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...For seasoned users, Tatcha Violet-C Brightening Serum is a colourless, fragrance-free 20 per cent vitamin C formula with Japanese beautyberry (yes, it’s really called that) for antioxidant support, and 10...
...The bergamot picks up notes of Earl Grey tea and the violet leaf is said to mimic hints of warm fluffy rice....
...Alongside the exhaustive edit of books, Powell’s boasts an own-brand range of gifts, including a unisex fragrance, Powell’s By Powell’s, which uses musky notes of violet, wood and biblichor to evoke the...
...Fiona Golfar beachwoodbakery.com Beppe e i Suoi Formaggi, Rome According to food writer Rachel Roddy, this cosy store in the Ghetto district is the city’s foremost deli....
...Dast-e-saba — the hand of the morning breeze. Dasht-e-tanhai — the wasteland of solitude. Ku-e-dilfigaran — the street of the broken-hearted....
...And earlier this year, Soho Home, the interiors e-boutique offshoot of Soho House, commissioned ceramicist Ella Hookway to create a bespoke collection of inlaid, slab-built clay plant pots....
...Claire Ptak, baker, food writer, stylist and owner of Violet Cakes, London “I often get asked in interviews about work-life balance and that inevitable “How do you do it all?”...
...Albila was inspired by two brothers from the south-eastern town of Urfa, near Turkey’s border with Syria, who collect scorpions after nightfall using ultra-violet light....
...“It is going to be a long time before you have a domestic Chinese foundry that is going to be able to compete with either Samsung or TSMC,” said E Jan Vardaman, president of US-based consultancy TechSearch...
...Ulta — like many other retailers — is facing the spectre of encroaching competition from e-commerce behemouth Amazon, which has reportedly agreed to partner with high-end beauty retailer Violet Grey to sell...
...Additional reporting by Shannon Bond Photographs: Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos; Kevin Mazur/Getty Images; William E Sauro/New York Times/Redux/Eyevine...
...The pace lifted further with Hole classics “Violet” and “Celebrity Skin”....
...And while Override conceives a world completely in thrall to technology, E.V. Crowe’s Virgin considers one struggling to catch up....
...“Look, this is the ‘E’,” he murmurs, his finger tracing the contours of a calligraphic whiplash so that I can just pick out the letter’s strokes, distorted out of all recognition....
...Alongside each name (“Violet”, “Alfred”, “Solomon”, “Dick”) was the diagnosis they’d been admitted with by A&E: “Pneumonia … MI … urinary tract infection … Off-legs … Off-legs … Off-legs.”...
...Wines typically have strawberry and violet flavours, fairly low acidity but an unexpected freshness nonetheless, moderate alcohol and soft tannins....
...“Roses are red, violets are blue. It’s curtains for you and your strategic review.”...
...I almost didn’t bother dropping the hotel in search of rooms as I was sure they’d be fully booked but sometime before bedtime last Tuesday I sent off a brief e-mail and was thrilled to receive a positive...
...A lawyer by profession, in 1996 he famously sued E & J Gallo, now California’s biggest wine exporter, claiming they copied his labels on its Turning Leaf brand....
...Henderson has been exchanging e-mails with one for years, in which time part of the Englishman’s brain has rallied to the resistance fighter’s rationale....
...He notes that vermouth brands such as Noilly Prat, Lillet, Punt e Mes and Martini Rossi are now doing well in the UK....
...The non-negotiable element is that our conversation be in French, so I opt for Paris and e-mail his office to apologise for not being entirely fluent....
...“I’ve just got to check my e-mail. I want to see if my daughter got into private school.”...
...Hidden behind his thick violet glasses, he had decided to ignore the classical rules of cinema, but remained uncertain about the outcome. It was a trial....
...Balenciaga Paris, created in partnership with Coty, is redolent of Francois Coty’s original Chypre of 1917 (albeit with a modern floral edge, a jolt of violet), and will make a whole new generation fall...
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