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Top Tips for Men's Fragrances. Amouage have a mixed pedigree producing scents.

Top Tips for Men's Fragrances

This wonderfully aromatic scent from Amouage is reminiscent of summer skies and floral scented breeze. It is gentle fragrance that is the smell of clear summer nights, the ozone of sea breeze scented with forest flowers but with the right hint of woodsmoke and spices to make it masculine. The Ultimate Guide to Buying Cologne: Grooming + Health. Your choice of cologne can be as make-or-break to your personal style as your choice of shoes.

The Ultimate Guide to Buying Cologne: Grooming + Health

That doesn’t mean spending an afternoon sniffing strips of scented paper is fun. Choose Your Signature Fragrance. Farah Averill Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter.

Choose Your Signature Fragrance

Making essential oil perfumes. Making essential oil perfumes. Perfumes.

Making essential oil perfumes

They look great, even smell great...but what are they doing to your body? The first perfumes in the world were basically essential oils. Two thousand years later, there is very little in our perfumes that is natural or even from an essential oil. Advances in chemistry over the last 100 years, have meant that the perfume industry relies largely on synthetics that mimic the best that nature has to offer. One of the best things you can do for yourself is to stop using the synthetic perfumes, colognes, after-shaves and eau-de-toilettes. Perfume notes There are 3 notes – top note, middle note and base note – that are used by the perfumeries, to indicate the volatility of a scent, i.e. the amount of time that a scent lingers. Top note (also known as head note) essential oils are fresh, sharp and evaporate rapidly (very volatile). The middle note (also known as the Heart note) supports the top note, provides the body of the fragrance and smooths out the edges of the blend.

How to Make Natural Essential Oils. Make Your Own Essential Oil. Aromatic Lifestyle. Amla is a sour fruit from the Phyllanthus emblica tree which is native to India but grows throughout southeast Asia.

Aromatic Lifestyle

Amla is rich in Vitamin C, anti-oxidants, and fiber which has made it a popular dietary supplement. Amla is used extensively in Ayruvedic medicine for a variety of conditions from constipation to prevent graying of the hair. For beauty Amla is best known for it’s effect on stimulating hair growth, and since it’s still relatively undiscovered, less expensive than the very popular Argan (is it possible for an ingredient to be over-exposed?). Anyway, my first time using anything Amla related was in a hair product. Later on, while checking out ingredients for a class I did over the summer I discovered the Amla in powder form. Left: Dried Amla Powder Right: 1tsp Amla Powder with Almond Milk. How to Make Your Own Perfume Oil. If you’re a perfume junkie but tired of wearing the same scents as everyone else with access to Bloomingdales, maybe it’s time you learned to make your own bottle of perfume.

How to Make Your Own Perfume Oil

The good news: it’s really easy to do and if you already know what your favorite ingredients are, you’re set. The mildly annoying news: the ingredients you use and the amount therein can change a perfume from amazing to awful in a snap. The Fragrance Wheel: Choose Perfumes Like A Pro (P) Diy perfume sur Etsy, la plateforme de vente du fait main et du vintage. DIY Natural Perfume. Creating your own perfume from scratch can only be judged a succes if you, and the people around you, like it.

DIY Natural Perfume

Start with a simple Eau de Cologne, or any of the following special blends. At home perfumery: How to make your own signature scent. If you're a perfume junkie but tired of wearing the same scents as everyone else with access to Bloomingdales, maybe it's time you learned to make your own bottle of perfume.

At home perfumery: How to make your own signature scent

- Black Refer - Black/African American Beauty Cosmetics - Skin Care With Makeup, Hair, & Fragrance Tips. (BPRW) HairSaché LLC Makes HerCase Available for Sale - One-of-a-Kind Storage Case for Keeping Beauty Secrets Fashionably Discreet - (BLACK PR WIRE) – HairSaché LLC has launched the Doshia® brand Original HerCase Collection® providing women of all ages with a fashionably discreet, light-weight and easy-to-use “multi-storage solution” for beauty and cosmetic products ranging from wigs, clip-ons, hair pieces, and hair extensions, to make-up, jewelry, and other personal care essentials such as combs, brushes, and satin caps.

- Black Refer - Black/African American Beauty Cosmetics - Skin Care With Makeup, Hair, & Fragrance Tips

If you’re puzzled on where to store your cosmetics, wigs, hair pieces or accessories while at home or traveling, HerCase may be the perfect solution. This revolutionary product was designed by Pamela A. Reid, an avid user of various beauty and hair care products, and President and CEO of HairSaché LLC. Reid is a Miami Dade College North Campus graduate and Florida Atlantic University senior majoring in Psychology, who has been using fashion wigs for many years. Bond No. 9 Perfume Creator Sued for $3 Million For Racists Remarks. Two former employees of Bond No. 9 perfume are suing owner Laurice Rahme over alleged racist remarks toward dark-skinned customers.

Bond No. 9 Perfume Creator Sued for $3 Million For Racists Remarks

Veronica Robledo and Karin Widmann demand $3 million for claiming Rahme violated their civil rights by firing them after they spoke out against her racist behavior, such as calling African-Americans “thieves.” Robledo and Widman told The New York Daily News , their boss had secret phrases to alert security when a black customer came in the store. Robledo, who is Puerto Rican, also said she was not allowed to service white customers because of her darker skin. “I was very offended,” Robledo told the news publication. According to the lawsuit, “we need the light bulbs changed,” was one of the code phrases Rahme would use to alert security when she felt a customer had to be watched.