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Conversational Hearts Inspired Cologne

Michelle Smith — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:30:02 +0000

Necco Sweetheart Conversational Hearts, that classic Valentine candy, has been updated in recent years. With up to date phrases like, “text me,” the kids of today enjoy the same sweet candy and fun that has been around for years. I remember eating them with my sister – I always wanted the white ones, didn’t matter what they said, I just thought that they tasted better.

Are you ready for a more adult version of candy hearts? Demeter’s Call Me, was inspired by “call me” Conversational Hearts. Demeter’s Call Me fragrance is 95% natural fragrance – the alcohol is made fermented corn. It has fragrance notes of lemon zest, jasmine, honeysuckle, water lotus, and white rose. You can find it here where it retails for $20, from QVC.

IF you like this one, then you might want to try one of these other natural fragrances from Demeter - Be My Valentine with notes of peach skin, leaf, caramelized sugar, and ylang-ylang or Love Me with notes of orange, lemon, bergamot, peach, white rose, and soft vanilla. You can find the entire set here.

I hope that you are having a Happy Valentine’s Day!

Image credit: QVC.com

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Smells Like Teen Spirit

Noel Boehm — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:24:56 +0000

Nothing reminds me of summer and my teen years like the smell of the ocean rolling in in the morning and Vanilla musk. I don’t know what it is with teenage girls and vanilla. I think it’s written into our genetic code or something. All 15 year old girls must smell like sugar cookies and pudding. I used Coty Vanilla Musk so much that the scent now makes me a little nauseous. I do however still like the faint aroma of vanilla, just as long as it’s subtle and not that sickeningly sweet sugar smell.

Imagine my glee when I found Kuumba Made’s Vanilla Musk at Whole Foods a few months ago. Kuumba Made fragrances are oil based and there are no petroleum based ingredients, alcohols, Parabens, Sulfites, Dipropolyne Glycol, dilutants, or animal products in their fragrances. The scent is so light and subtle that I love wearing it. It comes in a concentrated roll-on so you really only need like a dot here and a dab there. I guess I will always be a teenager at heart, stuck in the 90’s no less. Where’s a scrunchy and matching Keds when you need them.

For a chance to win a most decidedly adult fragrance, Badgly Mischka’s Fleurs de Nuit, check out Amy over at The Scented Life. All you have to do is read her original review of the perfume adn leave a comment. Schwag, yeah!

Via: Cosmetic Mall

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And the Winner Is…

Teri Cosenzi — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:05:00 +0000

Yves Rocher was honored with the FiFi award for best packaging for its perfume Secrets d’Essences Voile d’Ambre. The winners were unveiled last week at the 35th Annual FiFi Awards ceremony in New York. The beautiful bottle from Yves Rocher was competing against, Crystal Aura by Avon, and Claire’s, Icing and Stacie J-Golden from Revelations Perfume & Cosmetics.

Secrets d’Essences Voile d’Ambre is a mysterious and timeless fragrance built around the magic of amber: the alchemy of balms, precious woods and resins, nature’s hidden treasures. It was created by the perfumer Olivier Pescheux from Givaudan. The scent is a mysterious, sensual and carnal perfume with a warm, voluptuous and deep after-glow.

Voile d’Ambre is the first secret of the Secrets d’Essences Collection, a collection of great perfumes formulated using the most precious natural raw materials. Later this year, a second perfume in the prestigious Secret d’Essences trilogy will launch.

And in case you didn’t know, Yves Rocher is the World Leader in Botanical Beauty Care. Visit their website to see all of their latest products including their new line of Monoi de Polynesia products.

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For the Organic Goddess.

Teri Cosenzi — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:45:00 +0000

Organic Bath Co. has a sassy line of products for the goddess in you. And it is named, appropriately so, the Organic Goddess.

The line is full of what every goddess wants and needs:
Sinfully Clean Shower Gel ($7.99)
Sumptuous Body Scrub ($7.99)
Sultry Body Mist ($7.99)
Voluptuous Lotion ($7.99)
Satiny Smooth Moisture Stick ($6.59)
Lickable Lips Lip Balm ($4.59)
Gorgeous Body Butter ($8.99)

And all of the products are available in either a yummy chocolate orange or coconut cream fragrance.

The Organic Goddess is available at their website and at drugstore.com

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