Posted by Pia
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11 February 2007
I knew I had found a treasure as soon as I opened the outer packaging of Mizensir’s Rose Blanche candle. Before even opening the box, I was gifted with a gentle beckoning of soft rose whispers, and my mood settled and calmed as I unwrapped the soft pink tissue.
Unlit, Rose Blanche offers a subtle invitation to the heart of a white rose, still covered in morning dew. According to the Mizensir copy, the candle embodies the 'delicacy of rose petals with peppery and velvety notes'. It has an elegant simplicity and exudes an aura of innocence and purity. There is no trace of an earthy or sultry rose attar…
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Posted by Robin
on
11 February 2007
Aftelier has launched a new solid perfume, Fir:
Our new Fir solid perfume, in a mirrored nickel-plated compact, is here just in time for Valentine's Day. Fir perfume, rich with strawberry jam-like notes, smells like forests of fir trees.
Fir is $95 for 10 ml. (via Aftelier newsletter)
Posted by Robin
on
11 February 2007
In a vaguely comic turn of events, Shilpa Shetty, the Bollywood star who recently won the UK reality series Big Brother, is now in talks to create her own perfume. Jade Goody, the last Big Brother star to release her own perfume, found her scent pulled from stores after she made allegedly racist comments about Ms. Shetty. According to the Sunday Mirror, Ms. Shetty is…
…a big fan of the Body Shop – especially all the fruity smells, so she'd probably like her perfume to be like that.
What the world needs now is another fruity floral celebrity perfume release…
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Posted by Jessica
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11 February 2007
The New Zealand-based company Trilogy and its line of plant-based skincare products, including Botanical Body Wash, are the creations of sisters Sarah Gibbs and Catherine Wells. Gibbs and Wells define the threefold philosophy of their products as “Simplicity, Vitality and Purity”, and the company’s broader “trilogy” of values is a balance of ethics, aesthetics, and environmentalism. I have already tried and enjoyed Trilogy’s facial exfoliant and eye cream in the past, so I was looking forward to using the new Botanical Body Wash.
This shower gel is packaged in a generously large bottle that invites you to use it with abandon, although two or three pumps of the gel are enough to produce abundant lather. In addition to a dose of nourishing rosehip oil, the signature ingredient of the Trilogy line…
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