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Lot of 142 Coty David Beckham Instinct 1oz 30ml

Lot of 142 Coty David Beckham Instinct 1oz 30ml

US $1,399.00

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Tribe Perfume by Coty Rare 17 oz spray

Tribe Perfume by Coty Rare 17 oz spray

US $299.99

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Kapsule by Karl Lagerfeld: new fragrances ~Light, Woody, Floriental

Karl Lagerfeld is best known for a few things: his trademark ponytail, his eye-glaring weight-loss, his prolific churning-out of numerous collections for several brands (Chanel, his own, Fendi etc.) and his perfume fetish. The latter got manifested not…

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Chypre by Coty

I have been fortunate enough to obtain some vintage Chypre de Coty.Smelling this perfume has sent me into a frenzy of research and imaginings. There is so much to think about! There’s Paris in 1917, the center of the cultural and intellectual world, …

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Burr-y the Hatchet: part 2

We continue our interview with writer and perfume critic of The New York Times, Chandler Burr. For part 1, click here.

PART 2

PLEASE NOTE: unauthorised copying of excerpts of the book constitutes copyright infringement. Mr.Burr personally gave us express permission to reprint those for this venue only.

PS: Chandler, for your new book “The Perfect Scent” you followed two different paths: the

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Burr-y the Hatchet

Perfume Shrine always aims to bring our readers the highlights of fragrance appreciation with objectivity and a level-headed analytical approach.
So, in the pursuit of those goals, we present you today with an interview with one of the controversial players in fragrance writing: the journalist and writer Chandler Burr.

Mr.Burr perused our site, confessed being impressed with the quality (we

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Packaging and Advertising for Coty Chypre

Advertising and presentation are icings on the cake of a great fragrance and in the case of Coty Chypre they evoke the lovely aesthetics of La Belle Epoque and the years that followed.Considering the success it had on the market and the avalanche of fr…

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Coty Chypre: fragrant pilgrimage and review

By guest writer Denyse Beaulieu/CarmancanadaWhen friends complained to Pablo Picasso that the portrait of Gertrude Stein he’d just painted didn’t look like her, he answered something along the lines of: “Don’t worry. It will.”Though the famou…

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Chypre series 5: chronology and the zeitgeist

It has long been my opinion that fragrances do not merely reflect their makers’ vision or the desire to attain beauty and harmony through an ethereal means such as the fume of a precious liquid. They are routinely shaped by the circumstances that defin…

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Chypre series 1: the origins

Chypre…word of chic, word of antiquity. Pronounced SHEEP-ruh, it denotes a fragrance family that is as acclaimed as it is shrouded in mystery. Usually this is the first piece of perfume lingo any self-respecting perfumeholic learns; and learns to pro…

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Be a perfume sleuth if you really Covet that bottle!

Sarah Jessica Parker impressed us with her Lovely musky foray into fragrance as we didn’t really expect a celebrity perfume to be of any considerable substance. But this was a serious perfume lover we were talking about (click here for her signature pe…

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Beautiful Ghosts: Smelling Blotters from the Osmotheque

Friends are the best. Friends-in-perfume are the best of all. You read Judith’s article about her fabulous smelling expedition to Paris yesterday; in it, she mentions the visit to the Osmothèque, which was the excursion I envied the most. To be able to touch or rather inhale perfume history, to smell “disappeared” fragrances has been a dream of mine for a long time. Imagine my amazement and joy

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Spray Yourself with Beauty

“It’s no fairy-tale…you can, literally “spray yourself with beauty!” Here are the simple facts: Your make-up gives others the impression of beauty through their sense of sight. But your fragrance creates an even more vivid impression through the sense of smell.

A woman wearing FINE fragrance looks more beautiful simply because her fragrance gives a sense of elation to those around her. Magnify

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Coty L’Ambre Antique, and With Love… Hilary Duff

Ambre Antique is one of the earliest fragrances sold by Francois Coty. Ambre Antique was first introduced in 1905, and sadly, production of the fragrance dried up long before many of us were even born.
A brief glimmer of hope for resurgence appeared during the 90s when Bergdorf Goodman sold limited edition versions of classic Coty [...]

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