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Osmoz app for iPhone, iTouch

Robin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:14:28 +0000

Osmoz, the consumer website of the fragrance & flavor company Firmenich, has launched a new iPhone application:

Get information about your favorite fragrances, up-to-the-minute fragrance news streamed live, and expert recommendations from our fragrance advisor…

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iPerfumer for iPhone, iTouch

Robin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:23:05 +0000

Fragrance house Givaudan has designed a free iPhone application designed to help consumers navigate the perfume market both in-store and online. The company has used information from its Miriad 2.0, winner of this year’s FiFi Technological Breakthrough of the Year for Fragrance for Fragrance Creation & Formulation, to create a database of over 4,000 prestige fragrances to form the consumer guide in the iPerfumer.

— Read more at Givaudan unveils perfume i-Phone app at Cosmetics Business. iPerfumer can be found now in the App Store at iTunes.

The Fragrance Finder

Robin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:17:38 +0000

Hearst Magazines Digital Media will partner with fragrance mastermind Michael Edwards to create a comprehensive online fragrance database called the Fragrance Finder. With information and recommendations for roughly 6,500 fragrances, the site is designed to help consumers find their ideal scents.

It will be featured on web sites for various Hearst titles, including Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, Redbook, Seventeen, Town & Country and cosmogirl.com.

— Read more in Michael Edwards Partners with Hearst at Cosmetic World. Michael Edwards also created the fragrance finder used at Sephora, and the online Fragrance Directory at the Fragrance Foundation.

Discover your world of fragrance

Robin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:12:03 +0000

UK travel retail chain World Duty Free has teamed up with Roja Dove to create a new website that promises to find your perfect perfume:

Created by Roja Dove, the world’s only Professeur de Pafurms [sic], this new website will help you discover your fragrance personality and explore new fragrances that will perfectly suit you and your destination. Simply input where you are going in the world and whether you are travelling for business, romance or simply pleasure and you’ll receive a Roja recommendation of a selection of fragrances bespoke to you that will be the perfect accompaniment for your trip…

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Click your way to the perfect perfume

Robin — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:32:00 +0000

Scentmap is a new online tool that aims to “navigate shoppers through the often daunting process of choosing a fragrance”. You select the name of a fragrance that you currently like, and Scentmap makes suggestions of other scents that might suit you. A “remote control” on the right column allows you to fine-tune the selections to fit your specifications…

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Scentsa fragrance finder debuts at Sephora

Robin — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:31:30 +0000

Sephora is introducing a new touch-screen system to help customers find fragrances. Scentsa was developed by Jan Moran, author of the Fabulous Fragrances books, and allows users to search by brand or fragrance name, fragrance notes, or best sellers….

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Fabulous Fragrances of the World: new daily access

Robin — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:14:00 +0000

Fabulous Fragrances of the World, the online fragrance database created by Jan Moran and Michael Edwards, is now offering 1 day (24 hour) subscriptions for $19.95. When I posted about Fabulous Fragrances last September, they had information about 4600+ fragrances, now there are over 5000, including new, discontinued and current perfumes.

Fabulous Fragrances of the World: a conversation with Jan Moran

Robin — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:32:56 +0000

Jan Moran is the author of two volumes on fragrance, Fabulous Fragrances I and II, and the creator of her own fragrance, appropriately called Fabulous. Along with Michael Edwards, the author of Fragrances of the World, she is poised to launch a new online database, Fabulous Fragrances of the World, (see yesterday) designed to provide comprehensive fragrance information to retailers and journalists.

Please tell us how and when you first became interested in fragrance, and what were a few of your early favorites?
My grandmother and mother sparked my earliest interest in fragrance. We shared many favorites: Shalimar, Chanel No. 5, Vol du Nuit, Miss Dior, Nuit de Noël…

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Fabulous Fragrances of the World

Robin — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:33:39 +0000

Next week, Jan Moran and Michael Edwards will officially launch Fabulous Fragrances of the World, their new online system designed to provide comprehensive fragrance information to retailers and journalists.

The heart of the system is a database of over 4600 fragrances…

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