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Pompous names, bizarre ads, hundreds of new scents a year-the multibillion-dollar business of fragrance has long resisted understanding. At last the first critical-and critically acclaimed-guide to perfume illuminates the mysteries of this secretive industry. Lifelong perfume fanatics Luca Turin (best known as the subject of Chandler Burr’s The Emperor of Scent) and Tania Sanchez exalt, wisecrack, and scold through their reviews with passion, eloquence, and erudition, making this book a must-have for anyone looking for a brilliant fragrance-or just a brilliant read.Amazon.com Review
The first book of its kind: a definitive guide to the world of perfume

Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez are experts in the world of scent. Turin, a renowned scientist, and Sanchez, a longtime perfume critic, have spent years sniffing the world’s most elegant and beautiful–as well as some truly terrible–perfumes. In Perfumes: The Guide, they combine their talents and experience to review more than twelve hundred fragrances, separating the divine from the good from the monumentally awful. Through witty, irreverent, and illuminating prose, the reviews in Perfumes not only provide consumers with an essential guide to shopping for fragrance, but also make for a unique reading experience.

Perfumes features introductions to women’s and men’s fragrances and an informative “frequently asked questions” section including:
• What is the difference between eau de toilette and perfume?
• How long can I keep perfume before it goes bad?
• What’s better: splash bottles or spray atomizers?
• What are perfumes made of?
• Should I change my fragrance each season?

Perfumes: The Guide is an authoritative, one-of-a-kind book that will do for fragrance what Robert Parker’s books have done for wine. Beautifully designed and elegantly illustrated, this book will be the perfect gift for collectors and anyone who’s ever had an interest in the fascinating subject of perfume.

Picking a Perfect Perfume

For Perfumes: The Guide, Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez tested nearly 1,500 fragrances–some glorious, some foul. Here they offer some humble advice on finding something worth loving among the stinkers.

1. Smell top to bottom
Perfumes usually unfold in three (often very different) stages: the sparkling first few minutes are the fragrance’s top note, followed by its true personality, known as the heart note, and ending with the base note, aka the drydown, hours later. Something you love at the counter you may loathe by the parking lot. We recommend top-to-bottom tests on skin and on paper, since some scents that disappoint on the heat of skin may shine on your shirtsleeve.

2. Write it down
Bring a pen to write names on paper test strips, so you’re not in anguish hours later, trying to recall which is the third scent from the left that transports you to Shangri-La. Keep a cheap, possibly extremely trashy paperback on hand, so you can store strips between pages to keep them separate.

3. Rest your nose
Noses tune out, which is why you can smell your friends’ homes but not your own. Smell no more than five scents per day on paper strips and try on only the best one or two, to keep your nose reliable.

4. Check the radiance
To get a good sense of how the perfume will smell to other people as you walk past, try spraying a test strip and leaving it in the room while you step out for a bit. Come back fifteen minutes later and breathe in: that’s the radiance.

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  Launched by the design house of Dolce & Gabbana in 2001 DOLCE & GABBANA LIGHT BLUE PERFUME is a scent of an exquisite fragrance.

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  In the busy lives of the modern day consumer, perfumes are a much needed commodity. Great smelling fragrances enhance the overall image of an individual. They help leave lasting impressions on others. In fact, many successful business personalities and celebrities can’t do without their favorite perfumes. That is because in the busy life of an individual, there will be countless opportunities to meet other people. And it sure helps to be smelling nice when shaking the hands of important people.

  The only problem is, branded perfumes that are of exquisite quality can cost a fair amount of money. Of course this wouldn’t be a problem if budget is never a concern. However, there may be some people who would like to own high quality perfumes but can barely afford to do so.

  For example, in the current credit crunch, big corporations are laying off employees. The media splashes news of economic slow down everyday. This affects consumer confidence and everyone becomes less willing to spend. Hence the economy shrinks further. The individual can do very little to stop what is happening to the economy. But the individual can take measures to control spending.

  A great way to control spending is to look out for discount items. Discount items doesn’t mean that they are of inferior quality. It just means that they are on promotion. Businesses are always running promotions on a regular basis. In the current economic crisis, businesses are running promotions on a more frequent basis to encourage customers to spend more.

  For instance, DM Fragrances is offering perfumes at attractive discounts of up 30% or more. Now is the time to take advantage of such great prices. Perfumes that usually goes for 30 pounds and above are retailing for around 25 pounds or less. Both perfumes for men and women are available. Major brand names include Hugo Boss, Aramis, Cerruti, Agent Provocateur, Elizabeth Aden, and more.

  You can buy discounted perfumes for yourself, or you can buy them as gifts. Perfumes make great gifts because they are always very well packaged. The boxes look upscale and expensive, and the bottles are always elegantly designed. Therefore, they make the perfect gifts.

  As the holiday season draws close, this is one of the best ways to save money. Some people make the mistake of buying cheap or inferior gifts during an economic downturn. Don’t ever make that mistake! The holiday season is a time to be generous. If you can afford it, give generously. You can always source great discount items online, and that will help you save a bundle.

  Online perfume retailers like DM Fragrances will ship your purchase to the address you desire. Usually, orders are shipped within 24 hours. You can try to give your family and friends a pleasant surprise by making a purchase online and sending the gifts directly to them.

  DM Fragrances is an online perfume shop selling a wide range of designer discount perfume and aftershave.

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    The consequences of the economic crisis are sharply felt by female employees who are fired for their predilection for perfume. The point is that in a stressful environment people’s sense of smell, especially those who have a lot of responsibility, is aggravated to the limit. Also, the reason for one in five dismissals is based on the personal distaste of the employee’s boss.
    
    Historical background
    According to data from a German magazine called Junge Karriere, 38% of Germans consider the most irritating factor in the work  place to be the smell emanating from their colleagues.
    This issue is not only a relevant  one for Germany. The numerous discussions of the theme on the Internet testify to this: “I was suffering for half a year from the strong aromas of our new female employee. Toward the end of the day my head was aching, and my fingers were all thumbs. It is a pity that I did not have the authority to apply administrative measures to this lady”, – writes an employee of a Swiss company in his blog.
    Actually, the smell of perfumes, even very expensive and high quality fragrance, can cause not only emotional discomfort, but also allergic reactions in the form of nausea, vertigo, or head cold. For this reason, in many companies fans of artificial aromas are fought against in the same way that smoking in the work place is fought against.

    Exacerbation
    Prior to the beginning of world’s economic hysteria this problem existed along with others. Chiefs tried not to advertise their personal dislike of a colleague who overused a fragrance and would officially credit that colleagues dismissal to entirely other reasons.
    Crisis has cleared the air. Now managers are not hesitating to declare that an employee’s release is in connection with the fact that an employee, “has created uncomfortable (or conflicting) situation because of the excessive use of perfume.”
    Not so long ago in the Swedish city of Malmo, a collaborator of a shipping company was fired because she used toilet water with a too sweet, luscious aroma, which created in her boss a choking sensation. After a warning from management, she refused to change her eau de toilette. At first this case was the recipient of wide public attention, but interest in it abated after the appearance of a pair of similar situations.
    An even better precedent has happened in the English city of Norfolk. Linda Gorman filed lawsuit against several colleagues at the same time and even against her own chief for the use of perfume in the work place.

    Fashionable solution
    Observing this sad trend, many fashion houses have increased the funds directed to the PR-actions, in order to switch the attention of buyers to the calm “office” aromas.
    It has turned out that in the line of the perfume products represented on the market, there is a special type of aromas – “for work” or “for every day”.
    There are strict, implicit flower or green scents, sweet notes in which are defused, which must help the wearer of the perfume to convey to his/her associates and colleagues the image of a serious and reliable partner. Actually, a businesswoman would appear ridiculous, if she smelled of vanilla or candies.

    Perfect match
    For the workplace it would be logical to select neutral, fresh, “green”, flower, grassy odors with a slightly sour taste of fruit or with vivacity of a sea breeze. The use of the unisex smells is the best way possible to correspond to contemporary business style.
    For big female bosses, it is worthwhile to turn attention to respectable perfumes, which reflect status, but are not too obtrusive. For example 5th Avenue from Elizabeth Arden, DKNY from Donna Karan.
    Calm “imperceptible” aromas are irreplaceable for beginning female workers, who strongly fear the sensitive nose of the chief, but at the same time they want to smell good as well. “The obscurity” of such aromas does not diminish their merits at all: Aqua Allegoria Flora Nerolia from Guerlain, Inspiration from Lacoste.
    For those female employees of middle level, who are assured of their chief, it is possible to advise feminine fruit and amber aromas – ideal for the daily use in any situation.
    Fruit aromas especially will appeal to the young collaborators, who run to dates after work. These are warm and astringent compositions of apple, pear and peach: Coco Mademoiselle from Chanel, Amor Amor from Cacharel.
    The family of amber smells includes soft, delicate compositions of lavender, vanilla, and cistus, which are especially suitable for middle age ladies: Island Kiss from Escada, Miracle from Lancôme.
    
    Aromas forbidden in the office
    Obviously it is not advisable “to put on” heavy, too intense, or frankly sexual aromas to the workplace. Firs of all these sexual aromas include musk smells.
    Musk is a basic weapon of animals in their sexual games during the courting period. Musk notes enter into the composition of practically all feminine and tempting perfumes; therefore, in the working environment there is no place for such smells as Prescense, Gaultier 2, Fragile.
    Oriental sweet and astringent eastern essences – vanilla, amber, and sandal-wood – also are not suitable for the office. These are typically evening, thick, and audacious aromas for strong women, who know their own value. Well-known eastern compositions: Hypnose from Lancôme, Opuim from Yves Saint Laurent.
    Spicy exotic compositions from cinnamon, ginger, and carnation will help to create image of insidious seducer – not the best character at work. These saturated aromas are suitable exclusive for evening appearances. Spicy notes can be easily smelled in Poison and Dior Addict from Christian Dior, Deep Night from Ghost, Rush from Gucci.

    Strong smell is a tactlessness
    For aromas at work there is a recommended safe “action radius”. In the office are permitted only the aromas with the intensity, which is cannot be smelled from a distance of half a meter from the person wearing the perfume. In this respect eau de toilette wins against perfumes, since the wearer has less risk to irritate the others around him or her.

    Taina Walters is editor of Cosvita.com who writes on beauty and health related topics. She has over 7 years experience in journalism specialized on these subjects. You can find more at www.Cosvita.com – excellent place to shop for correct fragrance, beauty and health care products.

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    Perfume is worn by many people so it is important that the scent says something about the individual who is wearing it. Another important reason for wearing a perfume that you like is that the scent will evoke fond memories of times when you’ve worn it. For these reasons, it would be a fantastic and very unique present to get for someone so that they can enjoy the experience of creating their own perfume. The experience will consist of the following; - A consultation with a trained perfume expert. - Creation of your own personal fragrance that you will construct by choosing as many of the 18 blends as you like that have been created by a master perfumer. - You will also receive a 20ml perfume atomiser with your creation inside. - A certificate that will state your chosen perfumes name and also its individual formula to enable you to get top-ups whenever you need more. - Your experience gift pack will include a smart wallet, personalised voucher and message card. - You will also receive PA cover to a value of £50,000 plus cancellation indemnity. Throughout your experience day, you will learn about perfume and the techniques that go into making each individual scent. You can then use this knowledge to help construct your own scent. This is a once in a lifetime experience and would make a fantastic unique gift for someone, so if you’re struggling with your Christmas shopping to find a present special enough for someone then this may be just the thing.

    After your day you will receive a 20ml perfume atomiser filled with your individual scent. During your day you will discover a lot of information about perfume that will help you create your own. If you are finding your Christmas shopping difficult then this may be just the gift you’re looking for.

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