The four cat burglars ripped holes through the roof and lowered themselves into the Tamarac perfume store Hollywood movie-style, via ropes, harnesses and an array of burglary tools. They methodically tried to disable the alarm and surveillance system and even ripped out the business' Internet wiring before targeting loot that even the store's owner called a heap of "cheap perfume."
— Read more at Perfumes thieves break-in Mission Impossible-style at Florida's Sun Sentinel.
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Jacques Polge, Chanel’s house perfumer, is credited with 1932. The Chanel website says “1932 evokes a dazzling array of diamond stars and comets. Created petal by petal, the soft, woody fragrance expresses an enveloping heart of White Jasmine.” The name commemorates the year Chanel first offered fine jewelry. Notes listed for the fragrance are jasmine, vetiver and iris.
Unlike gem-studded jewelry, which I think of as hard and cold, 1932 is tender as chiffon…