“Perfumes and wines are almost the same. It’s all about feeling, taste—there is no truth. Its really what you feel, and about balancing elegance, length, tannins, and food pairing” -Nathalie Bour Hecquet Having attended a Domaine de Grangeneuve wine tasting at Le Coq Rico this week, a dry, Monday palate sprung into fragrant garden. Wine […]
Spooner, Pete Dexter’s latest creative nonfiction masterpiece, published in 2009, 469 pp. by Grand Central Publishing, steers away from his tradition of fundamentally exposing fundamental bigotry, misanthropy and corruption. Chronicling the minutest details of his turbulent childhood, in a series of quick-shot synapses, fractals come to saturate readers’ foreheads, like milk does an animal’s bones. […]
The words on ingredient labels can be misleading. The word fragrance, a misleading term, is too often overlooked, as it might really indicate a combination of 100 or more different chemicals. Many of them may be toxic or harmful like phthalates, petroleum based ingredients, or flowers sprayed with chemicals or fertilizer. Organic perfumes are fragrance-free and […]
