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But only if you live in America. Turns out that a multi million dollar class action lawsuit settlement with cosmetic companies.

The suit claims cosmetic companies and department stores conspired to fix prices, and they’ve won.

So, if you bought any cosmetics from department stores like Macy’s and Nordstroms between 1994 and 2003. The brands include MAC, Chanel and more.

Long lines are expected around department stores when the makeup is handed out.

If you want to be notified when they name the dates and locations, you can call 1-877-604-5776.

Or you can sign up to be notified by going to www.cosmeticssettlement.com

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Creed Perfume, the luxury fragrance makers are releasing a new perfume inspired by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her marriage to the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. The new fragrance is named “Love in Black” and is to be released to commemorate Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ 40th wedding anniversary to her second husband.

The new scent is described as a violet oriental scent with the fragrance composed of top notes of wildflowers, violet and Virginia cedar, middle notes of iris, clove and Tonkin musk, and bottom notes of black current and Bulgarian rose. The bottle of the perfume is made with black sands, which is similar to the Greek isles where Jacqueline was wed in 1968.

A part of the sales of the new fragrance in the United States will benefit the World Wildlife Fund.

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The makers of perfumes for dogs and cats, Brazil’s Pet Passion wants to export their range of perfume products to France. In a bid to capture the big European market, Pet Passion wants to start of their campaign with France, the land of perfumes.

The company has ambitious plans to export their products even to the Middle East, including Dubai. The director and partner at the brand, Émerson Wan has just returned after a visit at the pet shops and factories that make perfumes for animals in the south of France.

Pet Passion is headquartered in Curitiba, capital of the southern Brazilian state of Paraná and they have specific ranges of pet perfumes especially for bathing and trimming.

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A pioneering scheme has been undertaken in the Land of the Rising Sun. Users will be able to download perfume from the internet.

NTT Communications Corp in a trial run is asking 20 people to keep 16 aroma pots in their room. These pots can release their individual base smell from signals from a mobile phone. When users download music/video from NTT Communications WAP Internet Site, the aroma pods are triggered by the mobile phone, releasing a certain amount of fragrance. These scents can combine to form nearly 200 fragrances.

The trial starts tomorrow and due to last 10 days. If it takes off, it will be rolled out later this year.

Source: Reuters

When applying perfume, it’s important to remember the pulse points on your body to maximise the use of it.

Your pulse points, if you cannot tell, are places on your body where you can feel your pulse. If you think about it, applying perfume to them works well as your heart beats, you disturb the perfume, which refreshes the fragrance.

The problem is that as your body gets used to the fragrance, it can make your skin more resistant to it. So, with that in mind, it’s a good idea to vary between your pulse points. Here are some of them:

• Behind your knees
• ankles
• wrists
• crook of your elbow
• cleavage
• the nape of your neck

Of course, if you have Eau Du Toilette then you would have to re-apply it every hour or so. Therefore, it’s a good idea to apply it before going out, after a bath or shower, in one of the pulse points that are not quite as dignified to access! When out, and you have your eau du toilette with you, you can easily apply it to your neck or wrists.

Another area that it is becoming increasingly popular to put perfume is on your hairbrush. Then, when you brush your hair, the perfume smells stick to your hair for the evening, and linger on throughout the evening.

Wonder how you keep that nice bottle of Paul Smith Perfume fresh for as long as possible? Well, wonder no more as this article will give you basic tips on keeping your perfume smelling fresh like the day you bought it.

Keep It Out of Strong Heat and Light
A shady corner in the bathroom or inside a medicine cabinet is ideal place for keeping a bottle of perfume. Both the light and the heat can damage the colour and - therefore - the scent.

Keep Upright
Ever wonder why perfume bottles come in boxes? Well it’s to prevent it from shaking about too much. When you are not using it, keep it standing as it should. Plus the bottle looks a lot nicer.

Buy The Right Perfume
If you don’t wear much fragrance, choose one with a higher concentration of alcohol in it. Perfume with a higher percentage of alcohol lasts longer (by about 5-6months longer).

Perfume retailer “The Perfume Shop” has announced this year’s “Nose of the Year” Awards. The competition, which will be voted for by the general public, will culminate in an awards ceremony on February 7th in London. The nominees are:-

• Gok Wan,
• Ben Shepherd,
• Jeremy Edwards,
• Craig Doyle,
• Alan Sugar,
• Brian Dowling,
• Cheryl Cole,
• Melanie Sykes,
• Kate Middleton,
• Rachel Stevens,
• Denise Van Outen,
• Tina O Brien

The Perfume Shop Marketing Director, Julia Bolsom, commented,

“For us at The Perfume Shop, it’s people’s noses that get us excited! So we put our heads together and decided to start a campaign to really celebrate the nose – starting with our Nose of the Year Award! We asked staff across our 170 shops to select their favourite celebrity noses and now it’s down to the public vote!”

We Say:  Seems to me to be a bit of a pointless exercise. For one, are we looking for somebody with the nicest looking nose? Or are we looking for somebody with the best sense of smell, only time will tell.

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You’d think that if you were a mega star like Nicole Kidman, being paid £2.5 Million to be the face of Chanel, you wouldn’t wear anything but that, right?

Well, it appears as though there’s a bit of a row, where it was allegedly emerged that the movie star wore a rival brand on the set of The Golden Compass.

 ”The Aussie actress, 40, was accused of wearing Jo Malone’s White Jasmine & Mint during filming for The Golden Compass.”

Of course, she was quick to quell the rumours, so it was something and nothing.

We Say: Surely all publicity is good publicity?

Source: Daily Mirror

No. 1 Perfume has gone recently into the record books as the worlds most expensive perfume. The fragrance, which comes in a unique bottle, is said to cost $26,000 per ounce. That’s more than some people earn in a year, and for what? Just to smell nice I guess.

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A perfume bar, the first of it’s kind, is to open in Brunei. The country which prohibits the sale of alcohol is trying to find methods of generating further income for the wealthy former British colony, especially to attract new tourism.

Mercier Boutique, based in Gadong, will sell the “Grasse” range from France.

The premise is simple, Customers can bring their own empty bottle or choose from Mercier’s collection of refillable perfume bottles and purchase the desired amount from the perfume bar.

The advantage of this new perfume concept is that customers can purchase more variety of fragrances at smaller amount giving them the benefit of enjoying a wider selection, said the owner.

Source - Brudirect.com