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Pattern Body Wash ~ scented body products

Posted by Jessica on 11 April 2010 13 Comments

Telefunken FuBK Test Pattern

Lately I’ve been trying to coin a clever label for the recent wave of body care products that combine nature-based formulas with smartly designed, visually appealing packaging. I’m thinking specifically of brands like 4mula, MBeze, The Bubble Roome, and now Pattern, a small, Colorado-based company that focuses on multi-tasking Body Washes (or “skin cleansers”) fragranced with essential oils.

All four Pattern Body Wash blends could easily be shared by male and female users. The Citrus Moisturizing Body Wash smells like a straightforward mix of lemon, bergamot, and perhaps some litsea cubeba. The Eucalyptus Body Wash is a zingy herbal scent…

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Angela Flanders ~ shopping for perfume in London

Posted by Guest Shopper on 11 April 2010 — 0 Comments — Comments are closed

Angela Flanders

Perfume-shopping in London is really all about the West End (the shopping/theatre areas west of the City). The East End, despite recent trendification, is not the place you’d expect to find much in the way of good perfume hunting.

However, it’s worth making the trip east to visit the Angela Flanders shop, established in Shoreditch in 1985, where she sells her own creations in a charming boutique. It’s a bit like the East End equivalent of Ormonde Jayne.

There’s one catch: the shop is only open on Sundays. At any other time, you have to make an appointment.

The reason for this becomes clear if you visit the area…

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Want a bottle of Tauer Perfumes Orange Star?

Posted by Robin on 11 April 2010 222 Comments

Luckyscent and Tauer Perfumes would like to give away a bottle of Orange Star to one lucky reader.

For a chance to win, leave a comment with the name of your favorite scent from Tauer Perfumes…

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Tauer Perfumes Orange Star ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 11 April 2010 50 Comments

Tauer Perfumes Orange Star

Andy Tauer of Tauer Perfumes will be making a public appearance at Scent Bar (the brick ‘n mortar arm of Luckyscent) in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 17 from 1 to 4 pm for the US debut of his new fragrance, Orange Star.

A rich citrus fragrance with a clean orange flower in its heart…

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Lazy weekend poll ~ grab bag!

Posted by Robin on 10 April 2010 362 Comments

basket weaving

By request. Simple as pie: put your untried perfume samples in a basket or bag, pull one out at random, then tell us what you think of it. If you really haven't got any untried samples (oh my!) feel free to just tell us what you think of the last perfume you tested.

Note: image is basket-weaving [cropped] by jenny downing at flickr; some rights reserved.

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