I am very pleased to announce that Jessica M, an art historian based in New York City, will be joining Now Smell This as a contributor on scented bath & body products. Jessica will kick things off this weekend with a review of the Lush Bathos Bubble Bar.
I am still looking for contributors for home fragrance and men's fragrance. Those of you who have already sent in writing samples, please be patient — I am moving at my usual snail's pace.
Deal at beautyhabit: with any order of $100 or more, get free ground shipping plus a deluxe holiday gift (includes Tocca candelina, Talba Swedish Pine Soap and more) using coupon code HOLIDAYGIFT; offer good through 12/15.
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New at lacremebeauty: DL & Co Absinthe candle.
New at luckyscent: the LesNEZ line.
Deal at victoriassecret: get free 2nd day express shipping on orders of $100 or more using coupon code 2AIR, good through 1 pm on 12/20.
Deal at your-cosmetics: mark downs on selected scents from Dessert Beauty and body products from MOR & Get Fresh.
Geodesis is a new line of French candles at La Creme Beauty, "born from the idea of associating a fragrance with a region of the world."
Fragrances include Aloes, Ambre, Figuier (shown), Lavande, Lotus, Massoia, Oranger and Thé Noir. The candles are $34 for a 7.8 oz glass jar with a burn time of approximately 60 hours.
Britney’s scent is Curious in Control, a fragrance presumably tailor-made for those, like Britney and her friend Lindsay Lohan, who enjoy hitting the town unconstrained by dull bourgeois conventions, such as bothering with underwear.
— from "Dollars and Scents" in today's UK Times Online.
Vertigo will launch their second fragrance, Hypnotica, next month. Hypnotica is a fruity floral that “captures the very essence of the woman’s power of seduction”. The scent was created by perfumer Karine Dubreuil and includes notes of blackcurrant leaf, seringa, water fruits, jasmine, orange blossom, muguet, cyclamen, sandalwood bark, cedarwood and white musks.
Vertigo Hypnotica is an Eau de Parfum…