I'm leaving today for two weeks at the beach. The blog won't be idle, though: tomorrow, look for Pia's review of EO Peppermint & Tea Tree hand soap. Next week, Angela will continue with the "Cheap Thrills" theme that Kevin kicked off on Friday with the Axe Proximity reviews (look for Dana Tabu, Revlon Charlie & more). I might be a little slow with shopping reports and new fragrance announcements (and I'll almost certainly be slower than my usual slow at answering emails), but I'll do my best to keep up.
Note: image is I Want to Keep Walking (cropped) by Vicki's Pics at flickr; some rights reserved.
In the August 2008 issue of GQ, there is an expensive six-page advertising spread for AXE’s new Proximity fragrance line; these ad pages, showing model-actors wearing not only AXE body fragrance but clothes by Dolce & Gabbana, Paul Smith and Tom Ford, are positioned right before a GQ grooming article by Chandler Burr on nice-smelling deodorants called Give Up the Funk. Interestingly, among Burr’s deodorant picks (Mark Birley, $29, HM by Hanae Mori, $20, Tokyo by Kenzo, $18) is a plug for AXE Dry Sharp Focus — $5. 
We already did a poll on