New at first-in-fragrance (Germany): Comme des Garcons Wonderwood.
New at harrods (UK): Dolce & Gabbana The One Gentleman.
New at first-in-fragrance (Germany): Comme des Garcons Wonderwood.
New at harrods (UK): Dolce & Gabbana The One Gentleman.
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Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has launched the Secrets of Egypt collection, a series of six fragrances for the Denver Art Museum’s King Tut exhibit. Two of the six are new presentations of the already-existing perfumes Arome Egypte and Cardamom & Kyphi. There are also four new perfumes: 1,000 Lilies (aka Susinon), Antiu (aka Metopion), Keni (aka the Mendesian / the Egyptian) and Megaleion…
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What do Cher, Steven Tyler and King Tut have in common?
Perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz of Boulder has created perfumes for all of them.
— Read more at Sights meet smells at the Denver Art Museum, or go to the museum's dedicated website for the King Tut exhibit.
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Welcome to a week of reviews of drugstore perfumes! Each day I’ll review a fragrance from a different category of drugstore scent. Today’s category is Cheap (in More Ways than One). My selection is Body Fantasies Sexiest Fantasies Strawberries & Champagne, Love Struck, and Va Va Voom! body sprays.
You’ve got to admire a company — in this case, Parfums de Coeur — for naming its line Sexiest Fantasies. Nothing subtle about it. This is also the company that brought us Sexiest Musk (and now owns Prince Matchabelli and makes Wind Song.) What could the sexiest fantasies smell like? A suite at the Ritz? Caribbean beaches at midnight? Fireplaces in Alpine lodges? Whatever they smell like, Parfums de Coeur has a hunch the Candy Man plays a major role.
I put off testing Strawberries & Champagne until last, but let’s get the scariest out of the way right now…
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