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Know Your Ingredients: Orange Flower Water
Now that Party's cleared up the mystery around one foreign spirit, Pimm's, I'm going to attempt to demystify another mixer — orange flower water.
A delicate flavoring used in desserts, drinks, and other dishes, orange flower water is a natural extract made from distilling orange blossoms from bitter orange or Seville orange trees. Sometimes known as orange blossom water, it has a delicate yet powerful, jasmine-like scent.
52 Weeks of Baking: Orange Blossom Pound Cake
As I was leaving work yesterday, it dawned on me that I had not baked anything this week. Panicking, I said to PartySugar, "Gah, I don't have a lot of time, what should I make?" Surprisingly, she handed me a printout for a Sour Cream Pound Cake and said, "Bake this, I printed out two copies on accident."
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Beauty Byte: Paris Hilton's Tinkerbelle-esque New Fragrance
Paris Hilton, who is no stranger to the fragrance world, is about to wave her magic money making wand again, this time with the launch of a new perfume called Fairy Dust.
According to WWD, the perfume will have top notes of sparkling Prosecco accord, orange blossom, and pink peony. The middle notes will consist of spring gardenia, water lilly, and peach nectar, and the blend will finish off with bottom notes of cashmere musk, sueded patchouli, and vanilla cream.
Perfumed Paris Launches Fifth Fragrance
The tabloid's princess and publicity-loving party girl Paris Hilton, is launching her fifth women’s fragrance according to WWD. The perfume will be called Fairy Dust and hopes to capitalise on her still-increasing fame.
Apparently the ad budget comes to between $3 and $4 million, so expect lots more interviews with the blonde heiress, plus scented strip ads in all the glossy mags.
Orange-Scented Perfumes
The fresh, citrusy scent of oranges is wonderfully refreshing and uplifting—a great option for Summer or Fall. Here's a look at some fabulous orange-inspired and infused scents. Once you try them, you'll have a mouth watering reaction to their sweet and succulent smell.
New Product Alert: Shu Uemura Deep Sea Water Facial Mists
Shu Uemura Deep Sea Water Facial Mists ($24) are the perfect solution the dehydration caused from the summer sun. These natural aromatherapy spritzers come straight from Japan's Cape Muroto in Kochi Prefecture, where the Shu Uemura manufacturing facility is based.
The origin of this water is one of three locations believed to have the purest water in the world.
Beauty Byte: Gwen Stefani Creates A Perfume
On Monday afternoon, Gwen Stefani detached herself from Kingston for a short time to unveil her very first fragrance called L (the L stands for love). She and Coty Prestige collaborated to create this scent, and together, they had a launch party at the Soho House in NYC where two Olympian swimmers performed water ballet.
The perfume is made from water hyacinth, white freesia, pear leaves, violet leaves, jasmine petals, rose, lily of the valley, sweet pea, orange blossom, frangipani blossom, peach skin, heliotrope flower and musk.
New Spring Fragrance Collection from Chantecaille
New from Chantecaille is the elegant Spring Perfume Collection. It consists of four very special parfums that were created in France and inspired by all of the different types of very special women in the world. I probably don't need to tell you that these perfumes would make for beautiful and perfect Mother's Day gifts.
Fragrance Review: Miss Rocaille by Caron
I have been a fan of House of Caron Fragrances ever since I smelled Violette Precieuse back in April. As I was passing through a department store this weekend, the prettiest bottle caught my eye and I was pleased once again when I realized it was another Caron creation.
Miss Rocaille launched in 2004 and was created for a younger and more free-spirited audience.
Coming Soon: Prada Infusion d'Iris
If you can't afford Prada's fall 2007 collection but still want a bit of Italian fabulousness, you'll be in luck come September. That's when Prada introduces its third fragrance for women, Infusion d'Iris.
According to WWD, this fragrance is somewhat non-traditional for a women's scent:
The fragrance is balanced by top notes of orange blossom and mandarin, as well as base notes of galbanum, lentisc, benzoin, incense, vetiver and cedarwood.
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