cool | Pomelo girl thoughts

Buly 1803 opened as a cosmetic and fragrance store on Rue Saint-Honoré in Paris. Founded by Jean-Vincent Bully, who had a reputation for welcoming scientific breakthroughs into his cosmetic developing methods, in contrast to many of the old-school perfumers who treated perfumery as artistry and preserved and kept secret old traditions in favor of the new. He invented new methods and new formulas for his products, and was well-regarded as a distiller, perfumer, and cosmetician.

How to wear perfume in summer

Posted on June 26, 2015 by elemonated

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jun/23/how-to-wear-perfume-in-summer

Photo credit to Mr. Chokkattu

It’s been humid and sticky and hot where I live since May, but I haven’t really talked about fragrance since I left school.

The article discusses two ways to go about the shimmering heat of the day: going safe and going big.

Coldbrew’s on its way out

Posted on June 17, 2015 by elemonated

http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/05/whats-the-best-way-to-brew-iced-coffee.html

Last summer’s ice coffee method sweetheart is slowly becoming both mainstream (since Starbucks has picked it up) and losing the favor of hipsters all across the country in favor of a method that’s a lot faster and requires way less planning: the pour-ov– I mean, the Japanese method.

Waiting for Love – Avicii (360 Video)

Posted on June 16, 2015 by elemonated

http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/24/vrse-virtual-reality-chris-milk-sundance/

I had my first experience with 360 video (and virtual reality) at Internet Week with VRSE, a virtual reality production company. Within a few minutes, I was transported to the middle of a fantasy lake, Union Square, an artist’s workshop, and a Sudanese refugee camp. It was brilliant.

Watch this in as high quality as you can.

High-Strung

Posted on May 28, 2015 by elemonated

The trials of the high-strung person are so vividly captured in another one of Lev Yilmaz’s super-relatable Tales of Mere Existence.

It’s worse if you were raised to keep it quiet. Then when you can’t, and because you’ve been taught to keep it quiet you also have no idea how to express it all in a way that makes sense to anyone, your friends and family have no idea why you’re suddenly freaking out and all fronts of being a calm, cool, collected person go out the door.

Coping mechanisms?

Tom Ford Plum Japonais & Byrdeo Pulp

Posted on May 15, 2015 by elemonated

Review comeback: the fruit edition!

Atelier d’Orient Plum Japonais Tom Ford for women

Let’s talk about beauty

Posted on April 22, 2015 by elemonated

The beauty industry was something that, to a tiny, chubby, poor girl with limited artistic talent, seemed rather unapproachable. There seemed to me a certain limit to beauty, and if you go beyond it, it’s simply not beauty anymore, but becomes humdrum or “fucking weird” and while beauty is subjective, even if you openly deny the traditional ideas of beauty in your particular culture, you still know what they are.

Thankfully, even something seemingly as set and unchanging as the ideas of beauty get a facelift, as over the years we’ve seen ethnic faces in the crowd become the norm of any fashion show, and plus-size models take the runway and the covers of magazines. The acknowledgment of the beauty of the transgendered in huge “traditional” places such as Barneys New York.

Love is a Dog from Hell by The Limousines (Itsy-bitsy update)

Posted on March 23, 2015 by elemonated

Sorry about the disappearance! I need a little more time to lace my boots together and I’ll be right back. I’ll finish off the rest of my trip to Miami and start some real updates, and start writing again, I promise! Just a lot of strings to tie and a lot of excess to organize 🙂

Miami, Florida: Day 4

Posted on March 17, 2015 by elemonated

Originally we were supposed to just stay out all day, but yesterday’s sun knocked us out about halfway through, so we ended up driving back for some rest at around 4, and stayed there until 10. I did get a tan though, and it was from walking around Wynwood, Miami’s art district.

Ineke A-H: After My Own Heart

Posted on February 23, 2015 by elemonated

I usually put poems here, but I think I’ll do music this time.

Robert Starer’s Pink, by Dr. Jason Sifford

After My Own Heart

Wet: lilac, Dove soap, magnolia
Dry: lilac, jasmine, musk, flower stalk

This reminds me of a gift soap shaped in the form of a bouquet of purple flowers of all shapes that my family was once given. I loved that soap because it was purple (and not pink) and it smelled like flowers, which I had a vested interest in from a young age. I used to format huge guides of flowers, their pictures, and their meanings and print them out on our home printer. This is a nice memory of those times, but the musk makes this stay rather soapy on me, and I unfortunately can’t see myself wearing it. For those who don’t mind the soap however, it’s a really fresh lilac fragrance, a little creamy, not too sweet, and because of the soap, really quite clean.