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October 11, 2010

Breast Cancer Awareness Gifts 4: Kim Kardashian Fan Designed Rollerball for BCA Month {Shopping Tip of the Day} {Celebrity Fragrance}

 

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Celebrity Kim Kardashian is commercializing a limited-edition rollerball of her signature debut fragrance this month. This Pink Ribbon edition will help finance her charity of choice: 10% of sales will be donated to the Young Survival Coalition, founded in 1998 by three young breast cancer survivors

Already in June 2010 the reality TV star had announced on her blog that the rollerball pen would be available only at Sephora this fall. Since then, there has been a falling-out between the two partners and the fan-designed scent is now exclusively available through KK's own fragrance site and Perfumania...

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October 10, 2010

Breast Cancer Awareness Gifts 3: Origins Peace of Mind On-The-Spot-Relief {Shopping Tip of the Day}

 

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Spotted at Origins is their limited-edition of Peace of Mind On-The-Spot-Relief issued for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the Pink Ribbon packaging, a departure from the regular minty green bottle. Part of the Sensory Therapy collection, people usually swoon over its efficacious properties in helping relieve stress.

"When the world closes in on you and your head feels a size too small, apply just two dabs of Origins mind-clearing formula on the back of your neck, temples and earlobes. You'll feel a tingling sensation as pressure, tension and tightness begin to melt away."...

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October 5, 2010

Donna Karan is Issuing a Pink Ribbon Edition of Cashmere Mist {Shopping Tip of the Day}


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Moving into Breast Cancer Awareness (BCA) month, here is another gift idea following this morning's suggestion for a balm for your feminine paws with Aveda Pink Ribbon Hand-Relief and if you know someone who loves, or might love, the fragrance of Cashmere Mist...

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September 3, 2010

Pomerol Séduction Partners with Annick Goutal Parfums {Fragrance News} {Shopping Tip}


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The association of 9 producers of Pomerol wines called Pomerol Séduction have partnered with noses Camille Goutal and Isabelle Doyen of Annick Goutal parfums to offer a special limited-edition wine-tasting coffret which launched on July 1st, 2010...

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August 3, 2010

Yankee Candle Midsummer's Night...for Men {Shopping Tip of the Day}


Yankee-Candle-Midsummer-Night.jpgYankee Candle have released a series of new scents for their 2010 fall collection of candles (I'll have to check the new Mountain Lodge, I'm afraid). But before we get ahead of ourselves, I thought it would be good to call attention to the appropriate scent for the moment, Midsummer's Night.

According to the brand, the middle of summer smells of musk, patchouli, sage and mahogany cologne.

What I thought is a bit intriguing is that it's apparently marketed as a home candle designed for masculine tastes. Midsummer Night... only for men? Yes, indeed...

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Travalo Makes it Easy to Carry Perfume in your Luggage, & More {Shopping Tip of the Day}


Travalo-B.jpgThere has been quite the buzz about a new spray system trademarked by Travalo, a brand of travel perfume atomizers which makes it easy not only to carry fragrance in your purse, travel bag or suitcase but also, and that's newer, a cinch by the looks of it, to decant scent from bottle to purse spray.

The label also likes to stress that it will allow you to preserve the anonymity of the fragrance you are wearing and even encourages you to use their system to customize your own blend... 

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June 19, 2010

Shopping Tip of the Day: Visiting Paris Any Time Soon? It's Shopping Season!


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This is a reminder that the official 2010 Summer Sales (Soldes d'été) will start in Paris on Wednesday June 30th 2010 and will last for 5 weeks until August 3rd, 2010. In other regions of France, they may start at later dates.

I've already spotted pre-announcements of offers of up to 80% discount (just make sure you know the regular prices beforehand to see if the big discounts are as generous as advertised and don't forget to do comparison shopping whenever possible.)

June 10, 2010

Fragrance Shopping Tip of the Day: Nicolaï Eau Exotique still Available as Eau Turquoise...or How Words Matter in Perfumery


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If you like to smell of fresh, tart mango for summer and/or regret the disappearance of Eau Exotique Eau Fraîche by Parfums de Nicolaï (2005), the scoop is that it was very discreetly reincarnated as Eau Turquoise (2008)...

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June 1, 2010

Fragrance Shopping Tips of the Day: Bas de Soie, Personalized Engraving Offered, Sex Pistols, Josephine Baker

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bas-de-soie-small.pngSerge Lutens Bas de Soie (79€ or approximately US$ 96) is now available for international shipping on the e-commerce site salons-shiseido.com. A personalized free engraving service has been set up an will run until June 15th, 2010.

You can choose to have either your initials or first name engraved by hand by an artisan on a spray flacon in one of the 33 perfumes available in the export collection here....


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May 21, 2010

Fragrance Shopping Tip of the Day: No.89, JF, Santal, Elite by Floris Now Available in Travel Sizes


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Right before summer traveling starts, London-based Floris perfumery est. 1730 have released a new travel collection of four of their masculine fragrances or eaux de toilette in this case: they are No.89 (citrus-woody) named after the number of the ancient shop standing at 89, Jermyn Street since the beginnings,..

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May 19, 2010

Fragrance Shopping Tip of the Day: Hermessences Available Online with Personal Consultation Service


hermessence-gift-set.jpgFor amateurs of "olfactory poems": the Hermessence collection which was until recently exclusive to the Hermès boutiques is now available online and can be purchased individually or as a gift set comprising 4 perfumes to choose from the line...

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February 25, 2010

Bath and Body Works Scent Sampler {Shopping Tip}

bath-body-works-scent-sampler.jpgBath and Body Works have put together a special Scent Sampler to allow you to test 10 of their "top Signature Collection scents" more at leisure, which I take to mean their bestsellers. It also comprises "a special offer redeemable online for a full-size Eau de Toilette."...

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January 6, 2010

Attention Paris Shoppers, The Annual Sales Have Started (Jan 6 - Feb 9, 2010) {Perfume Shopping Tips}


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Today January 6 is Day 1 of the Annual Winter Sales called Soldes d'Hiver in France. It is also the day of the Epiphany (I mention this because of the tasty and flavorful traditionally almond-filled galettes des rois pastries). They will last until February 9. It is only during this official bracketed time that retailers are allowed to lose money on sales and to try to sell off old stocks.The early media reports have been predicting record discount percentages from the beginning. While it is more usual to see prices drop steadily as the period of 5 weeks unwind, this time from what I have been able to see, prices are indeed deeply cut from day 1 at 50% off or 70% off for perfumes.

It remains to be seen what stocks will appear later on as from what I have been able to observe, only part of the products were put on display and in some stores there were rather relaxed about bringing out the discounted goods but were willing to check in the back of their boutiques...

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December 16, 2009

Men's Fragrance Trends Fall/Winter 2009/2010 - Part 2: Icy {Trend Alert} Holidays Gift Guide {Shopping Tips}

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Please see Part 1: Fiery colognes for the first installment

While one notices this season a discreet tectonic shift in the direction of men's fragrances getting more uninhibited and sensual, at the other end of the spectrum this Fall/Winter 2009/2010 you can find extremely fresh to Icy colognes.

Key words for this trend are: "Icy", "Snowy", "Chilly", "Cool", "Extreme Freshness", "Cologne" (in the French sense), "white", "fizzy", "electric"   



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The new Cartier Déclaration Cologne, in fact an Eau de Toilette, borrows its inspiration from the grand tradition of Eau de Cologne. It is a markedly dry and oh-so-fresh-herbal-y twist on the original Déclaration. The brand alludes to "a singular freshness." Freshness does not need be transparent and devoid of character (the dry facet) and this scent proves it. An appealing slightly wild charm... 

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December 15, 2009

Men's Fragrance Trends Fall/Winter 2009 Part 1: Fiery {Trend Alert} Holidays Gift Guide {Shopping Tips}

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Fiery & Icy Colognes

This fall/winter 2009 season men are offered very contrasted choices for their personal fragrances. While at the end of the summer it looked like unusually deep textures were going to prevail in men's scents heralding a gentle shift in mainstream masculine olfactory codes, it has now become clear that gentlemen have two extremes to choose from: Fire and Extreme Freshness.

Fragrance designers are envisioning men as sensation and thrill seekers and advertising perfume by offering sensory adventure bottled to them. All men might not travel to Africa or Antarctica but their fragrances can satisfy a deep need to do so. 

The 2009 Fall/Winter Fiery Fragrances for Men - Part 1

There is a general push towards more intensity and this is not just because it is the cold season, like every year. The new men's colognes of fall/winter 2009 are exceptionally rich and more explicitly alluring. They make sure however to evoke a sense of strength and intensity while borrowing traditional tools of seduction from the culture and language of women's perfumes.

Men are invited to be in touch with their feminine sides and why not, try stealing the show from women instead of counting on them to be the birds with garish feathers perfume-wise.

This trend even dares for the first time in the mainstream to stick the label "Parfum" on a masculine cologne bottle to entice men out of their comfort zone both olfactorily and pyschologically.

Parfum or extrait is the highest concentration for a scent and is usually culturally constructed as an exclusive treat for women reserved for their pulse points.

Fiery key words this fall/winter 2009 in the masculine perfume alleys are "parfum", "elixir", "intense", "absolute" and "liqueur"...

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