Aftelier is opening their studio to visitors for their annual holiday sale this weekend, Dec 6th & 7th from 10 am - 6 pm:
All natural perfumes including new perfume "Cassis", custom solid perfumes in antique cases, new solid perfumes, new bath salts, perfumed oolong teas, and much more. Gifts for everyone on your holiday list.
Aftelier is located at 1518 Walnut Street in Berkeley, California.
Andy Tauer of Tauer Perfumes will be hosting an Advent giveaway starting today and continuing through December 24. To participate, click on today's date on the Advent calendar. You'll be taken to a blog post where you'll need to comment to enter for the drawing.
Daily prizes will include samples of Tauer's "experimental, fresh from the lab" Une rose chyprée fragrance, plus daily specials such as samples, discovery sets or full bottles of other perfumes in the line (today, a bottle of L’air du désert marocain is up for grabs).
It would seem that the end of autumn has hit the east coast. Dreary skies have arrived, and blustery rainy afternoons turn quickly dark as city lights shine on slick wet streets. A last gasp of bitter crackling brown leaves swirl on the highway as I drive home from school, like djinn rising up in the desert sands, and I have a feeling soon the deep silent cold of winter will set in. (As an aside, the squirrels around these parts have been unusually frantic chasing and burying nuts this autumn which only confirms my pessimistic ponderings.)
Happily, this season I have found the perfect antidote to the cold. Alba Botanica's Honey Mango Bath & Shower Gel is a delightfully sweet-warm way to wake up under the shower on a leaden gray morning. It's something like mango ice cream mixed with honey — the kind of honey you find in Winnie the Pooh scratch-n-sniff books…
Le Labo has launched Musc 25, the latest fragrance in their “city exclusive” series. Musc 25 is for Los Angeles, and is…
…white, angelic, very musky and aldehydic, and so intensely luminous that you will need to wear shades to approach it. Yet despite all this heavenly white…
Christina Aguilera will be at Macy's in the Glendale Galleria in Glendale, California on Friday, December 5th at 4 pm to greet fans and introduce her new fragrance, Inspire. (via press release)