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OLIVER THEYSKENS ROCHAS WOOL NUTRIA FUR TRIMMED COAT

OLIVER THEYSKENS ROCHAS WOOL NUTRIA FUR TRIMMED COAT

US $1,199.00

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ROCHAS Beautiful Pink Gray Gown Dress NEW sz 40 or 8

ROCHAS Beautiful Pink Gray Gown Dress NEW sz 40 or 8

US $799.99

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A Package from Maria

Item One: Sniffa attendees — you should all have gotten your email itineraries. I didn’t realize it was such a full schedule. What say we try to hook up during the two-hour cocktail deal Saturday night (6:30 - 8:30) at BlueMercury, assuming we haven’t met already? Everyone …

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Optical Scentsibilities: imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Surely you have heard the above dictum: “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”. It’s actually a quote by Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832) Lacon, volume I, no. 183. The man had won a place in my heart for his other quote: “Many books require no…

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The Dior Chypres series ~1.the hidden force: Edmond Roudnitska

Perfume Shrine embarked on a mission: to disect and discuss one of the bastions of chypre: la maison Dior in its former glory, when under the baguette of Edmond Roudnitska and Paul Vacher it produced classics that remain up there in the pantheon for al…

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Optical Scentsibilities -new feature!

Perfume Shrine has an eye for the visual as well as a nose for the olfactual, as has surely been apparent to our readers by now. In the interests of pursuing the investigation of common themes running through perfume images, a new feature is introduced…

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Femme by Rochas: fragrance review and associations

There are times when I reflect upon a fragrance to realise that it has been painted by the brush of a rampant personality, bigger than life, more enduring than the everyday routine. And those precious, troubling fragrances make it to my heart almost wi…

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Lies and Misdemeanors

How many times have you heard a story regarding the creation of a perfume and in the end realised it must be a fabrication? From the almost bordering to the homeric notion of “genius through incapacitation” of Coco Chanel picking up the specific batch …

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