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Colette ~ shopping for perfume in Paris

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Colette, the über-trendy fashion store in central Paris, is actually quite easy to walk right past. It’s a modern shop on the corner of rue St. Honoré, with a small and modest sign on the wall outside. Only the presence of a bouncer at the door (I’m not sure he’d count as a doorman), alerts you to the fact that there’s something a bit different here.

Inside, it’s packed with customers, and even it wasn’t it would still look busy; mannequins (of the plastic kind) people the shop floor at random. The ground floor is devoted to fashion, and Colette intends for you to be positively immersed in that fashion.

Downstairs, there’s a café, which must be excellent, as a dense queue was curling up the stairs to the ground floor at the time of my visit.

However, perfumistas should head upstairs, where there’s yet more fashion, and the perfume department…

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Givenchy Harvest Collection 2007, Indult C16 ~ new perfumes

Givenchy Millesimes Harvest Amarige perfume 2007

Givenchy has launched the “Les Millésimes de Givenchy” harvest collection for 2008. The three fragrances, Amarige, Organza and Very Irresistible, have the same cubed bottle design as last year, and feature floral harvests from 2007…

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Perfume of the day: Curated by Colette Three AsFour

Last year, the swanky Parisian boutique Colette arranged for a trio of limited edition unisex fragrances pairing perfumers from Symrise with fashion designers; the result was called “Curated by Colette”. For the fashion design house As Four, perfumer Frank Voelkl created Three AsFour, a fragrance that has turned out to be one of my favorite finds from 2005. The notes are lime, bergamot, ginger, iris, sandalwood, cedar, musk and vetiver.

AsFour highlights a trio of fragrant roots: ginger, iris and vetiver. The opening has a high pitched, fizzy quality…

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New fragrances from Colette & shopping notes

Curated by Colette fragrance trioThe Curated by Colette trio of fragrances that I mentioned briefly back in July goes on sale September 26 at Colette. Each fragrance is a limited edition run of 300 bottles only. Bois de Jasmin reviewed the As4 fragrance recently, and I can add little to Victoria’s review except that I adore this fragrance…

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