AD | Ten Seriously Good Space NK Beauty Products
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AD | Ten Seriously Good Space NK Beauty Products

Some beauty shopping scenarios for you, tick all that apply: – you’re in need of a skincare restock but don’t know where to begin – you’ve saved up for a beauty treat but want something that truly delivers on results – you’re sad that summer is coming to an end and desperate to prolong your…

Atkinsons Love In Idleness Fragrance Review
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Love In Idleness: If Naughty Fairies Wore Scent

Atkinsons’ Love In Idleness is such a romantic, beautifully feminine fragrance – I mentioned this in my Valentine’s Day post as a springtime alternative to the more predictable rose scents, but it’s good for all-year-round-wearing, really, so long as you like your perfumes light and pretty. I don’t know too much about Atkinsons as a brand, other…

diptyque philosykos eau de toilette
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Diptyque Philosykos: A Life-Long Love Affair

I made a cheeky little Space NK purchase just before Christmas; the Philosykos eau de toilette from Diptyque. This makes it  – by far – my most-repurchased luxury beauty item. I can’t think of any other product I race through so quickly and so religiously keep “in stock”. I thought that my love of Philosykos pre-dated this…

tom ford fragrance
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Tom Ford Soleil Blanc: The Summery Wintery Dry Oil Spray

Well this is just extraordinary. It has to be the most un-seasonal seasonal beauty release I’ve ever happened upon: a winter launch of a fragrance product that is so summery, so reminiscent of tropical islands and hot holidays and steamy evenings, it’s virtually growing legs and wandering off to find a warm cupboard to hibernate…

Tom Ford Orchid Soleil : Liquidised Holiday Vibes
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Tom Ford Orchid Soleil : Liquidised Holiday Vibes

Those still searching for their signature summer scent might like to give Tom Ford’s Orchid Soleil a try. It’s heady but not cloying, exotic but in the “steamy, sexy nights” way instead of the “I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts” sort of way. You know the exotic scents I’m talking about: Pina Colada crossed with a blowsy white floral. Perfectly…

affordable fragrances
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Thrifty Scent

Thrifty Scent. I know what you’re all thinking: has she really gone to the effort of compiling a whole feature based around an incredibly bad pun? The answer to that question is yes. Yes I have. And it’s not even my own bad pun, I nicked it from Mr AMR. If you’re at a loss to know what the…

McQueen Parfum by Alexander McQueen
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McQueen Parfum by Alexander McQueen

Something as dark and decadent as this new fragrance launch could only have come from Alexander McQueen. McQueen Parfum is just brilliant; everything about it has been executed with absolute precision, from the theatrical black glass flacon to the way the perfume changes and fades upon the skin. It’s mysterious, powerful and completely unpredictable, with Sambac Jasmine, Tuberose…

The Candle of the Perfume I’m Banned from Mentioning…
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The Candle of the Perfume I’m Banned from Mentioning…

This candle shoots straight to the very top of my favourites list; the scent is supremely sexy. I adore Bottega Veneta’s Eau de Parfum, but until now have been banned from talking about it here on the website. My friend Alex Byrne (supremo makeup artist extraordinaire) was wearing it a couple of years ago and she would…

Pierre Hermé’s Pamplemousse Rhubarbe…
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Pierre Hermé’s Pamplemousse Rhubarbe…

Pamplemousse Rhubarbe sounds much better than “Grapefruit and Rhubarb”, doesn’t it? The French version makes me think of a delicious dessert with clouds of light meringue and some kind of tart, brightly-coloured sauce drizzled over the top. Or an amazingly light and fluffy cake, rather like a lemon drizzle cake, but using Pamplemousse instead, shot through with impossibly…