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Perfumista tip: how to decant perfume

Posted by Robin on 29 March 2007 46 Comments

Decanting

I suppose I should actually start with why you might want to decant perfume. Well, there are any number of possible reasons. Perhaps you want to start swapping (swapping article coming up soon!), or selling on ebay, or perhaps you just want to share fragrances with your friends or split a bottle of something you can’t afford to buy full-sized. Or maybe you’d like to have some travel sizes of your favorite scents?

Decanting Supplies

To start with, you’ll need some empty bottles, atomizers and/or vials…

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Online fragrance shopping

Posted by Robin on 29 March 2007 Leave a Comment

Deal at beautyhabit: get free shipping on orders of $50 or more with coupon code THISWORKS, good through 4/15. Lots of new items (see here) including Parfums de Nicolai Maharanih, the Potter & Moore line, bath & body from Molton Brown (Blu Maquis), This Works, Cinq Mondes.

Deal at fragrancesandmore: take 10% off purchases of $40 or more with coupon code SPRING10; take 15% off purchases of $100 or more with coupon code SPRING15; both codes good through 4/5.

New at luckyscent: Miller Harris Figue Amere & L'Air de Rien, new home fragrance from Costes & body products from Cowshed.

New at nordstrom: L'Eau d'Issey Summer.

Profumum Ambra Aurea, Victrix & Tuberosa ~ new fragrances at Luckyscent

Posted by Robin on 29 March 2007 5 Comments

Profumum Ambra Aurea perfumeLuckyscent has added three more fragrances from the Profumum line:

Ambra Aurea (shown): “Pure, deep amber at its luxurious best…Less sweet and less playful than Profumum’s Fiori d’ambra, Ambra Aurea is a classic amber with a bit of powder and a quiet sexiness.”

Victrix: “An uplifting scent…”

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It's not all Chanel No. 5…

Posted by Robin on 29 March 2007 Leave a Comment

But it’s not all Chanel No 5. Alongside fine fragrances, the functional market — scents for products such as detergents, shampoo and candles — forms a large part of the perfumer’s work. “We’re not mad scientists holed up in a lab,” says [Claudine] De Vogel, who sits at a desk, albeit one covered in vials, bottles and smelling strips.

— from How do I become... a perfumer?, in today's UK Times Online.

Otherwise Normal People ~ new (non-perfume) book

Posted by Robin on 29 March 2007 22 Comments

Otherwise Normal People by Aurelia ScottWe try not to stray very far from our subject matter around here, but when a member of your family publishes a book (a real book!) that would seem to justify a little subject straying. Otherwise Normal People: Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening is about, well, competitive rose gardening (and insofar as roses are used to make perfume, it is at least tangentially related)…

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