Not about perfume, but here is the trailer for the upcoming short film about Coco Chanel, Once Upon A Time. Starring Keira Knightley, directed by Karl Lagerfeld.
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Sweets for the sweet: five chocolate bars, two teas
We haven’t talked about chocolate around here in a good long time, so in honor of Valentine’s Day, here are quick reviews of five chocolate bars. Plus two Kusmi teas just because. Do share any of your own chocolate or tea favorites in the comments!
MarieBelle Dark Chocolate Banana (65% cacao)
This is a spendy New York brand that reportedly makes great hot chocolate, but I’ve never tried any of their products except this admittedly sort of strange bar. Numerous little bits of dried banana translate into an oddly bumpy exterior similar to a puffed rice chocolate bar, and lend a satisfying chewy-crunchy texture. I frequently complain that bars don’t have enough “additives”, but this one arguably doesn’t have enough room left for the chocolate — chocolate purists would probably not like it, but then, chocolate purists probably wouldn’t like any of my favorite bars…
Playing hooky
Back tomorrow. Feel free to share your scent of the day in the comments.
Note: image is Voxtrot:the start of something by visualpanic at flickr; some rights reserved.
A ripped cotton tee-shirt for more than 1,000 euros
If, like French fashion house Balmain, you can sell a ripped cotton tee-shirt for more than 1,000 euros, you might wonder if there's any price your well-heeled customers won't pay.
It's a question the luxury industry has been posing for years as it skipped through the financial crisis in diamond slingbacks...
— From Faster, Higher, Stronger: Luxury Pricing Goes for Gold at The New York Times.
New contributor, guest authors & other business
We're very pleased to announce that Aleta B will be joining us as a contributor on perfume books. Her first post, a review of MJ Rose's The Book of Lost Fragrances, will appear tomorrow — do come by and welcome her to Now Smell This! You can read more about Aleta and her background on our About page.
If you have your own perfume blog and would be interested in writing a guest post (or if you've already written a guest post for us and would like to write another), just send me (robin at nstperfume dot com) a quick note with a link to your site. If you already know what you’d like to write about, mention that too, but it isn’t necessary.
And as always, we are open to general complaints & suggestions — this is as good a place to put them as any, so do comment!
Oops: and meant to add that voting for the Prix Eau Faux will be coming up on Thursday!
