Eva Pasco's Blog - Posts Tagged "notes"
Eva’s Byte #408 – Off on a Noteworthy Tangent
This week I’ve taken a brief writer’s respite from researching and incorporating forensic details in a fictitious autopsy report. I’ve gone off on a noteworthy tangent.
A film noir enthusiast and fragrance aficionado, I’m intrigued by the fragrances femme fatales may have worn. While the olfactory notes might be mentioned, the bombshell fragrance itself is rarely dropped. It just adds to the intrigue.
For instance:
In Dead Reckoning (1947), Rip Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) has this to say about villainess Coral Chandler (Lizabeth Scott) – “I didn’t like the feeling I had about her - the way I wanted to put my hand on her arm, the way I kept smelling that jasmine in her hair, the way I kept hearing that song she'd sung. Yeah, I was walking into something, alright.”
Perhaps a little more direct, giving pause for a fragrance aficionado like me to speculate:
In Sunset Boulevard (1950), Joe Gillis (William Holden) comments on the perfume he detects on Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) – “She’d sit very close to me, and she’d smell of tuberoses, which is not my favorite perfume, not by a long shot.”
I’m not alone in thinking it could have been Fracas by Robert Piguet. Launched in 1948, it is considered a bombshell due to the standout tuberose note. Once a staple in my fragrance stable, I can attest this fragrance screeches its presence. Ree! Ree! Ree!
Of note in my capacity of a writer, I’m closing in on finishing the draft of Chapter 28 (1123 words thus far) in my Contemporary work in progress.
*May each of us take time to smell the roses by going off on a tangent every now and then.
My sincere appreciation to you for reading this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: http://www.authorsden.com/evapasco
A film noir enthusiast and fragrance aficionado, I’m intrigued by the fragrances femme fatales may have worn. While the olfactory notes might be mentioned, the bombshell fragrance itself is rarely dropped. It just adds to the intrigue.
For instance:
In Dead Reckoning (1947), Rip Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) has this to say about villainess Coral Chandler (Lizabeth Scott) – “I didn’t like the feeling I had about her - the way I wanted to put my hand on her arm, the way I kept smelling that jasmine in her hair, the way I kept hearing that song she'd sung. Yeah, I was walking into something, alright.”
Perhaps a little more direct, giving pause for a fragrance aficionado like me to speculate:
In Sunset Boulevard (1950), Joe Gillis (William Holden) comments on the perfume he detects on Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) – “She’d sit very close to me, and she’d smell of tuberoses, which is not my favorite perfume, not by a long shot.”
I’m not alone in thinking it could have been Fracas by Robert Piguet. Launched in 1948, it is considered a bombshell due to the standout tuberose note. Once a staple in my fragrance stable, I can attest this fragrance screeches its presence. Ree! Ree! Ree!
Of note in my capacity of a writer, I’m closing in on finishing the draft of Chapter 28 (1123 words thus far) in my Contemporary work in progress.
*May each of us take time to smell the roses by going off on a tangent every now and then.
My sincere appreciation to you for reading this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: http://www.authorsden.com/evapasco
