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Miller Harris flagship boutique ~ shopping for perfume in London

Posted by Guest Shopper on 3 May 2009 — 0 Comments — Comments are closed

Miller Harris boutique in London

Miller Harris scents are widely available nowadays, but for the limited editions and other specialities, you need to visit one of the Miller Harris stores.

The flagship London store is on Bruton Street, Mayfair, next door but one to Berkeley Square (where the fictional Bertie Wooster lived with Jeeves).

The shop can be identified by its bright yellow awning, patterned with the trademark Miller Harris design. This awning has a secondary benefit — inside the shop, it feels as if the sun is beaming in, even on a dull, wet March afternoon.

The front of the shop is dedicated to fragrance, candles and bath & body products. There are urns, from which Lyn Harris’s selected single-note oils — Rose Absolute, Sage Dalmation and Mandarin Green — can be dispensed…

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Saks Fifth Avenue ~ shopping for perfume in New York City

Posted by Guest Shopper on 29 March 2009 — 0 Comments — Comments are closed

Saks Fifth Avenue beauty department

Saks Fifth Avenue’s original store is located, naturally, at the heart of Fifth Avenue, and its proximity to St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Rockefeller Center makes it a popular stop for out-of-town visitors. However, Saks manages to combine mass appeal with fashion-forward merchandise that also lures the locals into its eight ten-story flagship. Most of the first floor, where dark wood counters stand between the store’s original, white-painted columns, is dedicated to fragrance and beauty products. Some typical “department-store” perfume brands are featured there; however, they’re outnumbered by a myriad of high-end fragrance lines. Occasionally, an “exclusive” new release is also highlighted (Saks was the first store in the city to carry Flowerbomb, for example).

Some of the fragrance brands carried by Saks are grouped together at counters near the Fifth Avenue entrances, some are placed with their accompanying makeup lines, and others shine in mini-boutiques of their own…

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Chanel at Saks Fifth Avenue ~ shopping for perfume in New York City

Posted by Guest Shopper on 29 March 2009 — 0 Comments — Comments are closed

Chanel boutique at Saks Fifth Avenue

As previously reported, in 2008, a new Chanel department opened on the beauty floor of Saks Fifth Avenue’s flagship store. This boutique-within-a-store covers 850 square feet of space, and it features separate counters for cosmetics, skincare, and fragrance. The fragrance area offers every available Chanel scent in every available formulation, including the limited-distribution Les Exclusifs de Chanel line and special larger sizes of the classic No. 5 (900 ml!).

Chanel’s presentation of its fragrances at Saks is innovative and interactive…

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B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful, Covent Garden ~ perfume shopping in London

Posted by Guest Shopper on 22 February 2009 — 0 Comments — Comments are closed

B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful (the staff call it ‘B’, a habit which I’ll gratefully adopt here), is the sister company to Lush, and takes the same stringent no-animal-testing approach to the goods it sells.

Where Lush concentrates on soap and bath products, B is mainly about makeup and scent. There’s the same whimsical quality to the names of the products, but the experience is much more glittery and girly.

There are currently two ‘B’ shops in London — one in Oxford Street and the one I visited, which is in Covent Garden…

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Colette ~ shopping for perfume in Paris

Posted by Guest Shopper on 7 February 2009 Leave a Comment

Colette boutique in ParisColette boutique in Paris

Colette, the über-trendy fashion store in central Paris, is actually quite easy to walk right past. It’s a modern shop on the corner of rue St. Honoré, with a small and modest sign on the wall outside. Only the presence of a bouncer at the door (I’m not sure he’d count as a doorman), alerts you to the fact that there’s something a bit different here.

Inside, it’s packed with customers, and even it wasn’t it would still look busy; mannequins (of the plastic kind) people the shop floor at random. The ground floor is devoted to fashion, and Colette intends for you to be positively immersed in that fashion.

Downstairs, there’s a café, which must be excellent, as a dense queue was curling up the stairs to the ground floor at the time of my visit.

However, perfumistas should head upstairs, where there’s yet more fashion, and the perfume department…

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