Posted by Angela
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3 June 2008
We've all been there: I was standing at the Lancôme counter at Saks Fifth Avenue and asking for a sniff of a new fragrance, in this case Lancôme Peut-Être. The sales associate said, “Ah, yes, it's so beautiful!” She sprayed it on my arm, and a few seconds later I lifted it to my nose. “What do you think?” she said eagerly. “Isn't it beautiful?”
The fragrance was barely dry, and I wasn't ready to say anything about it, really. But the ambery mix I smelled wasn't what I'd expected at all, given the ad campaign touting French gardens full of roses and jasmine. “I thought it would be more floral,” I said.
“Oh, floral. Try this — Mille et Une Roses. Very beautiful,” she said. I had the feeling that she could be dabbing other liquids on my arm and saying, “Lysol toilet cleaner. Beautiful. You should treat yourself,” while she calculated her commission…
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Posted by Angela
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5 May 2008
Miss Marple, where were you when I needed you? Late last summer I stalked department stores in search of Cuir de Lancôme, a then-recent addition to Lancôme's La Collection range of vintage reissues. The word on the street was that it was supposed to be released in the United States sometime in early fall 2007. A sales associate at Saks Fifth Avenue rifled through some Lancôme sales packages and found something claiming that Cuir should have been released in spring 2007. Another sales associate, this one at Nordstrom, looked at me like he believed I was making it all up and proffered a bottle of Lancôme Sikkim with a busted atomizer. A lukewarm review over at Perfume Smellin' Things did little to chill my ardor, and news that Lancôme eventually decided not to release Cuir in the United States only made me crazier for it. I had to have a bottle of Cuir de Lancôme.
Finally, last month Cuir testers showed up at discounters in the United States, and within a few days I had a bottle in my hands…
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Posted by Robin
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30 April 2006
Lancome has relaunched Mille et Une Roses as part of La Collection Lancome.
The fragrance was originally released in late 1999 as a limited edition to celebrate the turn of the century. It includes notes of rose, amber, vanilla and musk.
A 50 ml bottle of Eau de Parfum is $125 at lancome.
Update: see a review of Lancome Mille et Une Roses.
Posted by Robin
on
4 April 2005
La Collection Lancôme is coming soon from Lancôme, and will include four reissued fragrances from their back catalog:
…Magie, a floral amber composed in 1950; Sikkim, a floral oriental created in 1971; and Climat, a green floral from 1967…
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