Beauty Insider - Perfume & Home Fragrance
Beauty Insider - Perfume & Home Fragrance
This beauty insider article featured in the September InStyle magazine, written by journalist Kayleigh Donahue Hodes, informs us where the pros seek out their fave beauty gems for home fragrance and perfumes.
Excerpts from a fragrance editorial, Where the Insiders Find Beauty Gems, in InStyle Magazine, September 2016 issue.
Where the Insiders Find Beauty Gems
"We asked dozens of beauty pros with frequent-flier miles to spare for their must-stop specialty hubs, whether you're hunting for a natural skin salve or a runway-inspired hair accessoryi you'll discover it at one of these must-know destinations."
-- Kayleigh Donahue Hodes, Journalist
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Luxe Candles
CANDLE DELIRIUM
Ever walk into a sumptuous hotel lobby and wonder how you can make your home smell just as intoxicating? The answer is likely in this boutique. "There's an incredible array of options. They carry candles from companies you've never even heard of," says N.Y.C. makeup artist Daniel Martin, who travels the globe for shoots and keeps an eye out for botanically scented versions from Carrière Frères. The price range is also impressive: You can score Aquiesse oak room sprays for $30, making is a perfect place to find hostess gifts. Can't get to Santa Monica Boulevard? Shop online and enjoy free gift-wrapping. CANDLE DELIRIUM: 7980 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, Calif.; 888-656-3903; candledelirium.com.
Aquiesse Room Sprays
French Oak Currant - A sophisticated blend of red currant, cassis, citrus, and French oak, $30.
Non-aerosol glass bottle and fine mist sprayer.
Carriere Freres Candles
CEDAR - Cedrus Atlantica Candle, $45.
Made by Cire Trudon, very fine vegetable wax burn slowly and neatly for 50 hours.
Niche Scents
NOSE
You won't have to duck and hide from incoming scent clouds in this elegant atmosphere: Salespeople offer you a "diagnosis," asking about your past favorites before suggesting a new fragrance. The bar stocks rows of brown apothecary bottles filled with notes begging to be explored. "You can spend hours in there finding your next aroma without being hasseled," says Martin. "It's a real sensory journey." NOSE: 20 rue Bochoumont, Paris; 33-1-40-26-46-03; nose.fr/en.
SCENT BAR
For the fragrance fanatic, this stop is "truly an amazing experience," says Los Angeles makeup artist Kirin Bhatty. The store features limited-edition and hard-to-find fragrances in addition to more popular picks, and the extremely knowledgeable staff is just waiting to guide your nose to a new signature. Want to take one for a test-drive? No problem - Scent Bar is big on creating samples (as well as sample sets so you can experiment with a few at once), meaning you can avoid spritzer's remorse. SCENT BAR: 7405 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles; 323-782-8300; luckyscent.com/scentbar
Atelier Cologne
Bergamote Soleil - The sweltering heat of an Italian summer, a sense of freedom and adventure, $120.
Diptyque Fragrance
Eau Moheli - Ylang-Ylang, the "flower of all flowers" is exotic and tropical, $98.
(Donahue Hodes, Kayleigh. "Beauty: Where the Insiders Find Beauty GEms." InStyle Sept. 2016: 381)
Photo of Kayleigh Donahue Hodes © MindBodyGreen
