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An Oriental Powder for a Beauty of the Evening or When Le Labo went to...
Anthropologie isn’t my style. Over years I bought a couple of items there but mostly things they sell leave me cold. What I do like about that chain is what they’re trying to do regarding perfumes....
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Imaginary Signature Scent: A Conclusion
Last week when I suggested a virtual experiment with a signature scent to my readers I decided to go further and actually wear Nature by Yves Rocher – the perfume I selected as my Imaginary Signature...
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Winner of Two Le Labo for Anthropologie Decants
I didn’t even realize how much easier it would be just to use numbers instead of going through the post and creating a list of names. Thank you everybody for the participation! The winner of the draw...
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“Oh, TOES!! (for some people)” or Where to Apply Perfumes
A question where (and how much) to apply perfume is regularly raised on blogs and discussion boards. More than once recently while answering this question I thought that I saw myself as Monica...
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Entertaining Statistics: August 2013
August was just perfect: there were several warm days to get some summer feeling but it was never really hot to be unpleasant. You, my readers, helped me with this month’s statistics. I asked you...
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In the Search for the Perfect Berry: Blackberry
I was in my late 20s when I tried blackberries for the first time. Before than I knew of them but where I lived they weren’t grown commercially so I wasn’t even sure how blackberry looked or smelled....
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In the Search for the Perfect Blackberry: P.S.
As it often happens, while working on my blackberry Single Note Exploration post I had blackberries on my mind. I went through my database to find all the perfumes featuring that note; tested...
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A Postcard from Undina: More Love From Sonoma
The weekend was great: warm, sunny and just perfect for a quick visit to Sonoma. The hardest part was not to wear any perfume: I had a hankering for vanilla perfumes recently, which were completely...
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As Wild as It Gets (for me): My Hawaiian Vacations
Reality almost never lives up to great expectations or formed mental impressions. A decade ago when I came to Hawaii for the first time I was slightly disappointed: it was nothing like I imagined a...
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Entertaining Statistics: September 2013
After a cool summer September arrived warm and very pleasant. And to make it even better I spent the last week of it in Hawaii. I was so looking forward to that vacation that soon after I booked our...
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Laughs, Lemmings, Loves – Episode 37
We’re slowly getting towards real autumn: it’s cooler though still warm; I get home when it’s dark already and there are dozens of birds in the pond I see from my office window. I haven’t finished...
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Perfume Bottle Splitters: Friends or Foes?
Recently Elena (Perfume Shrine) has published an interview with Andy Tauer, the owner of and the nose behind Tauer Perfumes brand. I like Andy Tauer and I enjoy reading what he says – in that...
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A Postcard from Undina: My Take on Beauty
I participated in the series Questions on Beauty on Lavanya’s blog. If you haven’t read it yet, you might be interested to check out what Suzanne (Suzanne’s Perfume Journal), Vanessa (Bonkers about...
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A Gift of Perfume
At fourteen I swapped my first love, to which I held on for four years, for a new imaginary relationship. I do not mean that the other person didn’t exist: S. was a perfectly real 15-years old boy I...
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A Postcard from Undina: Happy Halloween!
I like Halloween and we usually celebrate it with friends but this year this holiday coincided with an extremely busy time for me in the office so I could barely breathe – let alone organize...
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Jul et Mad Love Dose
In January I ended my, very favorable review of Jul et Mad‘s Amour de Palazzo with the following passage: My only complaint about Amour de Palazzo and the brand in general is that it’s only available...
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Entertaining Statistics: October 2013
October was very warm (too warm if you talk to my vSO), with no rain (which isn’t good whoever you talk to) and a lot of work (no comments). I’m hopelessly behind reading blogs and commenting and I...
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In the Search for the Perfect Carnation
Through my childhood carnation was considered an official flower. Probably because of their resilience and color (red – the color of the 1917 Revolution, the anniversary of which was just a couple of...
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A Postcard from Undina: From under a Pile of Work with Love
I’m extremely busy at work recently and I’m not sure when it is going to change. I do not always work after hours (though from time to time that happens as well) but I get so tired that I have...
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A Postcard from Undina: Happy Thanksgiving 2013!
Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends and readers. Enjoy the holiday but eat responsibly. If you can still breathe come back in a couple of days to help me with data for the November statistics post....
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