Synchronicity Sure Smells Sweet
I decide to go see Warhol Live…
I get an email about Bond No. 9.
Where’s the synchronicity,
you ask?
It’s in the bottle!
A few months ago, in my ongoing quest to attract abundance, I subscribed to HOLT REN- FREW’s newsletter knowing the luxury-goods store would provide me with plenty of opportunities to visualize.
I even included it in my Treasure Map; if you take a look, you’ll notice the name HOLT, way up there at the top, pasted beside a sexy red shoe (yet more synchronicity).
The email I received on Tuesday (the day I decided the Warhol exhibit was to be my Artist Date this week) came from HOLT’s and was about this new perfume by Bond No. 9 New York called Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue. It announced that as a subscriber, I was entitled to a free sample. Lucky me!
and all day long you’ll have
Good Luck.”
Apparently, that’s what Andy Warhol used to say half a century ago when he first got noticed as a shoe illustrator. For what would have been the artist’s 80th birthday this year (he was born August 6, 1928), Bond No. 9 decided to honour Warhol’s origins by celebrating the mutual sensuality of shoes and eau de parfum.
Here are a few details snipped from Bond’s website:
Bond No. 9 proudly introduces the third in its series of Warhol eaux de parfum.
Its name, Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue, recalls the artist’s formative pre-Pop years in 1950s New York, when he lived in the first of several apartments on Lexington Avenue and plied his trade as a prolific illustrator, mainly of imaginative shoes. Hence the Warhol-designed mélange of exclamation-point heels and high-button boots that covers the flacon.
Lush and unapologetically seductive, Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue dares (perhaps for the first time in perfumery) to link two of the most ultra-feminine commodities a woman can own: fragrance and footwear.
The eau de parfum we concocted is a floral woody chypre (chypre meaning fresh citrus topnotes and a lingering forest-like base) with highly coveted contemporary gourmand notes — a brew of peony, orris, patchouli, sandalwood, cardamom, fennel, almonds, cumin, and even crème brulee.
A seductive and intoxicating autumn-winter fragrance, Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue is the perfume equivalent of that rarity, an outrageously luxurious pair of stiletto heels that fit as comfortably as a glove. Wearing the scent, like wearing the shoes, will turn a woman’s walk into a sinuous glide.
Well, I’ll be wearing the scent with my flat-heeled,
brown-suede boots, if you don’t mind.
Because YES, I picked up my free sample on my way to the
museum, yesterday afternoon.
As a matter of fact, I wish to thank the charming Sylvie Michaud, at HOLT RENFREW – Montreal, for introducing me to the new fragrance and for being such a good sport by agreeing to let me add her pretty face to today’s story. If you’re ever in the neighbourhood, stop by and say hello. She’s cool!
HOLT RENFREW – Montreal is at 1300 Sherbrooke Street West.
Read more about the fragrance, the footwear,
and the Andy Warhol Foundation.
Coming soon (if I don’t procrastinate):
WARHOL LIVE — The Exhibit
MuddLavoie says:
Hey Franca!!!
Great to see ya, girl. OMG, prepare for a wild ride. I want to go back again…it is UN-FREAKIN’-BELIEVABLE.
Have fun
xoxo
October 16, 2008 at 11:53 pm
MuddLavoie says:
Well Helloooo Seth!
Yeah…maybe Santa will bring them to me for Christmas. Now that I smell good and all
But seriously, I really do love the fragrance. It’s on my wish list for sure — .057 FL. OZ. won’t last me very long.
Peace & Love
xoxo
October 16, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Franca says:
Great post Oza. My friend and I are going to see the Warhol exhibit. Very excited to check it out. Cheers
October 16, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Seth Garrison says:
Synchronicity
Don’t ya just love it. Now you need to get those red shoes.
Bet you smell divine!
October 16, 2008 at 11:52 pm
MuddLavoie says:
As I wrote at the end of my post, next thing coming up will be my take on the exhibit. Went Wednesday from 5:00 to 8:30 pm.– not long enough to devour all that there is to devour. Will be going back…oh yes I will!
October 17, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Franca says:
When did you go see the exhibit? Which celebrities portraits were your favourites? What did you find the most fascinating? Very cool stuff Oza!
Very original posting I loved it. This post must have taken some work to create.
October 17, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Franca says:
Sorry I missed that last part at end of your post.
Cheers.
October 17, 2008 at 3:10 pm
MuddLavoie says:
Hey, no problem Franca
Can’t wait to hear about YOUR visit. I’m sure you’ll be as blown away as I was.
Love ya — xoxo
October 17, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Gord says:
Funny, the shoe reference made me think of the actress Shelly Winters. For some strange reason I read her biography.
In one of her biographies she described the famous FM Pumps, she and Marilyn Monroe wear made to wear by the studios
So I did a Google search and this is what I got.
http://tinyurl.com/6gdbcj
I looked at your treasure map, hope you get all the stuff on there (including the FM shoes) and the bowl of tomato soup?
Did you get that Mac yet?
October 24, 2008 at 7:59 pm
MuddLavoie says:
Hi Gord!
Shelley Winters was a great actress — I LOVED her in the movie “A Place in The Sun.”
And that’s not a bowl of soup, you funny guy. It’s a cup of tea.
As for the Mac, it’s on hold. My PC has 10 more months of guarantee… so I’m concentrating on materializing my new MacBook Pro within this time limit.
Love ya!
xoxo
October 26, 2008 at 10:56 pm