What smells like heaven on you often ends up in someone else’s ’re-gift’ pile, so as fragrance fanatics, we rarely recommend giving the gift of perfume or cologne for the holidays, unless the recipient specifically asks for it; if you know your giftee-to-be’s fave fragrance, so does everyone else. The winners will be notified by Monday dec 12, 2011 or claim your prize-MC Scenta
Stella McCartney, the British designer and animal rights activist is launching her second fragrance L.I.L.Y created from the memory of her mother Linda’s flower.
Aromatic woods provide some of the most important notes in perfumery. Although often described as ‘woody’, other adjectives may include buttery, balsamic, creamy, sweet, lemony or even floral. Follow us into the woods for eight fairytale draws: April Aromatics, BellyFlowers, House of Matriarch, JoAnne Bassett, M.Miccalef,Nez a Nez, One Seed Company, and Xerjoff
If you believed the ancient Babylonians, I would still be a Sagittarius, as they erased Oephiucus from their calendar- the sign of the serpent. In reading more, the 13th sign is 3000 years old, the sign of the healer, not a hell raiser with distinct personality traits
No matter how diligent I am; no matter how careful I am, I just can’t try every single perfume I hear about. Like everything in life I feel that if it is our destiny to meet around a flacon one day it will happen. My latest meeting with delayed gratification is with perfumer Maria McElroy. Which was why when Ms. McElroy offered me the opportunity to review her first new fragrance in five years, Aroma M Geisha Amber Rouge, I jumped at the chance.
