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Perfumes: Where Do They Come From
Perfumes: we spend hours choosing them, we wear them, we adore them, they are an essential part of our images. We know all new scents that appear, we know how much they cost and where to buy them, we know what kind to wear at daytime or at night – looks like we know everything about them! Or at least it looked like that till yesterday, when my 6 year old niece watching me put on Dior’s J’adore asked a simple question: “And who invented perfumes?” I realized that except for vague ideas about Ancient Egypte and Rennaissence France I could say actually nothing on the matter!
27-Nov-2005 - Details

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Gap to debut perfume, other cosmetics
Sniffing an opportunity to boost its recently sagging sales, clothing retailer Gap Inc. plans to launch a brand of perfume and other personal care products next year in a partnership with Inter Parfums Inc.
25-Jul-2005 - Details

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Intoxicatingly delicious scents
THE RAINY season signals the end of the sweltering heat of summer. I am particularly excited about this because I can again change my very fresh fragrance selection in favor of the rich edible creamy notes of gourmand scents
11-Aug-2005 - Details

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Breathing Easy: Update on problems with fragrances
Last week we were talking about the abundance of perfumes and fragrance products in the home. Now let's talk about just a few problems that these products may cause.
11-Aug-2005 - Details

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Britney Spears, Elizabeth Arden Celebrate Success of Fragrances
Over 10 million bottles of Curious, Fantasy and In Control have been sold -

Britney Spears celebrated the astounding success of her three fragrances, Curious, Fantasy and In Control, with Elizabeth Arden, the company that manufactures and markets the scents, at a celebration today at the Hudson Hotel. Her first fragrance Curious, became the #1 launch worldwide in 2005, and the only new launch to make the top 20 list globally
11-May-2006 - Details

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Scents and colours
AVON has three fragrances inspired by love: Today. Tomorrow. Always. Today is a precious floral with joyful notes of hibiscus, silk musk and butterfly blossoms while Tomorrow is an oriental scent.
11-May-2006 - Details

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Men May Smell Your Age
Do you smell as good as you look? Before you say yes, you may want to consider recent research from the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago that focused on men who perceived women to be as much as six years younger after smelling certain aromas. For example, the fruity aroma of grapefruit may be able to shave years off a woman's appearance.
21-Aug-2005 - Details

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Smells Like a Hit: Donna Karan Essence
Donna Karan's Be(en) Delicious. She's enveloped herself - and the rest of us - in Black Cashmere and Cashmere Mist. Now, the natural-born sensualist - and very successful perfumer - is adding four new fragrances to her repertoire, and on Thursday night she invited a few hundred friends to her Madison Avenue Collection store
28-Sep-2005 - Details

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Parfumeurs wake up and smell the flowers
When flowers begin blooming, so does the crop of spring and summer fragrances. There seems to be an emphasis this year on fruity floral perfumes, many of which are lighter or brighter versions of classic scents:
03-May-2006 - Details

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Learn about the different kinds of scent and how to make yours last
In his famous book Perfume, Patrick Süskind writes, 'For a moment he was so confused that he actually thought he had never in all his life seen anything so beautiful as this girl?He meant, of course, he had never smelled anything so beautiful.'
06-Jan-2006 - Details

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blooming Beyonce launches her fruity follow-up fragrance
Stars and their fragrances have been making headlines this week. First there was Gwyneth Paltrow promoting Estee Lauder's Pleasures perfume in London, then on Wednesday it was the turn of Beyonce Knowles to launch her new fragrance for Tommy Hilfiger
10-Nov-2005 - Details

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Smells like summer
Smell is our most powerful sense and it has been shown to be the one that is linked the most closely to memory. It's no wonder then that fragrance houses spend millions coming up with perfumes that are not only a pleasure
10-Nov-2005 - Details

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Smellbeing on an aisle of 10,000 fragrances
Ready to revel in a sense of smellbeing? Never has the nose been so wooed, so wowed. And so won. Ah, the nose -- with its 6 million olfactory receptor cells that recognize 10,000 different scents.
10-Nov-2005 - Details

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Celebrity style includes scent
Jennifer Lopez is pineapple, lemon, red currant, caramel and peony. Shania Twain is honeysuckle, magnolia and raspberry. Sarah Jessica Parker is patchouli, musk and -- apple martini?
10-Nov-2005 - Details

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Perfume that changes your mood
Sniffing sweet fragrances not only soothes your senses, but could also improve your mood, as a researcher has now developed a "medical perfume" which, when sniffed, can also cheer you up.
10-Nov-2005 - Details

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Fruity and woody smells stand out among fall fragrances
Many fragrances are built around a "note," a single scent that will stand out and linger, even when surrounded by a dozen other familiar smells.
10-Nov-2005 - Details

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10 top tips that make sense when buying scent
Whether you’re in search of a new signature scent, or trying to pick one out for someone else, shopping for scent can be mystifying. Here are some fragrance selection tips from Alison Blackman Dunham
05-May-2006 - Details

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The sweet smell of seduction
What is the secret of a great perfume (and what do men find sexy)? Clare Coulson finds out
18-Nov-2005 - Details

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Tom Ford, in the Nude
This month, the biggest fashion mystery of the last two years was finally solved when we got to see "what Tom Ford will do next:" a cosmetics and fragrance collection for Estee Lauder.
30-Nov-2005 - Details

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Fall harvest of fragrances includes many fruity, spicy scents
Many fragrances are built around a ''note,'' a single scent that will stand out and linger, even when surrounded by a dozen other familiar smells.
30-Nov-2005 - Details