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New at neimanmarcus: Michael Kors Very Hollywood.
Opus Oils Afraid Of The Dark ~ new fragrances
California-based Opus Oils has launched Afraid Of The Dark, a new collection of four “elegantly terrifying” limited edition fragrances:
Vamp ~ “A striking Animalic Floral. Lush, Rich & Succulent. Her ageless style is enchanting & extremely addictive…With her porcelain features, she entices those who wish to possess her gothic beauty…”
Smell of death
An electronic nose that can detect the "smell of death," helping searchers recover bodies from disaster areas and aiding crime scene investigators to determine the exact time of death, is one step closer to wafting from the pages of science-fiction into real life.
— From Scientists on scent of death-detecting electronic nose at Canada.com.
Perfumista tip: the five biggest misconceptions about perfume
Not long ago I was talking to the owner of a vintage clothing store. I asked her to be on the lookout for old bottles of perfume (hey, an enterprising gal is a gal with an lifetime supply of Fabergé Tigress). She told me she finds lots of perfume at estate sales, “But you wouldn’t want it. It’s old. It’s nasty,” she said and wrinkled her nose.
Yikes! How many bottles of Jean Patou Joy or vintage Worth Je Reviens had she left behind? She might have passed up some of the perfume because she’s not used to smelling a powerhouse vintage perfume, but she probably figured that anything old is likely to have spoiled. It’s time to nip these kinds of heartaches in the bud and lay out a few of the biggest misconceptions about perfume:
1. Perfume goes bad over time. Perfume can sour, but it’s usually sunlight and heat that destroy it, not time. Put a bottle of your favorite, brand new perfume on the dashboard of the car for a few weeks in summer and keep another bottle in its box in a drawer and you’ll learn this lesson firsthand. It doesn’t matter how expensive, or cheap, the perfume was…
Jacques Fath Irissime ~ new perfume
Jacques Fath has launched Irissime, a new fragrance for women that pays tribute to Iris Gris, the line’s “parfum mythique” (Iris Gris launched in 1946 and is long discontinued):
Irissime by Jacques Fath is a mysterious perfume. A couture perfume that exudes absolute elegance and femininity…