Ormonde Jayne Etoile Candle

Housed in a handsome, but unexpectedly brown glass jar, the Ormonde Jayne Christmas candle this year is a creamy-smooth blend of cardamom, amber and tonka.  Slightly spicy, with a hint of smoke, Etoile is a gorgeously grown-up scent for Christmas.

It is smooth-burning, and comes with an incredibly high percentage of perfume oils in the formula, so this is one candle this will make your whole house smell good even after a relatively short burn.   It costs £68, and smells almost good enough to eat.

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The Even Finer Print: We're not featuring full fragrance reviews on Get Lippie at the moment owing to illness - please see The Parosmia Diaries for more.


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Jardins d'Ecrivains "Dickens" Christmas Candle

 Possibly the most "traditional" Christmas scent we're featuring this week, the Jardins D'Ecrivains Christmas Candle inspired by Charles Dickens is a gloriously spicy mandarin, pine, clove and ... oud(!) scent.  

Set up in 2012, and inspired by founder Anaïs Biguine's love of literature and fictional characters, Jardins d'Ecrivains is an unusual and lovely little niche fragrance house to keep an eye on over the next year or so.  Back in the "before", in the time when I could still smell properly, I was fascinated by the house, and was looking forward to smelling stuff from them. 

Alas, now I can't smell properly, but I can tell you that even with my nose woes, this smells wonderful, rich and citrussy, with hints of wood, spice and warmth, but mainly glorious oranges.  Oranges were one of the first scents to "come back" for me, and this is a lovely reminder that my nose does, on occasion, let me smell nice things too!

This candle is a WHOPPER, by the way, it weighs in at a hefty 500gms, and I estimate that you'd get at least a 40 hour burn time, even with the double wick.  You can find the candle here, and it costs just £60.  That's a long of burn for your buck!


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The Even Finer Print: We're not featuring full fragrance reviews on Get Lippie at the moment owing to illness - please see The Parosmia Diaries for more.


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Maison Francis Kurkdjian Scented Candle Set

If you're looking for a cute and pretty candle set, which is also well made, and will definitely give huge delight to the lucky recipient, this is the set for you.  Maison Francis Kurkdjian do lovely candles, and this box of little ones is no exception.

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Scented with a mix of powdery iris, spicy gingerbread, and with hints of peppery cedar - all of which, even to my damaged nose, smell pretty and sweet, with some spikiness from the wood -  the candles, which are decorated in gold with iconic Parisian landmarks are good-looking enough for the christmas table, and the scents won't overwhelm your Christmas dinner either.

The candles will burn for around 20 hours each, the entire set costs 65 euro, and is available from here. 

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The Even Finer Print: We're not featuring full fragrance reviews on Get Lippie at the moment owing to illness - please see The Parosmia Diaries for more.

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Miller Harris Rose en Noir Candle

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It's the first of December, and in Lippie-land, that means candles.  Christmas is coming, the nights are drawing in, the weather is getting colder, and tradition is all.  We don't bother with a tree, but we do have candles on every available surface in Lippie Mansions.  Over the next week or so we'll be bringing you our picks of the best candles for Christmas (old favourites and new contenders), all of which also make perfect Christmas gifts ...

Starting off with Miller Harris Rose en Noir "gifting" candle.  This is a glorious spicy rose fragrance, starting off green and bitter with a sweet rose heart, and a spicy warm, peppery base, it is beautifully packaged for the holiday season, with gold-etched glass, and a lovely pink and gold box:

Burn time is estimated at sixty+ hours for this one, (it's almost twice the size of a normal Miller Harris candle), and the cost is £70.  You can find it here.

The Fine Print: PR Sample

The Even Finer Print: Please note, these aren't full fragrance reviews owing to the current status of Get Lippie.  For more information on this, please take a look at The Parosmia Diaries. 

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NYK1 Nailac "Shellac" Starter Kit

We're featuring our pick of the best beauty-related Christmas presents this week, and here we have a pro-gel nails kit for less than the price of those consumer ones you can get in Boots.  For £49.95 you can get a two colours, a UV lamp, and all the assorted top and basecoats, plus preparation bits and pieces in the NYK1 Nailac Starter Kit, which is rather amazing.

You pick two colours of your choice, and everything else comes included.  It's an excellent kit, I've had a lot of fun playing with it - the lamp is a lot bigger than I expected it to be though, which was a surprise!  It's fairly simple to use, as long as you do not, under any circumstances, lose the instructions, which, me being a doofus did almost straight away.  I soon got the hang though, and I love the kit.  The lamp is even big enough to do your toes, which is cool.

For anyone even slightly interested in gel manicures, this is a great, fabulously priced place to start experimenting.  The polishes don't air-dry at all, so you can keep wiping it off if you accidentally apply it in a messy fashion ... like I  frequently do!

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New post on The Parosmia Diaries...

You know when you start a new blog, and you get so excited about finally having written something for the new blog,  and then you eventually realise that you haven't actually explained what the new blog is about? 

That. 

Whoops.  Anyway, the latest instalment on The Parosmia Diaries explains what parosmia is (and a couple of other things as well), and explains why it exists.  Sort of.  You'll see.  Go read it.  Please!


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Gillan Battery Pouch from wowthem.com

 The post deliveries for Get Lippie arrive at my office.  My colleagues are used to random stuff turning up but nothing, and I mean nothing, elicited so many excited calls of "this is the best thing you've ever got" around the office as this little purple makeup bag.

This is because the Gillan Battery Pouch has a little secret:

Can you tell what it is?  It's a micro-USB connector, and the Gillan Battery Pouch is actually a phone charger!

It is seriously handy.  It carries enough charge to fill up a completely dead iphone battery 1.5 times, which is more than enough to get you through the day, plus it carries lipsticks, face powders, everything you need to keep yourself presentable besides!  It's made of leather, and costs £50.  It's an ideal Christmas present for any beauty geeks you might know, and THIS beauty geek adores hers.  You can find them (in all different colours, and patterns) here: http://www.wowthem.com/collections/all and if Santa is reading this, I'd like a Mighty Purse in glossy black for Christmas please!

Things you need to know:   There are micro-USB to Lightening connectors available separately on the WowThem website, so you will be able to also use this to charge your iPhones, and iPods as well as any other MicroUSB-charged items, for example, I've successfully charged my iPhone, my Nokia Lumia 1040 and my Kindle with the Gillan.  I've noticed that it can take a while to charge the pouch from a computer, but it is much quicker from a charger plugged directly into the mains.  It gets a bit warm inside the pouch, so you might want to take any really expensive lipsticks out of the pouch before you charge your phone.  I take no responsibility if you accidentally melt your Tom Fords!

I take mine *everywhere*, there's nothing worse than running out of battery unexpectedly during the day, and this is fab for not being just one more thing that you have to carry around with you too.  I always have a makeup bag with me, so having one that is more useful than normal is really great.

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