Category: Fragrance
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Orla Kiely Body Care & Home Fragrance
The brand new Orla Kiely body care and home fragrance range is absolutely lovely! A great example of a range created for the gifting market, it’s actually worth having and I know I’d be thrilled to get something as a gift. There are enough horrible ‘gift sets’ in the world filled with chemical laden ‘body…
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Stella McCartney Print Collection 2012 Fragrance
So, for ages, I haven’t featured Stella McCartney fragrance on BBB because I hated the way they were so forceful in acquiring the name Nude for a fragrance when Nude the skincare brand already had a patent for it. To say they wouldn’t take no for an answer just about sums it up. At the…
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James Bond 007 Fragrance
I genuinely expected this to be dreadful, but the 007 fragrance is, well, pretty good. The description of the fragrance is ‘fresh apple, cardamom, sandalwood and vetiver’ and I think it is the vetiver that rescues it from being rather average. When I got the chance to smell it, I was really surprised at how…
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Bobbi Brown Bed Perfumed Oil
I think Bobbi Brown Bed Perfumed Oil is about as hippy as Bobbi Brown goes. It’s a wonderfully relaxed oil with notes of neroli, orange flower and jasmine that warms down to a sensual, familiar smell that is very comforting and instantly feels like it is enhancing your own skin scent. If you could shuffle…
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Science For Peace S4P Fragrances
Okay, well I don’t know a great deal about this fragrance but what I can tell you is that these perfumes are from the project, Science For Peace, a foundation that looks at scientific solutions for peace (yes, there are no fewer than six Nobel prize holders promoting the organisation) and provides scholarships to scientific…
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Karl Lagerfeld Kaleidoscope Fragrance
I don’t really know the history of this fragrance that has just launched at Selfridges other than that it was in Sephora last year, so it isn’t new exactly. First off, the packaging – well, Karl does love a bit of Karl, lets face it, and inside the black and gold tube that holds the…
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Justin Bieber Girlfriend Fragrance
A million Beliebers will be swooning when the new Girlfriend fragrance hits town on 20th August. Say what you will but I do like the fact that the products start from £23 which seems much more affordable for its target market than the crazy prices of some high street store fragrances. Of course, it is…
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YSL Manifesto Fragrance
The next biggie coming up in the fragrance world is YSL Manifesto which they hope will become as inextricably linked with YSL as Opium or Rive Gauche. The bottle is highly distinctive and actually very beautiful, with an hourglass shade belted with jewel-like purple – opulent and indulgent and if you look at it in…
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Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire Fabric Fragrance Swatch
These are the fabric labels that sample sprays of La Petite Robe Noir are being spritzed on in Selfridges – they’re so pretty and such a change from paper sticks. I’ve had this in my jacket pocket since last week and keep taking it out for a little sniff. Gorgeous.
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Esme Perfume Necklace
I’ve recently been sent one of these gorgeous little pendants… they’re the sweetest things! Inside the enamelled egg is a tiny roller ball holder that you spray with your most favourite perfume and use the roller to top up during the day or evening. I was slightly worried there might be already some fragrance in…
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Union Fragrances: Properly British Perfume.
The thing that is very enticing about Union is that every single ingredient is located in Britain. It’s all very well to be pumping out Lavender or Bluebell fragrances to evoke the British countryside, but when your ingredients are sourced in France or Spain, it’s only a trick of the nose that makes you think…
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Estee Lauder Solid Perfume Jewelled Flag of Britain
More recent BBB visitors probably won’t know that among my beauty collections I have a vast quantity of Estee Lauder solid fragrances. They’re highly collectable and I bought most of mine at the top of the market, when a book launched that documented many of the most famous and collectable. The market has died down…
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Laggridore Powder Perfume
Niche French fragrance brand Laggridore have encaspulated perfume in powder using 31% perfume essence which they put into the most beautiful of compacts. You’ll have to head to their site HERE to see how beautiful the compacts are. The creators say it isn’t a perfumed by-product and it isn’t a perfumed powder, but a powder…
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Summer Fragrances 2012
There are so many fragrances launching at the moment so I’m going to bundle them all up in one post. If you are a regular BBB reader, you will know I am rubbish at writing about perfume; it is so much more of a skill than many people realise, but here goes anyway. Bobbi Brown…
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Terre d’Oc Fleur de Source Milky Perfume Cloud
I’m completely besotted with this gorgeous, gorgeous product from organic company Terre d’Oc. It’s scented with Plum Blossom giving it a real Japanese feel and is a very delicate perfumed milk spray that gives light-feeling moisture and the beautiful scent of plum blossom. The aroma is gentle and sweet with a fruity backdrop and is…