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Calamus by Comme des Garcons, series 1: Leaves ~ brief review

Posted by Robin on 12 March 2005 10 Comments

Comme des Garcons Calamus fragranceAcorus calamus

I am in the mood for green today (please, please let winter end soon!), so I am wearing Comme des Garçons Calamus. Calamus is one of the fragrances in Series 1: Leaves, and was created by Bertrand Duchaufour. The notes are young bamboo leaf, celery grains, angelica root, and rose berries.

The top notes are earthy and slightly peppery from the celery seeds. The peppery notes fade gradually to a very green, slightly bitter smell of crushed leaves and stems. Farther on, it gets very soft and pretty, and takes on the slightly sweet smell of plant sap…

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Finalists for the 2005 Fifi awards

Posted by Robin on 12 March 2005 5 Comments

The Fragrance Foundation has released the names of the finalists for this year's Fifi awards. The list usually narrows each category from 10 semi-finalists to 5 finalists, but this year, ties in both major women's categories result in 6 perfumes (see the original list of semi-finalists here).

NOUVEAU NICHE

Burberry Brit Red
YSL Cinema
CK One Summer
Jil Sander Pure
Bond No. 9 Eau de New York
Shanghai

LUXE

Kenneth Cole Black
Britney Spears Curious
DKNY Be Delicious
Lacoste Touch of Pink…

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More on the renovation of Guerlain's flagship store

Posted by Robin on 12 March 2005 4 Comments

Plus que Jamais Guerlain fragranceAccording to the Moodie Report, the newly renovated Guerlain flagship store on the Champs Elysées in Paris will open this May, and as promised, they are going to bring back some of the older Guerlain fragrances.

They will start with numbered limited editions of Le Mouchoir de Monsieur…

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S-Perfume 100% Love fragrance review

Posted by Robin on 11 March 2005 18 Comments

S-Perfume 100% Love

S-Perfume is a small, independent perfume company in New York City that currently sells 4 fragrances, all developed in collaboration with well-known noses. 100% Love was created by perfumer Sophia Grojsman, best known for Yves Saint Laurent Paris and Lancôme Trésor. S-Perfume describes 100% Love as the “pulpy erotic part of a secret red fruit, the soft and wet velvety skin of rose petals in water, and a mystical “concoction” of incense and black chocolate.”

100% Love starts out mostly chocolate and incense…

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Shopping alert: discount codes

Posted by Robin on 11 March 2005 4 Comments

Now Smell This has a new coupon code for beautycafe: enter code NST for 10% off, any time. Sorry, it cannot be combined with any other codes.

Take 20% off at Caswell-Massey through April 2nd with code PCS2005. In addition to their own line, they have Truefitt & Hill, Knize, Roger & Gallet, and Lorenzo Villoresi Uomo and Piper Nigrum. (via Freskagirl on MakeupAlley).

Save $5 off a $50 purchase at perfumebay with coupon code springsave5, good through 3/31.

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