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Congratulations

Posted by Robin on 27 January 2014 4 Comments

A Monday morning laugh for anyone who needs one. And yes, Old Spice is moving into hair care products.

If you are receiving the daily Now Smell This newsletter via email…

Posted by Robin on 11 January 2014 10 Comments

…please be aware that I will be discontinuing that service after today. Sorry! The emails were provided by Google’s Feedburner, and as Google is no longer supporting that product, I’m going back to handling my own RSS feed.*

If you’d like an alternative way to follow the posts at Now Smell This, check out Feed My Inbox, which will fetch the RSS feed from this (or any) blog and deliver it to your email address daily…

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Give joy

Posted by Robin on 16 December 2013 Leave a Comment

The Body Shop's holiday video for 2013, about the new schools they'll help build with their Community Fair Trade partners around the world.

Bunch o’ random chocolate bars. No theme, no perfume, part 2

Posted by Robin on 12 December 2013 31 Comments

Chuao Orange-a Go-Go and Madecasse Winter Spice bars

As Angie said here recently, we don’t normally stray far from the topic of perfume. But every so often we do, and it is a sad commentary on something-or-another that Angie was writing about AIDS, and I’m going to go off-topic, again, to talk about chocolate.

Today, six bars from four companies: Orange-a Go-Go by Chuao Chocolatier, Peppermint and Winter Spice by Madecasse, Riz Soufflé Caramélisé and Violette by Maison Bouche, and Lemon Ginger by Equal Exchange.

Chuao Orange-a Go-Go (60% cacao)

I’ve written before about my search for the perfect dark chocolate bar with candied orange, and so I was very excited when Chuao, one of my favorite chocolate brands (see reviews here and here and here) came out with the Orange-a-Go-Go bar…

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Orange box ballet

Posted by Robin on 9 December 2013 22 Comments

Happy holidays from Hermès.

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