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Summer fun ~ brief reviews of six less-than-serious perfumes for hot weather

Posted by Robin on 2 June 2009 159 Comments

Six contenders for those warm summer days when a serious perfume just won’t do: Lostmarc’h Lann Ael, ElizabethW Sweet Tea, Comme des Garçons Soda, Gap Grass, Demeter Pruning Shears & Demeter Beetroot.

Lostmarc'h Lann Ael perfumeElizabethW Sweet Tea

Lostmarc’h Lann Ael ~ Gourmand-lovers looking for something edible that won’t overwhelm in the summer heat might want to check out Lann Ael from the niche line Lostmarc’h. It is most decidedly not my sort of thing, but something about it makes me smile. If the notes (buckwheat, cereals, milk, apple, vanilla) sound like breakfast, you’re on the right track: this is a dead ringer for my son’s favorite maybe-more-dessert-than-breakfast cereal: Cookie Crisp. It starts out airy and light, with crisp apple (thankfully or not, depending on your point of view, the apple doesn’t last), calms into a mild blend of sweet cereal grains and cookie dough, and eventually finishes off as a light, creamy vanilla…

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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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L’Occitane Rose Nuit de Mai, The Bergamote / Bergamot Tea ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 23 April 2009 54 Comments

L'Occitane Rose Nuit de MaiL'Occitane The Bergamot Bergamot Tea fragrance

Coming next month from L’Occitane will be Rose Nuit de Mai (shown above left), a new perfume for women:

The captivating sensuality of rich red roses, the warm and mysterious scent of woody essences.

In May in Provence, the young people from the Pays de Forcalquier celebrate the joys of the first harvests….

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Christian Dior Escale a Pondichery ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 16 April 2009 60 Comments

Dior Escale à Pondichéry fragranceDior Escale series advert

Christian Dior will follow last year’s Escale à Portofino, the first entry in a projected series of “fragrance cruise collections”, with Escale à Pondichéry:

…the “Escales de Dior” collection continues its journey. Today, the Orient glides by on an exotic passage to India. The former trading post of the French East India Company, Pondicherry is the new destination for Parfums Christian Dior…

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Stephanie de Saint-Aignan Un The au Sahara ~ fragrance review

Posted by Kevin on 19 March 2009 44 Comments

On vacation in Morocco years ago, I spent a week inexplicably pronouncing the French word for “mint” (menthe) as “mountain” (mont). During that week, in Fez, Marrakech, Casablanca, I ordered lots of ‘mountain tea’ (thé à la mont) before I realized my mistake. I turned red as I remembered all the waiters and café owners who had looked at me strangely as I ordered mountain tea (no such thing!) when what I really wanted was a glass of thé à la menthe. I recall one café proprietress — in the Atlas Mountains of all places — her eyes lined in kohl, shouting at me maniacally (between hearty guffaws) when I asked for some mountain tea:

ME: Thé à la mont, s’il vous plaît.

SHE: (eyes opened wide, shaking head from side to side) Non.

ME: (a bit louder) Thé à la mont, s’il vous plaît.

SHE: (frowning, shaking head from side to side and moving arms up and down) Non!

ME: (emphasizing each word) Thé à la mont, s’il vous plaît…

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