Advantages: Nice enough scent Disadvantages: Isn't too original, poor staying power
Launched: 2007
Group: Floral oriental
Introduction
I'm a miniature perfume collector and received a 3 x 5ml mini set of the Yves Rocher Secrets d'Essence range from a friend in France that contained Iris Noir Eau de Parfum. This fragrance is currently the latest addition to the collection which are themed compositions centered around some of the most well-known and used essences in perfumery such as the rose, amber or jasmin.
The bottle
The fragrance is contained in a simple-looking, clear cylindic bottle that sligtly widens at the top. The fragrance itself is light purple in colour that gives a soft and oriental feel, like Lancome's Hypnose and indeed the comparison isn't accidental.
The fragrance
Top notes: coriander, bergamot
The opening notes of are somewhat sharp, rich citrus notes that are ...
Advantages: useful for ripping non CD media, normalising function Disadvantages: trial version only allows you to rip half a CD
If you own a portable mp3 player the chances are that you?ll either have downloaded a heck of a lot of music (take me, with an mp3 collection approaching 3000 tracks for example ? approximately 15Gb of hard drive space) or you will have got an MP3 ripping program. After all, how do you think that mp3 files are made originally? Friends have often entrusted their musical masterpieces to me for ripping ? not so that I can send them off to people all over the net but so that they can send mp3 demos via e-mail (with is next to free if you are a pikey student and don?t want to get 250 demo CDs rejected which you?ve had to pay for!). In order to rip audio tracks into mp3s, I have used Xing Audiograbber ? a very useful bit of kit indeed.
I originally got the free version, being a pikey student at the time myself, and this was perfectly ...
Advantages: Brilliant weepy Disadvantages: Had to keep wiping away tears to see
I watched this film a few weeks back. I have read some of her novels, so was already familiar with her, but didn't know much about her life.
The film starred the brilliant cast including Dame Judy Dench, Jim Broadbent and Kate Winslett. Kate's part as the young Iris is actually very small compared to the amount of media attention she got from the promo's. The real star for me is Jim Broadbent, absolutely brilliant! The film centres around Iris' slow descent into dementia from the early onset to the end and it captures all the signals without overdoing it. There is one point late in the film where the husband......... no, I will stop there.
The film handles this difficult subject sensitively and Dame Judy is extremely believable. The most difficult part of dementia is when someone who has had such a sharp mind and who would ...
orlando 31.01.2003 (15.03.2003)
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