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Archive for January, 2010
Whether you are female or male, it is human nature to want to be clean and smell good. But, even if you shower every morning before starting your day, you generally lose that freshness as time goes by. If you tend to sweat when it is hot or when you are under pressure, that shower fresh feeling is gone before lunchtime. What you need is a perfume or cologne to keep you sweet smelling all day.
Discount Colognes for Men
In most cases, discount colognes for men are generally stronger than their female equivalents. Guys usually sweat more than gals. So, fragrances for men are generally more intense, to keep them sweet smelling all day long.
Back when you used to sit on your grandpa’s knee, men seemed to all smelled the same. Not anymore! Today, the demand for manly discount fragrances has grown. Men like to smell good all day long, just as much as the ladies. So, with advances in technology making it easier to manufacture and distribute discount fragrances, men have about as many fragrance choices as women do, in every size, shape, and price.
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It’s not easy to buy gifts for a man, is it? Whether for Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, or other special occasions, it can be difficult to find the right present for that special guy. What if he doesn’t like the Kenneth Cole Black cologne style? What if you’ve miscalculated the size? Especially for the guy who seems to have everything, you might want to purchase something more personal. Then, the task of finding the perfect gift is more difficult than ever.
One great way to avoid issues of size and color is to purchase Men’s discount cologne is even better! He gets something he loves, and you give your budget a big break.
Still, the question begs to be answered: how do you select the right men’s discount cologne? (more…)
Women and men alike wear fragrances every day. Smelling nice is as important as selecting the perfect outfit, combing your hair, or putting on makeup. In fact, some people do not feel fully dressed, even if they are staying at home in their pajamas, unless they dab on a little bit of their signature scent. So, how can you choose the perfect discount perfume for you?
Try Out Several Scents
Buying the right discount perfume is much like making any other type of purchase. If you want to know what is in that particular scent, you need to try it out on your skin, since perfumes can change scent slightly when blending with your skin’s composition. Gently spray the scent on pulse points, such as your wrists, then wait a few minutes for the scent to settle before determining whether the scent is right for you. Remember that the scent of good quality discount fragrance lingers, so you can enjoy the scent for hours as it matures on your skin. (more…)
Matching a celebrity’s name and fame to a designer perfume has always been a quick route to establishing a brand name since the 1930’s. Of course that didn’t have to always include the star’s permission then, or even royalties, not to mention paying and having that star actually hawk the brand. Oh, say this perfume is quite absolutely so, Joe DiMaggio! For five to ten percent of the take or even more, of course. Many celebrity-endorsed perfumes have fizzled out quickly, like that ill-fated scent endorsed by Donald Trump for Estee Lauder, which, after flaring up for a short time, was as fleeting if not more so than “celebrity fame.” One could have renamed those scents as “Fickle,” and if a major perfumer wasn’t careful, all that endorsement money could head straight for the clearance bins. The high fashion designer houses still dominated high fashion perfume branding, with names like Giorgio Armani and the House of Chanel, rising in the 80’s through the 90’s, taking over from most celebrity names.
Liz Taylor’s White Diamonds, which debuted in 1991, four years after her first endorsed perfume, “Passion,” came out, was an exception. She has continued to endorse this separate, specialized collection from maker Elizabeth Arden to adoring fans of La Taylor throughout the years, and in what is nowadays a global $1 billion a year celebrity fragrance market, it has sold well over a $1 billion of all that since it came out. Even through the rise of massive mass-marketing and brand name clone fragrances, her brand still ranks consistently among the top sellers in womens perfumes. And of course it still ranks very very well among department store sales. (more…)
Regifting has been around for quite a while now. Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer may have made the term and practice official, but perhaps, if only Adam hadn’t started it all when he regifted that half-chewed apple to Eve, then all men might still be living very quiet lives, just sitting on a warm rock somewhere just outside the garden of Eden, scratching themselves, lazy, lonely but also happily bored? Eve would’ve gotten off easy, too, then found the shopping tree or the ladyshoe tree at the other end of the garden, and the twain might never have met again. (more…)
Yes, things have changed a whole heck of a lot since kids in between 10 and 15 yrs of age were simply, well, kids. Different sources define them as 8-12 or 9-13 year olds, especially the classic teeny-boppers, who have always been the latest fad and fashion girls. No matter the definition, these “Tweens” today are striving to look, dress and act like their older teenage siblings, and a lot sooner! Not quite old enough to fall into that older teen, senior high school or young adult collegiate category, but certainly old enough to recognize, desire and oh yes, buy all those things young adults have, and beyond. Tweens are past the old reliables The Gap and Keds and much more into designer fashions, wishing to express themselves, to be more unique, and to have fun and interact with their friends at the same time. Today’s parents are giving them much more independence at earlier ages, and more importantly, the ability to spend, that has created this market. The age of designer Barbie and designer Ken is here, with the global Internet and the ease of purchasing online reaching just about every nook and cranny. This includes classic tweener products, like toys, electronics, fashion and perfumes, as well as all the things their older teenage or young adult role models have. Hanging out and fitting in with big sis, big brother or an older cousin, is as they say, way way cool.
 Mega-marketing for Tweens
So what are parents to do to survive these new pressures from businesses like Limited Too, Skecher’s, and Kids Footlocker catering to their children? Monster tweener marketing lines like those for Hannah Montana and even SpongeBob Squarepants, for example, can really drive the cost of outfitting, entertaining and buying for their kids completely out of sight. One great solution is online purchasing from discount retailers or wholesalers, and is readily available straight from home, via the Internet. Discount retail and wholesale has been available from the early days of the post office and mail order, but much faster and much more convenient nowadays, of course. Parents today often have to think very hard and decide on whether or not to get the latest thing or fad that the kids want. Keeping up with the Joneses has become keeping up with Jack and Jill. In the perfumes and colognes market, for example, parents can still get those name brands, but for a much lower price than going shopping with them and just turning into a walking ATM, a virtual money machine, if you will. Young womens perfume lines are now extending their target market down to younger teeny-boppers, not just their older sisters. Teeny-boppers love to smell fruity and floral, although brighter and fresher and more innocent than their older counterparts. So the costs range from getting fragrances like Hannah Montana signature perfumes, to Abercrombie & Fitch, Chance by Chanel, Daisy by Marc Jacobs, Diamonds by Emporio Armani, Viva La Juicy from Juicy Couture, even Vera Wang’s Princess and Rock Princess. Perhaps all of them! And they desire those fruity floral Ed Hardy scents, too, along with the iPods and all the latest game systems.
 Newer sweet and floral scents for the young.
So, keeping costs down, by going online, sometimes by up to 90%, allowing the kids to test several scents before deciding on their real faves, is a very good alternative. Instead of having to throw some clothes on, piling the kids into the car and slogging through the mall all afternoon. Then parents just have to worry about getting the kids their own cars, maybe their own apartments, next! But that’s alright, because these cool kids will have to worry about getting adult things, like a job, a bank account, furniture even!
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