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Scents of the Day: The End

Last year, I did a project called Scent of the Day. For a month, every day, I talked about a scent on Facebook. I have been asked by friends to make these musings available on the blog, as it’s impossible to find anything on Facebook. So I’ve shared my mini-..

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7 New Cleansers

Sometimes, the workings of my brain really do make me worry. I am highly analytical by nature: I can dissect the imbalances in my wardrobe down to the tiniest details and have got my skincare routines down to a science. And yet, I recently discovered that wh..

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7 French Things That Made Me

I had in mind to post a rant about French style last Friday, but my sister’s piano arrived and intervened. Not surprisingly, I no longer feel like sharing my silly annoyances with the French lifestyle industry. I didn’t feel like writing anything at all, to ..

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6+ Favourite Skin Extras

If you’ve been here before, you are already intimately familiar with my morning and evening skincare steps and most of the time, that’s all I do to my skin. Well, many people would say that’s plenty (and I agree), but what I mean is that unless I’m having a ..

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6 (OK, 8) Favourite Foundations for Autumn

Considering my flighty nature, I used to be surprisingly loyal to my foundation favourites: I mostly wore the beautifully dewy YSL Le Teint Touche Eclat, occasionally switching to Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua and Laura Mercier’s classic tinted moisturizer. But th..

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Three Iris Fragrances I’d Rescue from a Burning House

Iris is perfume shorthand for elegant. Although it’s a flower, this note in perfume is not really floral – its source is the iris root that produces the ridiculously rare and expensive iris/orris butter used in fragrances. To me, the mood of iris has more in..

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Spring/Summer 2016: 9 Shows to Remember

I’ve been following the fashion weeks – thanks to the miracles of modern technology – for something like 15 years now, maybe 18. I must admit that the thrill is no longer quite the same as in the early days and there seem to be more shows and less fashion ev..

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Scents of the Day: Part 8

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3 Korean Skincare Products I Turned Out to Like

A few months ago, I bought a scary amount of Korean skincare: 13 items, to be precise. I promised to report back with my findings, and here I am. Before I get to the winners, though, let me explain why I’ve only included three things.

First of all, there..

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5+5 Autumny Autumn Fragrances

I don’t believe in perfume seasons. As with anything else, I think people should find out what works for them and then do/wear whatever they like – be it dark leathers in summer or colognes in winter. So it’s with some embarrassment that I admit to wearing q..