Category Archives: Science Fiction

kaffeeklatsch!

Posted on April 26, 2018 by cologniac

I view the health of public discourse by an interesting metric.  Can I make a good-natured joke about Donald Trump in the fragrance world – one with deep knowing humor on many levels to all sides – and only minimally … Continue reading →

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Exoalchemy

Posted on December 23, 2016 by cologniac

UGHLLO.  This is Grumpy Cat.  Technically, it’s DOCTOR Grumpy Cat.  However, MISTER Grumpy Cat will be fine.  I’m so pissed off at my latest alma mater for encouraging Marxist faculty in their coercion of useful idiot students into “safe space” insanity, that … Continue reading →

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Dear Primrose (in the Steampunk Universe)

Posted on December 1, 2013 by cologniac

Dear Primrose, Please forgive the tardy nature of this correspondence.  It approaches Christmas in the Electrical Universe, and I am therefore quite busy.  Compounding the busy season, there is a curious tradition here, in which all presents for Christmas must … Continue reading →

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Who Put LSD In My SdV?

Posted on August 31, 2013 by cologniac

Ah, the beauty of the amide group – that little bit of organic chemical functionality that turns Element 6 with Valence 4 into beautiful things like Carl Sagans, who say BILLIONS AND BILLIONS until we sigh about the beauty of … Continue reading →

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Dreaming of Fragrance: Rose Rebelle SC-7545

Posted on June 16, 2013 by cologniac

[Note: This post resurrected from the WayBack Machine, here.  It’s a story based (as closely as I could manage) on a strange, fascinating dream that I had, about a fragrance that I’d never sniffed.  I was going to do a … Continue reading →

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Impressions of L’Heure Bleue: Art / Science / War / Peace

Posted on December 2, 2012 by cologniac

Note:  This isn’t a fragrance review.  But these may be the droids you were looking for. ************************* Patterns.  You just gotta love ’em.  Not all of them have predictive value, but if you look at them right, they all have … Continue reading →

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ChatPerf: Blowing Sweet Smoke

Posted on October 20, 2012 by cologniac

For this special occasion, my OCD cousin, Rube Sternberg, unemployed fragrance physicist, is making a special guest appearance on Joey and Snake’s Virtual Truckstop of Fragrance Fashion, hosted somewhere in Middlin’ America on community access television (or as Snake’s tea-party … Continue reading →

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S01E02

Posted on August 28, 2012 by cologniac

I’ve been taking part in the Chandler Burr Untitled series, in which participants are being asked to consider the artistry of various fragrances, independent of knowing what the fragrances actually are.  Nevertheless, the question of “what something is” echoes in … Continue reading →

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On A Project With No Name

Posted on July 22, 2012 by cologniac

July 21, 1947 I am writing this entry in more detail than is my usual journal entry so as that I shall not forget anything.  If you are reading these words then you are my grandchildren and I am long … Continue reading →

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