May is Beauty Month at Harrods. Every Saturday, there will be hourly drawings for “a luxurious goodie bag bursting with Beauty goodies” (spend over £50 to enter), and the weekend of the 23rd and 24th will be “Fragrance Focus Weekend”:
Donna Karan Fragrance will be reading customer’s Tarot to find a scent most suited to them…
Tsi La has launched Misaki, a new natural fragrance for women:
We’re pleased to introduce MISAKI: seductive and inviting organic fresh lavender fragrance. French lavender, warm tea, Sicilian bergamot, crushed mint, green tree moss, Tahitian vanilla orchid…
What is it: One 50 ml bottle of Gumps Baroque Pearl, from which I have decanted 2 small samples (I keep the samples, you get the bottle).
Who can win: Any registered reader who lives in the US, who has already left at least one comment on the site (see #4 below) and who has not won an NST giveaway in the past 6 months.
Update: We have a winner, congrats to Haunani!
Valentino will launch Rock ‘n Dreams, the fourth fragrance in the sequence that includes Rock ‘n Rose, Rock ‘n Rose Couture and Rock ‘n Rose Pret A Porter, this month.
Rock ‘n Dreams targets a younger customer, and features notes of myrrhone (a Firmenich molecule derived from myrrh and iris), peach, cinnamon, woods and vanilla…
The electronic nose, which is to be installed on the International Space Station in order to automatically monitor the station's air, can detect contaminants within a range of one to approximately 10,000 parts per million. In a series of experiments, the Brain Mapping Foundation used NASA's electronic nose to sniff brain cancer cells and cells in other organs. Their data demonstrates that the electronic nose can sense differences in odour from normal versus cancerous cells.
From NASA's Electronic Nose May Provide Neurosurgeons With A New Weapon Against Brain Cancer at Science Daily.