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The Monday Mail ~ help Molly find a new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 12 March 2012 52 Comments

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Today we’re helping Molly. She says she’s a perfume novice, but she’s learning, and she wants to find a new day and evening signature scent. Her most recent signature scent was original Burberry for women, but she’s bored with it now, and she’d like to find something a little more interesting. She can spend up to $120 or so, but she’d rather spend less than $100, and she’d love to find something she can test locally (she has easy access to Macy’s, Sephora, Barney’s Coop and Blue Mercury). Here is what we know about Molly:

She’s a public interest attorney living in a large East Coast city in the U.S.

She’s married and in her early 30s. No kids yet, but they do have a cuddly labrador retriever, and one of her favorite pastimes is taking him for a hike.

Molly likes the outdoors, especially mountains, forests, and lakes, but she’s not much of a beach fan except in the off season.

She loves city living, trying out new restaurants, sipping good coffee or tea in a local cafe and curling up with a book on a rainy evening. Molly says she does well in social settings, but at heart, she’s more of an introvert.

Her taste runs towards the classic. A well-cut suit, heels and pearls for work, cashmere sweaters and dark-wash skinny jeans with brown riding-style for weekends.

Molly likes oriental and gourmand notes and fragrances…

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Online fragrance shopping

Posted by Robin on 12 March 2012 Leave a Comment

New at debenhams (UK): Gucci Flora Glamorous Magnolia, Gracious Tuberose & Gorgeous Gardenia, Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb.

New at dillards: Ralph Lauren Romance Summer Blossom.

New at nordstrom: Estee Lauder Youth Dew (in the retro blue bottle).

Tocca Violette ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 12 March 2012 6 Comments

Tocca Violette

Tocca has launched Violette, a new fragrance for women…

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Yves Saint Laurent Opium Vapeurs de Parfum ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 12 March 2012 16 Comments

Yves Saint Laurent Opium Vapeurs de Parfum

Yves Saint Laurent will launch Opium Vapeurs de Parfum next month. The new fragrance for women is a flanker to 1977’s Opium, and follows 2010’s Belle de Opium…

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Lazy weekend poll ~ open thread, mid-March 2012

Posted by Robin on 10 March 2012 199 Comments

Another Saturday, another open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the perfume you’re wearing today, the perfume you suspect might have been discontinued, whatever.

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

Note: image is echoes by OliBac at flickr; some rights reserved.

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