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2008 / Browsing by date: December 2008

Choosing Perfume for a Happy New Year

Posted by Angela on 31 December 2008 159 Comments

Van Cleef & Arpels First perfumeSuperstition has it that whatever you do on New Year's Day sets the tone for the year to come. It follows, then, that the perfume you wear tonight, New Year's Eve, will officially be the first perfume of the year as long as it persists through midnight. Now that's some pressure. Choose something too obvious — say, Beckham Signature for Her — and you might have a year without mystery. Choose something too complex and engulfing — for instance Frédéric Malle Une Fleur de Cassie — and you risk being misunderstood or even alienating for the entire year. Have you thought about which perfume you'll reach for tonight?

Before selecting a fragrance that just might set the year's agenda, maybe we should step back and look at some common goals for the year to come.

If your top goal for 2009 is to lose weight and get in shape, perhaps wearing a big, gourmand fragrance is not a good idea. Smelling of rich vanilla and almonds first thing the new year might lead to twelve months of taunting by delicious aromas. On the other hand, a sexy, taut vetiver like Chanel Sycomore might be just the ticket for getting you back to your fighting weight…

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Lorenzo Siena Palio ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 31 December 2008 Leave a Comment

Lorenzo Siena Palio cologne for menLorenzo Siena has launched Palio, a new fragrance for men:

“Palio”, by Lorenzo Siena, our first fragrance “launch”, is translated from Italian as “winner” or “prize”. It is a uniquely different scent which has instantly captured the men's fragrance market…

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Online fragrance shopping

Posted by Robin on 31 December 2008 Leave a Comment

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Deal at beautyhabit: get free shipping plus 2 Reminiscence samples with orders of $35 or more using coupon code BHTRANSPORT, good through 1/15.

New at luckyscent: Indult Reve en Cuir now shipping.

Zirh Warrior Collection Julius Caesar shower gel review

Posted by Kevin on 30 December 2008 28 Comments

Zirh Warrior Shower GelShower gels named after famous warriors? Well…okay, but why can’t we use another type of person to promote products, a type that didn’t thrive on warfare, a type that doesn’t make me feel so “adolescent” as I buy a WARRIOR shower gel? I’d even risk appearing pretentious over appearing adolescent, so maybe I’ll develop a Poet Series of scented products myself: Haiku (Bashō) bath gel fragranced with pine needles, lotus, green tea leaf, kyara wood, smoke and bamboo, or a Leaves of Grass candle (Whitman) with sap, lilac, birch, cumin and musk. What about a fragrance honoring a poetess: Marianne Moore; she liked apricots and baseball, so osmanthus and ‘baseball glove leather’ would do the trick for Tricorne Eau de Parfum.

As I dismount my high horse, I admit I like the Zirh bath line for men. Though the Zirh Warrior advertising and online features (one feature at zirhwarrior helps you find out which warrior in the series matches your personality) seem geared towards very young men — we’re nearing Axe territory here — the gels are good quality…

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Victoria’s Secret Sexy Little Things Noir ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 30 December 2008 12 Comments

Victoria's Secret Sexy Little Things Noir perfumeVictoria's Secret has launched Sexy Little Things Noir, a fruity floral flanker to 2007's Sexy Little Things fragrance for women:

Introducing Sexy Little Things Noir. At once elegant and playfully provocative, it's an enchanting blend of sparkling nectarine, sultry amber and exotic cattelaya orchid…

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