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Lampe Berger Opens Pop Up Boutique in New York

Filed under: Decor, Holiday Guides, Celebrity Design, Luxury Shopping

Lampe Berger opens new pop up store on Madison Avenue in Manhattan

Lampe Berger, the 110-year old French luxury home fragrance company has opened a pop up store in New York. The boutique features the complete range of Lampe Berger's latest cutting edge technology with products that deodorize, create beautiful scents and decorate the home with exquisite designs.

"This Pop Up Store gives us the perfect opportunity to create an enticing, luxurious environment in which to share the Lampe Berger experience with the people of Manhattan," says Cherry Robinson, Lampe Berger Vice President of Marketing and Sales.

Lampe Berger's beautiful signature lamps, each a work of art in itself, are available for purchase as well as its exquisite home fragrance collection---just in time for anyone searching for a truly unique gift to give a friend of loved one for the holidays. Lampe Berger products create an atmosphere where undesirable odors are banished, leaving an environment that is delicately scented. Its new scent-release system known as "catalysis" provides clean and beautifully scented air at home.

The first Lampe Berger lamp was created in 1898 by Maurice Berger, a pharmacy dispenser, to purify the air in hospital wards. By 1930, as fragrances were skyrocketing in popularity around the world, the company's dispensers, known as "lampes" had become a collector's item. Early collectors included artists Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso. Lampe Berger is known for its many innovations, many of which are patented around the world.

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Layering Home Fragrances

by Carrie Coolidge (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor, Cosmetics and Fragrance

Slatkin & Co. Candle and layering scents One of the things that Luxist Awards Expert Panelist Harry Slatkin is known for is home fragrances. Slatkin is founder of Slatkin & Co., the premier home fragrance brand celebrated for its scent experience and design (now a division of Bath & Body Works). He oversees product development for all the home fragrance brands under Bath & Body Works, the country's largest bath and body retailer with over 1,650 stores.

In this video, Slatkin explains how to layer home fragrances.

"Start with your favorite," he says. "Buy a fragrance that appeals to you. Start there. Then go back to the store and pick another one that you like that will set a different mood and then try to combine them. Chances are that it is going to work. But if they don't, then try another combination."

Home decorating has become very expensive. To recover one chair, for example, can be very expensive.

"One scented candle changes the entire ambiance of a room," says Slatkin. "You can have a person come over several times to your home and they may think you have changed something just from the ambiance of smell."

Combining scents creates different moods. "You can have four different scents and create 16 different moods," he adds.

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Frederic Malle High-Tech Home Fragrance Collection

by Deb West (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Cosmetics and Fragrance

Really the high end home fragrance market has been mainly limited to candles. We've covered some of the very fancy and nicely scented candles on the market from such people as Jo Malone, Slatkin & Co., and even Manolo Blahnik. Other than candles, the pickings in the home fragrance category are slim have been relegated to very decidedly non-luxe manufactures such S.C. Johnson and their products such as Glade. Frederic Malle the Frenchman and driving force behind Editions de Parfums Frederic Malle with flagship stores in Paris, and now New York has decided to turn his attention to those used in the home.

On his web-site he states his home fragrance philosophy:
"You don't want to perfume a house the way you perfume a person. You don't want to cover up life's odors but you want to complement them."

Not only did Frederic and his partners create 9 new fragrances for the home but also 3 inventive ways, well two innovative and one standard, to diffuse your home with scent.

Fleur Mecanique: An 11cm red cube which met the teams requirements to be esthetically pleasing, silent (so that you could sleep right next to it), wireless (it recharges like a cell phone), and allows you to create a a natural scent of a fresh bouquet of flowers at will. It comes with 5 choices of fragrance refills.
Rubber Incense: a unique concept to replace lavender sachets, which often get musty over time, in small places such as closets, and car interiors. The 118g rubber mat emits perfume for a substantial time with out needing a refill or electricity.
Candles: 9 different handmade candle selections to choose from although it might have been interesting to dispense with this done to death format completely.

The Fleur Mecanique, available only in flagship stores, costs $380 dollars which includes one refill, and candles range in price from $85 - $125 dollars. If you don't live in Paris or New York you can purchase the rubber incense and candles on-line. The perfumes are available at one of the many stores such as Barney's that carry the fragrances (but not the home collection) worldwide.

Gallery: Frederic Malle High-Tech Home Fragrance Collection

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Saint Parfum Custom Blend Home Fragrance

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Cosmetics and Fragrance

The other day I mentioned custom perfumes but for a lower price point you can give (or get) a custom home fragrance from Saint Parfum. Saint Parfum says they maintain the largest in-house fragrance note palate of any home-fragrance brand in the world and offer 101 home fragrances as well as custom blends. Custom blends cost a $175 one time fee plus the cost of products which include candles and reed diffusers. You can select for your recipient or go the gift certificate route.

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Agraria Home Fragrance

by Annie Scott (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor, Cosmetics and Fragrance

Agraria is a fine fragrance company based in San Francisco. Their products not only smell beautiful, but they look beautiful as well, and truly enrich the splendor of any well-decorated room. We covered them last March when they began carrying the Michael S Smith collection, which quickly became a major name in home fragrance.

Newly included in the prestigious Bergdorf Goodman's Home Decor Catalogue, the Villa Potpourri Boxes above have a gentle rustic look and scent. The potpourri box is a perfect way to release fragrance into a room while protecting it from dust bunnies. You can also purchase the Villa Potpourri Boxes here on the Agraria website for $150 to $325. Love someone with a musty-smelling home? This is their holiday gift.

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Lafco Home Candles

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor, Cosmetics and Fragrance

I love the fragrance floor plan on the Lafco website. It is set up like the floor plan of a home, click on a room and it takes you to the candle for that room. Examples include cilantro orange for the kitchen, chamomile lavender for the master bedroom and fresh-cut gardenia for the living room. The candles each in a glass holder, sell for $48 each.

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Volupsa Six-Candle Gift Set

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor, Cosmetics and Fragrance

Now that the cool weather is upon us, it's time to bring out the candles. Voluspa has a set of six candles in a golden box that would be great as a hostess gift for upcoming holiday parties. The six candles use exotic scents: linden blond tabac, cocoa tamarind, mimosa martini, enfluerage, jasmine brown sugar and mignonette. Each candle burns for 25 hours and the set can be found for $36 online.

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Elton John Fireside Collection

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Cosmetics and Fragrance

Some celebrities go into the wine business, some open restaurants, others have clothing or accessories lines. Music legend Elton John has finally created a product line. Fashion Week Daily reports that Elton has teamed up with Bath & Body Works to create the Fireside Collection. The line of candles and other home fragrance products will benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation. There will also be a Legendary Rock Sweepstakes that gives consumers the chance to win a$75,000 5.5 carat diamond pendant by designer Daniel K. You can register for notification when the products launch at the Bath & Body Works website.

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Prince's Wife Plans Home Fragrance Line

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Cosmetics and Fragrance

Prince's wife, Manuela Testolini Nelson is launching a new home fragrance line, Altru, which is based on her travels around the world. Altru is part of Gamillah, her company which is aligned with a variety of social causes. WWD reports that there will be 16 pieces in the Altru collection including soy-based candles, interior fragrance oils and incense sticks and holders. More than half of the proceeds will go to the In A Perfect World Foundation, a non-profit organization designed to inspire children to become world leaders. The Altru products are divided into six groups based on certain scents and named for qualities such as Harmony (tanenashi persimmon), Integrity(Persian lilac and bamboo), Artistry (masala chai), Remembrance (grapefruit and Italian rosemary), Wellness (white clove and wild ginger) and Appreciation (tiare and white freesia). Prices range from $15 to $65 an the products will be sold starting in October exclusively at Nordstrom and at Manhattan's ABC Carpet & Home.

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