Moving into Breast Cancer Awareness (BCA) month, here is another gift idea following this morning's suggestion for a balm for your feminine paws with Aveda Pink Ribbon Hand-Relief and if you know someone who loves, or might love, the fragrance...
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Pomerol Séduction Partners with Annick Goutal Parfums {Fragrance News} {Shopping Tip}
The association of 9 producers of Pomerol wines called Pomerol Séduction have partnered with noses Camille Goutal and Isabelle Doyen of Annick Goutal parfums to offer a special limited-edition wine-tasting coffret which launched on July 1st, 2010......
Yankee Candle Midsummer's Night...for Men {Shopping Tip of the Day}
Yankee Candle have released a series of new scents for their 2010 fall collection of candles (I'll have to check the new Mountain Lodge, I'm afraid). But before we get ahead of ourselves, I thought it would be good to...
Travalo Makes it Easy to Carry Perfume in your Luggage, & More {Shopping Tip of the Day}
There has been quite the buzz about a new spray system trademarked by Travalo, a brand of travel perfume atomizers which makes it easy not only to carry fragrance in your purse, travel bag or suitcase but also, and that's...
Shopping Tip of the Day: Visiting Paris Any Time Soon? It's Shopping Season!
This is a reminder that the official 2010 Summer Sales (Soldes d'été) will start in Paris on Wednesday June 30th 2010 and will last for 5 weeks until August 3rd, 2010. In other regions of France, they may start at...
Fragrance Shopping Tip of the Day: Nicolaï Eau Exotique still Available as Eau Turquoise...or How Words Matter in Perfumery
If you like to smell of fresh, tart mango for summer and/or regret the disappearance of Eau Exotique Eau Fraîche by Parfums de Nicolaï (2005), the scoop is that it was very discreetly reincarnated as Eau Turquoise (2008)......
Fragrance Shopping Tips of the Day: Bas de Soie, Personalized Engraving Offered, Sex Pistols, Josephine Baker
• Serge Lutens Bas de Soie (79€ or approximately US$ 96) is now available for international shipping on the e-commerce site salons-shiseido.com. A personalized free engraving service has been set up an will run until June 15th, 2010. You can...
Fragrance Shopping Tip of the Day: No.89, JF, Santal, Elite by Floris Now Available in Travel Sizes
Right before summer traveling starts, London-based Floris perfumery est. 1730 have released a new travel collection of four of their masculine fragrances or eaux de toilette in this case: they are No.89 (citrus-woody) named after the number of the ancient...
Fragrance Shopping Tip of the Day: Hermessences Available Online with Personal Consultation Service
For amateurs of "olfactory poems": the Hermessence collection which was until recently exclusive to the Hermès boutiques is now available online and can be purchased individually or as a gift set comprising 4 perfumes to choose from the line......
Bath and Body Works Scent Sampler {Shopping Tip}
Bath and Body Works have put together a special Scent Sampler to allow you to test 10 of their "top Signature Collection scents" more at leisure, which I take to mean their bestsellers. It also comprises "a special offer redeemable...
Attention Paris Shoppers, The Annual Sales Have Started (Jan 6 - Feb 9, 2010) {Perfume Shopping Tips}
Today January 6 is Day 1 of the Annual Winter Sales called Soldes d'Hiver in France. It is also the day of the Epiphany (I mention this because of the tasty and flavorful traditionally almond-filled galettes des rois pastries). They...
Men's Fragrance Trends Fall/Winter 2009/2010 - Part 2: Icy {Trend Alert} Holidays Gift Guide {Shopping Tips}
Antarctica 7 by Sebastian CopelandPlease see Part 1: Fiery colognes for the first installmentWhile one notices this season a discreet tectonic shift in the direction of men's fragrances getting more uninhibited and sensual, at the other end of the spectrum...
Men's Fragrance Trends Fall/Winter 2009 Part 1: Fiery {Trend Alert} Holidays Gift Guide {Shopping Tips}
Axel Hütte, Capulin Fire - 1, Dip., New MexicoFiery & Icy ColognesThis fall/winter 2009 season men are offered very contrasted choices for their personal fragrances. While at the end of the summer it looked like unusually deep textures were going...
Lancome Friends & Family: 20% Off Everything {Shopping Tip}
You have until December 18, 2009 included to enjoy a 20% discount off everything in the Lancôme boutiques only. This offer does not work online but you can go to lancomeboutique.com to see where the closest store to your home...
Serge Lutens Muscs Koublai Khan Pocket-Sized + Chergui Miniature GWP {Shopping Tip}
Muscs Koublaï Khan by Serge Lutens is now available in the flat pocket-sized 50 ml spray bottles also called export bottles for a limited time only in the Collection Ephémère (Ephemeral Colleciton)."Le singulier pluriel... raffinement, cruauté, complexité des sens dans...