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Alora Ambiance Uno Reed Diffuser ~ home fragrance review

Posted by Pia on 12 April 2008 6 Comments

Alora Ambiance reed diffuserA friend of mine recently sent me a wonderful gift: the Alora Ambiance Reed Diffuser in Uno. Alora Ambiance was, as I understand it, the first company to introduce the diffuser concept to the United States, based off a home fragrance tradition that the founding partners — sisters — stumbled across while living in Italy near the gorgeous Lago di Como. This lovely concept has been highly successful in the US, and has since seen a variety of companies introduce similar products.

Uno is described as Alora's sweetest fragrance, a feminine composition of muguet, lemon, sandalwood and musk. The first time I tested it, I dabbed a bit on the back of my hand and inhaled. It was a cold, wet, end-of-winter day here in New York, but I found myself transported to an early morning in northern Italy…

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Perfume reading: on Guerlain, home fragrance & Tag by Gillette

Posted by Robin on 10 August 2005 9 Comments

Thank you to Victoria for this link to an article about Guerlain in last weekend's Times Online.

There is a funny article in Salon today about the high cost of home fragrance products, such as the Alora Ambience diffuser.

Tag, by Gillette, is apparently poised to challenge Axe as the leading men's body spray. Find out why Gillette doesn't put their company name (sorry, link now expired) on the product.

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