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2007 / Browsing by date: December 2007

Les Senteurs ~ shopping for perfume in London

Posted by Guest Shopper on 21 December 2007 — 0 Comments — Comments are closed

Les Senteurs perfumeryLes Senteurs is a tiny piece of big excitement on the edge of Belgravia — a specialist scent boutique run by an expert with a passion for perfume.

The thing that strikes you most as you come into Les Senteurs is how small a space it is. However, they’ve countered that by running the shelves up to the ceiling — this is a place where you need the services of an assistant with a stepladder!

Luckily, the assistants are invariably fantastic. This is a perfume shop where the staff don’t have to be sweet-talked into giving you samples…

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Juliette Has A Gun Miss Charming and Lady Vengeance ~ fragrance review, with a little rant on niche

Posted by Robin on 19 December 2007 49 Comments

Juliette Has A Gun Miss Charming and Lady Vengeance perfumes

The whole idea of niche fragrance is to offer something special and different, something you can’t find on the perfume counter at your local Macy’s. The best sort of niche perfume house, presumably, will put artistic integrity before mass appeal. I came to perfume addiction via niche, as it were, and I’m still an easy target: tell me you’ve got an incense by Bertrand Duchaufour made with the best possible materials or Jean Claude Ellena re-engineering lavender at the molecular level or Aurelien Guichard conjuring up 1960s pop culture, and I’m there.

But niche, like luxury, has become so ubiquitous as to lose its cachet…

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Contest at Osmoz

Posted by Robin on 19 December 2007 5 Comments

Issey Miyake L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme IntenseDuring December and January, Osmoz is having a contest in partnership with Issey Miyake.

To enter, answer a short questionnaire about Miyake's latest fragrance release, L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme Intense (you can find all the answers on the Osmoz site). Winners will receive a 75 ml bottle of L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme Intense or one of thousands of scented postcard samples. (via Osmoz)

Update: duh! I left out the direct link to the contest.

Online fragrance shopping

Posted by Robin on 19 December 2007 Leave a Comment

Deal at eluxury: get free express shipping with guaranteed delivery by 12/24 on all orders of $150 or more. No coupon, just select express shipping and place your order by 12/22.

New at saksfifthavenue: Tom Ford Black Orchid Voile de Fleur.

Kerry Katona Outrageous ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 19 December 2007 17 Comments

Kerry Katona will be joining the celebrity fragrance parade in the UK this coming May (US readers: if you want to know who she is, here is her Wikipedia entry). Her debut fragrance, Outrageous, is meant to be "sexy but beautiful" with a "real ‘phwoar factor’" (and for readers who don't know the term phwoar, the BBC will happily explain it to you). (via cosmeticsint.co.uk)
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