tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post7398977757647599933..comments2024-03-15T06:00:46.018-04:00Comments on I Smell Therefore I Am: Balenciaga ParisAbigailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08164551758520564300noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post-44444407426619941902011-12-21T21:17:50.658-05:002011-12-21T21:17:50.658-05:00I had my first sniff of Balenciaga Paris before it...I had my first sniff of Balenciaga Paris before it was available everywhere. I fell in love with it. It was on a mirrored tray at the shop in Vail, Colorado & it stayed lit and shiny in my mind until I could buy it. I really love it. I guess too much & possibly my ability to smell is decreasing over time. Basically, I was told that I may not wear perfume or perfumed lotion to work any Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post-74367704162407360412011-06-22T09:18:06.505-04:002011-06-22T09:18:06.505-04:00I ditto JAntoinette's suggestion about lucid d...I ditto JAntoinette's suggestion about lucid dreaming exercises. I love lucid dreaming - you know that dream that many of us have about having to go to a test and realising that you never went to class and/or studied for it? I lucid dreamed myself out of never having that darned dream again (by stating to myself in the dream "this is just a dream - I never signed up for this class so ICarolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06394558427981331885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post-15230281916416778122011-06-22T08:42:16.803-04:002011-06-22T08:42:16.803-04:00Brian, about the lucid dreaming: it sounds a littl...Brian, about the lucid dreaming: it sounds a little new age-y, but it's really a way of training your brain to recognize when your dreaming, giving yourself the ability to "rewrite" the plot of the dream. It really helps for nightmares and other anxiety dreams when you feel out of control. (I just googled lucid dreaming and there are a ton of resources online.)<br /><br />Now I haveJAntoinettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09249081058739628962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post-89574440042370963492011-06-21T22:21:18.913-04:002011-06-21T22:21:18.913-04:00Muse, I read a great book on what the brain does w...Muse, I read a great book on what the brain does when you're asleep, or what they think it does anyway, and it made total sense to me.<br /><br />The book said that basically when you sleep the part of your brain which makes narrative associations goes dormant, while the part that imagines freely goes into overdrive. That seems to explain a lot of those surreal dream twists, where unlikely Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14293853110472146382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post-6667835122589473542011-06-21T22:18:26.831-04:002011-06-21T22:18:26.831-04:00Angela, pursued by Nazis! Those are some hard cor...Angela, pursued by Nazis! Those are some hard core dreams. Last night I dreamed an enormous tree had fallen into the road. The road was against a cliff and on the other side was straight down to nothingness. There were like four feet of free road space and my friend insisted on trying to dive through. One side of the car drove off the road onto the branches of the fallen tree, then crashed Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14293853110472146382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post-60676702001337682362011-06-21T22:15:05.422-04:002011-06-21T22:15:05.422-04:00Oh I don't know, fruity. I guess you're r...Oh I don't know, fruity. I guess you're right. Everyone else says I smell but I don't put much on really at all. Unless you count cumulatively putting on four different things.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14293853110472146382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post-11649330435715189292011-06-21T22:06:22.768-04:002011-06-21T22:06:22.768-04:00Things aren't strong on you because you don...Things aren't strong on you because you don't wear enough! If Poison and Rumba are subtle then you're doing it wrong!FruitDiethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00218081671292556771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post-36494052494926153612011-06-21T21:14:18.061-04:002011-06-21T21:14:18.061-04:00Still haven't tried B Paris. I'm not sure...Still haven't tried B Paris. I'm not sure why, exactly, except that as always I have to order samples, or wangle them from people, and I wasn't intrigued enough by the notes to go buy one.<br /><br />Interesting that the dreams you remember are anxious. The dreams I wake up and remember are usually fairly lucid, but with little twists that make the overall "story" go Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post-9058009012834260602011-06-21T02:44:34.273-04:002011-06-21T02:44:34.273-04:00I think it is lovely .I too have terrible anxiety ...I think it is lovely .I too have terrible anxiety dreams and sometimes dread going to sleep . I can't imagine where they they come from as a lot are about being persued by Nazis . I just hope my M.I.L never gets into them or I am going to need a tanker size bottle of Paris in the morning.Angela Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08261754187289326772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post-71024922534548555052011-06-20T18:06:59.314-04:002011-06-20T18:06:59.314-04:00I must have tried "Paris" in a store. I&...I must have tried "Paris" in a store. I'm not a big violet/cream fan but if you say it's good...haven't seen "Antichrist" either. But I did have a repeating dream, for years, of being back in my apartment in LA, only as a squatter. Very strange.Olfactahttp://olfactarama.blogspot. comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post-37358138885798402492011-06-19T11:20:44.368-04:002011-06-19T11:20:44.368-04:00Wow, wish it was that strong on me. It's defi...Wow, wish it was that strong on me. It's definitely soft on me, and when I read various reviews that called it strong I thought, wow, really? My skin eats stuff up. Infamously potent Poison and Rumba aren't "strong" on me but subtle. About the only thing that really is strong on me is Norma Kamali Incense. A few others. I haven't seen Antichrist. I have no real Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14293853110472146382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post-56188827469954209652011-06-18T23:34:02.532-04:002011-06-18T23:34:02.532-04:00The bottle is great but I don't agree that it&...The bottle is great but I don't agree that it's soft- I thought it unbelievably strong. When it came out I sprayed some on my wrist and the coat I was wearing smelled like it for two months. I liked the ads and didn't think that Gainsbourg was out of place- I used to hate her and think she was the complete opposite of edgy until Antichrist made me like her- before that I got so FruitDiethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00218081671292556771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post-20150597627628748802011-06-18T15:07:34.953-04:002011-06-18T15:07:34.953-04:00I think violets are definitely a calming, peaceful...I think violets are definitely a calming, peaceful, "well being" smell, though it's hard to find a violet fragrance that doesn't cancel out that aspect somehow, e.g. with leather (see Jolie Madame, which is great but not a well-being fragrance) or rose (see Broadway Nite, again, great but definitely not a well-being fragrance). The only violet frag I currently own that works Elisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10270808520581466353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post-20469627680255855752011-06-18T11:43:17.594-04:002011-06-18T11:43:17.594-04:00JAntoinette, what are lucid dreaming sessions? I&...JAntoinette, what are lucid dreaming sessions? I'm intrigued. Is that sort of a guided meditation? I tried that once, walking myself through my grandmother's house, room by room, visualizing everything I could remember there. It helped a little at the time because in many of my dreams I kept going back to that house, and it was always fraught with risk. I was always sneaking through Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14293853110472146382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post-13013743060543475512011-06-18T11:40:50.726-04:002011-06-18T11:40:50.726-04:00Frida, I haven't seen Antichrist! I'm sor...Frida, I haven't seen Antichrist! I'm sort of reluctant to. But funny, no, that Paris came out right around the time that movie did. It was like the darker side of Charlotte Gainsbourg, and I wish a little more of that darkness had snuck into B. Paris. That said, I like the perfume a lot.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14293853110472146382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post-59984555598737189012011-06-18T11:39:14.500-04:002011-06-18T11:39:14.500-04:00Hey Josephine. Yeah, Rumba is one of those earlie...Hey Josephine. Yeah, Rumba is one of those earlier, pre minimalist fragrances by Ellena, like First. Have you smelled First? These two are the exact opposite of everything he seems to have done in the last ten years or so, so it makes total sense that you could love him but be bewildered by those. Great description of Rumba. Actually, along with Talisman, Rumba is sort of an anomaly for a Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14293853110472146382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post-51099709251427695282011-06-18T10:12:47.461-04:002011-06-18T10:12:47.461-04:00I am always on the fence with Balenciaga Paris, ev...I am always on the fence with Balenciaga Paris, every other time I sample it I love it, the rest of the time I just shrug my shoulders. Oh, but the bottle! I could just bite the bullet and buy it just to have that beautiful little sculpture on my shelf!<br /><br />-By the way, have you ever considered trying lucid dreaming sessions for your anxiety-laden dreams? I have been able to manipulate JAntoinettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09249081058739628962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post-59098139281551217232011-06-18T03:43:56.510-04:002011-06-18T03:43:56.510-04:00Polge:
http://www.alabonfire.com/lojalof/#/lanonym...Polge:<br />http://www.alabonfire.com/lojalof/#/lanonyme_op1475a<br /><br />It's good. "KInda reminiscent of the structure of Dior Homme..." ;)Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15901254954146927255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post-5907848252614638492011-06-17T20:59:16.786-04:002011-06-17T20:59:16.786-04:00"... Charlotte Gainsbourg isn't exactly ..."... Charlotte Gainsbourg isn't exactly the soft, candied, creamy sort, and she sticks out like a sore thumb in the ads,..." Esp after watching her in "Antichrist". Yikes!<br /><br />Thanks for the review - I'll re-sample my sample (which I first sniffed as 'same new thing') I'll sample with your review in mind!Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06394558427981331885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415795419713091856.post-87726855652961941692011-06-17T20:59:10.473-04:002011-06-17T20:59:10.473-04:00I freaking love this post! Haven't paid much ...I freaking love this post! Haven't paid much attention to 'Paris,' but I will now.<br /><br />Balenciaga Rumba is one that I own and keep trying and hoping to someday love. Jean Claude Ellena is perhaps my favorite perfumer (if I really had to choose), so the fact that he put something together so Latin, sexual and bold intrigues me. Rumba is the anti-Ellena.<br /><br />Thanks for Katy Josephinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00504394399778675539noreply@blogger.com