Posted by Robin
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25 November 2011
It’s Black Friday or Buy Nothing Day — take your pick. Whether you’re shopping or not, it never hurts to look, right? We’re kicking off this year’s string of holiday gift posts with a bunch o’ scented bath & body products. Lots more to come!
To start things off, we’ve got the eminently covetable (and reportedly as good as it looks) Vol de Nuit Powder Spray from Guerlain: “Inspired by the legendary Vol de Nuit fragrance, this silky, ethereal loose powder creates a light-reflecting veil with a subtle iridescent finish. The powder is perfumed with the mythical Vol de Nuit fragrance. Apply on the face, body and hair for an allover glow!” $87 for 17.5 g at Nordstrom…
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Posted by Robin
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22 November 2011
I was looking forward to The Body Shop’s new White Musk Libertine. Admittedly, I was never a fan of the original White Musk, which has reached the grand old age of 30 — in perfume years, that means it’s now eligible for social security. I did like (but didn’t really adore) the White Musk Midnight Iris, and I’m always up for a cheap thrill of the scented variety. I know some people around here complain about The Body Shop not being what it used to be, but if I had $15 or $20 and wanted something scented from the mall, I’d be far likelier to find it at The Body Shop than at Bath & Body Works (I did some investigating recently and there’s virtually nothing there I like any more) or L’Occitane (they’ve done some nice scents lately, but they’ve mostly upscaled themselves out of the cheap thrills category).1
So anyway, White Musk Libertine was developed by perfumer Vincent Schäller and the notes include Turkish delight, Chantilly cream, orchid and signature musk — sounds like a good contender for sweet but fun, right? And I’m already a sucker for sweet Turkish delight. If you could come up with a really good one for less than the going price for Serge Lutens Rahät Loukoum, I’d buy it.2 White Musk Libertine, as it turns out, is more of a nouveau powder + vanilla musk mash-up…
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Posted by Robin
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7 October 2011
Posted by Robin
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25 July 2011
The Body Shop will launch White Musk Libertine, a new fragrance for women, in October. White Musk Libertine is described as a ‘”new generation White Musk” and The Body Shop’s “‘most feminine fragrance to date”…
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Posted by Robin
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24 May 2011
More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.
From Diesel, a limited edition bottle of Only The Brave celebrating the upcoming release of the movie Captain America: The First Avenger…
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