The Posh Peasant is a new online retailer of niche fragrances (lines include Teo Cabanel, AromaM, Lily Lambert, Sage Machado, Keiko Mecheri, Filles des Iles & more) and hand-decanted fragrances (from Bond no. 9, Frederic Malle, Serge Lutens & more). Look for more lines, including Dawn Spencer Hurwitz & Michael Storer, to be added shortly.
To celebrate their online debut, The Posh Peasant is currently running two specials…
Deal at macys: get free shipping and a 13-piece fragrance sampler (includes Jennifer Lopez Deseo, Marc Jacobs Daisy, Izod for Men, Juicy Couture & more) with any beauty or fragrance purchase of $65 or more using coupon code BEAUTYFS, good through 5/17.
New at scentiments: Juicy Couture Dirty English.
Huge thanks to everyone who chimed in last week to help Tracey find a new perfume. Hopefully she'll get back to us and let us know if she found a winner; meanwhile, we've an even tougher challenge this week: Lavonne, who admits that she is “completely ignorant about perfume”.
Here is what we know about Lavonne:
She is a 50 year old recently divorced mother of 3, and describes herself as “professional, well-organized, somewhat conservative”.
She has purchased fewer than half a dozen bottles of perfume in her entire life…
With perfume sales in much of the rest of the world slowing or declining, the industry, primarily based in Paris and New York, hopes for significant growth in China. The market there remains small, though sales are rising exponentially. Nobody knows the exact growth rate, but Patrick de Lambilly, the vice president for Asia for Coty, says, “You can see 20, 30, and 40 percent a year.”
— Columnist Chandler Burr, in Fragrance Market Is Establishing a Foothold in China, in the New York Times.
The faux-badass packaging warns Love Kills Slowly. So does this juice.
— Canada's National Post smells the new Ed Hardy Woman.
Back in March, I asked how many of you thought the then-upcoming book Perfumes: The Guide would impact your fragrance spending. About half of you were worried about your wallets. Today's question is a bit broader: I'd like to know about the last perfume you bought unsniffed based on a review you read anywhere. If you're up for a confession, tell us the name of the fragrance, where you read the review, and how the purchase worked out for you.
My last unsniffed purchase was Hermès Un Jardin après la Mousson, but that wasn't based on a review, in fact, if I had waited to read the reviews, I doubt I would have bought it…