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Perfume and Comfort

Posted by Angela on 16 November 2015 102 Comments

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Paris holds a special place in the hearts of many perfume lovers. Last week’s tragedy in Paris shook a lot of us. I know I’ve been thinking about how fragile and unpredictable life is. What do you do to comfort yourself when your life is shaken up? Is there a perfume you turn to?

Just as events remind me not to take the people I love for granted, they also encourage me to remember the foolishness of saving “nice” things. Every day is nice. Over the weekend, I dipped into the few milliliters of Lanvin Scandal I have left, and I liberally splashed on some vintage Carven Ma Griffe Extrait…

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Armand Basi In Red Blooming Bouquet ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 16 November 2015 Leave a Comment

Armand Basi In Red Blooming Bouquet

Spanish designer Armand Basi has launched In Red Blooming Bouquet, a new fragrance for women. In Red Blooming Bouquet is a flanker to 2002’s In Red…

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Online fragrance shopping

Posted by Robin on 16 November 2015 Leave a Comment

Deal at beautyhabit: spend $50 or more, get free shipping with coupon code REMARKABLE, good through 11/20.

New at macys: Michel Germain Sexual Paris Homme.

Heeley Chypre 21 ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 16 November 2015 3 Comments

Heeley Chypre 21

Niche line Heeley has launched Chypre 21, a new ‘contemporary unisex’ chypre fragrance intended as an ‘ode to Parisian chic’…

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Monday scent of the day 11/16

Posted by Robin on 16 November 2015 190 Comments

Spring flowers of Montmartre

Another week begins. What fragrance are you wearing?

I’m in Sophia Grojsman’s rose-violet, Yves Saint Laurent Paris. “Paris is a nostalgic, grey-blue place and, because the scent is based on roses, Paris is also very much a nostalgic fragrance.”1

Reminder: this Friday, 11/20, wear a fragrance from Yves Saint Laurent, if you have one…

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