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Speaking about luxury with Creezy Courtoy – historian, consultant and expert in luxury

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Journalist, historian, perfume expert, anthropologist, expert at European Commission, Perfume Foundation Chairman, Creezy Courtoy is specialised in luxury products communication and is the owner of CREEZY!The Agency. Creezy Courtoy founded The Perfume Foundation in 1995, those first objective was to promote the industry in organizing events for the industry. In 1998, after realising the increasing … Read more

Les Merveilleuses de Ladurée: From macarons to delicous makeup

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Les Merveilleuses de Ladurée: the macaron brand announces a new cosmetics line French luxury macaron brand Ladurée returns to its 2007 idea of transforming the pastel-colored macarons into a makeup collection. The cosmetics range entitled Les Merveilleuses de Ladurée (The Wonders of Ladurée) will include 20 different blush colors in the form of cameos as … Read more

L’Oreal Acquires Pacific Bioscience Laboratories

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Clarisonic Acquisition Will Boost L’Oreal’s Innovation Capacity in Cosmetic Devices L’Oréal announced the acquisition of Pacific Bioscience Laboratories, the market leader in the rapidly growing area of sonic skin care devices. The move gives L’Oréal access to patented sonic skin care technology enabling the company to acquire strategic positions in the quickly emerging skin care … Read more

Stella McCartney’s truffle fragrance

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Stella McCartney‘s latest fragrance, entitled L.I.L.Y, the perfume, is a unusual product that features truffle as a top note. L.I.L.Y fragrance also features notes of lily of the valley and oak moss. Master perfumer Jacques Cavallier (Firmenich) used natural extract of truffle: “I actually told the suppliers we were working with that the extract was … Read more

Clinique fights ageing with brown algae

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Clinique turn to brown algae in the fight against anti-ageing The brown algae also known as “Laminaria Digitata”, traditionally used as a fertilizer and spread on the land, has been found to provide energy to tired cells.  It has a multitude of benefits, including increasing essential energy to cells, encouraging natural collagen and elastin synthesis, … Read more

Beauty and personal care in Romania – report

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Euromonitor International, one of the leading providers of global business intelligence and strategic market analysis, has recently published a new report about beauty and personal care in Romania. According to the report, the Romanian beauty and personal care market continued to grow in 2010 reaching a value of RON 3,940.5 million, although at a slower … Read more