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2013 / Browsing by date: March 2013

Lazy weekend poll ~ jumping off the cliff

Posted by Robin on 30 March 2013 298 Comments

Crater Lake

In early February, we helped each other not buy perfume. Sort of. Now we’re going to do the opposite.

Name a perfume you’ve been itching to own but can’t bring yourself to buy, and tell us why you really think you should have a bottle. Maybe everyone will talk you into it…

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Acca Kappa Green Mandarin ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 30 March 2013 10 Comments

Acca Kappa Green Mandarin

Italian brand Acca Kappa has launched Green Mandarin, a new unisex fragrance to match the brand’s range of Green Mandarin body products…

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Nest White Narcisse ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 30 March 2013 8 Comments

Nest Fragrances White Narcisse

Laura Slatkin’s Nest Fragrances brand has launched White Narcisse, a new addition to the Body and Soul collection…

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Lush Sikkim Girls ~ fragrance review

Posted by Jessica on 29 March 2013 23 Comments

Lush Sikkim Girls

I’ve been a Lush customer for over a decade, and I’ve followed the various permutations of the company’s fragrance line with interest, from B Never Too Busy to Be Beautiful to Gorilla Perfume and everything in between. Lush’s latest fragrance line has delighted me so far; as Robin has said, Mark and Simon Constantine continue to produce “unusual, well-crafted and reasonably priced perfumes whilst seemingly paying no mind to the conventions that rule the rest of the fragrance industry.”

Sikkim Girls is described as “subtle, seductive, heady, exotic, floral…frangipani, jasmine, vanilla and tuberose conjure up exotic climes and heady possibilities.” Its name comes from an anecdote related by the musician Sheema Mukherjee: Mukherjee met a café owner in Darjeeling who claimed that his son-in-law had been lured away by two “Sikkim girls,” unlikely sirens who entranced him with their feminine wiles despite being fully, even modestly, dressed. Its white floral notes, appropriately enough, are traditional but surprisingly heady, not to mention quite long-lasting on the skin…

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All men are children

Posted by Robin on 29 March 2013 21 Comments

The (final! no more teasers!) Prada Candy L’Eau commercial, with actress Léa Seydoux, directed by Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola. In 3 parts, a little over 3 minutes.

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