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Fashion scents : style & perfume from Chanel to Madonna
A history of trends, illustrated through the evolution of tastes and styles of perfumes, scents and eaux de toilette - a celebration of women and their perfumes from the 1920s to the 1980s.
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JAMES JOYCE AND THE SCENT OF MODERNITY
The interwar debate about pleasure clusters most intensely around cinema and popular literature. However, I will begin with a sensual experience that has received far less attention: smell, and specifically perfume, viewed as a vehicle of pleasure that is as interpretable as any text. Recent scholarship on the modernist sensorium focuses almost exclusively on vision and hearing, and few literary critics have attended to the olfactory sense. Historically, smell has been construed as vision’s other: the archaic to the modern, the spontaneous to the cultivated, the irrational to the logical. Accordingly, the pleasures of scent have been dismissed as frivolous
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Scent & subversion : decoding a century of provocative perfume /
Examines vintage perfume's powerful past, including reviews of more than 300 scents, with period advertisements throughout.
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Winter
Late 1894 was unseasonably warm, with raspberries picked in Essex the week before Christmas. The high temperatures prompted thunderstorms, with the south-west seeing its heaviest rain since 1882. On 14 November, George Gissing noted the ‘Newspapers are full of floods and wrecks’ (Gissing 1978: 353), and a deluge in the Thames Valley meant ‘Eton was flooded out, and the school had to be broken up’ (Hamilton 1986: 190). Oscar Wilde received an intimation of changes in the moral climate a few days earlier. The first night of Haddon Chambers’sJohn O’Dreams, starring Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Mrs Patrick Campbell (Beatrice
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The century of hair color
Although various natural materials - particularly henna and indigo - have been used to color hair for at least 3,000 years, several factors contributed to making the 20th century the century of hair color. The development of synthetic organic chemistry occurred in the latter half of the 19th century. Finally, the social acceptance of hair coloring as a fashion accessory led to exponential market growth. Considerable effort has been devoted to trying to simulate the natural hair coloring process whereby the amino-acid tyrosine undergoes several stages of oxidation to produce melanin. Commercial products have not yet been successful, and numerous problems remain to be solved.
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