Posted by Robin
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10 December 2010
More gift ideas for the 2010 holidays. This round is home fragrance (you can also find some home fragrance items in the earlier editions: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 and part 5). More to come!
From Fornasetti Profumi, the L’Ape scented candle with lid (above left), 300 g for $150, and the Pistola Incense box (above right), with 40 incense sticks in a wooden box with decorated ceramic burning tray, $220. Both items are in the Otto fragrance (thyme, lavender, orris, cedar, Tolu balsam, incense, birch/styrax and labdanum) and can be found at Ron Robinson…
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Posted by Robin
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2 June 2009
Six contenders for those warm summer days when a serious perfume just won’t do: Lostmarc’h Lann Ael, ElizabethW Sweet Tea, Comme des Garçons Soda, Gap Grass, Demeter Pruning Shears & Demeter Beetroot.
Lostmarc’h Lann Ael ~ Gourmand-lovers looking for something edible that won’t overwhelm in the summer heat might want to check out Lann Ael from the niche line Lostmarc’h. It is most decidedly not my sort of thing, but something about it makes me smile. If the notes (buckwheat, cereals, milk, apple, vanilla) sound like breakfast, you’re on the right track: this is a dead ringer for my son’s favorite maybe-more-dessert-than-breakfast cereal: Cookie Crisp. It starts out airy and light, with crisp apple (thankfully or not, depending on your point of view, the apple doesn’t last), calms into a mild blend of sweet cereal grains and cookie dough, and eventually finishes off as a light, creamy vanilla…
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Posted by Robin
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24 February 2009
ElizabethW has opened their first boutique, located in San Franciscos's Ghirardelli Square. The new store features the brand's complete fragrance library (over 20 scents), available in a range of items from Eau de Parfum to Bath & Body products to "Closet Solutions" (including silk and linen drawer liners).
You will find ElizabethW at Ghirardelli Square, 900 North Point St, San Francisco, CA 94109; 415 351-2800. (via press release)
As I write this review for elizabethW Magnolia Bath Gel, snow is falling again on New York City. I have the late-winter blues, and I’m starting to look forward to my own personal rites of spring. In April and early May, for example, I take pleasure in the days when I can eat my lunch under the magnolia trees in Central Park.
The Magnolia products from elizabethW aptly capture the scent of a real magnolia flower, with its creamy sweetness and its bright, lemony edge. Magnolia is a softly flirtatious floral, and elizabethW accentuates it with light notes of gardenia and mimosa, creating a feminine bouquet that would suit Scarlett O’Hara in one of her more tranquil moods. (And who could ever forget Rhett Butler saying, “You can drop the moonlight and magnolias, Scarlett,” when he saw through her sweet talk?)
elizabethW’s Magnolia is one of the brand’s Signature Collection fragrances…
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Posted by Robin
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1 December 2006
Still shopping for holiday gifts? I wish I could say I am finished, but no such luck — I haven’t even started. Too busy trying to get my hands on a Nintendo Wii. Anyway, here are a few more suggestions if you’re looking for scented gifts. See also: Holiday fragrance gifts 2006 part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4.
At kiehls, the Coriander Collection, with Body Cleanser, Cleansing Bar, Hand and Body Lotion, Lip Balm #1, Extra-Strength Conditioning Rinse and Olive Fruit Oil Shampoo. $48…
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