I hope all of you are done shopping for the year? In case not, here are some (relatively) easy-on-the-wallet gift ideas.
For the scent-memory enthusiast, a holiday coffret from Demeter, with 30 ml bottles of Egg Nog, Snow and Mulled Cider…
Perfume for the Holidays
It’s here again: the annual six-week extravaganza of eating, drinking, and getting gussied up. You’ve rolled the lint off your black velvet, checked your supply of Spanx, and shined up your rhinestones. Now let’s talk about perfume possibilities for the situations we’re most likely to encounter between now and New Year’s Day.
The Office Holiday Party
Lucky me, my office holiday party will be in a private room at a lively bar with my terrific coworkers. We’ll be eating cake indoors while through the plate glass windows drag queens smoke cigarettes between sets at the cabaret next door. But in other jobs I’ve endured many a lunchtime potluck and white elephant gift exchange in the conference room carefully timed not to exceed the 45-minute lunch hour.
How best to prepare: Watch The Office holiday party specials, especially the British one.
What you want your perfume to say: “I’m feeling the holiday spirit, but in a restrained, professional way that does not include wearing a lampshade on my head.” Low to moderate sillage fragrances with a slightly more conservative bent might be the best bet here…
Lazy weekend poll ~ whispering to Santa (or the gift-giving entity of your choice), 2010 edition
A repeat of a poll we ran in 2008 and 2009, inspired by the holiday gift articles. Here’s the three-part poll:
What is the fragrance-related gift you’d most like to receive this year?
Let’s say you were going to ask for just one unsniffed fragrance this year, what would it be?
Are you giving any fragrance items for gifts this year, and if so, what?
My answers…
Holiday fragrance gifts 2010, part 3
Still shopping? Here are some more gift ideas, and if you missed them, check out Holiday gifts part 1 and part 2. And of course, more to come…
From Joya & Vane, solid perfume lockets in Royal Jasmine (jasmine, tuberose, tonka bean, toasted marshmallow and sandalwood; watch chain, above center, $68), Starleaf (orange blossom, honeysuckle, jasmine, lily of the valley, honey and sweet musk; heart brooch, above left, $38) or Moro Blood Orange (blood orange, tangerine, yuzu, tiare flower, vanilla, blonde woods and musk; oval + perfume pin, above right, $38). All at Anthropologie…
Holiday fragrance gifts 2010, part 2
If you missed it, see Holiday fragrance gifts 2010 part 1.
From L’Artisan Parfumeur, two coffrets: Les Masculines, shown above, with 15 ml bottles of Timbuktu, Fou d’Absinthe and L’Eau de L’Artisan; or Les Best, not shown, with Mûre et Musc, Premier Figuier and La Chasse aux Papillons…