Katie Puckrik smells Hypnotic Poison by Christian Dior. Please subscribe! I've had a boatload of requests to review this one, so here it is! For more information including where to buy, hippity hop over to my blog: www.katiepuckriksmells.com Theme song: "Perfume" by Sparks. Watch the video of the full song: www.youtube.com Transcript: Hypnotic Poison by Christian Dior is a decadent oriental that vibrates between unusual and plain old weird. At the start, this eau de toilette is thick, flat, and borderline musty. Kind of like paste that almost smells good enough to eat because of a slight touch of almond sweetness. But if you did eat it, you wouldn't be very happy with yourself, cuz you just ate paste. Because of the thickness, I find Hypnotic Poison a little suffocating when I first put it on. I actually feel claustrophobic, like I'm stuck inside a giant papier-mache dessert glued together with that aforementioned paste. Wait! Did you hear a woman's voice coming out of that papier-mache plum-almond-coconut tart? That was weird. For me, Hypnotic Poison finally achieves lift-off when the jasmine make a break for it. The jasmine is a variety called sambac, which is particularly heady and fleshy. There's also a jacaranda wood accord, which has kind of an intimate salty smell. Here's where the Hypnotic Poison's rich vanilla kicks it into a languid, sexy dance, instead of sitting on my skin like a slug. Made out of paste. Because I find Hypnotic Poison so challenging, I'd <b>...</b>
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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Great Expectations is a 1946 British film which won two Academy Awards and was nominated for three others (best picture, best director and best screenplay). It was directed by David Lean, based on the novel by Charles Dickens and stars John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Finlay Currie, Martita Hunt and Alec Guinness. Jean Simmons, who played the role of the young Estella in the film, later played Miss Havisham in a 1989 version directed by Kevin Connor. The script, a slimmed-down version of Dickens' novel which had been inspired after seeing an abridged stage version of the novel, in which Guinness (responsible for the adaptation) played Herbert Pocket and Martita Hunt was Miss Havisham -- casting that was carried over into the film - was written by Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Cecil McGivern, Ronald Neame and Kay Walsh. The film was produced by Ronald Neame and photographed by Guy Green.[1] It was the first of two films Lean directed based on Dickens' novels, the other being his 1948 adaptation of Oliver Twist. Cast * John Mills as Pip as an adult * Jean Simmons as Estella as a girl * Valerie Hobson as Estella as an adult * Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham * Finlay Currie as Abel Magwitch * Francis L. Sullivan as Mr. Jaggers * Bernard Miles as Joe Gargery * Alec Guinness as Herbert Pocket as an adult * Anthony Wager as Pip as a boy * John Forrest as Herbert Pocket as a boy * Freda Jackson as Mrs. Joe Gargery * Ivor Barnard as Mr <b>...</b>
