In the twenties, Vigny Paris presented Golliwog parfum to the world. The name and bottle was inspired by a popular series of books by Florence Upton, which themselves were inspired by the racist fun of minstrelsy.
Le Golliwog is highly valued by bottle collectors, who frequently seem to denote its whimsy.
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My husband rarely comments on the perfumes I wear unless it’s one he already knows and loves. Imagine my surprise when unbidden, he asked about Bond No. 9’s Eau de New York. And then the conversation unraveled.
“That smell… what is that… is that your perfume?”
“Yeah, kind of smells like, uh, Pez at the top?”
“Sort of, […]

One of the most ubiquitously collected things in the twentieth century by American middle class folks has to be the humble Avon bottle. I’d wager a guess that certain generations of us* all remember our mother’s dressers or shelves filled with their often whimsical bottles. I am amongst them. Across the years and over multiple […]

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Good lord, it was as hot as balls this weekend! Triple digits, too: 109F at my in-laws’ house Friday, 104F at my house on Saturday and Sunday. It’s flipping too hot to think, and I’ve been leery of spending to much time on the computer, since the poor laptop kept overheating with the temperatures.It’s almost […]

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A good while back, I was strongly urged to try Coty’s Sand & Sable by Flora and March in the comments about inexpensive fragrances at Target. March decided to make sure I got a bottle, because she is a fairy godmother of perfumes that make me irrationally happy. Sand & Sable is just as delightful […]

Mitsouko parfum is one the best things I have ever smelled. There’s just something about it that melds intrinsically to my skin, and it is hard to tell where I begin and Mitsouko’s sensual chypre ends.
The notes are blended so superbly that it is a hard fragrance to pick apart bit by bit. A […]

Happy Bastille Day to all my French friends!
The power went down in the area where my host is located, and while they do seem to have got things up and running again (or else I could’t be writing this) do be patient if Scentzilla seems to disappear again. They are on the job.
Now then, onto […]

1 year ago, Andy Tauer began to write his charming blog, detailing both his poetic observations of life and the interesting way his mind works when developing perfumes. It was not too long after he started that I began reading it, and I bookmarked it instantly. Since he first began, it’s only gotten better. In […]