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Mary Greenwell Fire & Cherry ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 2 December 2013 15 Comments

Mary Greenwell Plum and Lemon perfumes

Mary Greenwell will launch Fire and Cherry, two new fragrances, in March. Fire and Cherry join existing perfumes Plum and Lemon (shown above), and will have orange and red packaging respectively…

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Mary Greenwell Lemon ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 8 March 2013 10 Comments

Mary Greenwell Lemon

Makeup artist Mary Greenwell has introduced her second fragrance, Mary Greenwell Lemon…

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Les Parfums de Rosine Lotus Rose ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 14 June 2012 8 Comments

Les Parfums de Rosine Lotus Rose fragrance bottle

French niche line Les Parfums de Rosine has launched Lotus Rose, a new fresh floral for women…

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Bex London ~ new niche line

Posted by Robin on 2 June 2012 8 Comments

Bex London

Bex London is a new UK-based niche line founded by Rebecca Goswell, and debuting this month with four fragrances in the Londoner series, “drawing inspiration from some of London’s most iconic places”. The fragrances were developed by perfumer François Robert…

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Mary Greenwell Plum ~ fragrance review

Posted by Angela on 9 April 2012 78 Comments

Mary Greenwell Plum

One morning last week I lay on the acupuncturist’s table, stuck like a pomander, trying to identify the familiar yet elusive note that carries Mary Greenwell Plum. It wasn’t plum — that much I knew. Maybe it was the lobotomizing New Age music or maybe the needle planted smack in the middle of my forehead, but the answer came to me all at once: Smuckers. Smuckers grape jelly, to be precise.

Mary Greenwell Plum hit the market in October 2010 and quickly became a must-sample fragrance. It had a lot of promising features: its perfumer was François Robert, accomplished nose and descendant of the legendary Guy Robert and Henri Robert; it was a chypre; and it was hard to find.

Mary Greenwell is a British makeup artist who made her start prepping a teenaged Brooke Shields for a Francesco Scavullo photo shoot…

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