Now Smell This Jessica Simpson Review

Now smell this has a great review of Jessica Simpsons debut perfume. From the sound of it, it looks like it will be a great perfume.

Jessica Simpson's debut fragrance, Fancy Jessica Simpson, is due to launch officially later this month. If you read here regularly, you already know that I'm pathetically out of it when it comes to pop culture — I don't read People, I don't listen to the radio, and I don't watch much "live" TV — and so Jessica Simpson is as mysterious to me as the rest of them. I don't know a darned thing about her personally, although I take it from prior comments here that she sings. But I do know one thing about her that is arguably more germane to this discussion anyway, and that is that she used to have a line of scented body products under the name Dessert Beauty.

Let me know what you think!

Top 10 Summer Perfume

Bois de Jasmine as a very nice list of perfumes for this summer. Included
in the list are Chanel Cristalle, Christian Dior Escale à Portofino,
and Serge Lutens Sarrasins.

"Every year I wait for the summer impatiently, even if I know that once the mercury levels start rising, I shall be miserable and cranky. Yet, the idea of a summer escape, of azure waves, of golden sand sticking to the skin, of ripe peaches, of jasmine scented nights is too irresistible, too seductive. My summer of 2008 is none of these things
(save for jasmine and peaches.) It is filled with work projects, and whatever
escape I manage lies in books and perfume. A spray of something orange blossom
scented, and I am transported to Riviera. A hint of dark woods and cardamom, and
I am having a cup of coffee someplace in the Omani oasis. The perfumes below are
just that—tickets for my escapist fantasies..."

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