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The Monday Mail ~ help Jessamy find a new fragrance for Robert

Posted by Robin on 5 April 2010 64 Comments

Jessamy is an internal medicine resident who lives in Minnesota, and she’s looking for a wonderful leather scent for her boyfriend, Robert, who is also a physician. Robert does not regularly wear fragrance, but he recently layered two fragrances from the Tom Ford Private Blend collection —Moss Breches and Tuscan Leather — and the result made Jessamy swoon. So! She wants to find something similar that she can buy him for a honeymoon gift for $150 or less. It should have mild to moderate sillage (nothing too heavy), and it does not have to be marketed as a masculine. She’s happy to order samples online.

Robert is…

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Love is a treasure, part 2

Posted by Robin on 5 April 2010 7 Comments

I already posted the 'Le making of', here's the finished product. For Trésor in Love by Lancôme, and featuring Elettra Wiedemann, daughter of former Trésor spokesmodel Isabella Rossellini.

Les Parfums de Rosine Une Rose au Bord de la Mer ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 5 April 2010 27 Comments

Rosine Une Rose au Bord de la Mer

Les Parfums de Rosine will launch Une Rose au Bord de la Mer in May. The new limited edition fragrance ‘tells the story of a fantastic summer vacation’…

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Lazy weekend poll ~ open thread, Easter weekend 2010

Posted by Robin on 3 April 2010 394 Comments

Sand Ocean

By general request. A couple notes before the poll: the damage poll is coming up on Tuesday oops, make that Thursday (we’re a little late!) so start tallying up those receipts. And next weekend (either Friday or Saturday), we’ll try out a grab bag poll as suggested by reader dollydagger — put your “waiting to be tested” samples in a basket, select one at random, tell us what you think of it.

And the open thread: talk about anything you like — the perfume you’re wearing today, your brand spanking new iPAD (go ahead, make me jealous), the last perfume a stranger complimented you on, whatever.

Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…

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Fifi Awards Semi-finalists 2010

Posted by Robin on 3 April 2010 23 Comments

Fifi Award statue

The Fragrance Foundation has announced the semi-finalists for the 2010 Fifi Awards, known as the “Oscars of the fragrance industry”. Note that some categories show more than 10 fragrances because of tied votes and some have fewer than 10 because not enough fragrances were nominated.

Each category will be whittled down to 5 fragrances at the Fifi Finalists Breakfast on April 23th; the final awards will be presented on June 10. The award statue is shown above.

And the finalists are…

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