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5 Blogs about Perfume, day 4: Oranges are not the only fruit.. except when they are
Recipe for Lyn Harris’s Orange Presse: Squeeze the juice of six oranges and one lemon and pour into a glass (careful of the pips!) Add ice and enjoy in the garden on a hot summer’s day. NB: In the not unlikely event that a hot summer’s day will not be with us for a [...]
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LEMON – Mary’s Home
There was a time in Mary Greenwell‘s life when the make-up artist wore so much of the perfume First by Van Cleef & Arpels that she’d scarcely have stuck her toe through the front door before her then flat-mate, the hairstylist Sam McKnight, would shout out, “MARY’S HOME!” First is a sparkling jasmine and [...]
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THE SCENT OF A NOVEL….
This month’s Vogue (June) has a very pretty looking Kate Moss on the cover and a feature by Yours Truly about Summer, which I really loved writing. Not a beauty product in sight, just lots of books, a bit of music, and some happy memories. I’ve picked out a few of the books I mentioned [...]
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Dear Gwen Stefani…
My daughter Manu is 12. Just. She has a whole host of perfumes she plays with, my cast-offs, the ones with lids like ginormous plastic flowers, or that come with a free gilt charm bracelet, the ones which I’m sure must be aimed at teens and pre-teens, they can’t be aimed at grown-ups [...]
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PERFUME TO MATCH GIRLS BY… FREDERIC MALLE
Frederic Malle is a perfume legend. An awful thing to say about anyone because to be a “legend” you have to be in your 80s and walking up the red carpet to receive your Lifetime Achievement Award; even worse, with a sleight of the hand, the clumsy addition of a “d” to the word [...]
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