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One perfume burner has a plinth with a medallion showing an allegory of the death of Adonis.
It is now possible for New York diners to confuse their server with a Buddhist priest, a Benedictine monk, a garage mechanic, a chef, a dishwasher or a CK One perfume ad.
"Without training," she said, "very few people can identify even one perfume, because we are not educated to exercise our sense of smell the way we learn colors and shapes at an early age.
I suppose I was lucky that only three items broke: a ceramic piggy bank made by Karen's aunt 60 years ago, and given to Karen's mother; a ceramic "forever box" made by my daughter four years ago; and a large bottle of Calvin Klein CK One perfume.
One perfume website describes it, with characteristically baffling hyperbole, as follows: "You're hit with something that smells warm, oddly mineral and sweetly inviting, yet it doesn't exactly smell like a perfumery or even culinary material.
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Kurkdjian spends three to 12 months on one perfume"People wait," he sniffs--and whips up 12 to 15 scents year.
Purists will scoff at the idea of warm rice pudding, but this one, perfumed with saffron and crowned with dried apricots and blond raisins, is noteworthy.
Classic men's fragrances from the '60s "left very long-lasting impacts on how people develop perfumes," one perfumer says, and are still popular today.
Also, it's like two-for-one perfume.
(Its minimally packaged and imaginatively named candles and perfumes — one scent is called I Am Dance; another, Moon Garden — are recently available at Barneys).
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