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Turning 10 in ’11: Game-Changing Beauty Products Hitting Their 10th Anniversary in 2011

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Can you believe it’s been 10 years since Dolce & Gabbana launched its Light Blue fragrance?

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Holiday Gift Guide Part 10 — For The Girl Staging Gwen Stefani’s “Sweet Escape”

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From her pink-haired, mid-riff baring days as the lead singer of No Doubt to the early days of her solo career, when she dyed her hair platinum blond and donned low-rise houndstooth print pants, Rasta-colored wristbands and knit caps, and printed hooded sweatshirts, to her current more glamorous look, which involved oversize shades, tons of plaid and chevron prints, bold platform heels and boots, and camo print details, Gwen Stefani has more than earned her spot among the most influential style icons of our day.

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Giorgio Armani Acqua di Gioia Eau de Parfum — Is It Water Of Life Or A Water Board Moment?

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This fall, Giorgio Armani was poised to regale ladies with a new aquatic fragrance billed as the female counterpart of the best-selling Acqua di Gio men’s scent introduced in 1996.

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Holiday Gift Guide Part 5 — For The Grace Jones-Loving, Warm Leatherette-Wearing Woman

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Almost three decades before Lady Gaga bewitched audiences with her outlandish costumes, New Wave/dance singer Grace Jones set the bar for lovable eccentricity, donning embellished face masks and sculptural, gravity-defying hats and headpieces; bucking traditional gender norms by rocking a masculine, cropped, flat top ‘do, along with blazers with squared shoulders; toying with dominatrix motifs through leather bustiers, fishnet tights, come-hitter platform heels, and figure-hugging leotards; wearing wire armor ensembles; and generally advancing the avant-garde agenda.

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Holiday Gift Guide Part 3 — For The Girl Who Wants To “Smile” Like Lily Allen

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For the third installment of this year’s gift guide, which is inspired by female music icons (as you know from last week’s ode to Pat Benatar and the previous tribute to Janelle Monae’s equestrian-meets-funk style), we’re focusing on British pop star Lily Allen.

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Jo Malone English Pear & Freesia Cologne — An Ode To Keats And Autumn

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In his classic poem “Ode to Autumn,” British romantic poet John Keats referred to fall as the “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,” which conspired with the sun to “fill all fruit with ripeness to the core.” Inspired by Keats’ notion of fruits at their ripest point, perfumer Christine Nagel envisioned a fragrance anchored by the pear’s juiciness.

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The Nesting Instinct — New NEST Fragrances Pumpkin Chai Candle

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When dried leaves in sunset orange, cardinal red, mulberry, and mustard yellow are scattered on the ground, making crunching sounds underneath our boot-clad feet, our aromatic palettes, too, begin to change.

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Turkish Delight — L’Artisan Parfumeur Introduces Its New Traversée Du Bosphore Fragrance

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The city of Istanbul straddles the Bosphorus, a narrow navigational strait connecting the Black Sea and the Sea of Namara (which is itself connected to the Aegen Sea).

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Womanity by Thierry Mugler Eau de Parfum Spray — The Woman On Top

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Sweet and savory, with a hint of salt — that’s the directive Thierry Mugler gave Pierre Aulas, the Olfactory Artistic Director of Thierry Mugler Parfums, during the beginning stages of developing the Womanity Eau de Parfum Spray, the follow-up to 1992’s Angel and 2005’s Alien.

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Life’s A Beach With Pacifica’s New California Star Jasmine Body Butter

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A climbing, ornamental plant, the star jasmine is commonly cultivated in California both because of the its white blooms’ pretty star shape and its romantic fragrance.

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