tonka bean Archive

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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Budget Options: Tsar by Van Cleef and Arpels

For this week’s Budget Option, I’ve chosen Tsar by Van Cleef and Arpels, and in doing so there are a few reasons behind it. Foremost, you can find this on store shelves provided you do some looking. The fragrance has not been completely obsoleted by newer scents from the designer, so finding this doesn’t necessarily [...]
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Budget Options: Versace Dreamer

I’m stepping back in time about sixteen years in order to review Versace Dreamer, and one may wonder why I’d do that. This story takes some odd twists and turns. In Versace Dreamer, we have a fragrance that is unique and acclaimed by aficionados of perfumes, and this was a recommendation for a ‘blind-buy’ as [...]
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Tom Ford Private Blend Oud Wood: Review

As part of an upscale collection of fragrances, Tom Ford Private Blend Oud Wood was released with several other scents as Tom Ford Private Blend, a line designed to appeal to a more upscale clientele who wanted a more niche-focused collection of fragrances. The collection started with twelve individual fragrances and grew through the addition [...]
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News Updates: 10/14/11

News Updates — New York (10/14/11 8:15PM): Bond No. 9 New York Amber arrives! You read it here first, and it’s now official! Bond No. 9 has announced the release of New York Amber earlier today in this notice on their Blog as well as Facebook, confirming the speculation we originally raised from the bottle’s appearance at [...]
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Midnight in Paris (Review) – Van Cleef & Arpels

Occasionally, a mass-market fragrance will come along and become that season’s ‘must-have’ in a way that seems to please nearly everyone. This is when the bells ring for me that sampling and wearing this might prove disappointing for me on some level, since so many people will sample, like, buy and wear it before it [...]
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