It’s great to be able to provide your pooch with the trappings of luxury, but what happens when you leave home for that 12-day cruise from Barcelona to Venice? Well, if you happen to live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can lodge your canine companion at the most expensive boarding kennel in the US.

Owners who choose to board their dogs at the Pooch Hotel in Sunnyvale, Calif., have four different options that run from $50/night to $100/night. Both the Presidential (9’ by 9’ for $75/night) and Palace Suites (12’ by 10’ and 20’ by 15’ for $100/night) are equipped with flat panel televisions, webcams and luxury bedding. The Palace Suites are located in their own wing, in case your pampered pup is shy or elderly, and have the added luxury of raised bedding.

The Pooch Hotel also offers swim, treadmill and underwater treadmill sessions, as well as six week classes, holistic diet consultations and aromatherapy baths at the “Spaw.”

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I couldn’t have been Lilly Pulitzer in another life because…she’s still alive, but I’ve always had a soft spot for the preppy “pink-and-green” color combo Pulitzer often uses in her designs. I was initially attracted to Bond no. 9 High Line because of its pink-and-green bottle — not its juice; High Line is a type of fragrance (rather artificial, high-pitched and “Fresh!”) I usually shun, and yet….

Bond no. 9 describes High Line as “the scent of wildflowers, green grasses…and urban renewal” with “a hint of industrial grit.” High Line (perfumer: Laurent Le Guernec) was created to celebrate the “new” High Line* “neighborhood” of New York City which is: “An improbable aerial walkway lined with concrete planks and railroad tracks, landscaped with meadows, wetlands, and wildflowers, the High Line hovers 30 feet above street level as it meanders along its route from the Meatpacking District to the former 34^th Street rail yards — sometimes bridging its way through buildings along the way.“

High Line, the fragrance, is categorized as “an androgynous floral-marine” perfume (the “marine” notes reference the nearby Hudson River); it includes notes of bergamot, purple love grass (Eragrostis spectabilis), Indian rhubarb, red-leaf rose, orange flower water, Lady Jane tulips (Tulipa clusiana), grape hyacinth, sea moss, teakwood, bur oak and musk. (I found nary a hint of “industrial grit” in the notes.)

High line starts with a burst of bergamot and a clean and tart “vegetal-fruit” aroma…

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This beautiful 8 acres private island is an ideal investment in one of Belize’s most paradisiacal coastal environments
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Loewe will launch 7 de Loewe in September. The new fragrance for men is fronted by Spanish bullfighter Cayetano Rivera…

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New at boots (UK): Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male Terrible, Davidoff Champion, Marc Jacobs Lola Velvet, Ralph Lauren Big Pony, Kylie Minogue Pink Sparkle, Estee Lauder Pleasures Bloom.

New at escentual (UK): Hugo Boss Boss Orange Sunset.

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Vogue Nippon fashion editor-at-large Anna Della Russo, who has reportedly become a style icon in her own right, will launch her debut fragrance, Beyond, in time for Christmas.

The new scent will feature notes of almond and vanilla, and will come in a golden shoe. I will update with details as they’re available, or you can read more on her blog. (via wwd)

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“Perfume is subjective”, I hear all the time. What’s heavy to one is light to another, what is pleasantly sweet to certain individuals can be overly sweet. Probably because we haven’t really agreed on which terms to apply so that we have a codified language to describe scents. True, we use “fragrance families” taxonomy to distinguish them (floral, woody, chypre, aldehydic, leather etc.) and

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