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The Monday Mail ~ help Kirsten find a new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 5 November 2012 17 Comments

Boites aux lettres

This week we’re helping Kirsten, who wants to find her perfect perfume and can pay up to $120. She has a good local selection and is happy to shop online. Here is what we know about Kirsten:

She’s in her mid 40s and lives in Denmark. She is married, no kids.

She says she is a casual, creative person. She makes jewelry using lots of pretty gemstones, and she bakes and cooks (she loves Indian/exotic and Italian foods).

Kirsten has red hair, fair freckled skin, and green eyes — think Julianne Moore.

Kirsten likes white flowers, citrus, lilac, sweet pea and peony…

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The Perfume Diaries at Harrods, part 4

Posted by Robin on 5 November 2012 6 Comments

Another bottle-porn video from Leah Lefevre, for those of you who enjoyed her slideshow on the Museu del Perfum in Barcelona. This one chronicles a visit to the Perfume Diaries exhibit at Harrods in 2010. Almost 12 minutes long.

Online fragrance shopping

Posted by Robin on 5 November 2012 7 Comments

News from aedes: they have power back after 5 days without, and are starting to catch up with delayed shipments. 10% of the proceeds from all purchases made today will go to the hurricane relief efforts of the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City.

New at first-in-fragrance (Germany): Micallef Advent calendar, Serge Normant Avah.

New at ronrobinson: Dita von Teese.

John Galliano Parlez-Moi d’Amour Gold Edition ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 5 November 2012 16 Comments

John Galliano Parlez-Moi d'Amour Gold Edition

John Galliano has launched Parlez-Moi d’Amour Gold Edition, a new fragrance for women. Parlez-Moi d’Amour Gold Edition is a flanker to 2010′s Parlez-Moi d’Amour, and follows the recently launched Parlez-Moi d’Amour Encore…

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Lazy weekend poll ~ winter reading list

Posted by Robin on 3 November 2012 204 Comments

A good book and a good hat

The cold weather version of our summer reading list poll: tell us about a great book to curl up with on a frosty winter night, and what fragrance we should wear while reading it.

Note: image is A good book and a good hat [cropped] by John Mallon Iphoneography at flickr; some rights reserved.

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