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The FirstNerve BurrOmeter: Mailing It In Name Drops: 1

Jean-Claude Ellena


Perfumers: 1
French: 1

Jean-Claude Ellena Deluxe Triple Bonus Points®: 3

Nonsensical fragrance descriptions: 3

marvelous filigree of citrus
heated granite
sweet midnight in summer

Calibration factor for micro-mini review format: 10-1

Total BurrOmeter reading for Eau Claire des Merveilles: 0.9 milliburrs

Outlook: Lowest reading ever recorded. The trendline is headed for the microburr range.
Posted by Avery Gilbert at 6:42 PM 


you're *my* little
filigree of citrus
wafting over
sweet midnight of summer

it almost works like that
but i'm still chilly

August 13, 2010 at 8:34 PM 
Burrometer! It's been a few months since I read your blog properly and I've missed this lovely little development. What fun!

August 16, 2010 at 4:25 AM 
Disagree 100% with Mr. Chandler.
No baby breath there my friend...
Unless the baby is getting liters of Coca Cola in his bottle...

August 16, 2010 at 9:42 AM 

The description took me elsewhere:

citrus + milky scent = Orangesicle

(Tart on the outside, creamy on the inside.)

Speaking of which, nice to hear from you again. How's the winter been?

August 16, 2010 at 3:13 PM 

We went to great expense to recalibrate the BurrOmeter to measure the new, abbreviated, star-less reviews. But the sample size is getting tinier and tinier--it's now down to 40.8 words per review. And since each perfume is now paired with another in the same brand, it's effectively 20.4 words. Shave off a few more and we'll have to buy an Ono-Sendai 750-nanometer haiku demodulator for the front end.

August 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM 
My sensors must be on the wrong settings: I failed to pick up any recent Burr activity.
I also think my senses must be on different settings than Mr. Burr's: I wonder whether he and I smelled the same product when I read what he writes on Womanity.
Reducing the word count so drastically makes the exercise seems pointless, doesn't it? He might as well be a beauty editor.

August 17, 2010 at 12:07 AM 
carmencanada/Grain de Musc:

"He might as well be a beauty editor."

Ouch! YMTMCOOMN. (*)

*You made the Martini come out of my nose.

August 17, 2010 at 5:46 PM 
Winter started in August, temperatures are dropping fast. It is good because I get to wear fragrances that are more complexed and more intense. I am a winter kind of person :-)
City is blooming (which is also strange - seems like the flowers think it is spring already0.
I have many projects coming up.
By the way, send me an e-mail to email@example.com, so I can reply to you with an e-mail that I have been wanting to send you for a couple of months. some how I can't find your e-mal address :-(
Burr was here in Bra - kind diplomatically sneaked away from me - one wonders why... I am adorable, everybody loves to meet me hahahaha!

August 18, 2010 at 8:11 AM 
I really, really miss the more rhapsodic Burr reviews. I guess in between hosting scent dinners for his lucky guests he can't find any more adjectives for JCE... it's a shame!

October 12, 2010 at 4:53 PM 

He's clearly not getting paid by the word. Which raises the question: how far can you shrink a review and still be employed as a newspaper's "perfume critic"?

As for JCE, maybe he can redeem all his Deluxe Triple Bonus Points® for a few more adjectives.

October 13, 2010 at 3:11 PM