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• News Special: Estée Lauder Launches the 2009 Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign

  

  by April Schanoes, 01 October 2009

  Evelyn H. Lauder welcomed fashion, beauty, and fragrance bloggers to Estée Lauder's opulent headquarters for the launch of the worldwide October Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign.  Mrs. Lauder passionately described her many contributions to breast cancer education and research.  In 1992 she co-created the Pink Ribbon to raise awareness of breast health;  85 million pink ribbons later, Mrs. Lauder, the founder and chairman of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, is just as legendary for her advocacy as she is for her much loved fragrances and impeccable style. 

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• News Special: Basenotes writer Liz Upton scoops prestigious UK Jasmine Award

  

  by Grant Osborne, 13 March 2009

  Wednesday saw the announcement of the winners of the 2008 Jasmine Awards, which were held at BAFTA, Piccadilly, London. The awards have become recognised as the most prestigious in beauty journalism and have developed from two original prize categories, the Jasmine Literary Award and Jasmine Visual Award, into eight prize categories. Liz Upton picked up an award for her Basenotes article, Body Odour - "Body Odour – or how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Musk". Walker Minton was also given a special mention for his "Relatives"article.
  
  The Jasmine Awards are the perfume industry's way of recognising expertise in the world of journalism. Their aim is to reward excellence in literary and visual achievement in articles devoted to the subject of fragrance. The awards were started in France some twenty years ago and introduced into the UK by the Fragrance & Beauty Association of Great Britain (FBA) in 1989, the first awards being presented in 1990....

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• Chicago Scent Me! A Trip Report

  

  by Joy B, 01 June 2007

  On the 26th May 2007 Basenotes Community member, Quarry, organised a day of sniffing in Chicago for fragrance-fans. Here is her report...

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• Basenotes London Lunch: Roja Dove Haute Parfumerie, Penhaligon's, Ormonde Jayne, Les Senteurs

  

  by Danielle Cooper, 22 February 2007

  To celebrate our first official Basenotes event, over the coming weeks we will be running store profiles, interviews and reviews from the day. Look out for an interview with Ormonde Jayne's Linda Pilkington, a shopping guide and reviews of some of the fragrances and places we have visited along the way. We start with a look at some of the stores we will be visiting...

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