Aiguilles

It's a recognition not just of the climbs he made – in particular, the south-west pillar of the Aiguilles de Dru, Le Grand Capucin and the north face of the Matterhorn – but of the spirit in which they were made; the mismatch of human frailty against the immensity of nature that Bonatti kept on overcoming.

Rocky life of a mountain man 2010

Let me make clear up front, I think that my reactions to Serge Lutens Fille en Aiguilles and Parfum d'Empire Wazamba have as much to do with "your mileage may vary" and my own backstory as they do with the contents and delivery of the juice itself.

From soul of pine to PineSol: Wazamba, Fille en Aiguilles ScentScelf 2009

This second creation appeared on my wrist as the opening of Filles en Aiguilles.

From soul of pine to PineSol: Wazamba, Fille en Aiguilles ScentScelf 2009

From soul of pine to PineSol: Wazamba, Fille en Aiguilles

From soul of pine to PineSol: Wazamba, Fille en Aiguilles ScentScelf 2009

This second creation appeared on my wrist as the opening of Filles en Aiguilles.

Archive 2009-09-01 ScentScelf 2009

Let me make clear up front, I think that my reactions to Serge Lutens Fille en Aiguilles and Parfum d'Empire Wazamba have as much to do with "your mileage may vary" and my own backstory as they do with the contents and delivery of the juice itself.

Archive 2009-09-01 ScentScelf 2009

From soul of pine to PineSol: Wazamba, Fille en Aiguilles

Archive 2009-09-01 ScentScelf 2009

And I meant to put in the post that Filles en Aiguilles might have suffered from blazing a trail...perhaps because it came first, it bore the wrath of an adjusting palate.

From soul of pine to PineSol: Wazamba, Fille en Aiguilles ScentScelf 2009

Two years earlier, he'd gotten their attention on a group expedition to the vertiginous granite Aiguilles of the Mont Blanc range, in the Alps. Some of the best climbers in the world stopped their ascents and watched through binoculars, aghast, as Messner hacked his way up Les Droites, then regarded as the most difficult ice wall on earth, in only four hours.

Brotherhood of the Mountain Shoumatoff, Alex 2006

The peak of Ben Muich Dhui shot forth from the snow as like the Aiguilles of Mont Blanc, as one needle is like another.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various