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• The Anti-Scentites

  

  by Marlen Harrison, 22 October 2006

  At the end of May, a proposal was made in Ottawa that was by all means indecent. Sure, Canada has led the way towards progress these past few years by allowing folks to actually smoke a little marijuana during their gay weddings. But to actually propose a city-wide ban on fragrances and scented products? Well, that's just sad, really. ...

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• Me and Jasina - Overdosing with Singapore's darling

  

  by Marlen Harrison, 30 May 2006

  On December 24th I officially hit rock bottom. I ended up puffing on my asthma inhaler at a small showroom jam-packed with the best and discontinued. I clawed my way through the stacks, ran from wall to wall as Tricia, my trusty companion stood by with a camera to document my fall......

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• Wearing Whatever I Damn Well Please

  

  by Marlen Harrison, 14 March 2006

  Once upon a time, fragrance was seen as an anointment, oils and powders were massaged into the body to bewitch, enbalm and consecrate. As time passed, fragrance was created for use as masking agents for body odours, as a cleanser and antiseptic and even as a method of murder (poison gloves anyone?). In the last century however, with advances in chemistry and the advent of global branding, we have seen fragrance become the ultimate accessory of the everyman (and woman)...

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• La Collection Revisited or My Dad's House

  

  by Marlen Harrison, 27 January 2006

  Sometime during the first week of April, 2006, I will return to the United States and leave behind the Land of the Rising Sun. This is not an easy thing to do: I have lived here for nearly 4 years and to be blunt about it, the experience has in many ways saved my life...

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• Bus Clean

  

  by Marlen Harrison, 25 November 2005

  For the past 4 years I have lived in Western Japan, a place where, surprisingly, designer fragrances CAN be found at affordable prices, though inevitably no one will ever understand you when you tell them what you are wearing because they have their own way of pronouncing Western words. My "Versace Blue Jeans" becomes "Ve-ru-sa-su Bu-ru Ji-n-zu" and my "Clinique Happy" becomes "Ku-ri-ni-ku Hah-pi". "Why is this?" you ask......

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• Man Almost Blinded by Beleaf

  

  by Marlen Harrison, 18 October 2005

  A trip to the Body Shop proved near fatal for one American man on Tuesday when a bottle of their "Beleaf" fragrance sprayed sideways into the right eye of our columnist, Marlen Harrison...

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• When is it simply too much?

  

  by Marlen Harrison, 14 September 2005

  Marlen Harrison, Basenotes Community moderator and one of the Now Smell This bloggers starts a monthly column on Basenotes this month. In this months column, Marlen takes a look at his large perfume collection and asks: When is it simply too much...

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