complete with powder puffs and perfume fountains. Le Bon Marché is also less crowded than the other big stores (except during the semiannual sales in January and June.) For a budget conscious shopper, there are also many great choices both in the store itself and in the boutiques nearby. ...
After the Plague, hygiene became more of a priority, perfumed baths became fashionable and ‘sweating houses’ emerged, becoming as common as ‘gin shops’. However Britain was not a pawn to France and, in some ways, developed perfumery as quickly and inventively as its neighbours. Britain’...
The Hotel Costes opened in Paris in 1991; designer Jacques Garcia's maxim was said to have been "all things in excess". According toFrommers, "Fashion types gravitate toward this hotel for its grand style and location close to some of Paris's most upscale shops. It is one of the shinin...
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Our ode to hippies, concerts and head shops, Karma is a feel-good, relaxing scent that was heavily inspired by '60s music and has topped our charts ever since. This classic Lush perfume is layer upon layer of scent. It starts out a little lemongrass, a little Brazilian orange oil, and...
With the pandemic, testing fragrances has become much harder. Many of us cannot go to shops to test perfumes (or understandably, we do not want to) and even if we do go into a shop, getting hold of a perfume tester isn’t easy. There are a lot of barriers in the way and at Esce...
Silvermoon:Hi Sandra, the Jo Malone range seems like a lot, but if one goes to their shops, they are often set out in an arc with perfume groups (e.g. floral, citrus, etc). That makes it more manageable. I have a number, and among my favourites are: Orange Blossom (top of my...
proper Aussie in the otherwise brilliant Portrait Of A Lady by Jane Campion really took you out of the action in what was otherwise an exquisitely overwrought film; one moment you thought you were in eighteenth century London, then you suddenly found yourself in Crocodile Dundee. Gillian Anderson...
But here I am, typing away, with a few flotsam and jetsam thoughts – on perfume. I spent an afternoon recently in and out of bookshops, vintage clothing stores, and two department stores. From one end of that afternoon to the other, I sniffed quite a few of them. All of these thin...
From here, two thousand years before, huge camel caravans had trudged their way along 1600 miles of burning sand and rocks to Petra and Gaza, burdened with a most precious cargo - frankincense, myrrh and other perfume materials for the courts, temples and perfume shops of Rome. My book ...