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Perfume in the magazines, October 2012: Allure, Details, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, InStyle, Marie Claire

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Perfume coverage in the huge October issues of Allure, Details, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, InStyle, Marie Claire; please comment on any fragrance-related coverage you’ve seen in other fashion & beauty magazines:

Allure

Cover: Blake Lively

Scent strips: Lancôme La Vie Est Belle, Chanel Coco Mademoiselle, Givenchy Dahlia Noir, Jimmy Choo, Marc Jacobs Daisy

Editorial coverage: Cover Look (p. 58) talks briefly about Gucci Premiere, which is represented by cover model Blake Lively. The Beauty Reporter section includes Balenciaga Florabotanica in the Editor’s Favorites (p. 76), a Smell This feature on Lancôme La Vie Est Belle (p. 82) and a page on Isaac Mizrahi including mention of his new Fabulous fragrance…

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Perfume in the magazines, September 2012: Allure, Details, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, InStyle, Marie Claire

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Allure mag, Sept 2012, Sofia VergaraDetails mag, Sept 2012, Jake Gyllenhaal

Perfume coverage in the huge September issues of Allure, Details, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, InStyle, Marie Claire; please comment on any fragrance-related coverage you’ve seen in other fashion & beauty magazines:

Allure

Cover: Sofia Vergara

Scent strips: Giorgio Armani Acqua di Gioia, Donna Karan Cashmere Mist, Oscar de la Renta Live in Love, Isaac Mizrahi Fabulous, Chloé Eau de Parfum…

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InStyle Fragrances An Impression of Chanel No. 5 ~ perfume review

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InStyle An Impression of Chanel No. 5

In my neighborhood Walgreen’s are two shelves of perfumes, bottled plainly, with banners proclaiming things like, “If you like Giorgio, you’ll love OdorGrenade!” For Drugstore Week, I decided to tackle one of these fragrances. I passed by the dupes of Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue, Juicy Couture, and Thierry Mugler Angel and went straight for the InStyle Fragrances “Impression” series for An Impression of Chanel No. 5.

I understand the desire for a deal. Heck, there’s nothing I like better than finding a bottle of Guerlain Eau Impériale at Goodwill or getting a Caron half off at a discounter. I can imagine someone looking at a bottle of perfume and saying, “$100? For alcohol and chemicals? Why should I pay for the name when it all smells the same?” It’s true that if you simply consider the value of the ingredients in a bottle of perfume, the markup is stupendous…

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