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I went to ULTA today and tried out a couple ones that were new to me. Jessica Simpson has her new "Fancy Love" out and say what you want about her, she can do fragrance well. I also tried Jil Sander's Style Pastel Blush and oh man, is it amazing. It's slightly powdery which I normally can't do, but it's a very girly fragrance, floral but with enough musk and amber to temper it down.
 
I love samples too. I will also try out the Perfumed Court, as Tangerine has suggested to me in the past, but I'm dead serious about working in Fragrances at a department store, (no matter how many people dont like perfume models spritzing at them or asking them if they'd like to try 'such and such' I think it would be SO FUN)

These jobs usually require some type of sales experience within Cosmetics however, and that Is SO frustrating to me, because while I may not have selling experience, I have a rolodex of knowledge constantly updating itself in my brain (call me kooky or whatever you wish, its the truth) and I find time flies when I'm on about some fragrance or cream or serum or skincare product with someone. THAT's when you know you love what you do, when time goes by quickly, and you're not checking the clock, wishing your shift was over....anyhow I agree with your post -Veda- and cross your fingers/think of me as I await a contact from Neiman's! I want soooo badly to work amongs my favorite things, which I also hoard. ;)
 
Best of luck with the job, LTEC. I enjoy chatting with knowledgeable people at perfume counters, it's only the ones who don't know or care about what they are selling that are annoying. And it's easy to tell which are which.

One reason it's so great to have good people on the sales floor is that while you are waiting for a fragrance to develop on your skin, you can learn a lot, and maybe discover something you didn't know about. That's what happened to me at the Tom Ford display in Saks; the SA was very pleasant and capable, and she turned me on to something that I liked better than the things I went to investigate!
 
Yes, it's only the clueless SA's that grow aggro. But then as you said, you need sales experience and if the experience is there they get the job...even though the passion is lacking.

Fingers are definitely crossed for you LTEC! Even it it doesn't turn out, there will always be more opportunities to showcase your knowledge. As long as the drive is there the journey won't end. Bon chance!
 
^^^No! I don't really have the time (tFS and a few blogs are all I can manage in terms of online "Fun") but go there often for reviews as well MakeUpAlley and Perfume of Life message board on occasion and to see available "swaps"
 
I want to order perfume online is fragrancex.com good for international orders or do you have any better site ? :)
 
my new love...diptyque l'eau de tarocco, meant to evoke the Mediterranean in winter, it's so romantic :wub:

Scent Notes | L’Eau de Tarocco by Diptyque
By CHANDLER BURR

Perhaps the most impoverished way of conceiving of a perfume (or of describing one) is listing its raw materials. It’s like experiencing Ravel’s “Pavane” by reading the sheet music, or smelling James Heeley’s Menthe Fraîche by looking at its lab formula.

There is one exception. When a perfumer creates a crystalline fragrance using a transparent technique to execute a simple concept, the raw materials illuminate the result. This is the case with the sublime l’Eau de Tarocco, which Diptyque launched this month, crafted by the Ravel of perfumers, Olivier Pescheux.

Pescheux, working with Diptyque’s creative director, Myriam Badault, began with the most elemental of concepts. In Morocco, Pescheux had eaten a simple traditional dish, carpaccio d’orange, a thinly sliced orange sprinkled with rose water, cinnamon and a touch of saffron. Pescheux and Badault decided he would build an olfactory carpaccio d’orange.

He began by choosing the Calabrian orange variety Tarocco. The expression of most oranges (citrus perfume raw materials are always oils expressed — pressed — from their peels) differs markedly from the taste of their flesh, which is generally fruitier and more floral. Tarocco’s particularity is that its expressed oil and its fruit match almost perfectly.

Pescheux works in Paris for the scent-maker Givaudan, which produces an extremely high quality of unadulterated raw materials that it designates Orpur. Pescheux selected Givaudan’s Orpur Tarocco first. To it, he added Orpur essences of Sri Lankan cinnamon bark and Laotian turmeric, and a distillation of ginger for bite. Orpur Bulgarian rose for the carpaccio’s rose water. Hedione high-cis (found in jasmine) for its airy floral quality. The molecule Magnolan, which gives both white flowers and a rose touch, and which Pescheux built in to form a bridge linking Hedione to the Bulgarian rose. To polish, he put in Texas cedar essence for the foundation, Somalian olibanum (the incense you smell in a Russian Orthodox church) for mystery, and two Givaudan captive molecules, Cosmone, for powder, richness and softness, and Serenolide, for a dry texture to “carry” the incense.

L’Eau de Tarocco’s is a short formula, only 23 raw materials.

What is interesting about the resulting perfume is that it is supposed to be the fourth in Pescheux’s new and increasingly extraordinary Diptyque eaux de colognes collection. (They are becoming as good as Jean-Claude Ellena’s new eaux de cologne collection for Hermès.) The cologne genre — pale, fleeting, one-dimensional, antiquated watercolors of lemon and grapefruit — is uninteresting. With Pescheux and Ellena, we are seeing a fundamental reworking of the category. Tarocco is an astonishingly perfect piece of scent work, an equilibrium of palely spiced fresh air moving through a dusky orange grove. It effortlessly transcends its genre. It is less watercolor, more oil painting, peaceful as a Buddha, elegant as linen, fresh as grass cooling in the evening.
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Oh that sounds divine, miu_miu. I love orange peel, I'm salivating already.

Perhaps you've seen this guy, Roja Dove, at Harrods? I've never even been into the store, but these are some of CL's favorites, and after looking over the site, I'm wanting to jetset across to the UK and stop in and stock up.

Roja Dove is considered to be the world's leading fragrance authority;his wisdom and passion bring the ethereal world of scent alive. He is a historian and raconteur but above all he is the maestro of fragrance, the world's sole "Professeur de Parfums".

A vast fountain of fragrance knowledge and inspiration, is the fragrance connoisseurs' connoisseur.

www.rojadove.com
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Roja Dove bugs me. He's every perfumer/perfume industry stereotype. He writes and speaks of fragrances in a really dated, inflated, hyperbolic tone that just is so false...ick.

Anyway, my two (s)cents in (haha, I couldn't resist the pun) his fragrances are made with top of the top quality ingredients so they smell AMAZING, but nothing that will blow you away in terms of composition or aesthetic. You can get samples of his creations at the Perfumed Court.

http://theperfumedcourt.com/Manufacturers/Roja-Dove.aspx

His official website:

http://www.rojadove.com/
 
Has anyone tested the new Mandragore Pourpre? I love Mandragore EDP but the Pourpre only comes as Eau De Toilette spray.
 
RE:TOM FORD PRIVATE BLEND
They are the most unique scents I have ever experienced. No lie.
Oud Wood, Black Violet, Japon Noir, Tobacco Vanille, Tuscan Leather, some of my favorites, they are seriously other-worldy, sooo beautiful, so intoxicating, you envision beautiful thoughts when inhaling these...I want them all. :wub:
 
Omfg, where can I get testers? I'm going to London on Wednesday, do they stock in human places?
Are some of them male fragrances?
 
All the Tom Ford Private Blends are unisex, IMO; if anything, they seem to be marketed more towards men.

Good luck getting testers; they are obscenely expensive. :doh:
 
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