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Comment on 5 things to think about before you start a perfume blog by nozknoz

nozknoz — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:14:48 +0000

Thanks for this thoughtful post, and in advance for also planning to share what you have learned from blogging. I do admire and appreciate those who put in the time to blog. I can barely keep up with the three or four blogs I read regularly and post a comment or two. The thought and care that go into even the simplest post and illustration are evident. I also appreciate the creativity and skill that goes into the banner and lay-out.

Huge thanks to you and to all who blog on perfume! While I don’t read very many blogs regularly or semi-regularly, I do often click on the commenter names that appear in lavender here and explore blog rolls whenever I have the luxury of time. In fact, it’s one of my favorite treats!

Comment on Etro Magot ~ fragrance review by Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:27:15 +0000

Nile: I can’t hear the word “Margot” without thinking of that British sitcom “Good Neighbors” that used to run CONTINUALLY on a PBS channel up here! “Margot” was such a snob, yet so “white bread.” She’s probably LIKE the “new” Magot.

Comment on Etro Magot ~ fragrance review by Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:24:10 +0000

Pigolette: yes, it was different and original. Usually when the word “unwearable” is tossed about, it’s about a scent I love to wear. I’m still waiting for an Eau de Kerosine

Comment on Etro Magot ~ fragrance review by Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:22:43 +0000

Noz: maybe! HA! I live in a city of zombies…people with a phone glued to their ear even when walking the dog at 5 a.m…faces aglow with electronics.

Comment on Etro Magot ~ fragrance review by Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:21:13 +0000

Jillie: IFRA, cost-cutting, “let’s get MODERN”…a perfect storm to ruin old faves from pre-IFRA days.

Comment on 5 things to think about before you start a perfume blog by flittersniffer

flittersniffer — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:17:47 +0000

Hi Normand,

Thanks for sharing your own take on blogging, and I like the note taking approach. Undina of Undina’s Looking Glass keeps rigorous statistics of everything she samples, so that is a heightened form of “note taking”, you could say!

And I guess I do something similar in my travel reports at least: there I document what I sniff and the people I meet wherever I go, but there is no particular logic to any of the other posts.

And you raise an excellent point about regretting things you have written. It is so common to do a 180 on a perfume, and then at the back of your mind you remember there is a negative post knocking about somewhere in the archives of your blog from 2 years ago or whatever. Should you go back in and change it? Or accept that that is a snapshot in time of what you smelt and felt at the time. I have come round to individual notes, scents or entire houses after a certain amount of time, and my archives are not going to be consistent as my taste evolves – or changes, certainly!

What fun that your blog sparked interest from your local community and led to a series of lectures. I am sure that compared to most people, we are all “grands passionnés de parfum”, even allowing for some negativity in there. This is only natural I’d say, and as you observe, can take courage to voice.

Comment on Smell Bent Vocabulary ~ new fragrances by KateReed

KateReed — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:56:23 +0000

They all seem made for mixing and matching and layering, to me, and I am a big fan. Lately (the last two collections) there’s been nothing that strikes my nose just right, but the line is broad enough that there’s plenty to play with. The only scent combo I’ve ever had someone walk up to me and say “wow, you smell good” was one of my Smell Bent cocktails.

Also…I’m of the mind that perfume should be like candy. Just something fun and indulgent. But that’s just my perfume personality, I’m not looking for a powerhouse or a signature or anything of the sort; I just want something to play with, when I’m in the mood.

Comment on 5 things to think about before you start a perfume blog by Normand

Normand — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:43:06 +0000

I hesitated at least one year before starting my own blog because there were so many talented perfume bloggers out there… I figured no one would ever read me. Then a friend said, “Write the blog as a way of keeping notes for yourself.” That made sense and The Perfume Chronicles was started. Appropriately, my first post was called, “Why Start a Blog”?

I’m not always happy about what I write. And, there are some perfume reviews I wish I could take back… or a few choice words which were too hasty. I haven’t always been generous and it takes alot of courage to speak truthfully about a perfume you love (or hate) when bloggers you admire all think the opposite of you.

In my case my blog unwittingly started a series of lectures on perfume in local libraries. Now THAT is a lot of fun! It always makes me laugh when a local newspaper runs my photo and in the caption they say (in french)… “un grand passionné de parfum”. Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Great post and sorry for take up so much space here!

Comment on 5 things to think about before you start a perfume blog by flittersniffer

flittersniffer — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:40:45 +0000

Hi Le Critique de Parfum,

Wise points, well made…

Comment on 5 things to think about before you start a perfume blog by flittersniffer

flittersniffer — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:37:32 +0000

Quimby, I think I should do that too… To confuse matters further, I am florientalgirl on MUA, while people are even starting to call me “Bonks”…. : – )