The Cuban leader Fidel Castro, a revolutionary Che Gevara, politicians Winston Churchill and Bill Clinton, writers Somerset Maugham and Mark Twain, the actor and the political figure Arnold Schwarzenegger – these names are well-known and these figures are best known to the world for their political, social, literary and other achievements. Moreover, the abovementioned people highly esteem cigar smoking and, thus, they come as people who own the greatest number of tools and accessories so requisite for this leisurely process and among others there are cigar lighters.
In the light of a variety and availability of glass items, glass ware is still appreciated by plenty people, especially when it comes to cut glass. The cut glass produces a long, lingering and musical tune when you put your finger at the cut-glass edge. So, in Japan the craftsmen make unique musical instruments. A crystal violin, completely transparent, is estimated for fifty thousand USD. Crystal glass tableware is not so much expensive though it is able to produce the charming, unique and so brittle music providing it is properly cared.
Wealthy persons are mostly known for their fortune only. However, despite they make billions, these people possess some personal features that attract people when estimating them. While Warren shovels up money, he has to do with quite conflicting image he created: he is known to be the proved miser and at the same time he privately donates huge amounts for charity purposes.
Balmain Jolie Madame: View of the first Woman-Perfume
Thursday, 03 December 2009
The Balmain
Fashion House is on the highest point of fame today not only in France but
world-wide. It is loved for its luxury military styled jackets popular with
many celebrities and Hollywood divas from
Beyonce to Rihanna. The vintage perfumery by Balmain Fashion House has been
acknowledged as the iconic fragrances along with the legendary Chanel and Guerlain.
Among them, the vintage fragrance Jolie Madam, that was launched in the far
year of 1953, is the perfect example of how the personality affects the aroma.
The legendary Jolie Madam was created by Germaine Cellier, the French woman who
was first accepted as the perfumer along with men.
Germaine Cellier
was very unique unlike others. She was tall, slim and slender blonde with the perfect
taste of style (she preferred costumes by Balmain) and much peppered tongue. Germaine
was the model for the French artist André Derain and close friend to Jan Cocteau;
also she was employed as the chemist at the Roure Bertrand. And this year Germaine
Cellier would be one hundred years old.
Germaine Cellier
is a woman to create a variety of flourishing fragrance Vent Vert by Balmain, created
by her in 1945 that became the first modern green aroma to Piguet Bandit, Piguet
Fracas, Balmain Monsieur Balmain and Nina Ricci Coeur Joie. The contemporaries stated
that Germaine Cellier form her fragrances like a painter creates the paintings,
when striving to utter the abstract art in perfume compositions. Yet, being one
of the most avant-garde perfumers of that epoch, Germaine Cellier did not
follow the classic traditions in perfume creation, favoring for experiments
with ingredients while other perfumers frequently refused to even try these
ingredients due to the intensive and almost rough nature. The works by Germaine
Cellier do always contrast with their unpredictability, exactly the same as
her.
Jolie
Madame scent create by Cellier in 1953 for Balmain was so demanded and
succeeded that the French designer called some of his models to thank this
perfume. The perfume composition of Jolie Madame is built on the ensemble of
flowery notes, the notes of gardenia, jasmine, rose, tuberose, nerol, bergamot,
coriander, pachouli, vetiver, though the scent, when applied to the skin, is seen
as the notes of greenery, violet and the leather. The «green» origin of the scent
finds the ineffable peppiness and vitality, when the flowery scent of violet is
femininity and delicacy. And, finally, the closing note of leather is the
original and unusual sign to symbolize that Jolie Madam belongs to a woman
who's risky to play around, as well as with Germaine Cellier.
As Germaine
Cellier remarked herself afterwards, she made every attempt to ease the leather
accord with the unusual note of powder and sweet note of violet, when creating
the new scent for Balmain. The sources that inspired her to create the new
fragrance were two of her previous scents, extremely intensive Robert Piguet
Bandit and Robert Piguet Fracas. When launching Jolie Madame, Pierre Balmain took
his chances, since the French perfumery of that epoch did not appreciate
leather scents as much as classic flowery scents for women, with all those
classic traditions. Balmain appeared to risk reasonably when the fragrance created
by Germaine Cellier was estimated by the fashion trendsetters, by French and
American fashion mongers. One of the most women who admired the fragrance was
the legendary writer, Gertrude Stein who was the regular customer to Pierre
Balmain, and Stein supposed that her peculiar match of tender violet note and
lather in Jolie Madam reflects her individuality best of all.
The fragrance
stayed unchcanged for several decades until it was finally changed in 90s, and Jolie
Madame experienced several issues that affected the scent significantly: the
affection of the sensitive base of oak moth disappeared with the leather note,
while flowery accords were fully replaced by flamboyant but dead aldehyde
notes. The scent itself became far simpler and poorer and fairly washed out unlike
the original intensive and rich version of the fragrance.
Today Jolie
Madame is still launched in classic plain bottle with the plainest label like that
if Coco Channel at her time. Pierre Balmain ignored
the flamboyant bottle for the perfume to show off thinking reasonably that the
content should tell more than the cover.
Lingerie for women was just the plain underwear until the 20th century when it became the mean self-expression, as the subject of esthetic admiration. A piece of lingerie seen in between the women wear looked quite shocking to be shame and no one thought of designing luxury items based on lingerie, leaving alone works of art. Today every woman dreams of having a pair, or even more, of luxury and high quality lingerie to associate with sexuality, sensibility and attraction with male.
Today the knitwear is presented in so many styles and
it is so popular that no single autumn and spring collections can do without
hosiery. Knit
women's coats are offered in classic, sporty, romantic, vintage, casual and
ethnic styles. The demand for knit coats
grows in line with the more increasing range of color and texture of woolen
yarn as merino wool, angora, alpaca, Kashmir. Globally known brands launch knit
coats for women in their latest collections and most celebrities today appear
wearing knitwear for many occasions and that's hard to picture that some time
back it was something different.
First established in 1980, the brand by Carolina Herrera is one of the well-known fashion brands; collections by Carolina Herrera make a conquest for the public love and demand due to elegance and delicacy of the fashion wear models. The collections were successful, though Carolina Herrera opened its perfume line first in 1988 presenting Carolina Herrera for Women. Carolina Herrera 212 is known to be the bestseller first launched in 1997, and today this fragrance takes its niche among the most recognized perfumes of the world.
First established in 1860, Chopard is one of the reputed watch and jewelry houses producing incredibly beautiful, fascinating jewelry items and watches of dream. The house also launched a number of celebrated fragrances as Casmir, Wish, Madness and Infiniment. Despite the long and solid history of the brand, it appeared only recently in the market of fragrances with the first fragrance Chopard launched only in 1992. Six years later, in 1996, the Chopard House presented its Mira-Bai, the fragrance which is still in favor among women keen on oriental scents. Mira-Bai shows no intentions to compete with such a fashion-setter in the sphere of oriental compositions as Guerlain Shalimar, though the fragrance by Chopard takes its niche among the classic perfumes in the market of oriental perfume.
