Browsing by date: September 2007

Red Flower Orange Blossom fragrance diffuser ~ home fragrance review

Red Flower Orange Blossom fragrance diffuserI recently purchased Red Flower’s Orange Blossom diffuser to put in a newly remodelled guest bathroom. I was looking for a fragrance that would be light, uplifting and refreshing, while also maintaining a certain air of elegance. I took a chance and ordered the Orange Blossom diffuser unsniffed as I generally have been so pleased with the variety of products I have tried from Red Flower. I was not disappointed!

The Red Flower diffuser fragrances come in lovely recycled light green-blue Spanish glass vases. Their distinctive flattened oval shape lends a flair of modern style to any room. The available fragrances are jasmine grandiflorum, cardamom amber resin, orange blossom and cherry blossom. The website describes the Orange Blossom diffuser as scenting the air with “warm and bright mandarin, oranges, lemon and soft rose honey”…

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Agnes b le b, Kanabeach Femme & Homme ~ new fragrances

Agnes B Le B perfume

Designer Agnès b released her first fragrance, le b, in 1987. For 2007, she has asked perfumer Olivia Giacobetti to rework that fragrance taking as inspiration a holiday theme: sun, fresh cotton, laziness, white sand, white flowers, wrinkled linen…

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Online fragrance shopping

New at macys: Calvin Klein Euphoria Crystalline collection.

Deal at sephora: get free shipping on any purchase of $25 or more using coupon code COMEBACK, good through 10/5.

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Henri Bendel ~ shopping for perfume in New York

Fragrance department at Henri BendelFor years, the fragrance department at Henri Bendel was a tempting but awkwardly placed niche at the rear of the crowded main floor. Now it occupies a prime spot on the second level: ascend the curving staircase, and you’ll find its expanded, highly browsable selection. The department is intimate enough to feel comfortable, but large enough to offer a rich variety, balancing classic houses Caron and Chanel, the established niche line L’Artisan Parfumeur (which occupies an entire in-house boutique at Bendel), and small, local company Aroma M Perfumes, to name just a few examples.

This is also the only store in New York that sells Etat Libre d’Orange and Memoire Liquide, two new brands with very different yet equally compelling personalities. Back outside the oasis of the fragrance area, continue to explore the adjacent skincare section and the high-pitched hustle of the cosmetics department downstairs…

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Celebrity perfume quote of the day

What do they know about perfume? You buy jeans from Levis, watches from Rolex and perfume from the best makers. I think this celeb obsession is pretty stupid actually.

— Hilary Swank on why she is happy to be the face of Guerlain Insolence, but would never launch a celebrity perfume under her own name. Read more at Contact Music.

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