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The Monday Mail ~ open thread for feedback, September through December 2011

This is an open thread for participants in the Monday Mail articles to share their experiences, and hopefully let us know if they found what they were looking for (or went bankrupt trying). I’ve sent out emails requesting feedback from everyone who took part between September and December of 2011, so check back over the next few days to see what we can find out (or, check out this post about the subjects from May through August). We’ll check on the early 2012 participants in a few months.

Here are links to the articles for each participant…

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The Monday Mail ~ help Molly find a new fragrance

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Today we’re helping Molly. She says she’s a perfume novice, but she’s learning, and she wants to find a new day and evening signature scent. Her most recent signature scent was original Burberry for women, but she’s bored with it now, and she’d like to find something a little more interesting. She can spend up to $120 or so, but she’d rather spend less than $100, and she’d love to find something she can test locally (she has easy access to Macy’s, Sephora, Barney’s Coop and Blue Mercury). Here is what we know about Molly:

She’s a public interest attorney living in a large East Coast city in the U.S.

She’s married and in her early 30s. No kids yet, but they do have a cuddly labrador retriever, and one of her favorite pastimes is taking him for a hike.

Molly likes the outdoors, especially mountains, forests, and lakes, but she’s not much of a beach fan except in the off season.

She loves city living, trying out new restaurants, sipping good coffee or tea in a local cafe and curling up with a book on a rainy evening. Molly says she does well in social settings, but at heart, she’s more of an introvert.

Her taste runs towards the classic. A well-cut suit, heels and pearls for work, cashmere sweaters and dark-wash skinny jeans with brown riding-style for weekends.

Molly likes oriental and gourmand notes and fragrances…

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The Monday Mail ~ help Jacqueline find a new fragrance

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Today we’re helping Jacqueline. She’s looking for a replacement for her long time signature scent, Escada Margaretha Ley. She says everyone knew her by that fragrance, and she misses it. She also wore Dior’s Tendre Poison, and she misses that too. Here is what we know about Jacqueline:

She’s in her mid 40s and is happily married. She lived in Bangladesh for a few years, right now she is living in the Netherlands.

She is tall with dark brown hair. She used to work in luxury cosmetics, but now she helps in her husband’s logistics company and does volunteer work.

She loves gold, and hates fake things: she says she wants the real thing or nothing at all.

Jacqueline is currently wearing Chanel Coco and Boucheron…

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The Monday Mail ~ help Kate find a new fragrance

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Today we’re helping Kate. Kate is just turning 40 and her daughter is just turning 1; she wants to mark the occasion with a new perfume that will help her ‘reclaim her sense of self’. She’s happy to consider all sorts of fragrances (day, evening, summer, winter, women’s, men’s), and she’s also happy to consider decants, so she doesn’t have a specific budget in mind. Here is what we know about Kate:

She’s a part-time PhD student living in London.

She says she is quiet and fairly introverted, and tends to prefer solitary activities, but she can be quite outgoing in the company of friends.

She has an ironic (and probably fairly British) sense of humor, and she’s a perfectionist.

Kate loves art galleries, reading, ballet, single malt whisky, antiques, and things of quality.

Her style is classic, but unafraid to experiment – if she had the money, she’d wear Alexander McQueen.

Kate likes leathers, mossy scents, earth, freshly cut wood, white florals, vetiver, the smell of old books, freshly extinguished candles, and real ink…

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The Monday Mail ~ help Jen find a new fragrance

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Today we’re helping Jen, who wants to find a long lasting, artistic, uplifting and vibrant scent to replace her signature, which used to be Christian Dior’s Tendre Poison but is currently Balmain Vent Vert. She’s willing to shop online, and she might pay as much as $125 for something absolutely perfect. Here is what we know about Jen:

She’s in her early 40s.

She’s an artist and uses perfume as mood enhancer.

She’s also a runner and an indie movie lover.

Jen likes bright fragrances, and notes of ginger, grass, bergamot, mandarin and fresh florals. Perfumes she has worn in the past include Cacharel Anaïs Anaïs, Clinique Happy, Estee Lauder Knowing and Estee Lauder Beautiful…

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