Name Drops: 1
Jean-Claude EllenaBonus Points:
Perfumers: 1Jean-Claude Ellena Deluxe Triple Bonus Points®: 3
French: 1
Nonsensical fragrance descriptions: 3
marvelous filigree of citrusCalibration factor for micro-mini review format: 10-1
heated granite
sweet midnight in summer
Total BurrOmeter reading for Eau Claire des Merveilles: 0.9 milliburrs
Outlook: Lowest reading ever recorded. The trendline is headed for the microburr range.
you're *my* little
ReplyDeletefiligree of citrus
wafting over
heated granite
in the
sweet midnight of summer
it almost works like that
but i'm still chilly
Burrometer! It's been a few months since I read your blog properly and I've missed this lovely little development. What fun!
ReplyDeleteDisagree 100% with Mr. Chandler.
ReplyDeleteNo baby breath there my friend...
Unless the baby is getting liters of Coca Cola in his bottle...
+ Q Perfume:
ReplyDeleteThe description took me elsewhere:
citrus + milky scent = Orangesicle
(Tart on the outside, creamy on the inside.)
Speaking of which, nice to hear from you again. How's the winter been?
Nukapai:
ReplyDeleteWe went to great expense to recalibrate the BurrOmeter to measure the new, abbreviated, star-less reviews. But the sample size is getting tinier and tinier--it's now down to 40.8 words per review. And since each perfume is now paired with another in the same brand, it's effectively 20.4 words. Shave off a few more and we'll have to buy an Ono-Sendai 750-nanometer haiku demodulator for the front end.
My sensors must be on the wrong settings: I failed to pick up any recent Burr activity.
ReplyDeleteI also think my senses must be on different settings than Mr. Burr's: I wonder whether he and I smelled the same product when I read what he writes on Womanity.
Reducing the word count so drastically makes the exercise seems pointless, doesn't it? He might as well be a beauty editor.
carmencanada/Grain de Musc:
ReplyDelete"He might as well be a beauty editor."
Ouch! YMTMCOOMN. (*)
*You made the Martini come out of my nose.
Winter started in August, temperatures are dropping fast. It is good because I get to wear fragrances that are more complexed and more intense. I am a winter kind of person :-)
ReplyDeleteCity is blooming (which is also strange - seems like the flowers think it is spring already0.
I have many projects coming up.
By the way, send me an e-mail to simone@maisqueperfume.com, so I can reply to you with an e-mail that I have been wanting to send you for a couple of months. some how I can't find your e-mal address :-(
Burr was here in Bra - kind diplomatically sneaked away from me - one wonders why... I am adorable, everybody loves to meet me hahahaha!
I really, really miss the more rhapsodic Burr reviews. I guess in between hosting scent dinners for his lucky guests he can't find any more adjectives for JCE... it's a shame!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous:
ReplyDeleteHe's clearly not getting paid by the word. Which raises the question: how far can you shrink a review and still be employed as a newspaper's "perfume critic"?
As for JCE, maybe he can redeem all his Deluxe Triple Bonus Points® for a few more adjectives.