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Online fragrance shopping

Posted by Robin on 6 March 2012 Leave a Comment

New at bloomingdales: Bvlgari Omnia Coral, Jo Malone London Blooms, Roberto Cavalli.

New at neimanmarcus: Ferragamo Signorina, Guerlain Voyages series.

Kim Kardashian True Reflection ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 6 March 2012 17 Comments

Kim Kardashian True Reflection

Kim Kardashian has launched her fourth fragrance for women, True Reflection…

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Tableau de Parfums Dark Passage ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 6 March 2012 14 Comments

Tableau de Parfums Dark Passage

Tableau de Parfums, a collaboration between Andy Tauer of Tauer Perfumes and filmmaker Brian Pera, has launched Dark Passage. Dark Passage is a limited edition fragrance, and can only be obtained as a gift for pledging $60 towards the funding of Pera’s next film project, Only Child…

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Parfums de Nicolai Maharanih ~ fragrance review

Posted by Angela on 5 March 2012 49 Comments

umbrellas

This review of Parfums de Nicolaï Maharanih was supposed to start like this: Some fragrances are the life of the party. They’re attractive, engaging, and you can’t help but gravitate toward them, even if they’re not the sort of people you choose to have in your life all the time.

Then, surveying other reviews, I discovered that many people don’t see Maharanih as a charming diva at all, but as a grating boor. So I’ve changed the angle on this review. Let me start again:

Parfums de Nicolaï Maharanih is like Cher bedecked in Bob Mackie finery. Whether you admire her beauty and audacity, or think she looks like a Trojan drag queen at a disco, you’re sure to have an opinion…

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The Monday Mail ~ help Jacqueline find a new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 5 March 2012 45 Comments

Mail slot

Today we’re helping Jacqueline. She’s looking for a replacement for her long time signature scent, Escada Margaretha Ley. She says everyone knew her by that fragrance, and she misses it. She also wore Dior’s Tendre Poison, and she misses that too. Here is what we know about Jacqueline:

She’s in her mid 40s and is happily married. She lived in Bangladesh for a few years, right now she is living in the Netherlands.

She is tall with dark brown hair. She used to work in luxury cosmetics, but now she helps in her husband’s logistics company and does volunteer work.

She loves gold, and hates fake things: she says she wants the real thing or nothing at all.

Jacqueline is currently wearing Chanel Coco and Boucheron…

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