A promo for Juicy Couture's Peace, Love and Juicy Couture fragrance. If you missed it, you can also watch a "behind the scenes" for the photo shoot.
The Monday Mail ~ help Lucy find a new perfume
This week we’re helping Lucy, who has been looking for her daily signature fragrance for a couple years without success. She says she doesn’t know much about perfume, but she lives in a large city with access to a wide range of stores and is also willing to shop online. She’ll pay up to $80-100. Here is what we know about Lucy:
I’m a writer, artist, and university instructor in my early thirties, finishing my MFA. I love farmers’ markets, roller coasters, thrift store dresses and old jeans, stationery, leather boots, sea salt, contemporary art and craft, smoky black tea, beach hair, Thai sticky rice with mango, ginger molasses cookies, gardening, and road trips in rusty pickup trucks.
Lucy likes citrus and honey notes…
Online fragrance shopping
Deal at crabtree-evelyn: 25% off and free shipping, no coupon code needed, today only.
Deal at malie: get a free soy travel candle with purchases of $50 or more using coupon code travel, expiration date unknown.
Deal at minnewyork: take 20% off with coupon code CM2010, good today only.
Deal at pacificaperfume: take 20% off everything but "value collections", today only, with coupon code monday20.
Deal at scentiments: get 5% off and free shipping on all orders, no coupon code needed, or take 10% off orders of $79 or more with coupon code cyberdeal, expiration date unknown.
Deal at sweetanthem: free shipping on orders of $25 or more, no coupon code needed, plus use code happythanksgiving to take 10% off, code good through end of the day.
Deal at usa.loccitane: get a $10 gift card with any order of $50 or more using coupon code GIFT10, good today only.
Perfume meet & greet ~ Christopher Chong of Amouage at MiN New York
Christopher Chong, creative director of Amouage, will be at MiN New York to introduce Opus IV, the latest addition to the Amouage Library Collection…
Six Scents Series Three Ascent and #087 ~ fragrance review
I was intrigued by the Series One debut collection from the Six Scents Fragrance Initiative when it was released in 2008, and I purchased Smells Like Teen Spirit (a collaboration between perfumer Mark Buxton and designer duo Preen) and wore it with pleasure for the next year or so. I somehow missed out on Series Two; last fall and winter was a chaotic time for me, so it may have just slipped past me. I’ve been much more aware of Series Three, although I’m not as familiar with the fashion participants this time around; on the other hand, most of the perfumers’ names were familiar to me right away. Two of the of fragrances from this group that piqued my interest, in particular, were Fragrance 4 and Fragrance 5.
Fragrance 4, Ascent (shown above), is a collaboration between fashion designer Rad Hourani and perfumer Christophe Raynaud, with notes of pear, violet leaf, ylang ylang, rose, cedar, leather, incense, powdery musks, tonka bean and benzoin. This fragrance fascinates me because it has evolved differently nearly every time I’ve worn it over the past week. One time, it shifted quickly from greenish violet leaf to powder to dirtied leather and musk, as sequentially as a stop-action film of the sun rising and setting, or — as articulated by Hourani and Raynaud for the “childhood” theme of this series — a transition from infancy to adulthood…