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2012 / Browsing by date: June 2012

Lazy weekend poll ~ summer reading list, part 2

Posted by Robin on 29 June 2012 194 Comments

Reading a book at the beach

Apologies for the lack of posts earlier today — I am on vacation, and internet access has been harder to come by than I expected. Hopefully I will catch up next week.

Meantime, a repeat of a poll we did last June:

Please recommend a great book to add to our summer reading lists, and tell us what fragrance we should wear while reading it…

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Amouage Gold Woman ~ fragrance review

Posted by Angela on 28 June 2012 118 Comments

Amouage Gold Woman

For more than a month now, a 1950s nude-pink organza coat has hung at a vintage clothing store downtown. It has a smocked top, gathered sleeves with French cuffs, and an open front designed to waft over full skirts. I imagine the coat resting lightly on the bare shoulders of a woman going to the opera on a summer night. Her rhinestone earrings glitter above the organza’s satiny finish, and the click of her heels on the theater’s marble floors punctuates the coat’s swish against her evening gown.

The coat is priced to move at less than $20. So why hasn’t anyone bought it? I think it’s simply too special for most people to imagine integrating into their lives. They remember their fat couch at home in front of the TV and the afternoon they just spent pushing a shopping cart through Costco or enduring eight hours in a bland cubicle, and they forego the coat for yoga pants. I wonder if Amouage Gold Woman faces the same obstacle? Even hardcore Amouage lovers tend to gloss over Gold in favor of some of Amouage’s warmer, spicier, more incensey fragrances.

This review is a cry for glamour and an entreaty to give Gold Woman a square sampling…

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Online fragrance shopping

Posted by Robin on 28 June 2012 Leave a Comment

Deal at 99perfume: take 20% off with coupon code ST20, good through 6/30.

Deal at beautyhabit: get a 7 piece citrus sampler with purchases of $75 or more using coupon code JUICY, good through 7/3.

Deal at soivohle: Soivohle Studio Collection is 30% off thru 7/5.

Olfactive Studio Lumiere Blanche ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 28 June 2012 6 Comments

Olfactive Studio Lumiere Blanche

French niche line Olfactive Studio has launched Lumière Blanche…

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By Kilian Water Calligraphy and Bamboo Harmony ~ fragrance reviews

Posted by Kevin on 27 June 2012 36 Comments

By Kilian recently launched its Asian Tales perfume collection; the debut fragrances, Bamboo Harmony and Water Calligraphy, were developed by perfumer Calice Becker, who used iconic symbols of Asian art and culture as inspiration — bamboo/tea and calligraphy/water lily (why not lotus, Ms Becker?) I was looking forward to this new collection and hoping it was truly an ‘Asian-infused’ line and not a line geared toward Asian consumers (who, we are told by marketers, prefer modern, super-light, non-perfume perfumes).

Water Calligraphy

(grapefruit, reseda blossom, water lily, jasmine, magnolia, cardamom, vetiver)

Water Calligraphy begins with sweet citrus and mignonette (fleeting, alas); within seconds of application, a water lily-jasmine-magnolia accord appears (accent on sheer, sugary jasmine). In the quickly arriving heart of the fragrance, Water Calligraphy piles on the aquatics and it reminds me of Issey Miyake L’Eau d’Issey (all those fresh, watery floral notes). Water Calligraphy is all about clear, clean aquatic notes mixing with white florals…

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