The Perfume of a Princess!

Advantages: Smells Very Distinctive, Long Lasting, Beautiful Bottle, Very Feminine
Disadvantages: May be too sweet and floral for some

...One of my favourite things to treat myself to is perfume and those who have read my earlier reviews will know that I am a self confessed perfume addict. I love the different varieties you can buy all with their own distinctive scents and pretty bottles. I have worked hard at my perfume addiction though and have really cut back on the amount that I buy ? these days I adopt a one in one out rule as I started getting far too many bottles of half used fragrances sat in my wardrobe (any perfume lover knows that you keep bottles out of daylight to keep them smelling fresh). Before we went on honeymoon I used up a couple of bottles of perfume and so I decided to treat myself to something new rather than buy a replacement for the fragrances that I just finished from the duty free shop at the airport. I had already been and tested a few...

shazzaspannered 18.03.2009 · Read review
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I stayed in the Hermes!

Advantages: Great view, friendly owners and plenty of sun beds!
Disadvantages: Steep hill.

...Last year I went to the sunny island of Kos. This fairly large island has some of the most beautiful beaches in the world in my opinion. Even though I don't like sand I do love to watch the sea so sitting by a taverna while the sun sets on the horizon was lovely. Also the beaches weren't too crowded either! The Hotel I went to Kos with my family including my mam's parents. We stayed in Hermes Hotel in Kefalos which is built into a hill. It isn't a suitable place to take people with walking disabilities. Lots of people complained because of the hill but I found it fairly easy to walk up and down each night after a couple of games of The Alphabet Game (don't ask? my mam's idea). The owners of the hotel were very friendly and even told us our Greek names. We were all amused by our Greek names because they basically stayed the same...

Beccaa__X 04.04.2007 · Read review
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The Princess and the Perfume

Advantages: Light and delicate scent, sexy
Disadvantages: Slightly expensive

...If you've already read my Vera Wang Princess Satiny Body Lotion review, you will know I recieved this perfume along with the gift set from my boyfriend for my Birthday last November. And as promised, I said I would write a review about the Vera Wang Princess perfume, so here I am now. Vera Wang, if you haven't heard of her, is a lady from New York. At frist she was an editor for Vogue magazine,then going on to do other things. She started designing dresses for celebrities and now owns her own Wedding Dress collection. She has her own Vera Wang accessorie collection and more importantly her own fragrance collection, including more scents than just the Princess collection. As the story goes, Vera Wang Princess collection is a new spirit in fragrance, inspired by a modern-day princess. Confident, indipendent, with a total zest...

loise007 01.02.2009 · Read review
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Ibiza Hippie by Escada perfume!

Advantages: beautiful light smell!
Disadvantages: Hard to find, and a little expensive!

...Escada Ibiza Hippie I got this perfume in a Collector?s Edition pack of 5 Escada Perfumes; Island kiss, Rockin? Rio, Pacific Paradise, Sunset Heat and Ibiza Hippie. I first heard of Escada when I bought Pacific Paradise on the Ferry on the way to Italy, from then on the smell always reminded me of that holiday, and became one of my favourite perfumes. So when I saw this pack for £12.50 for 5 small bottles (4ml each), I just had to buy them to try them all, so I could choose my favourite one! And I must say they were all delicious! With such strong fruity smells which stuck around all day, my only problem was there wasn?t enough of it in the bottles, and I tended to use half a bottle each time I used it! But it gave me a great experience of using them all so I could choose which ones I wanted in larger bottles rather than...

stephbond89 15.11.2009 · Read review
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Herme, a jewel in the channel.

Advantages: absolute peace and beauty
Disadvantages: don't expect to use your car

...I had never travelled to an island before and I was 8 when my parents decided to take the family to Guernsey. From Guernsey we took a small boat to the island of Herme for a day trip. The island is small and very well kept with no cars and so practically no pollution. When going there, everyone naturally treats the island with much deserved respect. When I went, the weather was gorgeous and we followed the wide dust tracks around the coast. The beaches were quaint and littered only by millions of these tiny shells of which i started collecting. The beauty of the wild flowers were breath taking and made for some great photography opportunities. We were so glad we took pictures because no one would have ever believed tht such gem of a place existed so close the Britain! Although only about 50 people inhabit the island, they are very...

soph86 11.06.2002 · Read review
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Perfume -Compelling Cinematography

Advantages: Haunting visual and sound effects.
Disadvantages: None

...born without a body odour, and it is perhaps his own lack of a scent that stokes his obsession with odours. At the age of 13, Jean-Baptiste is cruelly sold to a tannery, where he spends his days surrounded by the foulest of smells. Luckily for him, he is one day sent on an errand in town, and it is there that he discovers the most intoxicating scent... that of perfume. Managing to become the apprentice of a renowned perfumer, he quickly learns the trade and eventually surpasses the genius of his master. In his pursuit of the perfect perfume, Jean-Baptiste comes across a beautiful young woman in the streets of Paris, and is seduced by her scent. The natural fragrance of a beautiful woman is intoxicating, and in a desperate need to capture it, he will resort to murder. His murderous obsession with scent, and his desperate need to...

GoFigure 12.02.2008 · Read review
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THE PUTRID SMELL OF PERFUME.

Advantages: A very interesting film, sticks closely to the book.
Disadvantages: Shocking images.

... PERFUME Released in 2006, and directed by Tom Tykwer Perfume is a harrowing tale of the Drama genre. The story is taken from the book 'Perfume' written by Patrick Suskind. Synopsis Set in 18th Century France in a small sleepy town a mother gives birth to Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. She immediately abandons him in the Parisian fish market, under a filthy market stall rife with rats and the stench of fish. Immediately Jean-Baptiste is enveloped in a putrid smell of the markets wares of rotting meat, maggots, and old food, which are presented to us in a series of snapshots. The child sniffs the air, and these are the first smells his young highly developed olfactory senses are greeted by. The mother is hung for her crime of child abandonment, and the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille begins...

Morning_Becomes_Electra 25.01.2008 (26.01.2008) · Read review
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the perfumer with a smell for murder.

Advantages: Believable, easy to fall into the world of the film.
Disadvantages: unrealistic, and perhaps silly ending.

...First thoughts. Taken from the book entitled “perfume” by Patrick Suskind, Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer from first impressions sounded like a good movie to watch, and these first impressions wasn’t wrong. I hadn’t read the book before, or even heard of the book before I saw the film, however from what I have heard about the book, the film seems to follow the book really well. From the title “Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer”, I got the clear impression that this movie was about perfume and murders, which is basically true. From the cover of the DVD you would think that this DVD is older than it is, this is because the actor and actress in the cover look, and are meant to look from the 18th century, as this is what age the film is set in, however the film was released in 2006 which means...

techno_man_37 13.02.2008 · Read review
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Bratty perfume from the bratty mother!

Advantages: A nice set for someone else's child!
Disadvantages: Not my idea of a young girls set!

...Ok I am officially a horrible person! Every year we (myself, my daughter, her school friends and there parents), attend the Easter bingo at her school. This year was no different! A group of us went and as usual commandeered a table and settled down to a fun night! During the final throws of the evening (the raffle!), my friends daughter and my daughters best friend Courtney handed me her perfume to smell, (these bloody kids are more like teenagers, scary considering they are only 7!), I pulled at the lid thinking that was the way it opened, only to be told it was a screw lid, about five seconds after I had snapped the top of the bottle off! I felt so bad about it, especially when the girls eyes watered slightly, that I promised to buy a replacement bottle?. Hence this review! The product I will now review is ?Bratz...

sarahbarrow 10.04.2009 · Read review
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How to choose your perfume?

Advantages: Knowing the type of perfumes you prefer, you won't buy perfume that doesn't suit you
Disadvantages: You may become quite selective, like me, so it'll takes ages to find one

... About me A recent member of Ciao, I have to date reviewed 35+ well-known and modern Eau de Parfums and Eau de Toilettes on the site. A budding chemist who's passionate about perfumery I have an ever growing number of perfume samples (100+), about 25 vintage rare perfume bottles most of them containing the original juice and about 50 modern perfumes that I've been using and collecting in the past 4 - 5 years or so. Introduction Choosing a perfume that suits you is not easy. First of all we need to know ourselves a bit. We have to be honest and not just following trends and fashions and just because everyone's wearing it, it doesn't mean it's right for you. Below I have written a quick introduction into perfume notes and the different olfactory families that perfumes are put into. This guide will help you...

lillamarta 20.01.2008 (29.03.2008) · Read review
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