Vadim, 1968)VS."Calandre" (Paco Rabanne, 1969) A perfume should be as imbued with meaning as it is light to wear (Paco Rabanne)Dildano: Are you typical of Earth women?Barbarella:...
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SMELL FESTIVAL 2016: a Diary by Gabriela Guidetti.
(ALL PICTURES by SMELL FESTIVAL)Magiae Naturae Smell festival 2016, Bologna 21/22 maggio.Aggiornaremo degli odori, e de'profumi dopo le distillazioni, arte conosciuta, e sua parente, perche da quelle...
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Cinescent: Rubj VS. Irma la Douce (by Gabriela Guidetti)
Rubj (Vero.Profumo, 2007) Irma la Douce (Billy Wilder, 1963)Nestor: Pardon me, do you have a licence?Irma (walking her dog): A licence? No.Nestor: It's a violation of ordinance No. 56Irma: Oh, usually...
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Smell Festival Estate (Carovigno, 5-7 agosto 2016)
Diario di un fine settimana profumato: Smell Festival Estate, Carovigno 5-7 agosto, 2016.by Gabriela GuidettiDopo la bellissima esperienza dello Smell Festival a Bologna lo scorso maggio, in questo...
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GUERLAIN Stickers.
"Dears,Elena and I were very thrilled listening your idea about dating old Guerlain perfumes relying on stickers only, and we checked our old family archives to find out some useful infos identifying...
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How to recognize CARON perfumes (1965-2015)
Dear Sirs,we are a couple of avid scent collectors, and we stumbled upon your magnificent blog. What a surprise to be able to "decode" so many perfumes at last! However, we noticed a big void: Perfumes...
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SAMSARA, the Legend.
Hello!This is my first solo post at "Raiders of the Lost Scent" and the first chapter of a small bunch of fragrances that changed my life. I'd like to start with one of my favourite scents since I was...
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J'Adore by Dior (EdP reformulation, 2016).
Probably you have already heard the buzz: J'adore EdP was reformulated again in the autumn of 2016.I would not want to say if it's for better (or worse), this time I wanted to check it according to the...
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"Cinescent" by Gabriela Guidetti (December 2016)
Fundamental – Rubini (2015) vs Ex_Machina - Alex Garland (2015) Caleb: So what? You want me to talk about myself?Ava: Yes.Caleb: Where... Okay, where do I start?Ava: It's your decision. I'm interested...
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Cinescent by Gabriela Guidetti : Resina, by Oliver&Co. Perfumes (February 2017)
Resina - Oliver & Co.Perfumes (2012) VS The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos) - Juan José Campanella (2009)Irene: Va a ser complicado.Benjamin: No me importa.Irene: Cerrá la...
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A letter from an ex-Guerlain employee
A very important number: the Formula.On October, 2017, I received this letter about "reformulations", via a common friend. It is incredibly interesting and deserves the publication. It could be of some...
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How to recognize JEAN PATOU fragrances.
" ....you asked me if there's a way to date old Patou perfumes, and I'll teach you how to do.... but you shouldn't care about years and months, because I worked there, and I can assure you: Jean Patou...
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How to recognize GUCCI perfumes.
"Dating" Gucci perfumes can be a very, very difficult task due to extremely intricated story of House of Gucci during decades.Therefore, similarly to what was done with Jean Patou perfumes (read here...
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Opium, the Greatest.
"It will be the Greatest, and we will call it Opium"(Yves Saint Laurent, 1976)Sexy, Sultry, Seductive, Successful: it's Opium. After Samsara, this is my second tribute to wonderful scents of my youth:...
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Yesterday and Today: "La Nuit de L'Homme" EdT, by Yves Saint Laurent (guest...
Hi there! This is my first post, here at "Raiders of the Lost Scent". A few months ago I wrote a brief note about "fragrance formulas" reported on the boxes in all Dior perfumes, suggesting them as a...
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A letter from an ex-Guerlain employee: more Questions and Answers.
You will probably remember the post about the letter written by the old Guerlain employee. Well, through a mutual friend we sent him a letter with seven more questions concerning the old Guerlain...
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The unfinished articles: Part One (DRAKKAR NOIR)
In these short posts we'd like to present the latest unfinished articles, written in the years 2015 and 2016. We thought it was right to publish everything, even those notes that would become...
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The unfinished articles: Part Two (LANVIN PERFUMES)
In these short posts we want to present the latest unfinished articles, written in the years 2015 and 2016. We thought it was right to publish everything, even those notes that would become...
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The unfinished articles, part 3: Chanel Egoiste (June, 2015)
.(We are going to illustrate here the notes taken in 2015, relating to an article about Chanel Egoiste "...to be published in future". It can be fragmented and incomplete, nevertheless we think that...
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The unfinished articles, part 4: a letter from an ex-CHANEL employee (the old...
(Well, here it is. One of the most important article Andre tried to write. Never been able to post it as an article, so we post it as "unfinished". The keypoint is How to date Chanel perfumes produced...
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The unfinished articles PART 5 : Decoding JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER perfumes
(note : this is the RAW version written by Andre in June 2016; pictures added later )There are literally dozens of versions of the main perfumes by Jean Paul Gaultier ("Classique", "Le Male", etc)....
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Some brief notes about dating Ralph Lauren perfumes (unpublished article)
(Foreword: these are the notes relating to Ralph Lauren perfumes that Andre left. These notes should have become a complete post, but instead they remained in a raw state. Please consider that no one...
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CALVIN KLEIN (brief notes, unpublished article)
(Here are few notes reported by Andre around 2014. This is a transcript of a phone call to Piatigorsky, who had worked with Calvin Klein perfumes years earlier. These notes were supposed to become a...
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