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May 6, 2011 | Hermès Eau de Pamplemousse RoseThere is a day, in early summer, known simply and jubilantly to me as ‘The Day’, when you can throw open the windows upon waking to find the world is already warm outside, with the leaves everywhere you look unfurling in that reach-for-your-sunglasses shade of spring green that’s perfect for foliage. (Though pretty terrible for [...]  March 11, 2011 | Jo Malone Sweet Lemon CologneIt’s a while since those of us in Beautyland got to preview Jo Malone’s Tea Collection, and I had forgotten my absolute instinctive reaction to Sweet Lemon – the fourth I’ll be reviewing, out of this quintet. It is my grandmother, in a bottle. Not my warm-and-cosy, capaciously-bosomed, rock-cake-baking granny (it’s the smell of geranium [...] March 7, 2011 | Jo Malone Fresh Mint CologneIn theory, fresh mint could be tricky, in a cologne. The danger is it could go all ‘toothpaste-y’. But I don’t find anything Colgate-ring-of-confidence about this second in the sequence of the Jo Malone Tea Collection that The Scent Critic is refreshing herself with over the next few postings: it’s genuinely ‘mint tea’ – that [...] March 4, 2011 | Jo Malone Assam & GrapefruitHave you ever stumbled upon an entire collection of fragrances, launched all at once, that you loved…? Me neither. Until now. Although maybe my passion for Jo Malone’s new tea-inspired collection is because The Scent Critic is such a tea-lover, at heart. Fuelled by cups of tea throughout the day – and quite a lot [...] October 12, 2010 | Jo Malone English Pear & FreesiaFor The Scent Critic, this has been the week of The Big Autumn Clothes Swap. When the linen shirts and pants get stowed for the winter, and it is time to retrieve the Wolford Velvet Deluxes from their lingerie bag, and uncover the havoc any moths may have wreaked on the cashmere collection. (This year [...] |
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