<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/eacdae68-6ad2-42fd-b358-b68d125d1f1c/D0EA7D4C-091E-4B60-BF1D-9DD54B8F3D4D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/scent-notes-guaiac-by-red-flower/" href="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/scent-notes-guaiac-by-red-flower/" style="font-size: 11px;">themoment.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/scent-notes-guaiac-by-red-flower/"><H2><A title="Permanent Link: Scent Notes | Guaiac by Red Flower" rel="bookmark" href="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/scent-notes-guaiac-by-red-flower/">Scent Notes | Guaiac by Red Flower</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/scent-notes-guaiac-by-red-flower/"><P>The case against organic perfumes is vast and twofold. The first objection involves art. Perfume as an art form (and as a commercial concern) is built on synthetic raw materials. Of course, so are architecture (wood and adobe are nice, but Renzo Piano’s work, for example, relies on advanced polymers and metal alloys), painting (most pigments these days are born in the laboratory, and colors that are unnatural, in all senses, are crucial to painting today), and music (the electronic manipulation of voices etc).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/scent-notes-guaiac-by-red-flower/"> If Guaiac is a universe away from the rich, plush, Frenchly elaborated pre-war Guerlains, it is just as far from the early 21st century minimalist intellectual art scents of Frédéric Malle and Le Labo. Both those schools produce brilliant perfumes. This is something else. One feels about this perfume as one would a tiny blossom, impossibly lovely, ridiculously fragile, evanescent.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D0EA7D4C-091E-4B60-BF1D-9DD54B8F3D4D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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