Elysium 6 years ago
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Summer Solstice is all about Adventurous Scents
and the mood is generally brighter during summer. When it comes to fragrance, the idea that freshness becomes a part of our perpetual ode to the season is inevitable, and rightly so; lighter, airier and less heavy scents will give you that instant hit of holiday and carry you through the hot, sticky months ahead. Finding the one for you, or the ones for me, can be tasking but with...
ScentFan 6 years ago
5
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SOAP, FLOWERS, PERFUME, VIOLIN
for it, but splendid does.What about the perfume? I'm so excited, I can barely type. It sits beside me in a plain, 2 oz. bottle. Packed and ready for mailing is a 1/2 oz bottle accompanied by a bar of the splendid soap. Yes, it's for my daughter, but let's be reasonable. (Normally, I'm not stingy. I tip waiters just for smiling. You'll understand the 1/2 oz when I tell you about the perfume.)First,...
Franfan20 7 years ago
10
4
The Canadian Zoo - An Interview with Victor Wong
catalysts for the creation of my project. I actually felt a bit out of myself when I told him he was my idol in person. I think he felt a bit awkward, too when he heard that. How do you think would one of the animals respond to Zoologist’s interpretation of it? The natural odour of musks and stinks are very complex and I think a real beaver or civet would not find the synthetic...
ScentFan 8 years ago
5
Intuitively Obvious to the Casual Nose - White Florals
21 perfumes in this category--possibly more. Though each is different, it's their white floral accords that appeal—indolic Jasmine and Tuberose with orange blossom or Neroli, counterpointed by Hyacinth, Narcissus, and/or Lily-of-the-Valley. Mishandled, this latter trio can throw off an ungodly stink, but in the right hands they elevate.I don't think this realization would...
ScentedSalon 9 years ago
Honey Oud is Here
oud and thought the notes sounded wonderful. The notes include vanilla, honey, oud and labdanum. There are others listed but I do not smell anything else. Though the perfume is high quality, is it not terribly complex and reminds me a lot of my favorite Oajan. It has that same sweet and sticky honey note with wet spices but Oajan is much more cloying and wet. Honey Oud does not smell like oud at all but there...
ChapeauClack 11 years ago
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Perfume Likened to Second-Hand Smoking in China
hotels downtown, carrying Les Exclusives and Hermessence at prices nearly twice what they are in Europe. We have poorly stocked upmarket brand corners in several large department stores around town. The marketing strategy of choice there seems to be either - and I quote - "don't buy Shalimar, it stinks, buy *whatever pedestrian frag is all the rage among ditzes now*, it's our best...
Coutureguru 11 years ago
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An Invitation to all Parfumo members ...
following the various rants about reformulation, IFRA and the difficulty of getting a parcel containing perfume mailed. Persuant to these issues I have created a Facebook profile under my nick 'Couture Guru' and invite you all to add me there so that I can direct you to a new project called 'That Stinks' ... for which a page AND a (currently open) Group exists. If you would like...
Hayven 11 years ago
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The post office stinks.
so maybe it doesn't stink as bad as it is over in the EU and UK; but it's still pretty bad. The one near me opened late today (30 minutes late), and they just recently removed all the priority mail flate rate boxes from the kiosks. You now have to go up to the counter and ask for one, so they pretty much see what you're...