Kim Kardashian has decided to fall in line with the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker and Beyonce by releasing her own perfume. It seems as though this trend is definitely still going strong, though we are reaching the limit on celebrity perfumes.

Perhaps a Kardashian perfume will be the final straw in this trend that seems to have jumped the shark months ago. On the other hand celebrity perfumes are strong sellers so maybe not.

Kim Kardashian Announces Plans for a New Perfume

The Independent posted a great review of a new book that assigns reviews to many of the most popular perfumes in recent years, plus fills its’ pages with plenty of great exposition on the nature of perfumes and what they bring to our lives.

This is a perfect holiday gift for anyone interested in perfumes, or a great read if you are always looking for your next signature scent.

The full review can be found at http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/perfumes-the-az-guide-by-luca-turin--tania-1837182.html

A Review of Perfumes: The A-Z Guide By Luca Turin & Tania

As it turns out the Chanel Perfume ad featuring Nicole Kidman has done more than bring in sales; it has inspired the idea behind the music video for the debut single of this year’s X-Factor winner. If sources are to believed, the X-Factor winner will be treated to a video where they will be required to dance along skyscraper rooftops, just like in the Kidman commercial.

Perfume Ad Inspires Music Video

In a bid to curtail the ever increasing market for knockoff fragrances and designer goods the NYPD recently completed a huge crackdown effort that closed the doors on 31 Canal Street knockoff distributors and shops.

This raid has gone above and beyond most other efforts in the fact that not only has the merchandise been confiscated, but the shops will not be allowed to reopen. Hopefully this sends a strong message to counterfeit perfume retailers.

NYPD Knockoff Crackdown

DNA Fragrances has made the bold claim that they are able to create fragrances based on human DNA. While the company has created fragrances based on the DNA of Elvis Presley, Napoleon Bonaparte and Marilyn Monroe  their latest creation of Michael Jackson perfume is catching them the most notoriety.

The company is not releasing information about how the scents are created or in what way the unique genetic encoding of DNA is used to inspire them.

Michael Jackson DNA Perfume Coming to Market?

Online auction giant E-Bay was recently fined in French courts for failing to comply with an earlier court order to limit the auctions of specific French perfume brands to French customers.

The previous order was put in place to protect the upscale French perfume industry from lowered prices, as well as to curtail the buying and selling of imitation French perfumes. In a country where knockoff designer goods are seen as a threat to the national economy this ruling is not a surprise; however the 2.5 million dollar fine against E-Bay can be seen as little more then a slap on the wrist.

E-Bay is defending its position and claiming that it would be impossible to filter every item that crosses their virtual doors; especially with sellers [Read More...]

Ebay Slapped with Hefty Perfume Fine

Facebook is becoming problematic for Doctor’s career. Many patients contacting doctors on Facebook and making advance which is not good for the careers of Doctors

MDU (Medical Defence Union) is aware of these cases where patients who are affected with love problems have tried to get the acceptance of doctors through Facebook.

As per latest update from MDU they say there are lots of cases they found where patients are intentionally coming in contact of doctors through Facebook. Doctors are crossing the limits as they are replying to these patients and this is not for the relation of doctor and patient and can be complained to General Medical Council about this.

A 30-year-old man sent GP lilies to a [Read More...]

Facebook becoming big trouble for GP’s career

A new micro-blog-style service has been launched by Microsoft in China, which is based on Windows Live Messenger and it actually tends to expand the social-networking functions which are linked to the chat software, in a country where it is considered to be a hit.

This new service, which is so called MSN Juku, is beta versioned; it enables a user to post 140-character long messages to an update screen which slowly scrolls old messages to the right. MSN Juku automatically links its users with their Live Messenger contacts, whose updates also appear on the scrolling timeline. The posts are also heaped ‘top-to-bottom’ and they display only the first few words when they appear close together. Whereas by pointing the condensed message with the cursor; enables [Read More...]

MSN now has Jaku for China!