My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of several perfumes from the Italian niche brand Profumum. You can read it here.
Month: January 2014
Just Because: Zinaida Serebryakova, Self-Portrait at the Dressing Table
Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebryakova, At the Dressing Table (Self-Portrait), 1909. Oil on canvas. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Image via Wikimedia.
Things That Make You Go Hmmm: Martin Margiela “Replica” Fragrance Collection
I was flipping through the latest issue of Lucky magazine and I stopped to snicker over this trend piece about perfumes that take their inspiration from—wait for it—flowers!! Whatever will they think of next?
Then I lingered longer on the page, because this new Maison Martin Margiela fragrance, Beach Walk, made me think. It’s a citrusy tropical floral designed to evoke “Sun kissed salty skin” in “Calvi, 1972.” (Calvi is located on the island of Corsica. I had to look that up.)
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A Few Favorite Beauty Products from 2013
I’ve been reading “best of 2013” posts on a few friends’ beauty blogs, so I thought I’d join in by posting a short list of my own. These are a few “new-to-me” products that I used for the first time in 2013, often as samples or gifts-with-purchase. Of course, I’ve enjoyed (and reviewed) many other makeup, skincare, and haircare products over the past year, but these are seven highlights that that have left an especially positive year-end impression on me.
Perfume Review: A Lab on Fire Rose Rebelle Respawn
My latest post on Now Smell This is a fragrance review of A Lab on Fire’s Rose Rebelle Respawn. You can read it here.
TINSEL CREATION 