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Budget Options: Kiehl’s Original Musk EDT Spray for Men

Budget Options: Kiehl's Original Musk EDT is less than $50, excellent quality and readily available in a wide variety of locations.
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Safari by Ralph Lauren (Review): A trip down memory lane

This isn’t as much a review as a walk back through time to a slightly different period and an ever-so-slightly different piece from the period. After some research and reading, I acquired Safari for Men by Ralph Lauren, one of their pieces from the early 1990′s. And my search was about more than 90′s vintage [...]
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Creed Royal Service: Review & First Impressions

My own sources at Creed advised me months ago to expect new releases by the end of the year. As time unfolded, we were advised that one of those would be a special 250th Anniversary Limited Edition with only 300 copies to be released, each signed by Olivier & Erwin Creed. Now that the press is out, [...]
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Gucci Guilty Intense Pour Homme (Review)

I should mention from the top that I dislike the marketing implications of “intense” in a product name. It suggests an “ordinary version” and, provided you can handle it, an “intense version”, as if there’s something missing or weak about the regular (non-intensely named) product. Or that something must be so wrong about the standard [...]
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Penhaligon’s Sartorial (Review): Barber of Savile Row.

I remembered recently that my first experience with Penhaligon’s was a stop in their Regent Street store back in 2006 with my wife while we were shopping in London. Both of us thought it was interesting and a quaint step into Victorian Britain, though neither of us walked away having purchased anything during that trip. [...]
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Estee Lauder Private Collection Tuberose Gardenia (Review)

It’s difficult sometimes to really summarize a beauty products company such as Estee Lauder since they’re the world’s largest purveyor of fragrances — their own and those designers that are sourcing through Estee Lauder for their own manufacture and distribution. Sometimes, it’s not as black & white as one might think. For instance, all of [...]
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