Even though I wore this fragrance as a teen and loved it. I find this ad a bit disturbing.
What do you thi...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
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5 Suggestions for Every Type of WomanThe holidays are a perfect time to give a fragrance gift to a woman you care about. Manufacturers and designers offer lovely gift sets of their popular fragrances and new perfumes for consumers to try. If you are stumped on a gift, check out my fragrance suggestions for every type of woman. All suggestions are under $100.00 and most are under $70.00.1. Estee Lauder...
Thursday, December 1, 2011
As some one who purchases fragrances on the internet, about 98% of the time I found this recent Australian article quite disturbing. The West online edition, discussing counterfeit products, reported that a number of bargain perfumes obtained through the internet, include unknown chemicals and a few "extra" ingredients;
Australian consumer watchdog Choice says tests on fake fragrances...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
There are many places you can find perfume oil on the internet. Sometimes they have exotic and sexy names and sometimes they have names that are familiar to you. How are you to determine what the sent actually smells like? What is sweet to you may be bitter to me. You can try to compare it to fruits or flowers, but what does musk actually smell like?
I have taken a few scents that stand out and tried to summarize what the smell li...
Saturday, November 26, 2011
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Your scent is your signature. I prefer not to smell like everyone else. In my personal perfume collection, I have been attracted to the marketing and promotion of many scents that were widely available in drug stores and department stores. As I matured, I grew to look for the more obscure, exotic and lesser known perfumes. The more obscure and less available the less likely another...
Monday, November 21, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
What do you think of the concept of swallowing a scent or perfume in a pill? The jury is still out for me as I really enjoy the ritual of spraying, slathering and powdering myself with a fragrance. I barely take vitamins now. I can't see me actually remembering to pop my perfume pill.
And what if your sick? We are all familiar with how when your body is malfunctioning your body...
Thursday, August 25, 2011
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In my search for vintage scents, I came across a great article written about the exploration of perfumery starting in African countries other than Egypt.
Is Southern Africa the Cradle of Perfumes
I particularly enjoyed the description of dry perfumes, excerpt below;
Both the Himba and the San makes a dry perfume for personal use. The Tsumkwe (Namibia) San women not only know many different species...
Monday, August 22, 2011
This post is a little late, because I was busy researching my new (old) fragrances. Today is part one in my six part review of what I bought on Ebay, see Duking it out on Ebay for background.
Fragrance 1Countess Maritza Silent Night Toilet Water
To start off, this is the toilet water version of the fragrance and has a high alcohol to perfume ratio and thus smells heavily of alcohol....
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
"Sleeping with the Enemy, Coco Chanel's Secret War", by Hal Vaughan explores Coco Chanel's connections to a Nazi military intelligence agency as well as a relationship with a dangerous Nazi agent.
The real question for me is this - I am positive this is not a new revelation. There are many modern day brands that had Nazi connections(VW). Is it our ability to forgive a person for their personal biases if they make a good enough product or is it the amazing ability of media gatekeepers...
Friday, August 12, 2011
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Its Friday night and I decide what perfume goodies, might I find Ebay? Seeing as I don't have much of a budget, I went to see what low cost gems I could sneak a bid on at the last minute.
First attempt - A vintage bottle of JOY, in its original box with about 1/3 of the perfume left in it. It had 4 bids and was at $18.50. I decided to employ my patent pending, sure way of winning...
Thursday, August 11, 2011
I like to research any endeavor that I am going to put my time and energy to which includes this blog and its contents. Like a good blogger I have checked out the other scentastic(yeah, I just did that) individuals reviewing perfumes, providing discontinued scents and purveyors of vintage memorabilia. I came to the rude awakening that I am a perfume novice. There is a whole other world of fragrance and perfume that I have not even begun to explore. Basically I know nothing.
Swarovski...
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Recent Past and Present
Dolce & Gabbana Poure Femme
BCBGirls Star
Coco Mademoiselle
Chance
Cashmere Mist
Lolita Lempicka
Dolce and Gabbana Blue
Narcisso Rodriguez For Her
Hugo Deep Red
Roma Laura Biagiotti Uomo
Infusion D'Iris
Love and Luck
7:15 AM in Bali
Christian Dior, Gucci, Prada, Fendi, Chanel, Versace, Burberry, Coach, Theory, Valentino, Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu, Chloe, Armani; authentic...
Monday, August 8, 2011
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