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The Monday Mail ~ help Nike find a new perfume

Posted by Robin on 17 May 2010 52 Comments

Letter Box, Luxembourg

Today we’re helping Nike, who lives in southern Sweden and wants to find a summer perfume that will work in cool Swedish summers and in hotter climates — she’s planning a trip to Israel and Egypt this summer. Her fragrance should be feminine and summery, work for day or night (although she’s willing to consider layering at night for more depth), have good longevity and some sillage, and cost less than $135. Here is what we know about Nike:

She’s in her mid-20s and works in human resources. She also works as a consultant on topics relating to religion and the Middle East.

She says she is perceived as a bookish academic, but she also has a creative and witty side…

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Online fragrance shopping

Posted by Robin on 17 May 2010 Leave a Comment

New at b-glowing: Scent Lab line.

New at nordstrom: Tom Ford Azure Lime.

Win a Fifi-nominated fragrance

Posted by Robin on 17 May 2010 8 Comments

Fifi Awards logo 2010

Starting today, the Fragrance Foundation will be giving away one Fifi-nominated fragrance every day at 5 pm on their Facebook page — all you need to do is become a fan and leave a comment, although only residents of the US are eligible to win. Today's fragrance prize is Avon's Reese Witherspoon In Bloom, and there at least 11 more to come.

You smell

Posted by Robin on 17 May 2010 16 Comments

Unceremoniously, she said so that everyone in line could hear, "You smell."

I looked in the direction of the bag boy and he nodded in agreement. "I came straight from the barn. I guess I haven't washed this jacket in quite a while." I mumbled under my breath.

— From The scent of a woman, oh, I mean a horse at Open Salon. Many thanks to mjr17 for the link!

Bath & Body Works Deep Aqua ~ scented body products

Posted by Jessica on 16 May 2010 33 Comments

Underwater flowers

Deep Aqua is Bath & Body Works‘ latest addition to its Signature Collection. It’s an aquatic floral scent, described as “the pure and refreshing fragrance of ocean drenched flowers inspired by a beautiful world underwater.” Its composition includes top notes of crisp melon, daffodil, violet leaves, and water blossoms; mid notes of spring daisy, cyclamen, dewy gardenia, and white hydrangeas; and base notes of musk captives and white woods.

Looking at that list of floral notes, you may not imagine anything oceanic at all, and you may wonder which seashore we’re talking about. Violets at the beach? That being said, the fragrance itself is appropriately watery and breezy, with light hints of white flower petals. It also seems to “bloom” differently in each of the products I’ve sampled. The Skin Smoothing Shower Gelée, a limited-edition formula for summer, is a gently exfoliating, sudsy gel. (And doesn’t the word “gelée” deserve to be brought back into wider circulation?). It smells as fresh and blue as it looks, but it also releases a more complex, musky note or two when it foams and mixes with the water and steam of a warm shower.

The Body Lotion was my least favorite of the three variations I tried…

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