Posted by Robin
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24 August 2010
If you’re looking for a cheap thrill at the perfume counters, you’d be hard-pressed to do better than something from Pacifica. Since expanding into personal fragrance in 2007, they’ve launched 22 straightforward, reliably wearable scents available in a variety of formats, including spray perfume ($22 for 29 ml), solid perfume ($9 for 10 g) and the newer roll-ons ($12 for 10 ml). The packaging is basic but fun, and they’re reasonably easy to find: Sephora has them, and I see the line in gift stores here and there.
The California Star Jasmine fragrance is their latest offering. As all of you gardeners already know, star jasmine (sometimes called Confederate jasmine) is not the same plant as true jasmine. It’s a vine with clusters of small jasmine-like white flowers, and in Southern California, you often see it used as a ground cover or trained to spill over a wall. I never grew it myself and my memory of the smell is hazy — all I can tell you is “good” and “sweet” — but Pacifica’s founder, Brook Harvey-Taylor, calls the perfume “a love note to the Southern California neighborhood where she grew up”.
California Star Jasmine opens on a slightly green fizzy citrus…
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Posted by Robin
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12 August 2010
...Melanie, who has won our latest giveaway. Many congratulations! And my most sincere apologies: I'm two days late with the news.
Posted by Robin
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6 August 2010
Up for grabs: one 10 ml roll-on + one 10 g solid perfume tin of Pacifica’s new California Star Jasmine, both unused (I’ll also be giving away a 29 ml bottle of the Spray Perfume at a later date).
Interested? For a chance to win, leave a comment…
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Posted by Robin
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5 August 2010
Pacifica has launched California Star Jasmine:
Brook Harvey-Taylor, the perfumer and founder of Pacifica, created this fragrance as a love note…
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Posted by Kevin
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11 August 2009
Some days I retreat to a quiet room and read George Sand’s Histoire de ma vie; other days I kick back with a two-pound Italian Vogue and look at the pictures. Some days I turn out the lights and get wrapped up in a Mahler symphony. Other days I get just as excited listening to Mama Cass sing Make Your Own Kind of Music. Some days I dress up: suit, tie, cufflinks, the works. Other days, shorts and sandals suffice. This post is dedicated to “other days” — days when you want to ignore the landmarks (Guerlain Mitsouko), avoid the trouble-makers (Serge Lutens Muscs Koublaï Khan, Caron Yatagan), shun the ‘high end’ (Amouage Jubilation XXV) and wear a perfume that’s SIMPLE, casual, “quaint” even, a perfume that doesn’t cost a fortune.
Possets Perfume Lamp Black & Adamus
Recently, when I lamented the lack of black tea fragrances on the market, a Now Smell This commenter recommended Possets Perfume High Tea. I hadn’t tried ANY Possets perfumes so I placed a large sample order. High Tea is a nice “black-tea-with-lemon-and-sugar” cologne (it gets an ‘honorable mention’ here; I’d love to have a candle scented with this perfume) but two other Possets fragrances caught my “nose”: Lamp Black and Adamus…
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