Madeline von Foerster is an extremely talented young artist from San Francisco who works in oil and egg tempera and who's influences include medieval illustrators and Flemish masters. Her art is dark, mystical, dreamy, surreal, yet with suggestions of contemporary themes. Here is O Rubor Sanguinas (2003). Please go here so you can appreciate more of her fine work.
-Noteworthy Scent
BitterGrace kindly sent me a sample of Bourbon French Olive Blossom, a scent that sort of straddles the line between floral and herbal, and that conjures up thoughts of New Orleans...and that is definitely a good thing during the gray days of early winter. This perfume is a soapy, fresh chypre centered around the lovely green fragrance of the sweet olive blossom, also known as osmanthus. The sunny topnotes of citrus and basil slowly warm down to a cool woody base. This is a very organic perfume, and wears quite close to the body. Sweet Olive is a winter-blooming tree in the south, so it just feels 'right' as a winter floral perfume.
-Hot reading
-Significant sounds
And while I'm tripping down memory lane, I want to give a shout-out to my 'sticky valentine', my poet-musician boyfriend, Elvis Costello. I wore this CD out before I got my iPod. Is anyone writing lyrics this clever any more?
-Random observation Only 14 more days of the Bush regime. Woot!
6 comments:
well this is my favorite perfume for sure.
Artist, perfume: need to explore.
Music, book: already a fan of each. :) That Elvis, he's Some Guy.
Another marvelous post full of marvelous things! Thank you ever so ...
I just love the "This Week's" posts--I always find something new and interesting, and usually a reminder of an old fave I've forgotten.
Great review of Olive Blossom. It is so different from other osmanthus scents I know, and it's like the evil twin of Hove's Tea Olive ("evil" in a good way, of course.)
Almost all my EC is on vinyl. Must do something about that ...
What a delight, Miss Mary.
Many beautiful thoughts/ sounds/ visions.
Eclectic- just the way we like it, uh-huh, uh-huh !
Kisses, darlin'.
Charlotte's web - I loved the movie, have you seen it? It's really well done. Wasn't aware that there was a book before! How cute!
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