Parfum de stars

Marilyn Monroe, Carole Lombard (via), Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Rita Hayworth, Marian Marsh, Mary Brian, Dorothy Lee, Phyllis Povah & Rosalind Russell (in "The women", George Cukor), Fay Wray, Gloria Stuart (via), Thalia Barbarova, Anne Francis.




"Girl Shy" Flapper’s makeup and perfume bottles (via)


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Alberto Vargas - Dragonfly


Charles Courtney Curran - Perfume of Roses


Herbert James Draper - Pot Pourri


John William Godward - The New Perfume

Scent Of A Politician

This will only make sense to Canadians or those who are disturbingly well informed about our political party leaders. Of course some of these scents might be easily applicable to any politician and not just those who suggest they "can smell the whiff of sulphur" on the other. (Graphic via Steve Murray)

Previously on Popped Culture...
Fantastic Forefathers
Star Trek: Smells Like Certain Death
Private Eyes, They're Watching You...

Star Trek: Smells Like Certain Death

Or failure. It also smells like failure. That would be "Red Shirt," the new Star Trek cologne from Genki. Yup, a scent based on the low-level ensigns that invariably died every time the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise beamed down to a planet.

The tagline, reports Trek Movie, is "Because Tomorrow May Never Come," which leads me to think this might be a joke. It is described as a cologne for those with a "devotion to living each day as it could be your last" and smells like green mandarin, bergamot, and lavender, with notes of leather and grey musk. Of course the kind of person who would have no such devotion, nor would they be likely actually wear cologne. I know, I've been to a to a Star Trek convention. (It was for work, honest.)

You can also boldly go with "Tiberius" or replicate a Vulcan mating ritual with "Ponn Farr." Like anyone wearing this stuff is going to be having sex.

(Link via Information Nation and Geekologie)