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2008 / Browsing by date: November 2008

Online fragrance shopping

Posted by Robin on 21 November 2008 Leave a Comment

New at first-in-fragrance (Germany): Lubin Nuit de Longchamp & L de Lubin.

Deal at fourseasonsproducts: get a free Esteban Fleur de Bougie Collection Candle with any order of $300 or more, no coupon code needed, offer good while supplies last.

Deal at getjackblack: receive a Winter Complete Care Four Pack free with any purchase of $80 or more using coupon code TURKEY2008, good through Thanksgiving.

Deal at kiehls: get free shipping on orders of $45 or more using coupon code PREVIEW, good through 11/24.

Deal at luckyscent: get free shipping on orders of $75 or more using coupon code Free, good through 12/15.

New at macys: Sean John I Am King.

Deal at zirh: get a free spice-infused Zirh Body Bar Holiday Edition with any purchase of $100 or more, no coupon code needed, offer good through 12/31.

Memo Jannat ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 21 November 2008 3 Comments

Memo Jannat fragrance

Memo has launched a fifth fragrance in the Les Echappées collection (the first set of four included Lalibela, Siwa, Sundance and Inlé). The new fragrance, Jannat, was named for the Urdu word for paradise…

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Save your pennies, part the gajillionth

Posted by Robin on 21 November 2008 20 Comments

Positioning itself between the bespoke and limited edition markets, one specialized perfume company, l'Artisan Parfumeur, plans to introduce in January a line of single-edition perfumes - only one bottle of each will be made - to be sold exclusively through its flagship Paris store. The work of Bertrand Duchaufour, the in-house nose hired this year, the line, Mon Numéro, will be presented in one-off bottles designed by Pascale Riberolles, an artist and master glass blower, priced at about $20,000 for a 725-milliliter flask.

— From A Fragrance to Call Your Own at The New York Times. Note that the same article says that "perfumers now bring more than 300 new scents to market every year"...uh, did somebody lose count along the way?

Update: apologies, I linked to the wrong article! That'll teach me not to post before I've had my first cup of tea. Here is the correct one: New scents crowd thriving perfume field, at the International Herald Tribune.

The smell of sexy

Posted by Robin on 21 November 2008 50 Comments

People Magazine Sexiest Man Alive Issue 2008

People’s Sexiest Man Alive issue hits the stands today (Hugh Jackman??? Are you kidding me?) and in addition to drooling over the goods, you can also smell them, or some of them, anyway. This year’s issue…

…includes a section dubbed “Sexy Scents” with “scratch-n-sniff” photos of Gossip Girl actor Chace Crawford…

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Donna Karan Fuel for Men ~ fragrance review

Posted by Kevin on 20 November 2008 30 Comments

Donna Karan DK Fuel for Men & DK Men colognes

Auto racing and her husband (sculptor Stephan Weiss) were Donna Karan’s inspirations for her first men’s fragrance — DK Men (released in 1994). DK Men’s interesting bottle was designed by Weiss in the shape of a gear shift/throttle (image, right) and the DK Men TV commercial’s soundtrack was the noise of a revving engine. Karan wanted DK Men to convey “power” and said: “When I see my husband — the guy with the toys, the cool dude, the hottest guy around — it’s always with his hand on the throttle; it’s always power.” (Women’s Wear Daily, 7/15/94) Donna Karan Beauty Co. sold its fragrance license to Estée Lauder in 1997 and DK Men was discontinued; DK Men, rechristened Fuel for Men, has just been re-issued as part of the Donna Karan Collection of fragrances (image, left).

I don’t know why Donna Karan Cosmetics chose to use DK Men’s tagline, Fuel for Men, for the re-issue instead of the original product name…

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