Comments on: Marie Antoinette’s bath, and other perfume news http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/ a blog about perfume Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:59:25 -0400 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/#comment-14042 Anonymous Mon, 29 May 2006 14:42:00 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/#comment-14042 Thank you B, so glad to hear it is worth reading even if rather short. I will keep an eye out for it this summer! Thank you B, so glad to hear it is worth reading even if rather short. I will keep an eye out for it this summer!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/#comment-14041 Anonymous Sun, 28 May 2006 07:59:00 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/#comment-14041 As promised Robin, here are my thoughts... I have finished reading it! It is very brief and a mere 130 pages long. De Feydou has done a very good job with her subject because I should imagine that they information wasn't very easy to come by. She was awarded the Prix Guerlain for this book, she is also a professor at ISIPCA, so perfum is in her blood. Some very interesting points are raised, no less the fact that the rumour about Mairie Antoinette was wearing Houbigant perfumes when she was arrested may well be wrong. The 2 appendices are interesting. One is about the source materials that were used in his perfumes and the other is about extraction methods that Fargeon used at the time. Both these parts were actually taken from a book that that Fargeon wrote in 1805. As promised Robin, here are my thoughts…

I have finished reading it! It is very brief and a mere 130 pages long.

De Feydou has done a very good job with her subject because I should imagine that they information wasn't very easy to come by. She was awarded the Prix Guerlain for this book, she is also a professor at ISIPCA, so perfum is in her blood.

Some very interesting points are raised, no less the fact that the rumour about Mairie Antoinette was wearing Houbigant perfumes when she was arrested may well be wrong.

The 2 appendices are interesting. One is about the source materials that were used in his perfumes and the other is about extraction methods that Fargeon used at the time. Both these parts were actually taken from a book that that Fargeon wrote in 1805.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/#comment-14040 Anonymous Tue, 23 May 2006 14:46:00 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/#comment-14040 I've been tempted by the powder puffs at Caron several times, and I don't even wear powder. They are just so cute! I've been tempted by the powder puffs at Caron several times, and I don't even wear powder. They are just so cute!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/#comment-14039 Anonymous Mon, 22 May 2006 22:40:00 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/#comment-14039 Thank you so much, R!!! So very excited about "A Scented Palace!" Sounds exactly like something I really want to read right now... release date is June 22 on Amazon, so exactly one month to go! The review mentioned "swan's down powder puffs" and that just got me. Since I learned Caron had those, I've been wanting one ever since, and doubly so now! Thank you so much, R!!! So very excited about “A Scented Palace!” Sounds exactly like something I really want to read right now… release date is June 22 on Amazon, so exactly one month to go! The review mentioned “swan's down powder puffs” and that just got me. Since I learned Caron had those, I've been wanting one ever since, and doubly so now!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/#comment-14038 Anonymous Mon, 22 May 2006 18:30:00 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/#comment-14038 The Feydeau book looks interesting, I may end up buying it when it comes out in the US. Didn't read the Antonia Fraser though! Hugs to you too :-) The Feydeau book looks interesting, I may end up buying it when it comes out in the US. Didn't read the Antonia Fraser though! Hugs to you too :-)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/#comment-14037 Anonymous Mon, 22 May 2006 17:58:00 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/#comment-14037 Gotta love MA! No matter what the historians may say, she knew how to create a toilette. I bet she was the cleanest person in the kingdom, don't you? LOL! But seriously, the book sounds fascinating, especially since her comprehensive biography by Antonia Fraser did not delve into any of this. So how comprehensive could it have been? Hugs! Gotta love MA! No matter what the historians may say, she knew how to create a toilette. I bet she was the cleanest person in the kingdom, don't you? LOL!

But seriously, the book sounds fascinating, especially since her comprehensive biography by Antonia Fraser did not delve into any of this. So how comprehensive could it have been?

Hugs!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/#comment-14036 Anonymous Sun, 21 May 2006 21:32:00 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/#comment-14036 Prince, Thank you for the info; I saw they have a women's version of Robbie Burns too. It sounds very tempting and I want to get it both for me and my husband now. It looks like you enjoyed it thoroughly:) Prince,

Thank you for the info; I saw they have a women's version of Robbie Burns too. It sounds very tempting and I want to get it both for me and my husband now.

It looks like you enjoyed it thoroughly:)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/#comment-14032 Anonymous Sun, 21 May 2006 21:03:00 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/#comment-14032 Thanks! Thanks!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/#comment-14035 Anonymous Sun, 21 May 2006 21:02:00 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/#comment-14035 Will be curious to hear how the book is, B. I don't think it comes to the US until June. Will be curious to hear how the book is, B. I don't think it comes to the US until June.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/#comment-14034 Anonymous Sun, 21 May 2006 20:48:00 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2006/05/21/marie-antoinettes-bath-and-other-perfume-news/#comment-14034 I went to two bookshops yesterday and both shops said that they had 1 copy in, but could they find it? No. Not to worry though, one of them is ordering it, so I should have it by next weekend. As for George Dodds' whiskey scent. He has had one out for men called Robbie Burns for ages now, in fact I went through a bottle of it 2 years ago. I went to two bookshops yesterday and both shops said that they had 1 copy in, but could they find it? No. Not to worry though, one of them is ordering it, so I should have it by next weekend.

As for George Dodds' whiskey scent. He has had one out for men called Robbie Burns for ages now, in fact I went through a bottle of it 2 years ago.

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