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Perfume review: Burberry Brit & Brit Red

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Burberry Brit perfumeBurberry Brit Red fragrance

After last week’s discussion of niche snobbery, I have vowed to make a bigger effort to include mainstream department store fragrances. Burberry Brit was released in 2003, and its “sister” scent, Brit Red, followed in 2004. Both were created by nose Nathalie Gracia-Cetto, both have won Fifi awards, and both have been huge sellers. There is also a Brit for men, and a Brit Gold will be released this year for the holidays.

Burberry Brit has notes of lime, icy pear, green almond, white peony, sugared almond, mahogany wood, amber, vanilla beans and tonka beans…

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Online shopping

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CB I Hate Perfume, the line created by Christopher Brosius (formerly of Demeter), has a new website and online store.

Kiehls has revamped their online store, and to celebrate, they are offering free shipping on orders of $30 or more with code WELCOME, good through 6/17.

Update: Starting today, get free shipping and a bag full of goodies from gloss.com with a purchase of $50 or more, no coupon required. This is a 4 day special; if you order today, your goodies will be makeup, tomorrow is bath & body, Thursday will be skincare, Friday will be fragrance.

New body spray makes women smell younger

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Timeless View is a new body spray from The Smell and Taste Treatment & Research Foundation: 

A preliminary clinical study found that men perceived women who wore this formula to be an average of six years younger than their actual age.

The spray had no effect on the perceptions of other women. If I remember correctly, similar results were obtained in experiments using sweat from younger women, but the only note listed for this spray is pink grapefruit. (via prnewswire)

These vagabond shoes are longing to stray…

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Bergdorf GoodmanI had a wonderful day of perfume shopping with friends in New York City on Saturday. Here is what we saw and smelled:

Bergdorf Goodman: The JAR boutique is not yet open for business, so I was spared the agony of smelling perfumes I cannot possibly afford in this lifetime. We revisited some of the Creeds & Etros, and smelled the recently reissued 1940s classic by D’Orsay, Intoxication. It is pretty but did not captivate me. I also smelled an old favorite, Tiempe Passate by Antonia’s Flowers. One of these days I will buy a bottle.

We trooped over to the Jo Malone area to smell the new Nectarine Blossom, but it is not in stock yet. In happier news, the sales associates at the Guerlain counter say that they will be getting in some of the re-issued scents from Paris. Stay tuned!

I left with a bottle of the lovely Acqua di Parma Iris Nobile, and will review that soon. Meanwhile, S. has a great review on her blog, Ombligo.

Barneys: In an effort to convert some doubters among our group, we spent some time with the Diptyques. Unfortunately I failed to convince the old-classics-are-best school that Diptyque was worthy of consideration. Barneys must agree as they keep these hidden out of sight over by the candles. Philosykos and Tam Dao are among my own favorite fragrances, and I also like L’Ombre dans L’Eau, Olene and Oyedo…

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Ungaro Apparition Homme & more new fragrances

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Ungaro Apparition Homme fragranceEmanuel Ungaro will launch Apparition Homme this September. The fragrance was created by perfumer Olivier Polge, and features notes of mandarin, anise, rhubarb, green tea leaves, black pepper, liquorice wood and vetiver. (via moodiereport) Apparition Homme is an Eau de Toilette, and is available in 30, 50 and 100 ml and in matching body products.

From Chantal Thomass, look for Et Plus si Affinités…

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