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Lush Silky Underwear ~ perfume review

jasmine

They like jasmine over at Lush. Whenever I’m feeling particularly wealthy (a rare, and entirely delusional state) I pick up some of their Jasmine & Henna Fluff Ease hair pre-treatment (about $22 for 220g). My hair most certainly needs some pre-treatment, followed by some treatment and then perhaps some post-treatment, but I buy it for the (massive) wallop of jasmine, which lasts right through a shampoo (or two). Once, and only once, I bought a very small travel size of their Flying Fox shower gel ($10 for 100 ml, which mind you doesn’t look like nearly so much product in shower gel as it does in perfume) — another decent wallop of jasmine. And then there’s the Lust fragrance, which arguably out-jasmines both the Fluff Ease and the Flying Fox, and adds a hefty dose of candy to boot.

But their best known jasmine product is probably the Silky Underwear dusting powder. I love the smell,1 but I’m not a big user of dusting powder so I’ve never bought it. I was tempted when they released the same fragrance in a solid perfume,2 but I still didn’t bite…

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Armani Prive

A little bottle porn: a short video on the original (2004) Armani Privé quartet.

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Online fragrance shopping

New at luckyscent: Yosh Sombre Negra (new version).

New at nordstrom: Oscar de la Renta Live in Love.

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Judith Leiber Amethyst ~ new fragrance

Judith Leiber Amethyst

Handbag & accessories designer Judith Leiber has launched Amethyst, a new fragrance for women…

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Hanae Mori No. 6 ~ new fragrance

Hanae Mori Eau de Collection No. 6

Hanae Mori has launched Hanae Mori No. 6, the fifth fragrance in the Eau de Collection range (they are skipping No. 5; you can see No. 4 here)…

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