segunda-feira, 28 de dezembro de 2009

Cozinha - Onde o paladar e o olfato se encontram

Na contagem regressiva, o melhor ficou para o final!

Uma tarde com o chef Guilherme Manoel.
Cozinha, onde o paladar e o olfato se encontram.




Você já percebeu que o paladar fica reduzido quando estamos resfriados ou gripados? O nariz e os seios da face ficam congestionados e o apetite fica reduzido, isso se não desaparecer por completo.
E você se lembra quando na infância precisávamos tomar um remédio de gosto ruim e nossos pais diziam para tampar o nariz e engolir de uma vez só?
Então será que existe uma relação entre o nariz e a boca, olfato e paladar? Explicam os especialistas que sim!
Para enterdermos melhor esse assunto, vamos explicar simplificadamente como funciona o sistema gustativo, o olfativo e qual a relação entre eles:

Sistema gustativo - Nossa língua possui estruturas que contém células sensoriais (as chamadas papilas gustativas) que transmitem para o cérebro informações que permitem identificar os sabores: doce, salgado, azedo, amargo e umami (percepção do glutamato).
O paladar é a capacidade de reconhecer sabores.

Sistema olfativo - o olfato é a capacidade de perceber aromas, cheiros, odores e fragrâncias. E curiosamente ele é o mais primitivo dos nossos sentidos. Conforme os seres humanos foram se desenvolvendo, o olfato foi ficando reduzido. Porém ele sempre foi indispensável para a nossa sobrevivência. O cheiro do alimento era o primeiro sinal para ingerí-lo ou ficar longe dele!
O nariz é o órgão principal do olfato. Moléculas odorantes são captadas pelo nariz e conduzidas ao cérebro através de receptores. Seja pela sua forma, pela sua vibração (teoria de Luca Turin), ou ambas, essas informações serão então decodificadas pelo cérebro.

A relação é bem simples de se explicar: Uma vez que boca, nariz e garganta estão ligados entre si, boa parte do que identificamos como paladar, na verdade é olfato! (aproximadamente 75% do que identificamos como paladar na verdade é percepção olfativa). Após o alimento ser ingerido, ele é engolido e desce pela garganta. A garganta é um canal que une as vias respirátorias (boca e nariz). As moléculas odorantes captadas pela boca passam através da garganta e sobem para o nariz. Ou seja, tanto as papilas gustativas como os receptores da mucosa nasal levam informações para o cérebro. Esta combinação de informações, quando adicionada a percepção da textura e a temperatura do alimento resultam no que chamamos de percepção de sabor.
Portanto quando estamos resfriados e com o nariz congestionado, ficamos com o olfato reduzido, e portanto temos a sensação de não estármos sentindo o gosto da comida.
Pela mesma razão as mamães mandavam tapar o nariz, obstruindo o canal nasal, reduzindo consequentemente o olfato e diminuindo em 75% a percepção do sabor do remédio.

Para realmente entender na prática como isso funciona, resolvi visitar um chef de cozinha, e enquanto ele pilotava seu fogão fomos conversando sobre o sabor e os aromas da sua cozinha. E para tornar a experiência mais incrível, preparamos um delicioso prato natalino, típico de Venetto - Itália: o Strufolli.

Guilherme Manoel é dono do Empório Santo Pedro, um restaurante que fica em Embú da Artes, em São Paulo.


O chef Guilherme Manoel



Parece até clichê, mas é a pura verdade - ele foi iniciado na cozinha graças a sua avó que vinha fazer massas para vender no então antiquário e empório Santo Pedro. Guilherme aprendeu a arte da fabricação de massas caseiras com ela. Sugestão de um cliente, a avó e o neto começaram a servir pratos de massas para os clientes que apareciam na loja. Em pouco tempo o cardápio foi sendo elaborado e ampliado e o restaurante ficou mais em evidência.
Guilherme aprimorou sua técnica em restaurantes como Roanne, Marie Bistrô, La Casserole e D.O.M. e passou a gerenciar o restaurante/empório/antiquário sozinho quando seu sócio faleceu.
Sua cozinha é franco-italiana com toques de brasilidade. Os pratos, contemporâneos e leves, levam somente têmperos frescos, ou seja, sua cozinha é muito aromática.
No menu da semana em que o visitei, as opções me pareciam tão deliciosas que foi difícil escolher um prato. Magret de Canard grelhado ao molho de laranja com Cointreau e purê de mandioquinha; Risoto de gorgonzola, parmesão, espinafre, uvas rosadas e castanhas de cajú tostadas; Medalhão de fois gras com mel de laranja, aceto balsâmico e abacaxi, Nhoque de mandioca com manteiga de trufa branca e lascas de trufas negras; entre outras delícias compunham o cardápio vasto e diversificado.
Enquanto ele preparava um risoto, fomos conversando sobre a história do restaurante.
Muito agitado e concentrado nas panelas foi um pouco difícil arrancar dele a importância do olfato na preparação de um prato ou até mesmo na sua apreciação.
Resolvi então relaxar e curtir meu sábado. Mesa posta na varanda, cervejinha gelada no balde, cesta de pães caseiros variados, pastinhas e patês, jazzinho no fundo... Esperei os clientes irem embora um a um, e mais para o final da tarde fomos para cozinha criar um prato e conversar.
A susgestão do chef foi preparar uma sobremesa e usar sabores e aromas natalinos. Fomos então preparar uma das sobremesas preferidas dele, o Strufolli.


Strufolli

Strufolli - close up

O Strufolli é um prato natalino muito colorido e saboroso. Combina massinhas fritas com frutas secas, e cristalizadas, cerejas ao marrasquino, amêndoas, nozes, raspas de limão siciliano, mel, canela, raspas de laranja e sorvete de creme. Guilherme coloca também alecrim que é aromático e combina super bem com a doçura das frutas. É o seu toque pessoal na receita tradicional de família.
O aroma da massa fritando em óleo quente hipnotiza qualquer um! Lembra o cheiro de churros. A canela, as frutas secas e o mel dão um toque natalino especial no prato.
Enquanto preparávamos a sobremesa, notamos que assim como na perfumaria, existem ingredientes que combinam entre si e outros que não funcionam.
Notamos que o doce, em ambas as artes, podem ser equilibrados com notas ou sabores ácidos. Aqui na sobremesa, a acidez das raspas de limão e de laranja harmonizam os açúcares das frutas e do mel.
Nos medalhões de fois gras Gulherme também brincou com o mesmo princípio, quebrando a doçura do mel de laranjeira com a acidez do aceto balsâmico e do abacaxi. No merengue com morangos e creme inglês, Guilherme serve um caramelo balsâmico.
Conversamos sobre a versalitidade do uso de notas de café na perfumaria e a capacidade de o café introduzir uma sensação aveludada ao perfume.
Na cozinha, o princípio também funciona. Guilherme coloca toques de café em sobremesas com chocolate para também dar uma textura aveludada sem o sabor do café ser percebido pelo cliente.
Discutimos o papel das pimentas na perfumaria. Ao perceber que a pimenta preta, por muitas vezes arredonda um perfume, Guilherme concluiu que na culinária esta também é uma das função da pimenta. Já as outras pimentas esquentam os pratos e os perfumes.
Notamos que na perfumaria existem uma maior precisão na quantidade de cada ingrediente, coisa que na culinária não exite um rigor tão marcante. Apesar de que num restaurante profissional, errar na quantidade de sal significa jogar o prato inteiro no lixo!



Perguntei entre uma colherada e outra de Strufolli, se assim como o homem é pego pelo estômago, a mullher também seria. Ele sorriu, e esbanjando charme disse que achava que sim, e que apesar de estar solteiro, adoraria ter uma cara metade e cozinhar para ela. Meninas atenção: ele está solteiro e procurando uma esposa, raridade no mercado hoje em dia!!! E ele sabe cozinhar...

A conversa poderia durar horas, mas tanto ele como eu tinhamos outros compromissos para o final da tarde, fomos então finalizando a visita. A experiência foi muito bacana para ambos. Guilherme se interessou muito pela perfumaria e na relação aroma - sabor, e talvez criará futuramente um menu olfativo-gustativo. Eu tive a oportunidade de conhecer a cozinha de um restaurante fabuloso, dividir idéias com um chef pra lá de bacana, e apreciar uma sobremesa natalina muito saborosa, entrando no clima do Natal. Foi um sábado genial!!!


O café que também pertence ao Empório

Café visto do lado de dentro




Empório Santo Antonio
Endereço:Rua Siqueira Campos - Viela das Lavadeiras - casas 28 e 75.
Centro Histórico - Embú - S.P.
Tel: 11 47812797/77361496
e-mail para contato: emporiosaopedro@terra.com.br
Funcionamento: Quarta a Domingo para almoço e jantares também aos Sábados.
Obs.: Guilherme também prepara pratos para eventos.

créditos fotográficos: + Q Perfume Blog
Caso você queira usar essas fotos, somente com prévia autorização da autora.

Tatue uma fragrância em você!


Samurai japonês com tatuagens
crédito de imagem:www.ioffer.com


Tatuagem, ou dermo pigmentação é um desenho feito na pele através da introdução de pigmentação na camada subcutânea. O pigmento é introduzido na pele através de agulhas pelo tatuador.
A palavra tatoo tem origem na palavra tatau da língua polinesa. Em 1769 alguns marinheiros da tripulação de James Cook, em expedição marítma no Tahiti, deixaram os nativos fazerem em seus corpos algumas "tataus" num ritual tribal, e foi assim que nasceu o costume entre os marinheiros de se tatuar.





Tatuagem original do marinheiro Norman Sailor Jerry Collins
crédito de imagem: www.kaboodle.com


Introduzida em várias culturas desde a antigüidade, muitas tatuagens eram aplicadas no rosto, como no Japão pela tribo Ainu, pelos povos da Polinésia, Micronésia, os bérberes da Africa, os Mahoris da Nova Zelândia entre outros.
Porém a tatuagem acompanha os seres humanos desde os primórdios. Em Ötz nos Alpes foi encontrada uma múmia congelada do quarto ou quinto milênio A.C., e com tatuagens espalhadas pelo corpo. Também múmias tatuadas, do segundo milênio, foram encontradas em várias regiões do Egito. E Júlio César descreveu em seu quinto livro no ano 54 B.C., as guerras celtas, contando que os povos celtas e germânicos eram povos que possuíam tatuagens.



Chefe Maori - Nova Zelândia, 1864
crédito de imagem - Museu de Durham


As tatuagens serviam de marcas de ritos de passagem; status social; representação de símbolos religiosos e devocão espiritual; condecorações de bravura; marcas de fertilidade ou castigos; amuletos e talismãs; marcas de escravidão ou de prisão (dependendo da cultura e da região onde era feita).
Atualmente as tatuagens urbanas são feitas somente por razões cosméticas: para enfeitar, corrigir falhas (como nas sombrancelhas e nos cílios), fazer maquiagem permanente. Simbolizar um grupo ou gangue: como na máfia russa, máfia japonesa, neo nazistas, presos cumprindo pena, etc...Ou até mesmo para homenagear alguém amado ou alguém que faleceu.
A primeira máquina elétrica foi inventada por Samuel O'Railly em 1891. As tatuagens atualmente são feitas com aparelhos elétricos modernos, com um conjunto de várias agulhas estéreis (80 a 150 picadas por segundo), podendo criar efeitos visuais como desenhos esfumaçados.
A profissão de tatuador, que já foi clandestina, hoje está muito valorizada. Estúdios de tatuagem conceituais viraram até cenário de reality show, como Miami Ink e L.A. Ink nos Estados Unidos. Tatuadores passaram a ser celebridades, como Kat von D, Ed Hardy, Ami James, Yogi Harada entre outros. E as celebridades tatuadoras, como as holiwoodianas, lançam fragrâncias próprias, como Saint e Sinner de Kat von D, e os últimos lançamentos de Ed Hardy, Ed Hardy Love & Luck Cologne for men/for women.

Ed Hardy for men e Ed Hardy for women

Ed Hardy já foi tatuador e atualmente é dono de um estúdio em São Francisco chamado Tattoo City. Atualmente ele está focado em outras formas de reproduzir sua arte, como desenhos, pinturas e padronagens. Seus desenhos são apresentados em grandes exibições e fazem parte de acervos de museu. Em 2000 ele recebeu o título de doutor honorário do Instituto de Arte de São Francisco. Junto com o designer de Jeans Christian Audigier (Naf Naf, Diesel, Von Dutch, Kookai, Affliction e outros) ambos são sucesso mundial, inclusive no Brasil onde já podemos ver algumas pessoas circulando com camisetas nos jardins.



Ed Hardy lançou várias fragrâncias e cremes: Ed Hardy for men, Ed Hardy for women, Ed Hardy Love and Gamble for men/Ed hardy Love and Gamble for women, Ed Hardy Love Kills Slowly, Ed Hardy Love & Daggers (for men/for women). Lançou também cremes e kits muito bacanas para dar de presente.

+ Q Perfume blog descobriu para vocês onde encontrar os perfumes Ed Hardy aqui no Brasil!

Loja Ta- Han Appocalipse Jeans, em São Paulo, na R. Oscar Freire, 216.
Telefone: 11 30830134

Mas corram pois só sobraram 2 perfumes - Ed Hardy for men e Ed Hardy for women.

Ed Hardy for men - com notas de bergamota, cardamomo, absinto, cipreste, sálvia, violeta, musk, cedro, vetiver escuro e agar.

Ed Hardy for women - com notas de bergamota, laranja sangüínea, saquê vermelho, cassis, pimenta rosa, nectarina, jasmim, ameixa proíbida, musk sensual, cedro, sândalo e patchouli.


crédito de fotografia: www.imageandstylenews.com

Kat Von D nasceu no México e aos 14 anos fez a sua primeira tatuagem. Em 1996 ela começou a tatuar seus clientes. Desde então ela não parou mais. Tatuadora secundária no reality show Miami Ink, fez tanto sucesso que adquiriu seu próprio show onde mostra suas criações - Von D, L.A. Ink. A tatuadora estrela possui uma linha de maquiagens vendida na famosa loja americana Sephora e este ano lançou duas fragrâncias: Saint (Santa) ou Sinner (pecadora), apostando no jogo de opostos.




Saint é uma fragrância floriental, doce e angelical com um toque romântico, com notas de ameixa, mandarina, tiara, caramelo, jasmim, vanila, musk e sândalo.

Sinner também é floriental, mais sensual, misterioso e dark, com notas de mandarina, flôr de laranjeira, ameixa, flores brancas, canela, vetiver, patchouli, pau rosa, madeiras, vanila e musk.
Ambos os perfumes são encontrados no Brasil em várias perfumarias.

Também existe a versão sólida em forma de anel e o frasco para carregar na bolsa em forma de roll on - somente no exterior.



quinta-feira, 24 de dezembro de 2009

Merry RED Christmas to you!!!


terça-feira, 22 de dezembro de 2009

Nasomatto - Hindu Grass review


The best was saved for last!

Nasomatto - Hindu Grass - fragrance review

Style and class in one flacon!




Hippie wedding

One could think Hindu Grass is about not taking showers, growing very long hair, dancing naked around the fire, smoking pot while listening to psychedelic music, naming babies moonlight and sunshine, burning incense, painting flowers on a VW and all that hippie - Woodstock - flower power stuff kind of perfume. It might lead you to think of a strong sandalwood, patchouli, marijuana, cheap jasmine kind of fragrance. Dirty and mysterious.
Well, guess again!





Nasommato's perfumes are close to the skin, discrete and gentle. So discrete that the brand does not really disclose the olfactive notes: musk, citric and powdery notes. The fragrance "aims to breath the belief in universal peace and love and the result for the quest for warm affection of humanity". Ok, we can find here a little bit of peace and love Woodstock mumbo jumbo, but there is all there is to it.
Hindu Grass is a powdery, classy perfume by Alessandro Gualtieri. It mixes notes of tobacco, patchouli, amber, musk and vetiver.
The tobacco notes are warm, silky with a touch of honey. A golden touch that make us think of real gentle men in tuxedos or tweed suits. The types we used to see in old movies from the 40's and 50's. Impecable hair and manners...always lighting a cigarrete, a pipe or a cigar (yes, those were classy gestures once).


Carry Grant

The patchouli was explored by the perfumer in a different form. Here it is green - camphorated, earthy - moss, grassy . And combined with vetiver and lemony notes it is very masculine (the perfume is sold for both genders, but the ladies have to wait till the top notes will evaporate). It tickles the nose at first but it settles nicely pretty fast. Maybe too fast. The tickling effect is probably due to clary sage but I am guessing here. It does resemble of Vetiver Dance by Andy Tauer.



David Niven

Once the mysterious, darker side of the perfume vanishes in the air the fragrance becomes a powdery bouquet. The kind of bouquet you get with white flowers.
There you will find the gentlemen aura. The politeness, the courteous conduct towards everyone, the "just took a shower" look with a slightly snob way of the wealthy.
It is charming fragrance! Very David Niven style!


Hugh Dancy


That doesn't mean it was created for mature guys only.
Nasomatto is very versatile. It is the kind of perfume that you can wear with a t-shirt and jeans and still will give the ladies the impression you are in a tuxedo. You can be in you late 20's or even in your 30's and it won't feel like you stole granny's or daddy's perfume.
The brand is young, full of energy and modern. I could have also attached photos of Clive Owen, Jude Law, Hugh Jackman...
The dry down is smooth and neat. Musk and amber are a delicious touch in the end.
Researches show that the smell of grass is relaxing. Indeed Hindu Grass is a warm relaxing perfume. Wearing it will make it easy with the ladies. It gives a sense of comfort, secureness, of being a trustworthy person. That masculine protection we try to show we don't need but we love it so much...

+Q Perfume Blog has it close to her this Christmas and it feels good!!

You can find Hindu Grass and other Nasomatto fragrances at Essenza Nobile.
Click here for the site.

By the way, I wish the staff of Essenza Nobile a lovely holidays and also in the same opportunity I would like to thank them for all the goodies they sent me, including Hindu Grass!

quinta-feira, 17 de dezembro de 2009

Chanel na TV

Estréia no Brasil Mademoiselle Chanel com Shirley MacLaine


E para entrar no clima + Q Perfume Blog trouxe a moda e a beleza no estilo Chanel de ser usando o site Polyvore. Confira a seleção de fragrâncias para entrar no clima da época.





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quarta-feira, 16 de dezembro de 2009

Perfumes and tea


You will also find here delicious tea notes in amazing perfumes:

Chemical bonding by Ineke - Tea (top note) - very strong fragrance of tea and citrusy notes
Bvlgari Black - Lapsang Souchang Tea (middle note)
Burberry The Beat - Ceylon Tea (top note)
Champaca by Ormonde Jayne - Green tea (base note)
Adventure by Davidoff - Mate leafs (top notes)
Cedarwood Tea and Russian Caravan both by CB I hate Perfume - Black Indian Tea
Kenzo Amour - White Chinese Tea (middle note)
Vanithé by Nez à Nez - Earl Gray tea - (top notes)


for more perfumes with tea notes, click here and enter to fragrantica.com



quinta-feira, 10 de dezembro de 2009

Teas and Perfumes



Green tea with jasmine from Le sprit du thé


When I was a little girl my parents used to take me every Sunday to a Chinese restaurant to have dinner. It was a family tradition. I just loved that restaurant. The beautiful Chinese symbols crafted on wood on the ceiling, the red and black lacquered walls, the beautiful white & blue china and the amazing owner, Lady Betty, a Chine old woman with a beautiful smile in a beautiful Chinese silk dress and a jade necklace...I remember the thrill of throwing the rice into the Sizzling Rice Soup and the noise it made when it cracked and popped, the freshness of the cucumber salad and the delicate aroma of the jasmine and green Chinese teas.
Lady Betty once came to me and told me that the secret of her amazing looks was that she drank a lot of green tea (she was at that time 60 yrs. old but one could never guess her age because she looked incredibly young). So she offered me a cup of tea and explained me that the fragrance and aroma came from beautiful flowers called jasmine. And we were to drink it very hot and without sugar. That day, not only I felt very grown-up drinking jasmine tea (only adults ordered those beautiful tea pots) but I also fell in love for it so that it became my favorite beverage. I drink tons of hot tea during the winter and iced tea all summer. In fact, drinking tea to me is sort of a ritual. It is a very personal thing. I choose one specific blend (taste and aroma)depending on my mood and the atmosphere I wish to create. I sit down and I take my time to sip and enjoy it. Most of the times, I like to drink it while I am alone.
When I lived in the Middle East I had the opportunity to discover new ways of preparing tea. There they usually add herbs to black tea, such as mint, verbena, lemon grass and others. Most of the people I knew made their own blends. They dried fruits and flowers to mix in the tea and they sat together to drink it. Did you know that Jewish persians, iraqis and yemenites drink thousand of liters of tea per day? They actually drink more tea than the Brits!
The art of blending teas is the closest I could find to the art of making perfumes.
To master the art of blending teas one has to be able to produce the same taste he has produced previously. That means, if the blender had problems with shipping, price or climatic conditions, he/she has to be able to find in another source of teas, so when blended together, will result in the same taste and smell he/she had produced before. No matter which blend he/she makes, consumers should not feel the difference (only a professional tea taster with years of experience has the skills to notice). Of course today, huge companies use computers and all batches are mixed by machines. But as the art of perfumery, there are still artisans blending tea manually, and some are even producing customized blends.
What I feel it will interest us, the fragrance affictionados, is perfumed tea blends and the aromatized teas. I learned that they are different products.
While aromatized teas have additional aromas and flavors added to the blend, such as natural essential oils (For example, earl gray is aromatized with bergamot oil), perfumed teas are carefully created and prepared with a blend of teas, herbs, plants, spices, flowers and fruits.
The process of finding the right blend of fragrances (aromas) is found by the nose. The unique aroma is created like perfumers create beautiful accords for perfumes. The difference here is that we don't drink perfumes (yet!), so not only the fragrance must be gorgeous but also the taste. Usually perfumed teas are very beautifully created with the best flowers and flower petals. The colors of the added ingredients are a feast to the eyes. Not to mention the tea packages and accessories! I found amazing tea packages during my research for this article.
Some perfumers or niche perfume brands offer their own brand.







Ayala Moriel Parfums offers the tea version of some of her fragrances



Ayala Moriel is a natural perfumer with a vast collection of beautiful fragrances. Among other products, she offers perfumed tea blends.I found roses et chocolat very romantic and very gourmet. As she describes it, it is an elixir of love. The blend mixes Grand premium Fu Hao black tea from China, premium rose Congou black tea from Peru, damask rose petals from France, rose Vanilla pod from Madagascar, raw cocoa nibs, and anise seeds from Turkey (all ingredients are certified and organic). The delicate aroma of roses is enriched by cocoa and vanilla gourmand notes and spiced by anis. The final blend is combined with black tea to result in a sensual, delicate and romantic aroma. The taste of a love affair! Originally produced for Valentines, it became such a success that now it is available a year-around.



Miya Shinma parfums



Miya Shinma is a niche perfumer who has her own brand where she presents fragrances, green perfumed teas, perfumed messages, pearls among other objects. She uses Japanese Kawane green tea to blend gracefully with flowers and gold powder.
The perfumed teas with gold powder are presented with the same fragrances she uses in her eaux de parfums (with the elements - flower, wind and moon). The perfumed green teas are blended with floral notes of typical Japanese flowers, such as cherry and orange blossoms. She also offers two other exclusive teas: Amour Amour, with roses and powdered green tea (called matcha). Her tea packages are beautifully wrapped in black & white papers.
The oriental philosophy with a French touch results in amazing delicacies sometimes!




Miller Harris - fragrant tea - Thé Fumé



Miller Harris is known for his luxurious and exclusive fragrances. The brand's collection mixes perfumes, candles, fragrant oils, bath and body products and amazing perfumed teas. Created with perfume techniques, the teas have top, middle and base notes, just as all perfumes, carefully packed with his exclusive botanical prints. Thé Fumé is a special blend with smokey tea, with Indian spices and Vanilla Bourbon of Madagascar. For spiciness, the top notes are constructed with cinnamon from Ceylon and cardamom pods. The heart is a unique Sri Lankan black tea, smoked over cinnamon wood.
The brand has in the collection 6 different blends, all created by perfumer Lyn Harris (trained in France with more than 16 years of experience creating perfumes), using only natural exclusive raw materials, creating beautiful products for special moods, atmospheres, seasons and occasion.
I have Miller Harris Fleurs de Bois perfume which is simply fresh, green and gorgeous!


Wengé


Wengé évils de sens - Latin Lover maté perfumed tea blend



Wengé is a restaurant from Luxembourg offering also catering services and products. Among wines and patisseries they also have a vast collection of perfume tea blends (250!!!) to be served with their pastries and desserts. Latin lover is a curious blend of cinnamon, cloves, ginger, cardamom, pepper with yerba mate.



Blossom perfumed tea from Café la Thé



Café la Thé is an amazing French brand offering tea, coffee and other products on line. Besides the delicious perfumed blends, they also offer the blossom perfumed teas or fleur de thé. Those are pressed teas that once you pour hot water on it, it "blossoms". In the picture above you will find a blend of Chinese green tea with a rose bud inside.





And last but best, comes Blend for Friends.
Master tea blender Alex Probyn personally hand mix exclusive and individual blends, creating personalized customized teas for clients (private or corporate).
After years of experience blending teas for the world's leading tea brands, he opened his own business, traveling around the globe in order to offer the most exclusive and special teas available in the market.
Alex blends teas just like niche perfumers are blending fragrances, with love, passion, highest quality raw materials and most of all, blended with his own hands like tea was prepared centuries ago, in order to preserve the quality and the fragrance of the tea leafs.




Flowering tea - design by Gabriela Yaroslavsky - Brazil

I loved this package! it is so delicate and so oriental!

Della Chuang, Kyoto and fragrances - Interview


The best was saved for last!

Best interview of the year:

Della Chuang - designer, artist, writer, blogger, traveller, friend...







Della Chuang

photo credit: Della Chuang


Della Chuang is the expression of the contemporary artist. If I would describe her in a few words I could say she is a designer in essence, a traveler in spirit and warm and kindness in soul. Spliting her time between NYC and Europe, Della (although young), has already accumulated experiences to fill big suitcases. She worked as art director for Ralph Lauren fragrances and freelancer design consultant for Tom Ford Beauty, wrote two successful books about design, and has recently launched successfully, a new book and fragrance called KyotoEau – Bottled Memories. When she is not struggling to choose between taking Teddy or Mac along with her on her trips, she is looking for inspirations (she is tuned in all art events of NYC and overseas) or writing in her artistic blog Nomadic Design (click here to enter to her fantastic world of design).

Della Chuang has found complexity in simplicity, beauty in Nature and art and love in fragrances. She managed to explore all senses and integrate them with modesty, honesty and style. She is my last guest here in the year of 2009, and probably the one who has touched me and my life more than all the others.

Simplicity seems natural, almost obvious, in its final form, but getting there takes experience, talent, and patience. Design for simplicity cannot be successful unless it is supported by perfect execution. Simplicity isn’t simple.” (Insight of Della Chuang extracted from her blog Nomadic Design article of Aug 7, 2009).



Illustration by Della

image credit: Della Chuang


+ Q Perfume Blog: How simple is your style Della? Or how you apply simplicity in your life and in your design?

Della Chuang: I never consciously decided that my life and my design would be integrally connected through an idea about simplicity. If I am not working or traveling, I prefer to remain at home most of the time, either concentrating on reading or writing, or just taking a long walk on the streets in lower Manhattan or in the Finnish woods. Perhaps my simple lifestyle would mean boredom. But I think it is as much a retreat into my own imagination, my own world. I feel that in order to keep a fresh creative mind, I have to keep a healthy distance from much of what is going on, not just in New York, but in the world.

Nature, which appears simple yet is complex, profoundly influences my approach to design. In the design of a perfume bottle, I want to showcase simplicity not as a rigid minimalist ideal, in which a formula toward sparseness is almost religiously pursued, but as a composition of forms, materials, and textures that is fundamentally “pure”.


Perfume bottles - sketches by Della Chuang

image credit: Della Chuang


+ Q perfume Blog: In design is simplicity acquired with experience or learned in books?

Della Chuang: Through my design education at Pratt Institute, an art school in New York, design became an everyday and familiar element in my life. Though I had become more aware of the concept of “simplicity” from each assigned design project at school, I think that the professional works I have done for Ralph Lauren Fragrances, and Tom Ford Beauty, most influenced my body of work. I enjoy reading very much. But I’m aware that no matter how many books I have read, without hands-on experience, I would never accurately understand simplicity.

+ Q Perfume: How did you start to create for the perfume industry? I saw in your site that it was a consolidation of a passion. Can you tell us a little bit about it? How and since when you developed a passion for fragrances? And how did you start to work for Ralph Lauren?

Della Chuang: On the day when I took the liberty of secretly spraying my mom’s precious Shisedo perfume on my way out to school, I discovered the pleasure of perfume. I was very pleased as soon as I entered the door of the classroom: everyone crowded around me to smell the fragrance. At the age of eleven, I found perfume blissful because it allowed me to create an instant miracle that made my classmates appreciate me. But if there was a passion for perfume bottle design lurking inside me, I was not yet aware of it by the time I started art school in New York City.

At Pratt Institute, I was drawn to arts have a tactile quality: sculpture, metalsmithing, anything allowing viewers the chance to come to their own conclusions. However, at the point, nothing was learned about perfume packaging design and its three-dimensional aspects, so for most assignments we were given were focused on two-dimensional design such as typography and graphic work.

My liking of drawing shapes and making forms gave me a sense of what I was searching for in my design career: to be a packaging designer. One day I saw a notice posted at the school announcing an open position for a designer at Ralph Lauren Fragrances. I applied for it. And this is when, my adventurous journey as a perfume-packaging designer began.

+ Q Perfume: Which of the projects that you developed for the brand was the most challenging for you? I see that you have a very luxurious flacon for Ralph Lauren Turquoise and a plastic spritzer for Ralph Lauren Ralph!

Della Chuang: Each of my designs originates from a simple desire to make people appreciate a perfume bottle not only as a container for fragrance, but as an experience of art. I do not think I can find a reason to make a comparison between Ralph and Pure Turquoise. Though the marketing approaches are quite different: girl vs. woman; mass vs. luxury; fun vs. elegance, the development of each design and its realization is an equal long, drawn-out process that requires the same amount of deliberation, thoughtfulness, and tender care.

+ Q Perfume: Your worked also with Tom Ford. Their styles are very different. From the traditional classic American icon of fashion that Ralph Lauren represents, to Tom Ford’s luxury with lust is quite a journey huh?

Della Chuang: I’m blessed to have the chance to work for two internationally respected, admired fashion brands! The experience of designing for the Ralph Lauren brand allowed me to appreciate the need for a careful balance between a good design, purposeful marketing and artistic license.

As for the experience with Tom Ford, I learned that although a single theme like the plot in a novel can be found running through the design, I must also pay close attention to the numerous aesthetic decisions that will comprise the entire fragrance brand. These decisions must be resolved and elaborated on­ each having individual integrity, but working together to support the whole. Just like a novel has its theme, but chapters, sentences, even individual words must come together to form the whole.

I have found that the creative process at Ralph Lauren Fragrances and Tom Ford Beauty is different, and the difference between these two brands can be linked to the differences between poem and novel. They are all beautiful and exciting experiences in my journey of design.

+ Q Perfume: White Patchouli bottle design is my favorite of all your creations. Can you tell me details of the process of this creation?

Della Chuang: Oh, I hope your favorite would be my first independent perfume project KyotEau, which is going to be launched in 2010 instead (laugh).

In the design of White Patchouli, the integration of this project into the existing Tom Ford fragrance line was difficult. The challenge, for me, was not technical but emotional: the attempt to capture the essence of the original cross-brand idea and then to transform it into a fresh character or feeling.

Creating White Patchouli was never simply a process of replicating the original design elements such as the corrugated lines, the gold ribbon, and the square gold plaque. My creative process started with an analytic study, based on input from the creative director Lara Modjeski at Estee Lauder, and, after a long time of thinking, I shut that part of my brain down and allowed the nonverbal side to react. No matter how many interactions research, sketches, and models, I tried to stay close to the core message of Tom Ford brand-luxury. I do not think that I can completely explain how I draw a specific line or circle on the sketchbook ­ at some point I just have to trust my eye, my intuition. Design is a process of percolation, with the form eventually finding its way to the surface. At the end, Mr. Ford picked my very first sketch as the final design of White Patchouli.

+ Q Perfume: Gee Dell, my comment was just concerning the flacon. I have to confess I haven’t tried your fragrance yet, so I cannot give an opinion about it. KyotoEau bottle is very special. I love the combination of glass and wood. I also love the lines, the simplicity and the colors. The symmetry is amazing! Tom Ford’s White Patchouli is totally different, I think I can’t really compare because we are talking about a brand and yours is a life project. What I meant to say, and I am not excusing myself here, but what I meant was among all the bottles for commercial fragrances (even thou TF is not that commercial), this particular one is really special. It is very clean, cool, white, baby bottle shaped (at least to me), very unusual. Although KyotoEau also reminds me of a toddler game my son had when he was little (with shapes in wood that he had to match with the shape on the board), the bottle and package all together gives me a sense of warming up. The orange is intense, the wood is rich, the dark glass is thick. So it is cool against heat! And of course having a fragrance to experience Kyoto as you know and feel it is one of a kind experience!

+ Q Perfume: You have 3 books published in many countries. Two about design and one about Kyoto, design and scents. Tell me a little bit about each book.

Della Chuang: In spring 2005, a publishing company in Taiwan offered me to write a book about design. I was tempted because writing is the best way to convey what I experience with the design works, I decided to take the chance even though I did not have any specific idea yet of what I would write about. After weeks of struggling, I decided to put this project on hold for a while, until one afternoon I happened to visit Café Gittane on Mott Street for a coffee. While sipping coffee, I noticed that a twenty-something guy, wearing a classic black pinstriped blazer paired with ripped camouflage cargo pants, swooshing a colorful skateboard outside the Café. The rider’s carefree yet creative wardrobe caught my eye, and suddenly I had my idea: New York Downtown style it is! Anything can happen in New York. Having lived here for more than a decade, I realize that there are so many creative people who are taking chances and explore what the city has to offer, exploring its possibilities and its potential… And this creative power is most pronounced in downtown Manhattan! My intent in writing a series of New York downtown style design stories is not primarily commercial, but deliveries messages about “ideas about things” in the fashion and product designs My first book New York Downtown Style (2006) introduces fourteen fashion designers that have the most evanescent creative forces. By writing this book, I hope that the reader gets inspired by their work, and intrigued by their spirit of dedication in this very competitive industry. New York Downtown Style: Witty Design Objects (2007), a sequel to New York Downtown Style, collects eleven product designs which not only exude a very playful and unique downtown accent, but also share different design concepts and startle us a surprise of recognition, an immediate closeness. They intersect all individual and national boundaries to speak a universally personal language. To my delight, these two books were well received. From the lectures I gave and the letters I received, my readers encouraged me to write a book about perfume packaging. Therefore, in 2006 summer, before I even finished my second book, I began my research on a book about perfume design based on my own design experience. KyotEau: Bottled Memories (2009), describes my insights and experiences in Kyoto, and maps an epiphany as a journey between design and scent. KyotEau (Eau de Kyoto), the result of an intense collaboration with the perfumer Christophe Laudamiel, is a scent based on my sensory adventures in Kyoto. The development of this book and its realization was a long, exhausting process, but as a result of it became my favorite writing project. I see it as an extension of my design - a verbal sketchbook, where image can be seen as text and text is sometimes used as image. After writing three books, I have come to realize that I rely on writing to help me clarify and visualize my design language it allows me to convey my thoughts and intentions as directly as possible to the reader, therefore no need exists for a translation. As a designer, I’m truly blessed to be a writer too!

+ Q Perfume: Why Kyoto? Do you have a special bond with this place? In terms of olfactive experiences, is this city more fragrant than others?

Della Chuang: It never occurred to me that my friends, including my Japanese friends, thought I was being eccentric when I travel alone and lodge in temples in Kyoto. Growing up, I was surrounded by Japanese objects, from the Japanese dinnerware we ate from, to the tatami (straw matt in Japanese) we slept on, to the Japanese folk music that both of my parents listened to. So my strong affinity for Japanese culture is no surprise, nor how comfortable I am whenever I visit Japan, especially the heart of Japanese tradition Kyoto. Kyoto, to me, is not only a city graced by the Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, as well as traditional culture and rituals, but the secret garden that has a healing power to the mind. Whenever I’m sad and tired in New York, I often take refuge in Kyoto’s consoling fresh air, moonlight, and landscape. Therefore, the idea of using Kyoto as a design case study in my book KyotEau: Bottled Memories was very natural.



KyotoEau Bottled Memories by Della Chuang

Photo credit: Manfred Koh


+ Q Perfume; The book Kyoteau Bottled Memories comes with a fragrance, created by perfumer Christophe Laudamiel. He also created the fragrance Polo Blue for Men (Ralph Lauren) while you were the art director for fragrances of the brand. How was your relationship with him under the brand’s name, and how is your relationship with him now he is creating for you?

Della Chuang: Christophe and I never met before I invited him to work on the KyotEau project. I discovered Polo Blue, allegedly the largest and most successful launch of men’s fragrance in the history of perfumery, is one of his creations. In the corporate world, the marketing department plays a key role of communication between the creative department and the perfume house. Therefore, a packaging designer and a perfumer are not required to meet during the working process. Imagine how strange it is to create perfume, by following a textural description to its completion, and only discovering the bottle for the first time right before or on the date of the launch! I have often said that the relationship between perfume bottle and perfume can be likened to the relationship between a book cover and its contents, and this analogy reflects not just the end result but the creative process one goes through in the making of the work: bottle and perfume must work together at the same time to form the whole! I therefore longed for a true collaboration with a perfumer who could share ideas spontaneously and intuitively with me. I wrote if, a poem based on my personal sensory experience in my beloved city Kyoto, and used it as a test to find my ideal collaborator. After months of search, I chose Christophe Laudamiel for his artistic interpretation and sincere professionalism. It was a truly inspirational experience to work with Christophe, who opened my eye to the world of perfume making. In the making of KyotEau, our communication consisted of countless e-mails, photo sharing, and ideas. One of the best advice I was given during the design process was from Christophe, who insisted I should investigate the ergonomics of the squatted bottle that I showed him. Likewise, he was impressed that I was able to identify some ingredients from his creation by smelling. He is a man with a great adventurous spirit. After leaving IFF where he had created KyotEau among other perfumes, he co-founded a start-up company called Aerosphere and became independent.

+ Q Perfume Blog: I guess when we are speaking about niche brands we can bring the perfumers and designers in a much closer relationship!

Della Chuang: Yes. My attempt of this project also involved the reader in a direct and intimate dialogue with design and perfume.



KyotoEau - the perfume

the fragrance by Christophe Laudamiel & bottle design by Della Chuang

photo credit: Arthur Wesphal


+Q Perfume Blog: Can you tell us what you have been doing lately? New projects coming along? KyotoEau development?

Della Chuang: The onerous tasks ahead bring KyotEau perfume to live and organize a touring exhibition based on my latest book KyotEau: Bottled Memories. I have been encouraged by several fragrance and design experts to try to exhibit at a museum or gallery to showcase the creative process in perfumery. And I hope to officially introduce KyotEau perfume to the public in the exhibits in 2010.

On staying creative I am working on my fourth book, besides tackling design projects at any given time.

+Q Perfume Blog: Della, I want to thank you so much for being able to talk to you here, get to know more about your work, and share it with my readers and friends. I was really special to me!!! That is why I wanted to save for last! I hope 2010 will be a great year for you, and I am really happy to have been given the opportunity this year to share with you ideas, insights, and all we do off-blog!!! Happy New Year sweety!


Concerning the photos, illustration and image: All of them were a courtesy of the interview guest, Della Chuang. If you wish to use them, please contact her for previous consent.

Michael Edwards launches new book/Michel Edwards lança novo livro

The best was saved for last!
O melhor ficou para o final!

New book by Michel Edwards
Novo livro de Michel Edwards






Michael Edwards is launching his new edition of Fragrances of the World - 2010.
This year the master surprised us including 2 new categories of fragrances: Niche and masstige. With images by my dearest Michel Roudnitska, 7000 reviews and 800 new launches.

From what we can extract from the book, classics had an increase of popularity and niche has consolidated its place in the market. Consumes and fragrances passionate are looking for quality. We are witnessing the rise of a new golden era of perfumery.
+ Q perfume Blog is proud to be spreading perfume culture with Mr. Edwards amazing help!!!
Do not miss this edition because it is a milestone and a result of hard work of these artisans, these artists!!!

Michel Edwards em breve lançará sua nova edição do livro Fragrances of the World 2010.
Este ano o mestre nos surpreendeu com algumas surpresas: a inclusão de fragrâncias mastige (para quem não sabe, mastige vem de mass-tige, ou perfume vendido em massa, uma categoria abaixo de prestígio) e a inclusão das marcas de nicho.
Esta edição conta com images produzidas pelo meu querido Michel Roudnitska, com sete mil avaliações, sendo que 800 são novos lançamentos.
Pelo que podemos extrair do livro, é importante notar a volta do interesse pelos perfumes clássicos e a consolidação da perfumaria de nicho no mercado. Ou seja, nós, os consumidores e apaixonados por perfumes estamos em busca de qualidade e não quantidade.
Podemos também afirmar que estamos presenciando a nova era de ouro da perfumaria.
Artesões maravilhosos estão criando e produzindo como nunca!
+ Q Perfume Blog tem o prazer, e confessa ter orgulho de fazer parte deste movimento, espalhando a cultura do perfume desde o começo.

Não percam esta edição por ser um marco na perfumaria internacional!!

www.fragrancesoftheworld.com


segunda-feira, 7 de dezembro de 2009

PooPoo Pidoo!



BEST FRAGRANCE OF THE YEAR/MELHOR FRAGRâNCIA DO ANO
+Q PERFUME BLOG EDITOR'S CHOICE/ESCOLHA + Q PERFUME
PooPoo Pidoo BY EGOFACTO
Perfumer/perfumista: Dominique Ropion



Betty Boop was a cartoon created by Max Fleischer in the 30's and it is the most famous and also considered the first animated sex symbol. She was the first character fully representing a sexualized woman. She wore a tiny dress (showing a beautiful pair of legs), high heels and a galter belt, and showing her cleavage, she had, at the same time, a girlish look. And although many have tried to take her virtude from her, she always remained a virgin in all cartoons. She was kept "pure" till the very end.

Betty Boop foi criada por Max Fleischer nos anos trinta, e acabou se tornando o primeiro (e possivelmente) o personagem-símbolo sexual criado para entreter adultos, mais famoso do mundo.
Quem poderia esquecer aquela doce mocinha de olhos gigantes, usando um vestidinho microscópico com cinta-liga, fazendo biquinho e mandando beijinhos?
Apesar de mostrar um decote escandaloso, ficar com as pernas de fora e provocar os homens, Betty Boop mesclava o look de bebê, com sua cabeça desproporcional e seu minúsculo corpinho. Ela fazia o tipo lolita em perigo, sempre sendo atacada por personagens malvados e loucos para seduzí-la.
Saibam porém que ela jamais perdeu sua virgindade! Ainda que os personagens masculinos se tornavam predadores sexuais; verdadeiros lobos que sequestravam Betty Boop, amarravam a coitada e geralmente tentavam beijá-la a força. Graças a sua doçura, ela era sempre salva na última hora e a coisa nunca ia até o final.

Betty Boop


Her character was naïve, and her innocent sexuality aimed an adult public.
In 1933 the cartoon had to change the image of Betty Boop because of the National Legion of Decency, when she started to wear full dresses, became a house wife and the references to sexual innuendo where restricted.
Betty Boop was originally inspired by the 1920's actress Clara Bow, and she was singing pretty much like jazz singer Helen Kane, known as the Boop-Oop-A-Doop girl.
So Betty Boop was a singing lady, with the looks of a pretty girl and the power of seduction of a lady Diva. Her red lips and long eye lashes turned men into wolves. In some of the cartoons they tied her up, they tried to kiss her against her will and they became sex predators, while she kept her girlie behavior, her jazzy coolness; and the victim of her sexy looks was always saved by some other character at the very last minute.

Although she became a licensed character for many products and has her own fragrance - Betty Boop by Betty Boop, launched in 2009. (A fruity floral fragrance with notes of gardenia, jasmine, ylang ylang, cloves, woody - musky-ambery angelica and benzoin), nothing is this world has captured the soul of Betty Boop more brilliantly and more accurately than EgoFacto's perfume PooPoo Pidoo.

Em 1933, a Legião Nacional da Decência e dos Bons Costumes obrigou o personagem a se comportar e se vestir de uma outra forma. Seus vestidos passaram a cobrir quase o corpo todo, e Betty Boop se transformou numa dona de casa. Ela deixou os cabarés, os circos e os palcos em geral, pra frequentar supermercados e ambientes familiares.

Apesar de o personagem ser licenciado e figurar em vários produtos; inclusive já foi lançado um perfume com o seu nome em 2009, com notas florais-frutais de gardênia, jasmim, ylang ylang, cravo, angélica e benjoim, nada pode representar esta mocinha tão brilhantemente quanto o perfume PooPoo Pidoo. Ele captura a aura e a personalidade do personagem de uma forma surpreendente.



The flacon - O frasco




The inspiration - A inspiração

Listen- by clicking here
Ouça clicando aqui

At this point of the year, I find it hard to believe that I will have anything more precious than the fragrances created by French company EgoFacto. This French brand conquered my heart and my soul in a way that for a week I became literally blind. I could not even see any other perfumes in my sight. The concept is so brilliant, that it makes you wonder how the hell the owner came up with such an amazing idea.
All the fragrances are portraits of personalities. Who you are, who you wish to be, who you dare to be, hidden personalities, hidden egos...

A essa altura do ano eu acho muito difícil acreditar que eu vá colocar as minhas mãos em algo tão precioso quanto as fragrâncias criadas pela empresa francesa EgoFacto. A marca me conquistou de tal forma, que por uma semana eu fiquei literalmente cega. Não consegui ver nenhum outro perfume na minha frente.
O conceito é tão brilhante que me faz pensar em como o criador da marca surgiu com uma idéia tão incrivelmente sensacional.
Todas as fragrâncias são retratos de personalidades. Quem somos, quem queremos ser, personalidades escondidas, egos e alter egos...

And PooPoo Pidoo is just like what they describe in the brochure, "a disarming powdery floral" who wishes to be Betty Boop! It brings the sweet & naïve aura of the character.
It is sugary at extreme, combined with an explosion of citrusy notes, so acid and so intense that it feels like you are eating cotton candy, oranges and lemons peels at the same time.
The top notes are deliciously tooth decay material. (Even Angel hasn't got such a cavity trigger chemical!). So sweety, so cheerful, that it smells like Pierre Aulas (owner of the brand) and Dominique Ropion (perfumer) stayed for hours watching Betty Boop do her lolita-jazzy sing and dance show, while mixing ingredients in the lab. I picture Pierre saying to Dominique "add more sugar...add more...more...not enough...add more!!!" 100% sugar drunkness led them to this glorious perfume!
The top notes are perfumed kisses that Betty Boop sends to her audience. Caramel, cotton candy, lemon pie, Swiss lemonade, orange peels... It is so gourmet that my mouth was salivating!! The harmony of acid-sugar notes is perfect, and you wish it will never go away.
But it does, slowly, unfortunately. But it leaves space for another surprise.

PooPoo Pidoo, assim como está descrita no catálogo, "é uma fragrância floral com notas de talco que desarma qualquer um". Um perfume que quer incorporar a persona de Betty Boop. Mesclar ingenuidade com sexualidade; candura com desejo.
É doce ao extremo. Doçura essa que vem combinada com uma acidez tão forte e tão intensa que dá vontade da dar risada!
Seria a mesma sensação de comer algodão doce com raspas de casca de laranja e limão ao mesmo tempo. É tão doce, tão doce, que dá a impressão de que vai cariar os dentes!
Nem Angel de Thierry Mugler é tão doce assim!
Tão doce, tão maravilhoso e tão jovial, que eu imagino Pierre Aulas (dono da marca) e Dominique Ropion (perfumista), assistindo os desenhos de Betty Boop no laboratório. Horas vendo aquela lolita balançando o traseiro, mandando beijinhos e cantando jazz. Estasiado, Pierre cheira os vidrinhos de amostra do perfume e diz para Dominique "mais açúcar....não...mais! Muiiiito mais açúcar!!! Até ficar 100% grogue de tanto açúcar e começar a cantar "Poopoo Pidoo...I wanna be loved by you..."
O Perfume possui uma saída de deixar a boca salivando. Açúcar derretido, algodão doce, torta de limão, limonada suiça, flores de laranja africana, cascas de limão e laranja... a harmonia doce-ácido é tão perfeita que eu não queria que evaporasse jamais!
Infelizmente elas evaporam, ainda que lentamente. O consolo são notas que estão por vir, ainda mais surpreendentes.





The rice powdery notes comes forward, and it is combined with an animalistic musky notes.
I am a huge fan of rice notes in perfumes, such as in Kenzo, Ormonde Jayne and Creed.
Cooked rice is sweet, creamy and nutty. It nourishes the body and the soul. In perfumery it brings a smoother, almost velvety balance to the accord.
Poopoo Pidoo becomes a powdery luxurious chic perfume. With fleshy richness and skin like notes, powdered with baby talc and a delicious flowery touch on top.
Betty Boop took a bath, spread baby powder on herself and than, ate a huge dish of Gerber baby rice. And that is why she was a cartoon with a huge head, huge eyes and small frame. She looked like a baby!
But later at night, the baby look and the girlie style was no longer a fetish, and the girl became a woman. A sensual lady that has any man on her feet. She will become a muse, a diva.

Notas de arroz cozido surgem combinadas com notas de talco e um toque animal de musk.
Não é segredo que sou louca por notas de arroz, como as adicionadas aos perfumes de Kenzo, Ormonde Jayne e Creed.
O arroz, que na culinária milenar budista conforta a alma e o corpo, aparece na perfumaria para deixar o acorde mais suave, mais cremoso. Levemente floral, com toque de nozes, e muito agradável, o arroz transforma esta fragrância num perfume muito especial.
Poopoo Pidoo se transforma num perfume floral luxuoso e muito chique. O toque de cheiro de pele é simplesmente maravilhoso.
A sensação é que Betty Boop sussegou o facho! Foi tomar um banho, colocou um talquinho, a fralda, se vestiu, e comeu um delicioso prato de creme de arroz Gerber (acho que aqui se chama Cremogema).
Sim, como eu mencionei antes, Betty Boop sempre teve cara e proporções de bebê, com sua cabeça gigante, olhos enormes e corpinho bem pequeno. Como se ela lembrasse uma criança pequena, ou um bebê realmente.
Mas a noite, ela se transforma. Coloca uma camisola sensual e encarna uma diva, uma mulher sedutora e poderosa. Chega do fetiche lolita, adolescente assanhada, bebê Gerber. Ela vira uma verdadeira mulher. Sensual e provocante, ela tem os homens aos seus pés!

There are plenty other examples of this persona, I listed some:
The perfume has a touch of Barbie doll, with angelical looks but the body of a supermodel. She is the mature doll with breasts.
It has the glamour of Marilyn Monroe and her naive way of getting men to do whatever she wants. Always hot, almost dumb, and sweet as an angel.
It has the luxury and the charm of Audrey Hepburn in breakfast at Tiffany's. The classy urban lady who wants to marry a rich man and be a star. The girl who has bad dreams at night and need someone to comfort her; she owns a cat and carries it like a doll. But the same woman parties every night, bring secret messages to the mob in Sing Sing, drives a Brazilian millionaire & a writer totally crazy.

Existem outros personagem que podem muito bem se encaixar no perfil PooPoo Pidoo:
Boneca Barbie - rostinho angelical, cabelo loiro e olhinhos azuis e um corpo de top model. Barbie foi a primeira boneca com corpo de mulher.
Marilyn Moroe - a loira bobinha, ingênua e gostosa que deixava os homens de quatro a ponto de fazerem tudo que ela queria. De boba ela não tinha nada! Ícone pop e símbolo sexual, a loira tinha uma ingenuidade angelical, quase infantil, que a tornava um verdadeiro furacão.
Audrey Hepburn no filme Breakfast at Tiffany's, encarna uma mocinha jovem do interior, quase que adolescente, que muda para a cidade em busca de riqueza e fama.
Acordando de pesadelos horríveis a procura de um jovem para abraçá-la, ou segurando um gato como se fosse uma bonequinha, Audrey ao mesmo tempo era uma mulher chique, bem vestida e baladeira. Dava altas festas regadas a whiskey, levava mensagens para mafiosos na prisão e deixava os homens encantados com a sua bela figura.


Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's

In this blogger opinion, PooPoo Pidoo is by far the best fragrance launched in 2009.
The perfumer captured the very essence of the brand and the idea proposed in the Egotistic profile. Technically speaking, it has a balance, a harmony that is very hard to find. A perfume that is so sweet and strong and yet, does not give you nausea. Instead, it makes you feel like singing and dancing. Poopoo Pidoo!

The fragrance, the colors, the shape of the bottle, the package, the music...everything is amazing!

The project is risky, bold, irreverent and fantastic!

Na opinião desta bloger PooPoo Pidoo é de longe a melhor fragrância lançada em 2009.
O Perfumista conseguiu transpor para o perfume a essência da marca, a proposta de criar egos e personalidades distintas. Tecnicamente, o perfume possui a harmonia e o equilíbrio de notas ácidas e doces muito difícil de encontrar. O perfume é tão doce e tão forte...mas ao mesmo tempo não dá enjôo, pelo contrário, dá uma vontade de sair dançando e cantando. PooPoo Pidoo!!

A embalagem, o frasco, o perfume, a campanha, as cores, a música....tudo é maravilhoso!
O projeto é arriscado, atrevido, irreverente e fantástico!
Parabéns pelo sucesso!!!!!!


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