Hermes Eau Claire des Merveilles ~ perfume review
I don’t think the new Eau Claire des Merveilles from Hermès has officially launched yet, but it’s on counter at Hermès boutiques and at Nordstrom. Depending on how you count, it’s the 3rd or 4th flanker to 2004′s Eau des Merveilles, which has already been joined by Parfum des Merveilles and Elixir des Merveilles.
Eau Claire des Merveilles, which was developed by Hermès house perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena, is pretty much exactly as it was described in the press materials: delicate, soft and sparkling, with powder notes and vanilla. The start is wonderfully fizzy citrus soda; that softens into a creamy-sweet (but airy) cosmetic powder, lightly vanillic, with just a hint of the salty woody amber from the original Eau des Merveilles underneath…
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Rampaging floral perfumes and loud, honking, fruity scents are to be banned; traditional eau de colognes will rule: those barbershop constructs of bergamot, yuzu, lemon and orange, with neroli, pinches of vetiver and woodsy whiffs to trick the soaring Fahrenheit into shady glens and lazy breezes, then vanish into olfactory mirage.
— From Samurai Shopper | Summer’s Common Scents at The New York Times. Many thanks to Ruth for the link!
Faith Hill True ~ new perfume
Country singer Faith Hill has launched her second perfume for women (the first was Faith Hill by Faith Hill), Faith Hill True:
Inspired by casual sensuality and spirited femininity…
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More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.
Another day, another limited edition from Jean Paul Gaultier. This one is the Classique Charm Edition 2010…
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When you host a party, you need to make sure that the music and food is top notch. But with so much preparation to do, where’s the time to sort for the music? So there is a plan B called the Sooloos Digital Media System from Meridian that compliments your Meridian Audio Select. And to ensure that your music is stored, controlled and played out with perfect ease they are out with Control 15. You can control around 1000 CD albums in loss less format at your finger tips with the 17-inch touch-screen on its 500GB hard drive. You can even export music to your MP3 player.
Priced at $7,500 a piece, the Control 15 also opens gateways to several internet radio stations and streamed music from Rhapsody (if available). if you have an even bigger music collection, just connect it to another Control 15 storage system. When Paired with Meridian’s DSP Loudspeakers, you’re all good to go partying all night long! Click here for details.
Thanks Sue Toscano
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If you don’t really like being touched by strangers but yearn for a professional massage then you can opt for massage chairs instead. And if you want to walk on thin air while getting a refreshing kneading, rolling, percussion and vibration based message by OSIM uAstro Zero-Gravity Massage Chair. The chair features eight preset massage program, which can massage arms, seat, waist, hips, legs and feet even the palms of your hands!
Priced at $3,495, the chair also provides for a heated lumbar massage that too in the power-recline positions as well. With dimensions of about 33″ x 28″ x 43″, you can just put the right music on and get teleported to a magic place beyond. Click here for details.
I really wish I could spend more efforts learning an easier to maintain musical instrument. And if space is your constraint rather than funds, Craft Line is out with something you can really use. Get yourself a specialized piano with easy to use functions. And when you are done playing the tunes, switch to the flat-screen TVs by a push of a button inside the piano. The media center can also accommodate a DVD recorder at the base of the piano. Priced at $16,770 for the piano-cum-flat screen TV kit, you can also further customize the piece by sharing your requirements while placing your order. The cost will vary accordingly.
Imagine flying from Paris to New York in four hours and 14 minutes or making it to Asia from the US East Coast in a mere nine-and-a-half hours flight, making your business activities more swift and help you pack a more extensive itenary. After the Concorde disaster in 2000, Nevada’s Aerion Corporation is all set ensure that the Supersonic Business Jet age returns with the launch of its Aerion Supersonic Business Jet (SBJ), which can hit speeds as fast as Mach 1.5 (1,840 km/h). While the $80 million, super fast executive plane is a mere 12-seater for now, a 50-seater is in the offing as well. The company also has a receipt book that totals to $4 billion in orders, from the Middle East alone for a 2014 launch.
The development cost for these super jets is estimated between $1.2 billion and $1.4 billion. Apart from Aerion, other companies like Cessna, Sukhoi, Russian aircraft giant Tupolev, the US’s Supersonic Aerospace International and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is also in process of getting SBJs back on track.
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Minimalistic bathrooms don’t really give you too much room to have every possible amenity at your disposal. So if you really want a bathtub experience, it’s advisable have something with multiple uses like the Bathtubs-cum-bookshelves, giant speaker bathtubs or the eccentric translucent bathtubs. And if space isn’t a contsrain, and you want to make a style statement instead, check out the SICIS Shoe Bathtub, the Art Deco gold decor Bathtubs or the sunken bathtubs from Blubleu. If you don’t like any of the above, designer bathing firm Condor is giving you something that will take you to Paris right inside the comfort of your bathroom. Inspired by a travel trunk, the exteriors are crafted in leather decorated with leather straps and a removable matching leather cushion head and neck rest.
The look is completed with brass jets and a fleur-de-lis pattern set in brass just below the head rest. A one way ticket to your private piece of Paris, in the comfort of your own home!
Celebrated French designer Philippe Starck has given L’Air du Temps, the classic Nina Ricci fragrance which the 61-year-old admits to wearing himself, a new look.The design is unusual, very sleekened and gadgetry-like, yet not linear. The famous doves that denoted world peace after the end of WWII when the perfume was introduced take a new tougher, silhouetted line that is “rock n’roll”. One