Estee Lauder will launch Bronze Goddess Capri, a limited edition variation on their yearly summer fragrance, Bronze Goddess. Both are due out in February…
Victoria’s Secret Bombshell in Love ~ new fragrance
Victoria’s Secret has launched Bombshell in Love. The new fragrance for women is a flanker to 2010’s Bombshell perfume, and follow’s last year’s Bombshell Summer and Bombshell Seduction…
The Oregon Experiment ~ book review
The Oregon Experiment by Keith Scribner features a professor of anarchy newly arrived in a small town in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, his wife the perfumer, a “sensuous free spirit called Sequoia” and a complicated anarchist. The review copy came with a sample of perfume called “The Oregon Experiment” by Yosh Han.
Could there be a better book for me to review? I like to read and I like perfume. Also, I’m a Portlander and live in a neighborhood so liberal that my Gore-Lieberman lawn sign was vandalized for not touting Nader. Sequoia is one of the more subtle hippie-girl names within a five-block radius of my house, which includes the fabled Peoples Co-op. Scribner, I’ll see your anarchist and raise you a freegan.
So, I opened The Oregon Experiment with relish. The novel is beautifully written — polished to a high shine, and full of lush turns of phrase. But in the end, it’s like an intricately carved chair of satiny wood that is too high to sit in, or only has three legs…
The Monday Mail ~ help Rena find a new perfume
Today we’re helping Rena, who is postmenopausal and finds that with the hormonal shifts, everything smells different: top notes are becoming sharper, tenacity and sillage are increasing. She’d like us to help her find some (more) perfumes she can still wear. She has good access to perfume stores, and is happy to buy samples or decants. She’s also happy to chase after vintage so long as the perfume is still reasonably easy to find. Her price limit is around $250. Here is what we know about Rena:
She’s a massage therapist in her early 40s. Next year, she’ll be starting acupuncture school.
She says she is generally cheerful, optimistic, easy going and down to earth.
Rena has wide-ranging tastes. Her chemistry seems to work best with scents that are lush, full, round and big. She’d be especially interested in suggestions for magnolia and honeysuckle. She can’t wear anything fresh, sharp, green or aquatic, and she doesn’t like baby or baby powder fragrances…
Coach Summer Edition 2012 ~ new fragrance
Coach has launched the 2012 version of their Coach Summer Edition fragrance (you can see the 2011 edition here, or the original Coach fragrance here)…