Collage by dana together with Masque Milano Montecristo. Picture of Le Chabanais inside; Toulouse Lautrec drawing
The moans they’d spent, the time they’d took,
The cash paid for each nook
Of each lady, or boy, or spook
In Madam’s E-book. (The Ledger of Le Chabanais- poem fragment by dana for Masque Milano)
Image of Le Chabanais dame; quote by Maupassant. Collage by dana for Masque Milano Montecristo
Jan 23– J.M. de V. got here drunk once more, asking for Viola. She was full, however I made him wait and wait he did, the puppet, misplaced as he’s in her buxom. Wept once more for her to exploit after which launch herself on him, and which may be all he will get ought to his spouse keep as barren and trodden because the kalderimi in Montparnasse. Can’t assist however think about him scent just like the Missus underneath Viola’s waters- like some previous, gray, chilly, bitter, moist, sobbing stone.
Paid 20 fr.
Picture of Le Chabanais inside; Toulouse Lautrec drawing. Collage by dana for Masque Montecristo
Feb 2- Had an inconceivable encounter final night time. Women have been washing up, solely Geena and Ruxi as much as revive the procter’s urge for food save he goes house inert once more. I used to be lodging the night and it will need to have been round four (word to self so as to add extra Nubian beauties- when fevrier is that this gradual, solely they will fireplace up the enterprise), after I heard some fumbling within the alley. Daye mumbled one thing about canine however then opened up the door–and in got here le chevalier, mounted like a horse, tied in a harness made to his personal rotund measure. He was accompanied by a sylphide who appeared very very similar to my beloved Marlene (one other word to self- be certain she visits earlier than Remarque finishes his novel- in any other case, she’s off with him). They introduced a 3rd, pink and glossy like a candle, half- bare and tied in leather-based strings, oiled thick with incense and the brightest set of tooth I’ve ever seen on a person! I set them out within the Japanese room with champagne, rope, cleaning soap, sinew and branches of birch, as demanded. Didn’t know the way laborious it’s to seek out birches in Paris in February.
The procter and le Chevalier don’t get alongside and since that article in “L’Indiscret” they don’t need to cross paths with anybody. Therefore neither paid. CHARGE EXTRA
Picture and artwork therapy by dana for Masque Milano Montecristo. Quote by Maupassant
Mar eight– this week we’re closed amid many a protests. Cleansing home and in want of nearer appears to: the prince’s copper tub. All that champagne and smoking made it cloudy, and Albert doesn’t get pleasure from a cloudy tub. Wants a very good sprucing as a lot as I do. (Possibly B can do us each. Of all my previous gypsies, it’s this one’s eyes that acquired me… and his singing, and his man-horse scent underneath all of the leather-based, a lot as he washes it in herbs and salts) ladies’ toilettes. No person from Jockey Membership needs to see washbasins- we have to modernize. I’ve an Inspecteur de Salubrite coming to evaluate the left wing and see what might be accomplished. the Moorish room- Man’s males are already right here to sketch, so I’ll have Lautrec paint No. 14 whereas they’re all tenting. I can’t afford any extra stalling… though the nights, a lot as they’re thick with smoke, are so homey I generally overlook of the Polissons et galipettes. Word to self: order new ledger.
Masque Milano Montecristo doesn’t begin and it doesn’t fairly end, both, in any manner smart to what we all know a perfume to be. Constructed like a brick and equally head-smashing, it arouses sentiments directly irresistible and appalling to all who’ve submitted to the frequent regulation.
The opening, because it typically goes with unusual items, is brash and robust and vastly intimidating: burnt coals and melted wicks, flint and Phosphorus, and vapors of booze so tight you may simply guess the huge repetition in indulgence. What follows is equally lived-in: smoked-out heavy curtains, hardwood furnishings polished by many an elbow, and, above all, the candy and unmistakable scent of groins, moans and sweat, unabashedly wonderful and shamelessly treading the road between la belle epoque and essentially the most progressive present in perfumery at this time. The final layer to affix in is the liveliest leather-based I do know, lustered and heat and worn so typically and intimately it’s like a second pores and skin… and so it hums: symbolistic, surgical, and as deadly as a Madam’s ledger.
official notes: hyrax, ambrette, patchouli, cedar, tobacco, rum, gaiac, cabreuva, styrax, benzoin, labdanum, celery seeds
different perceived notes: leather-based, grape seeds & peels, cade oil, vetiver, alabaster, cumin, black tea, birch, nutmeg, orris, castoreum, filth, tar!
Disclaimer: Montecristo chosen by me as #MostDaringofMasque and offered for retesting by Perfumarie & Alessandro Brun (mille grazie!). My opinions are my very own.
Masque Milano Montecristo. Picture and artwork by dana
–dana sandu, Sr. Contributor
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