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New at dillards: Prada Infusion d'Iris, Waterford Lismore.
New at senteursdailleurs (Brussels): Comptoir Sud Pacifique Hemisphere Sud.
Terri Michele Shenandoah ~ new fragrance
Terri Michele is a new brand founded by Terri Weitzman, formerly of Fresh Scents By Terri, and Michele Kaplan. Their first scent is Shenandoah, a reworked version of Fresh Scents By Terri Breathe:
…they worked with top perfumers to locate the highest quality essential oils and reformulate Breathe to develop their debut fragrance, “Shenandoah”. The name reflects the clean, water like qualities of the beloved classic…
Serge Lutens Serge Noire ~ fragrance review
It’s almost Halloween! Now’s the time to start preparing my infamous Kevin’s All Hallows Eve SlopPot-pourri(TM)! Here’s the recipe:
Take a large wooden slop bucket from a barnyard, rinse it in a cow (or pig) watering hole and then rub the inside of the bucket with a goodly amount of cat urine (for the best results, use the urine of an un-neutered tomcat); allow the bucket to dry in the sunshine.
Inside the dry bucket, layer each ingredient listed below between one-inch layers of kosher salt to which a handful of cedar shavings and a vanilla pod have been added:
50 pieces of charred cassia bark (the bark should be blackened and retain only the most rancid traces of oil and odor);
Ten 1/8-inch slices of Swiss cheese…
Torrente L'Or Blanc ~ new perfume
French fashion house Torrente has launched L'Or Blanc, a new floral fragrance for women that “evokes dreams of luxury couture”:
L'Or by Torrente was a fine alchemy of coffee and roses that celebrated the absolute metal. Today, L'Or becomes white: the white of pure, brilliant and precious white gold. The metamorphosis of a metal draped in silver…
Made on Request perfume sample holder
Made on Request, a New Mexico-based company, has introduced a perfume sample holder in clear and black acrylic with brass and stainless steel hardware:
Developed because my friends got into perfume and they had no way of organizing their testers. One solution was a block of wood with holes drilled into it which was just plain uncool so we went off of that and developed these.
It holds 12 standard-sized vials and retails for $28.