FiFi Award Winner Michael Edwards Debuts New Book: Fragrances of the World 2005
Crescent House Publishing announces a new 2005 edition of "Fragrances of the World" from author Michael Edwards, who won a FiFi Award earlier this year from The Fragrance Foundation in New York for the online version, Fragrances of the World.Info.
Crescent House Publishing is the North American distributor for the book, which is found on its site, http://www.fabulousfragrances.com, as well as on http://www.BarnesandNoble.com and http://www.Amazon.com.Without the enthusiasm and passion of Michael Edwards, a man who lives and breathes fragrance, the fragrance world would be a poorer place.The new guide puts more than 4,000 fragrances at one's fingertips, and adds 428 new releases.
Edwards's guidebooks have changed the way fragrances are sold by classifying scents into 12 easy-to-understand families.
The book contains prestige, niche, limited edition, bridge, and mass market fragrances, family by family.
It is the only guide to match feminine and masculine fragrances, making it easy to suggest gifts.
A must-have for fragrance and beauty professionals, the guidebook lists fragrances from 596 houses.Edwards won the coveted 2004 FiFi award for Technological Breakthrough of the Year from The Fragrance Foundation in New York, a leading industry organization.
A Paris, France resident, Edwards divides his time between Sydney, New York, and London, as well as other cities in his unending quest for new fragrances.
Edwards's previous book, the glossy, in-depth historical guide "Perfume Legends: French Feminine Fragrances" is a veritable love letter to the creation of classic French perfumes, demonstrating his devotion to the perfume industry.Edwards was among the first to identify the need to simplify the business of selling and buying fragrance. With the market literally drowning in perfume launches - more than 1800 new ones have appeared since 2000 - he recognized that the only truly effective way to cut through the growing confusion and help guide customers to the right fragrance choices was to classify perfumes by the way they smell. The idea is simple, but stunningly effective: people tend to select most of the fragrances they wear from just one or two of the twelve fragrance families.
Armed with this guide, it is easy to suggest other fragrances to try from the families that hold the most appeal. Selling fragrances by their scent - as well as House affiliation and seductive imagery - has been a dazzling success. More and more retailers are turning to Fragrances of the World and its online counterpart to boost flagging sales at the perfume counters. His classification system was recently introduced to Sephora in the US showcasing the Fragrance Finder for Sephora.
An interesting online version was recently developed for Sephora.com.
See the Fragrance Finder at http://www.sephora.com.
Collaborating with fellow author Jan Moran, Edwards created a second online program, Fabulous Fragrances.Info, a retail-oriented online program and database which combines Edwards's classifications with Moran's extensive fragrance reviews.
Moran wrote the industry acclaimed book, "Fabulous Fragrances II" and won a "Stevie Award" for Technological Innovator of the Year in 2004, an achievement noted on http://www.stevieawards.com.About the Book:Fragrances of the World 2005; US $130; ISBN # 097560970X.
Images for publication may be downloaded from http://www.fabulousfragrances.com/preskit_images.html.
For more information, visit http://www.fabulousfragrances.com.
Contact Information:Anne HammonsCrescent House Publishinghttp://www.fabulousfragrances.com760-775-9151.
Decorating For Real People
I spent a recent weekend curled up with a stack of decorating magazines. I read them cover to cover - usually back to front, but that's the way I read most magazines and newspapers. I studied each photograph and tried to determine the particular design concept that was being presented. I looked at the number and placement of accessories, how and where arrangements of items were hung on the walls, choices of color and texture, and flooring selections. Each photo was scrutinized in the minutest detail.
At some point I started to wonder for whom these absolutely gorgeous rooms were designed. Bedside tables held no alarm clocks or clock radios. While there was usually an abundance of decorative items, there were no tissue boxes or eyeglass cases. Dressers displayed beautifully arranged floral creations and perhaps a cut glass perfume bottle or two, with ornamental stoppers. No jewelry boxes, no lotion bottles, none of the everyday stuff of life.
I don't know about you but I...
Decorating For Real People
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How to Get Promoted
How to Get Promoted
From the time we begin working in a company or business, in the back of our minds, the goal is to move up the ladder, and achieve a higher status along with better pay. There are many steps to achieve this accomplishment, but a combination of many steps, are often necessary. A good amount of patience and fortitude is required.Here are suggestions, to get promoted: First, check to see if your company will consider you for the new promotion or if the company will seek only someone, from the outside. Become knowledgeable of the requirements you will need to have, or perquisites, for the position you desire. If necessary, take any additional education or training.
Show your record of how punctual, smart, reliable, expiated ethical standards, problem solving skills during the time you have worked for your company, and that you will continue this achievement, when promoted. Try to have a good sense of humor, when giving answers to questions. Acknowledge...
How to Get Promoted
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Allergy-free Wedding Flowers
Allergy-free Wedding Flowers
I get quite a few emails from brides-to-be, asking me which flowers would be good to use at their weddings, flowers that won't make them or their bridesmaids start sneezing and sniffling right in the middle of the wedding. I get enough of these requests that I thought that the subject warranted its own article.Wedding flowersFirst, flowers for a wedding ought to be bright, fun, cheerful, festive flowers. For example, I like "glads," gladiolas, but I see them used at funerals all too often, so they seem out of place at a fun affair like a wedding. The one thing you don't want with wedding flowers is pollen! With wedding flowers very little pollen is good, and no pollen at all is by far the best.Daises: For starters I would avoid using most of the daisy-related type flowers, daisies, gerbera, chrysanthemums, asters, dahlias, and sunflowers unless you know they're pollen-free ones. There actually are quite a few chrysanthemums, dahlias and asters that...
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Causes and treatment of Vaginal Dryness
Common Reasons for Vaginal Dryness
Vaginal dryness means lack of moisture in vagina. It creates many problems in sexual activities. It makes the sexual intercourse very painful and very less pleasurable. There are itching and burning sensation while suffering from vaginal dryness and you can first notice it during intercourse. However the common cause for this is menopause but apart from this there are also some other reasons for vaginal dryness.
In order to get proper treatment of vaginal dryness you will have to determine the exact reason. Below are the various causes and treatment of vaginal dryness that can help you to prevent from it and treat your problem.
Causes
? Hormones play an important role to create dryness in vagina. The main reason for vaginal dryness is decrease of estrogen level in women. The estrogen level go down in women due to various reason including
o Cigarette smoking
o Removal of ovaries after surgery
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Causes and treatment of Vaginal Dryness
Common Reasons for Vaginal Dryness
Vaginal dryness means lack of moisture in vagina. It creates many problems in sexual activities. It makes the sexual intercourse very painful and very less pleasurable. There are itching and burning sensation while suffering from vaginal dryness and you can first notice it during intercourse. However the common cause for this is menopause but apart from this there are also some other reasons for vaginal dryness.
In order to get proper treatment of vaginal dryness you will have to determine the exact reason. Below are the various causes and treatment of vaginal dryness that can help you to prevent from it and treat your problem.
Causes
? Hormones play an important role to create dryness in vagina. The main reason for vaginal dryness is decrease of estrogen level in women. The estrogen level go down in women due to various reason including
o Cigarette smoking
o Removal of ovaries after surgery
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A whiff of Nostalgia….
Today I was given a whiff of nostalgia. No, not some bottled perfume from my youth (eg 'Evening in Paris', remember? On second thoughts perhaps you'd rather not!!), but the wonderful God-given smell of cowslips from a cottage garden. I was immediately whisked back to my childhood and to the wonderful sight of fields of yellow cowslips and of that never-to-be-forgotten smell of the untouched perfume of wild cowslips mixed with the clean country air. In retrospect, I do not know what use those flower-laden fields were to the farmers, but they certainly brought joy to us, and they would return each year along with the primroses. Alas, of course, they disappeared with the intensive farming and chemicals of the l950's, but the delightful visual memory together with the perfume came back in a flash along with the gift.
The cowslips evoked another childhood memory. How many of you got up at dawn in order to go 'mushrooming'. We only had to look for the 'fairy rings' as we called them...
A whiff of Nostalgia….
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Finding a Romantic Gift for Her
Let's face it. In many ways women are easy to buy for. Most of us love the traditional romantic gifts including:
- Chocolates
- Flowers
- Jewelry
- Lingerie
- Perfume
- Candles
- Soft Toys
- Clothes
Men often consider us gullible when they see us being 'taken in' by another man's soft words and candlelight dinners. The truth is, we often know when we're being played, but we can't help responding to the gesture. We'd like it to be sincere so we convince ourselves that it is. And occasionally, the manipulative male becomes a victim of his own techniques and falls for the woman he set out to victimize.But falling for romantic gestures isn't...
Finding a Romantic Gift for Her
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A whiff of Nostalgia….
Today I was given a whiff of nostalgia. No, not some bottled perfume from my youth (eg 'Evening in Paris', remember? On second thoughts perhaps you'd rather not!!), but the wonderful God-given smell of cowslips from a cottage garden. I was immediately whisked back to my childhood and to the wonderful sight of fields of yellow cowslips and of that never-to-be-forgotten smell of the untouched perfume of wild cowslips mixed with the clean country air. In retrospect, I do not know what use those flower-laden fields were to the farmers, but they certainly brought joy to us, and they would return each year along with the primroses. Alas, of course, they disappeared with the intensive farming and chemicals of the l950's, but the delightful visual memory together with the perfume came back in a flash along with the gift.
The cowslips evoked another childhood memory. How many of you got up at dawn in order to go 'mushrooming'. We only had to look for the 'fairy rings' as we called them...
A whiff of Nostalgia….
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