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The smell of Beverly Hills

Posted by Robin on 15 April 2016 5 Comments

One of the first perfumes to be advertised with newly developed scent-strips placed in national magazines, it exported the smell of Beverly Hills nationwide and became an immediate sensation. It remains a popular brand.

— Fred Hayman, the man behind the 1980s power fragrance Giorgio Beverly Hills, has passed away at the age of 90. Read his obituary at the New York Times.

Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2010, part 17

Posted by Robin on 12 October 2010 50 Comments

More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.

Tom Ford Black Orchid Limited Edition Collection

From Tom Ford, the Black Orchid Limited Edition Collection, with a Black Orchid lipstick, Black Orchid nail polish and Black Orchid solid perfume. Available this month at Saks and Neiman Marcus in the US, Harvey Nichols in the UK…

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So you!

Posted by Robin on 5 October 2010 10 Comments

An advert for the 2002 So You fragrance by Giorgio Beverly Hills. According to Women's Wear Daily, Clarins (Giorgio's distributor at that time) was banking "on the notion the Giorgio gestalt [could] be reinterpreted and reinvigorated for the new millennium". It doesn't appear to have worked out that way.

Giorgio Beverly Hills Red ~ fragrance review

Posted by Angela on 10 August 2010 183 Comments

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Along with the usual suspects — Tabu, Old Spice, Jean Naté — drugstores in the United States these days seem to carry a few fragrances also found in department stores. In the drugstores I visited, they’re an odd collection. In the Rite Aid downtown, I found minis of Britney Spears Curious and Calvin Klein Escape, but also a 50 ml bottle of Christian Dior Dune Eau de Toilette for $35. I thought Dior had tightened up its supply outlets. What is Dune doing in a store known for its deals on multipacks of Pringles? In my neighborhood Walgreens, Guerlain Shalimar sits next to Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds and Coty Emeraude. Shalimar? For real? How did that happen?

Continuing this week of drugstore fragrances, I picked up a mini of department store fragrance I’d never tried: Giorgio Beverly Hills Red “extraordinary Eau de Toilette spray.” It seemed emblematic of some of the other mid-level perfumes I saw at drugstores in that it was an old favorite that still had a following but didn’t have enough cachet to regain its lost seat at Nordstrom…

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