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Online fragrance shopping

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Deal at aedes: get free shipping on orders of $125 or more with coupon code March15, good through 3/10. New items include Amouage Sunshine, Atelier Cologne Pomelo Paradis, Memo line.

New at houseoffraser (UK): Serge Lutens La Religieuse.

New at macys: Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Swimming in Lipari, Dolce Floral Drops.

New at nordstrom: Guerlain Limon Verde, Issey Miyake City Blossom, Cartier La Panthere Legere.

New at thebay (CA): Dolce & Gabbana Dolce Floral Drops, Elizabeth Arden Untold Eau Fraiche, Cartier La Panthere Legere.

Nonspecificity is commonplace

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When it comes to the vocabulary of sense, in bodice rippers and elsewhere in the English-speaking world, smell is at a significant disadvantage; nonspecificity is commonplace. A recent paper in the journal Cognition, for instance, quipped that if people were as bad at naming sights as they are at naming scents, “they would be diagnosed as aphasic and sent for medical help.”

— Alastair Gee, in The Uneducated Nose at The New Yorker.

Van Cleef & Arpels Rose Velours ~ fragrance review

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A rose is a rose

Apparently I’m hosting my own little Rose Parade for Spring 2015, since there have been so many new rose fragrance releases lately that I feel the need to try each and every one. The scorecard so far: I’m very fond of L’Artisan Parfumeur Rose Privée and Divine Spirituelle (reviewed by Angie), less captivated by Aerin Rose de Grasse and Maison Francis Kurkdjian A la Rose.

Flipping back to last year’s somewhat shorter list of rose releases, however, I just noticed one perfume that I meant to cover and almost forgot until now. It’s Van Cleef & Arpels Rose Velours, from the jewelry brand’s Collection Extraordinaire fragrance line…

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