Scentzilla!

Mizensir is the brainchild of legend-in-his-own-time perfumer Alberto Morillas. The Geneva based company offers an intriguing range of candles and home fragrance sprays, none of which I’ve tried outside of the Heliotrope Bleue candle. (Too little time, too little money, etc.)

Heliotrope Bleue smells not of actual heliotrope, but of an idealized, hyper-real impression of it. Where many heliotrope fragrances tend to overly fetishize the bloom’s sifted powder element, Morillas takes an endearingly different tack. Aniseed fills the heart of its aroma, but smells less licorice-like than one would think, and more… nutty? Yes, nutty. Paired with a vanillic lilt, the effect is reminiscent of almond biscotti. Hovering over the biscotti allusion like a halo, the pale glow of fresh floral notes linger in the air, having been trapped forever in a perfumer’s state of grace where there is no organic decay, no death.

In some ways, this candle embraces what I wanted the Lolita Lempicka fragrance to be, but wasn’t. Which? Is largely due to an errant and most unfortunate stale gym shorts note in Lolita Lempicka, that once noticed couldn’t be shaken off upon subsequent sniffs.

The candle is slow burning, but burns cleanly, with a delicate yet wide flung throw, and evenly melting wax. Even the wick doesn’t need to be trimmed all too often, as it seems to keep pace with the wax quite well.

I’m not sure I’ll be replacing this particular candle, which has nothing to do with its quality and everything to do with a now keen curiosity about the rest of the Mizensir line. Heliotrope Bleue smells charming, elegant, and as if a paragon of the word “cozy” itself… much like a good cafe or an intimate still life painting.

The following was written by my sister Sasha, otherwise referenced here by me as my favorite guinea pig:

Sitting in my car, searching for music that wouldn’t exacerbate my frustrations with traffic, I chose to listen to a lame P. Diddy commercial over lame pop music or most likely a lame P. Diddy single that could have been playing or “dropping” at that very moment on another station. He wanted you to buy Unforgivable for your dad on Father’s Day. Diddy said in the radio ad,”Your dad is number one so you should get him the number one smell good scent, Unforgivable.”

Now, when Puffy talks the world listens for some reason. But I am confused. Why is the number one smell good scent… unforgivable? What has it done? What is it doing now? Should I be worried?

But then I guess the number one smell good scent shouldn’t be Forgivable either: you might as well name it Tolerable, Not Too Pleasant But I Can Stand It, or I Can Take It If You Can.

For those of you not revolted by Puffy’s music and lifestyle, good news! He has two versions of Unforgivable that are apparently indistinguishable from each other. That’s right, YOU can choose the way YOU want to be Unforgivable in two totally unnoticable ways! Now, I must admit I find it strange he only has two Unforgivables, because I was totally prepared to “unforgive” him more than twice. On the other hand, I also find it odd that he wanted his personal scent to be… Unforgivable… twice.

However, I suppose I should consider the possiblity that Unforgivable was named to reflect Sean Comb’s music career. It is unforgivable that his half-assed attempt at “remixes” and production have most likely sold just as many records as his “inspiration” and victims’ originals; It is unforgivable that he can just grunt and moan in the background of another musician’s song and claim credit and originality. I theorize that since The Police or David Bowie do not have fragrances of their own for him to “remix,” he was forced to copy his own scent which is in turn apparently reminiscent of a fragrance called Creed Millésime Impérial. This leads me to wonder, if an Unforgivable III were made, would it end up smelling like a xerox of a xerox of a xerox? A reproduction that’s been through the copier so many times that the ink has faded and said document is neither legible nor helpful? I shouldn’t think too much about that.

P. Diddy offends me in so many ways I resent him. Obviously, he has his music career…..gross. He has a fragrance…grosser. Now, he has a few paragraphs I unfortunately felt compelled to write about him…grossest.

My message to you, Puff Daddy, is this: My father will not be smelling like you, Puff Daddy, or if you will, the daddy of puffs, even if it is your self-proclaimed number one smell good scent. When I think of gifting the man who bought me ice cream when I had a bad day or who drove me to and from softball practice, anything Unforgivable does not come to mind.

~ by SASHA

I love LOL Cats. Like, I know, it’s not in the least bit cool anymore, and given the number of spinoffs like LOL President and LOL Trek, the whole concept has totally jumped the shark by now. But, meh, I was never cool or hip to start with, so why let that stop me from deciding LOL Perfume is a necessary adjuvant to the phenomenon?

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These perhaps aren’t the best selections for a LOL Perfume, they were just the ones that came up first when I typed in general search engine terms for “perfume ads.” Have better ones you can make? Let’s include them! Hell, why not? Point me with a link to an ad or perfume image with your desired caption, and I’ll add it on! Or, if you have your own graphic editing software and a hosting site, direct us towards the link to your finished LOL Perfume.

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From Donna, a spin on the old infamous Dana TABU ads: