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unusual facts about Perfume



Abir

Abir, an alternate spelling of Abeer (Arabic: عبير‎), is an Arabic name meaning fragrance or the fragrance of flowers, can refer to perfume and can be used as a female as well as a male name.

Andy Gillet

After studies at a school of commerce, he turned to modelling (he currently makes the publicity for the perfume Kenzo Power by Kenzo Takada), while taking acting lessons.

Avery Robinson

In 1907 he married Chess's daughter Mary, who would later found the Mary Chess Company, a perfume manufacturer.

Blab Happy

The band split up in 1993, with singer Mick McCarthy and bassist Tony Owen forming Perfume, who enjoyed the patronage of BBC Radio 1 DJs Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley, having a minor hit in 1996 with "Haven't Seen You".

Bo Brady and Hope Williams

The pairing won the "America's Favorite Supercouple" award at the 2002 Emmy Awards, and are the face of Avon's Blue Rush perfume advertising campaign.

Carr Lowrey Glass Company

Located on the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River in a neighborhood named Westport, Samuel Carr and William Lowrey established their company to create glass bottles for the pharmaceutical and perfume industries.

Charles Cobelle

In addition to creating advertising illustrations for everything from hosiery to French perfume, Cobelle created a number of murals throughout the country in noteworthy public locations such as The Painted Desert Room of the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco, Neiman-Marcus in Dallas and on the cruise ships of the Holland America Line.

Chloroethane

In Brazil, it is a traditional (though illegal) drug taken during Carnaval parades, known as "lança-perfume".

Daihatsu Rugger

Named after a perfume by Nicolas de Barry it was called "Blue Lagoon", and was available with either Alcantara or leather interior.

Daniel Vaudd

A chance encounter at the Knightsbridge Haute Parfumerie of the world’s sole ‘ Professeur de parfum’, Roja Dove, led Dove to ask Daniel to be his personal researcher on the project ‘Essence of Perfume’ by Roja Dove.

David H. McConnell

David Hall McConnell (July 18, 1858 – January 20, 1937) was the Founder and President of the California Perfume Company, which later became Avon Products.

Fairy Dust

Fairy Dust is a women's fragrance from Parlux Fragrances released in October 2008, and is the sixth fragrance to be endorsed by Paris Hilton, following Can Can.

Film producer

Late German producer Bernd Eichinger is said to have worked 15 years on convincing novelist Patrick Süskind just to agree to a film adaptation of his book Perfume.

Flacon

Charles Baudelaire wrote a poem about the flacon, entitled Le Flacon (The Perfume Flask).

Guilherme Leal

He is the co-chairman of the Board of Directors of, and owns a 25% stake in, Natura, Brazil's leading manufacturer and marketer of skin care, solar filters, cosmetics, perfume and hair care products.

History of perfume

Madame de Pompadour ordered generous supplies of perfume, and King Louis demanded a different fragrance for his apartment everyday.

By the 18th century, aromatic plants were being grown in the Grasse region of France to provide the growing perfume industry with raw materials.

Horror Hospital

Balch asked Michael Gough to base his performance on Bela Lugosi, screening him a 16mm print of The Devil Bat, in which Lugosi plays a mad, perfume manufacturer.

House model

For example, Kate Moss's widely known work for Calvin Klein, particularly her Obsession advertisements is a small part of a wide-ranging modelling career.

Imperial Leather

The brand goes all the way back to 1768 when a Russian nobleman called Count Orlof commissioned a brand of perfume from Bayleys of Bond Street in London.

ISIPCA

ISIPCA (Institut supérieur international du parfum, de la cosmétique et de l'aromatique alimentaire) is a school for post-graduate studies in perfume, cosmetics products and food flavor formulation, with an apprenticeship period in the industry.

Jacques Polge

He is the third director of the perfume division after Ernest Beaux and Henri Robert.

Jean-Claude Ellena

The story behind the creation of this fragrance was the subject of the book The Perfect Scent: A Year in the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York by Chandler Burr.

Jean-Marcel Rozier

He collaborated with the perfume company Chez Marionnaud to establish the Team Marionnaud, a show jumping team that includes his own sons, Philippe and Thierry Rozier.

Joseph Rouletabille

Ballmeyer returns in The Perfume of the Lady in Black at the end of the story, which takes place in a castle on the French Riviera.

Lady Gaga Fame

Lady Gaga Fame is a unisex perfume by American performance artist Lady Gaga.

Lang Lang

Cananga odorata, a tree valued for its perfume whose common names include Ylang-ylang and ilang-ilang

Love and Glamour

Melanie Dee of Yahoo! Voices gave Love and Glamour a mixed review, stating that while it "smells simply delicious", it was unoriginal in contrast to her previous fragrances and opined that "it will not wow perfume connoisseurs out there enough to become a mainstream must have fragrance like her original Glow".

Matchabelli

Norina Matchabelli, Italian actress and co-founder of Prince Matchabelli perfume line

Matthew Williamson

In 2005, he launched his own perfume range; the following year he was appointed Creative Director at Emilio Pucci.

No. 5 the Film

Though visually captivating, the film is essentially an extended television commercial for Chanel No. 5 perfume.

Norina Matchabelli

Princess Norina Matchabelli (3 March 1880 – 15 June 1957), born Norina Gilli in Florence, Italy, was co-founder of the perfume company Prince Matchabelli, a stage and screen actress, mystic, publisher, and a devoted mandali of Indian spiritual teacher Meher Baba.

Parfums Lubin

Its wares and antique documents can be found displayed in Musées de Grasse's International Perfume Museum in Grasse, France.

Parma violet

The d'Udine Parma violet features large, bluish-lavender flowers and a strong perfume.

Perfume and Piss

Perfume and Piss is the eleventh studio album released by the punk rock band Charged GBH.

Peter Andre: My Life

Episode 6 (10 November 2010): Pete launches his new perfume for women, "Mysterious Girl", attends a charity lunch with the cast of Coronation Street, and gives an in-depth interview to the Daily Star.

Pont au Change

It also plays a role in the novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind; the perfumier Baldini, who takes the protagonist Grenouille as his apprentice, owns a shop on the bridge.

Robert Lee Morris

Known primarily for his collaborations with leading fashion designers, especially Geoffrey Beene, Karl Lagerfeld, Kansai Yamamoto, Calvin Klein, Anne Klein, Michael Kors, and Donna Karan, Morris has designed Karan's new perfume bottle "Gold" for Estée Lauder.

Songs to Remember

The cover artwork for each of the singles was a homage to the packaging of a luxury consumer item: Dunhill cigarettes for "The 'Sweetest Girl'", Dior's Eau Sauvage perfume for "Faithless", and Courvoisier cognac for "Asylums in Jerusalem"/"Jacques Derrida".

Susannah Melvoin

As a songwriter, she has co-written songs performed by Madonna (Melvoin co-wrote "Ray of Light's" fourth track "Candy Perfume Girl"), Eric Clapton, and Doyle Bramhall II of Arc Angels.

The Secret of Red Gate Farm

Out on a leisurely shopping trip, Nancy, Bess and George encounter an odd French-Chinese perfume saleswoman, who is reluctant to sell a particular fragrance to Bess.

The Thunder, Perfect Mind

A shortened version of the film was used in a Prada advertisement with Canadian supermodel Daria Werbowy, to promote the launch of the fashion house's first perfume.

Tholene

Tholene was a mentholated lip balm made by the Rosebud Perfume Company of Woodsboro, Maryland.

Thomas Chang

Working with improvised materials like perfume atomizers inside his dorm room turned laboratory, Chang managed to create a permeable plastic sack that would effectively carry haemoglobin almost as effectively as a natural blood cell.

Valdemar Ingemann

Valdemar Ingemann was born in Copenhagen, the son of merchant and perfume manufacturer Søren Edvard Joachim Ingemann, a nephew of the author Bernhard Severin Ingemann, and Mariane Aurelia Laurentine née Lauritzen.

Walter Noel

In 2007, Noel was implicated in a report by the Auditor General, John Noseworthy, for billing the government over $12,000 which was spent on perfume, women’s clothing, and alcohol.

Warehouseman

An Italian warehouseman was someone who stocked goods from Italy such as pasta, olive oil, pickles, perfumes, fruits, paints and pigments (they were often known as Oil and Italian warehouseman or Oilman and Italian warehouseman to highlight the selling of oil products).

Wildlife of Cambodia

Aquilaria crassna, or chankreussna, is a tree species valued for its perfume which is currently critically endangered.

Wilhelm Mülhens

Wilhelm Mülhens (born 25 June 1762 in Troisdorf and died 6 March 1841 in Köln) was a Cologne perfume designer and manufacturer, and the founder of the Mülhens company, famous for the fragrance "4711".

Ybry

Jaroslawski collaborated with Baccarat for the perfume bottles but also had commissioned Lalique to create the luxurious Art Nouveau glass medallions.


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