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The Monday Mail ~ help Ines find a new perfume

Robin — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:15:05 +0000

Today we’re helping Ines, who is getting married in London at the end of May. She’d love to find a new perfume that would “make her day eternal” and that she could happily go on wearing after the wedding. She’s willing to pay premium if she can find the right scent — and the right scent should be subtle and elegant, but still make a statement. Here is what we know about Ines:

She’s in her late 20s, and her area of expertise is business development, marketing and sales.

She loves to write and she keeps several blogs. She’s also a big fitness fan, and she likes to try new things.

She recently moved from Madrid to London. She loves languages and speaks five at the moment.

She says she is a reasonable and considerate person, but also makes swift decisions, and isn’t always good at establishing interpersonal limits.

She loves meeting new people and is sociable most of the time, but she also likes to be on her own.

Ines’ first perfume was Anaïs Anaïs at age 6…

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The Monday Mail ~ help Denise find a wedding perfume

Robin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:01:18 +0000

Denise, who says she is an “amateur perfumista at best”, is getting married in early May:

It will be a late afternoon Catholic mass in a beautiful chapel, followed by a reception at an inn built in the 1700s. So, it will be traditional but not super formal, with whimsical touches.

She wants to find something that will make her feel classic and elegant. It should be substantial but not overwhelming, and although she has a number of perfumes in her current rotation, she wants something new and special for her wedding. She can pay up to $200, and she lives in New York City so has excellent access to perfume stores. Here is what we know about Denise:

She’s in her late 20s, and doesn’t like to go to bed on time…

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The Monday Mail ~ help May find a perfect wedding perfume

Robin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:56:02 +0000

May (who comments here as perfumegeek) is getting married in April. It will be an intimate morning ceremony on the beach (you can see her wedding dress after the jump) in Florida. She’s thinking the temperature will probably be in the low 60s. She wants a perfect perfume — something she loves and will have as a keepsake — and is willing to pay up to $200 to get it.

Here is what we know about May:

She’s a chemist (the kind that plays with lasers, strong magnets and colorful compounds) in her 20s.

She’s a bookworm (she loves Jhumpa Lahiri and Neil Gaiman among others), a music lover (Chopin, Debussy, The Shins, Brandi Carlile), a museum freak (The Victoria and Albert in London, Georgia O’Keefe in Santa Fe), and an outdoorsy woodsy girl (hiking, snowshoeing, fishing)…

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Lazy Friday poll ~ wedding perfumes

Robin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:32:51 +0000

Several people have requested a wedding perfume poll, so here it is. Say whatever you want about wedding perfumes: what you wore to your own wedding, what you wished you'd worn, what you'd wear if you ever had a wedding, the worst perfume you ever smelled at a wedding.

Note: image is Lavender Wedding Cupcakes [cropped] by clevercupcakes at flickr; some rights reserved.

The Monday Mail ~ help Denise find fragrances for the flower girls

Robin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:38:07 +0000

The Monday Mail is back after a long summer vacation, and today we’re helping Denise. Denise has two great nieces (first cousins to each other) who will be flower girls in a wedding next March, and they need appropriate fragrances. It will be a large evening wedding with 350 guests, but Denise says it will be “more linen than silk”. The wedding will be held in the South — the weather could be hot, or it could be cool.

The young ladies are both 5 years old, and they’ll be wearing long dresses. They’ll have wreaths of flowers on their heads and will be carrying flower balls…

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The Monday Mail ~ help Jill find a wedding perfume

Robin — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:19:29 +0000

Jill is getting married in October, and she’d like to find the perfect perfume for her wedding. It must be something she has never worn before. Her wedding will be in Portmeirion village in Wales, and will have a 1920s/30s theme. She’ll be wearing a 1930s gold column dress, and her husband will be wearing either Ormonde Man or Knize Ten. Jill has great access to perfume stores, and is willing to spend up to $250.

Here is what we know about Jill:

She’s in her 30s and lives in London.

She says she appears mainstream but is actually pretty quirky, and she has a sick sense of humor. She is also self-confident and can be loud and/or less than tactful…

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Alfred Sung Always ~ new perfume

Robin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:57:38 +0000

Alfred Sung will launch Always, a new “wedding-oriented” sparkling floral fragrance for women inspired by Grace Kelly, next month.

Always was developed by perfumer Clement Gavarry; the notes include water lily, kumquat, neroli, pink peony, honeysuckle, orris absolute…

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The Monday Mail ~ help Andrea find a wedding perfume

Robin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:39:05 +0000

Andrea is getting married in the UK next June. Like Rebecca, she's looking for her perfect wedding fragrance, something that will be special and always remind her of her wedding day. She says she's tried all the traditional wedding fragrances but none of them quite fit.

Andrea is in her 30s. She describes herself as shy on the whole, but she's bubbly and outgoing with people she already knows. Her style is classic and understated, although on lazy days she's in “jeans and Ugg boots”. She doesn't wear much jewelry. She says everyone expects her to be in a relatively plain fitted strapless wedding gown, but instead she's going for lace.

On the perfume front, Andrea likes creamy, powdery, soft scents, with floral notes and non-foody vanilla. Some of the scents she likes…

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The Monday Mail ~ help Rebecca find a wedding perfume

Robin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:06:00 +0000

Today we're helping Rebecca, who will be getting married next year. Some details about Rebecca and her wedding plans:

Rebecca is in her late 20s.

Her wedding will be held between mid-August and mid-October.

Rebecca describes her wedding style as “classic-with-a-twist”; the color scheme will be cranberry red, aqua blue, and chocolate brown.

Rebecca wants to find a new perfume that will remind her of her wedding day every time she smells it…

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Wedding perfumes

Angela — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:00:00 +0000

Meredith is getting married this fall. She’s chosen her dress — a slender, vintage silk linen column, sort of a cross between something Empress Josephine and Penelope Tree might have worn. She’s selected the menu for the reception, chosen flowers, and is mailing invitations this week. However, she hasn’t yet found the right perfume to wear for the wedding.

Wedding fragrances seem to need to do a little of everything. A wedding scent should convey happiness, be present but not overwhelming, and complement the setting — usually a churchy blend of flowers, beeswax candles, organ music, and white organza. Most of all, the scent should be calm and joyful. If the scent is new to the bride, whenever she smells it, she will remember her wedding.

According to people I talked to at a handful of local bridal boutiques, Vera Wang and Estee Lauder Beautiful get a lot of play, but few other scents stand out as favorites…

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