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Keith Urban Phoenix ~ fragrance review

Posted by Kevin on 19 October 2011 55 Comments

Keith Urban Phoenix

Keith Urban, judging from photos anyway, seems an unpretentious, casual-comfortable type of person. I don’t know much about contemporary country music or Urban but after smelling Phoenix I feel we have at least one thing in common — a love of desserts. If Urban had input in Phoenix’s development, and didn’t just slap his name onto a “made-by-committee” fragrance, the man has a major sweet tooth.

Phoenix was developed by perfumer Loc Dong and features notes of blackberries, cognac, plum, suede accord, dates, dark chocolate, fir balsam, musk, cashmere woods, tonka bean and “amber gourmand.”

Phoenix starts with boozy aldehydes, leather and cocoa (smelling quite a bit like the Thierry Mugler A*Men “Pure” fragrances), and segues into a sheer suede-plus- “blackberries macerating in sugar” note…

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Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2011, part 17

Posted by Robin on 19 October 2011 9 Comments

More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.

Swarovski bottles from Chantecaille

From Chantecaille, special order bottles decorated with crystals: “This season Chantecaille introduces hand-decorated Swarovski® embellished fragrance bottles. Exclusive and luxurious, these bottles are the creations of the renowned artist Cimon. His fanciful Swarovski® adorned sculptures are collected all over the world. Like a couture gown, each exquisitely decorated bottle may be special ordered in the [sic] and will be received in four weeks.” Available in all of the Chantecaille fragrances; Frangipani is shown. $600 each at Neiman Marcus…

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Bath & Body Works Classic Men ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 19 October 2011 11 Comments

Bath & Body Works Classic Men

Bath & Body Works has launched Classic, a new addition to their Signature collection for men…

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Liz Zorn Acousticjus Pussyfoot & Bellemia ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 19 October 2011 6 Comments

Liz Zorn Acousticjus Pussyfoot & Bellemia

Liz Zorn has repackaged her alcohol-free Acousticjus line, and added two new fragrances, Pussyfoot and Bellemia…

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Online fragrance shopping

Posted by Robin on 19 October 2011 10 Comments

New at nordstrom: Thierry Mugler Taste of Fragrance.

New at selfridges (UK): Illamasqua Freak.

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