Stop by any Bond no. 9 boutique or counter at Saks between 5/3 and 5/9 to register for their Mother's Day raffle, and your favorite mother (or you, they're not checking) could win a year's supply (12 bottles) of her favorite Bond no. 9 fragrance. One prize will be awarded at each store.
Tocca Giulietta, Mark Instant Vacation Costa Rica ~ new perfumes
Tocca has launched Giulietta, a new fragrance for women:
Inspired by the love story of Italian director Federico Fellini and his wife, Giulietta Masina, Tocca’s Giulietta is a sweet, floral scent reminiscent of the couple’s holidays spent on the island of Corsica…
Online fragrance shopping
New at first-in-fragrance (Germany): Comptoir Sud Pacifique Coco Figue.
Deal at fragrancenet: take $10 off a purchase over $60 with coupon code 928TN, good through 5/5.
Deal at neimanmarcus: spend $75 or more on selected fragrances and get a tote with fragrance samples (Boucheron, David Yurman, Thierry Mugler, Hermés, and Gucci), no coupon code necessary, offer good through 5/11.
Deal at yvesrocherusa: take 10% off and get free shipping with coupon code NEWEB10OFF, expiration date unknown.
Fragrance gifts for Mother’s Day 2009, part 4 ~ cheap thrills edition
Skeem votive candles in Vintage Peony (“a blend of peony, gardenia, lily, and musk”) and Cypress Bark (“strong, rich and complex, smelling of freshly cut wood, sticky sap and peeled bark”). 30 hour burn time, $14 each at Skeem…
Strange Invisible Perfumes Epic Gardenia, Aquarian Roses & Urban Lily ~ perfume review
Epic Gardenia, Aquarian Roses and Urban Lily make up the new spring floral trio from all-natural brand Strange Invisible Perfumes. I love many fragrances from Strange Invisible Perfumes, but it isn’t exactly my “go to” brand for pretty-girly-spring florals so I was very curious to see what they’d do with these traditionally feminine floral notes.
And I was extra extra curious because I was keeping my fingers crossed that Epic Gardenia would turn out to be a reprise of their gorgeous but gone Lady Day fragrance. Alas, no: as March has already pointed out at Perfume Posse, it’s no such thing. The top notes are a bit heady and indolic, with a strong undercurrent of green, but that stage doesn’t last long; after that, it’s nearly but not quite sheer, and the “gardenia” — bearing in mind that gardenia is very difficult to extract, and so this perfume, like most gardenia perfumes, doesn’t contain any “real” gardenia — is a bit less gardenia-ish and a bit more mixed jasmine-ish floral…