Monday, November 30, 2009
Cyber Monday Alert: Elizabeth Arden
Thursday, November 19, 2009
A Million Reasons Why Fragrance is the Perfect Holiday Gift
There’s a million reasons why fragrance should be at the top of your gift list this holiday season. From the quirky to the classic, there’s a perfect perfume pick for everyone on your list. Out of the million reasons, here’s the top ten from The Fragrance Foundation who believe everyone should use fragrance everyday:
1. Fragrance is an affordable luxury at StrawberryNET.com!. Creative geniuses pour their heart and soul into gorgeously designed bottles of exquisitely blended scents that should cost untold fortunes. Yet these precious liquids make luxurious gifts at price points for every budget.
2. It’s a personal signature. Even if you purchase the most popular fragrance of all time, worn by millions of women, the scent on your skin will develop its very own, very unique characteristic. It will never, ever be repeated.
3. Fragrance is a major mood enhancer. Scientific research has shown that fragrance has the added benefit of elevating your mood and reducing stress..a definite bonus at this hectic time of the year!
4. It’s an affordable fashion accessory.When your budget can’t stretch to an entire new outfit, fragrance is the perfect accessory.
5. Love those hot, but out-of-reach designer labels? Rest assured that when a designer puts their name to a bottle of fragrance, they are expressing their true style signature in its most affordable manner. Each and every designer is passionate about each and every facet of the bottle, the perfume, the packaging that bears their name. With their fragrance, you get the vibe without the price tag.
6. Fragrance comes in an infinite variety of forms. There’s something for everyone on your list. A silky, cleansing shower gel. A French-milled soap. A soothing, calming bath oil. A velvety, sensual body cream. A lightly moisturizing all-over skin lotion. So many ways to layer on fragrance for a long-lasting effect.
7. A collector’s choice. Perfume bottles are works of art in their own right. Display them, admire them, enjoy the feminine touch they add to your daily life.
8. Fragrance as cherished memory. It can evoke memories of time and place. A mother’s goodnight kiss. A first romance. A walk in the rain forest. The bridal bouquet.
9. Fragrance is delicious. A delicious blend, a magic mix, a dash of this and a drop of that. An astounding variety of flowers, herbs, spices, fruits found near to hand and the four corners of the globe.
10. Fragrance can come from a votive candle, a room spray, potpourri or scent diffuser.
There are 900,990.00 other reasons. Just not enough space on this page to mention them all.
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
A Royal Affair: Queen Latifah Unveils Fragrance
Queen Latifah is getting ready to brave the turbulent waters of the celebrity fragrance market.
The award-winning rapper, actress and singer has teamed up with Parlux Fragrances Inc. to launch for fall Queen by Queen Latifah, a signature women’s scent, and the latest addition to the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based company’s growing stable of celebrity scents.
“I love fragrance and the idea of having one of my own, that was tailor-made for me and my own sensibilities, I thought it was a fantastic idea — ego aside,” joked the songstress in a phone interview from Los Angeles, where she was trying to pick photos for the cover of her new album, “Persona.”
While Latifah is no stranger to the beauty world — she’s served as a Cover Girl for Procter & Gamble Beauty since 2001 — creating a fragrance proved a new challenge for Hip-Hop’s First Lady, as she is commonly called.
Developed in partnership with Steven DeMercado of Fragrance Resources, Queen opens with Italian bergamot, Mediterranean mandarin and golden tequila. The heart is of Baie rose, jasmine noir, cognac and Moroccan coriander. Base notes are of Indonesian patchouli, sandalwood, vanilla and Tonka Absolutes as well as Egyptian incense and musk.
The Queen by Queen Latifah collection will include eau de parfum spray in two sizes, 3.4 oz. for $59 and 1.7 oz. for $49. A body lotion will be available for $35 as well as a body butter for $40. The ruby-red bottle, “the color of sexiness and love,” according to Latifah, boasts a square shape “to represent the strength of a woman,” while a raised heart on the bottle’s facade is meant to represent beauty from within.
Of her first fragrance, Latifah noted: “Queen doesn’t smell like anything else. That’s what you’re setting out to do — to create something unique. People tend to want to borrow from what’s popular, and me, I try to be a pioneer, a trendsetter.”
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