A timeless classic

Advantages: Summery classic perfume
Disadvantages: Expensive but larger bottles do have cheaper refill option

...The refreshing yet flowery scent of Chanel No 19 never fails to remind me of sunnier days, which is always nice with this cold gloomy weather. Chanel No 19 was launched in 1970 - 48 years after Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel planned the 1923 launch of the more famous Chanel No 5. It was created by Henri Robert, the second Chanel "nose" on 19th August 1970 and coincided with Coco's 86th birthday. Coco Chanel decide to launch No 19 as she felt that the women of the 1970's needed something different - more suited to an active and independent lifestyle. She wanted to create a feminine perfume but much bolder than Chanel No 5. Many believed that Chanel No 19 would be fail, as it would never match up to the huge success of Chanel No 5. However, nearly 25 years later it is still going strong and has become a timeless classic. The perfume is...

Bollinger28 01.05.2004 (09.12.2005) · Read review
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Review of Chanel No 19

That smell of Chanel

Advantages: love that whiff
Disadvantages: expensive

...I have been spraying myself liberally with Chanel 19's distinctive fragrance for over twenty years now. Despite my flirting with other scents from time to time, Chanel no 19 is the perfume my friends and family identify as being "me". I've even been known to spray a whiff on my daughters' pillows before I go off on my frequent business trips, at their request. The designer, Gabrielle Chanel, launched this brand on 19th August 1970 - her own birthday. Many of her colleagues believed that it would fail to become the success that was Chanel No 5. Gabrielle insisted that the 70's woman needed a new signature scent, something that would suit her bold, dynamic lifestyle without losing her femininity. The scent itself was created by Henri Robert and No 19 has gone on to become a timeless classic in its own right. It is described as...

LindaL 29.04.2003 · Read review
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Review of Chanel No 19

Compelled to Chanel

Advantages: Bueatiful, womanly, elegant
Disadvantages: Expensive (but Xmas is coming up)

...Chanel no.19 Eau De Toilette Spray ****The woman and the company behind the products:**** Chanel was founded and run in the beginning by Gabrielle ?Coco? Chanel. A Frenchwoman born on August 19, 1883 in a southern village called Saumur. At seventeen, she was sent to live in the Aubazine orphanage after her mother died and her father ran away. After she left, she held done many jobs including seamstress and cabaret dancer. Through the theatre, she met Etienne Balsan, a playboy who bankrolled her move to Paris where she opened her first hat shop in 1909. Her next amour was Balsan's friend Arthur Capel, another wealthy Frenchman who has gone down in legend as the love of Coco?s life. However, more importantly for the Chanel empire, it was he who backed her expansion from hats to clothes and from Paris to all the fashionable...

ElizaF 05.11.2003 · Read review
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Review of Chanel No 19

Selecting a Sensuous Perfume

Advantages: Quite simply this perfume makes me feel good.
Disadvantages: none

...Chanel No 19 is my usual perfume but now and again I fancy a change – but I have rarely found one I like quite as much. However, I recently went to replenish my stock and re – discovered Fidji which I have also written an opinion on, which in turn reminded me of another favourite of long ago called Expression. I did a search on the internet for it but it seems to have been discontinued but while searching I found out quite a bit about perfume in general. I discovered that all the perfumes I have liked fall mainly in combinations of specific fragrance families, floral/chypre/green, and have several ingredients in common. So hopefully I will be able to find others I like in the future and maybe this opinion will help you to choose too. In order to write about Chanel 19 itself I must first attempt to explain the language...

Freespirit 31.05.2001 · Read review
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Adele 19

Advantages: Different styles, some sad, others you feel sorry for the woman sufferung
Disadvantages: Maybe not to everyone taste

...When I first got this album, after the strengths of Chasing Pavements, I decided to purchase this album. I like Amy Winehouse, but not looking good for her. Adele is different in the way she sings, you wouldn't think she was only 19. Her voice sounds Soulful/Jazz going to acoustic and pop. The lyrics are very poignant, in the way that it's way it's sung. Adele wrote every track and the music Here is my rundown 1 Daydreamer - This sounds like it's based on a boy who is another relationship, or he cheated on someone. 2 - Best For Last - This sounds like the woman is wanting the man to provide and to treat her right. It feels the woman is getting fed up with the man who seems he isnt bothered about love 3 - Chasing Pavements, This is based on a fight that happened, but to me it's like you don't know where to turn in life. It...

FunnyFan 25.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of 19 - Adele

Can you count to 19?

Advantages: Rolls along after a slow start, big scope and scale
Disadvantages: The slow start and the fact that I did not really like the characters enough to care about them

...The 19th Wife What is this story about? This novel tells several stories simultaneously, switching between three narrators: A contemporary narrator called Jordan is dealing with the fact that his father has been shot dead and his mother, the main suspect, is in jail. His mother is the 19th wife of the narrator?s polygamous father, who lives in the Utah desert in a religious sect (the sect is a break-away from the Mormons) The second voice is from the 1870?s memoirs of Ann Eliza Young the 19th wife of Brigham Young, Prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (the Saints or commonly known as the Mormons). The third voice is a contemporary voice of a Mormon academic who is writing a paper on Ann Eliza (the academic turns out to be a descendant of Ann Eliza, the 19th wife). 300 pages into this 600 page...

andyk910 01.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of The 19th Wife - David Ebershoff

Chanel No. 5 - eternal Femininity.

Advantages: sensual and feminine floral hart, good staying powder
Disadvantages: aldehydes - not everyone is used to this smell; can be found old-fashioned

...Chanel No. 5 will always remain a controversial perfume. Although used and praised for decades it's still a love or hate fragrance. I think it's because of aldehydes, the most important constituents of this fragrance. They possess a waxy, fatty smell that often makes think on washed and dried clothe. Aldehydes are found in nature (for example in a citrus peel), but never in amounts used in Chanel No. 5. That makes this smell a bit unnatural from one side, but it also gives an interesting exotic twist. In my opinion EDP is much softer than EDT version - the aldehydes are less sharp and the floral bouquet is more prominent. On my skin it starts with a fresh citrus note that slightly fades into a floral hart of orange blossom, rose and jasmine. An ultimate feminine bouquet, but modernized with waxy sharpness of the aldehydes...

VirtuMax 09.03.2009 · Read review
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Vectra SRi 1.9CDTi

Advantages: Great drive
Disadvantages: Economy suffers when driven hard.

...cannot say for other similar cars I have driven. The cockpit is reasonable - perhaps a little bland for some, but better than, say, a lower spec BMW. The boot is a good size and the syling is easy to live with. Front electric windows only, which I was dissapointed with. It's nice being able to wind down a rear window from the driving position. The Vectra is high wasted, and I would say that visibility is not the greatest. The seat is very adjustable though, so this can be compensated for to some degree. I found that economy, particularly on motorway driving, was good. However, the car is very responsive and any aggressive driving does have a penaly in economy. I averaged around 55mpg, with around 80% motorway driving. I could push this to about 57mpg with very carefull driving. During my time with these vehicles, I experienced no...

cpennington 28.01.2006 · Read review
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Can Samsung Do No Wrong?

Advantages: Crisp clear picture, perfect sound quality, easy installation
Disadvantages: May no longer be widely available

...A new TV is always a big purchase, whether it's a 50" for your living room or a more modest one for your bedroom, you want to know that you're making the right purchase because most people keep their TV's for a good few years these days so you want to know that you're investing your hard earned cash in a good one. Well this is what I think anyway therefore when I was looking around for a new TV for my bedroom I wanted to shop around for the best bargain possible. My old bedroom TV was a thick Sony one with a built in video player that I barely watched however with the impending switchover happening I knew that I needed to modernise my old faithful to an up to date LCD screen I could be proud of. *** Availability *** After looking around for many weeks, both online and in high street stores I came across this Samsung 19...

Great_reviewer07 16.10.2009 · Read review
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Skoda Fabia 1.9tdi estate

Advantages: Price, economical, comfortable, fast acceleration, vast storage space
Disadvantages: None

...I bought my first Skoda 5 years ago when I retired from my full time occupation. I had intended to buy a decent second hand model but on visiting the dealer, I was so impressed with the estate version of the 1.9tdi Fabia, that I took the plunge. Having since had 100% reliability, economical fuel consumption , the added bonus of quick off the mark acceleration for an exceptionally value for money price, I am glad I took the plunge as I have not regretted my choice of car. Capacious boot space that takes all my golf clubs, trolley and more without having to lower the rear seats is also something to appreciate. I traded that in 3 years ago for the same model but with added extras such as cd player, air con, alloy wheels at what appeared to be very little price difference from the first one I bought. The ability to gain quick...

plod591 20.09.2007 (15.10.2007) · Read review
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