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Ok, we’ve just been having so much fun with our Spring sale that we wanted to add a few days on to it! We’ve extended our sale for one more week, so if you’ve been thinking about something special now is the time to jump! Happy Spring to everyone~~~ DSH Team
coupon code during checkout is: springfling – 15% off until May 27, 2013
There’s something pretty new (and pretty great) now at the site: the review option. This new addition is super exciting as it not only helps people get opinions and a better understanding of the perfumes and related products, it’s a great thing for you, our customer and potential reviewers. Here’s how it works:
1- when you write a review and submit it, we will send you a coupon worth 10% off of your next purchase.
2- after you have written 5 reviews, you will become a member of our DSH LOVE club, which entitles you to a 10% off code to use on all orders and we will enter you into our monthly drawing for ‘top reviewers’ to win full size oils and perfumes, body care and sampler sets.
3- the more reviews you write, the more chances you have to win. 
We’re so psyched to share the love and thank you in advance for your time and effort to write reviews for us!
We’re so excited to announce the first new launches of 2013 at DSH Perfumes: modern remixes of “Antiu”, “Keni” and “Megaleion” as well as a new design, an incensey, woody Orris perfume, Iridum.
Now, to accompany four of the original 2010 launches (“old kingdom”), based on ancient Egyptian formulae researched for Denver Art Museum’s King Tut exhibit, these “new kingdom” designs include reworked emphasis notes and include new modern materials to give these perfumes and even cleaner, clearer vision.
It’s come to our attention that our site email had been messed up and holding contact emails from the past few weeks without our knowing it. SO… please accept our sincere apology if you sent an email with a question or issue and it hasn’t been answered. We’re going through everything with a fine tooth comb and rest assured, we will respond to you! We love our peeps!!! ♥
Love is in the air at DSH! In the midst of the winter chill, we’re staying cozy and warm with the delicious kisses of our favorite softly spicy and gourmand scents– so perfect to celebrate Valentine’s Day. St. Valentine, Piment et Chocolat, Vanille Botanique and our fab Les Rouges Collection Box top our fave picks and to make things even sweeter we’re giving 15% off site wide through 2.18.13. Just use coupon code: sweetheart13 for you or your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day.
At long last, (and blast! we didn’t get it done for 12.12.12…) beloved Mirabella is back in stock after the end of the limited edition production last year. We know that many of you have been looking for this beauty and she’s finally back. Oh yeah.. and still in time for Holiday cheer! Happy Holidays~ from Dawn and the DSH Team
Yeah, it’s that time of year again and it’s also SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY, so I thought that I would just pop this notice right here to be sure that everyone knows about it. Use code :HOLIDAY2012 *(TYPED IN ALL CAPS FOR HOLIDAY) and receive 20% off site wide from now through December 16. You can use the code as many times as you wish as our way of saying Thank You to our wonderful clients!
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Happy Holidays!
I am so happy to announce the release of my fifth collaboration with Denver Art Museum: the creation of the YSL Retrospective Collection. At DAM will be the only North American showing of the Yves Saint Laurent Retrospective Exhibit, where the collection on exhibit will chronicle YSL’s long and wildly creative career from his years at Dior to his finale in 2002.
The DSH – YSL Retrospective Collection not only takes inspiration from YSL’s long and prolific career but specifically chosen garment pieces in the show that perfectly illustrate the artistic collaboration between fashion, culture and perfume.
“Can you imagine my excitement when invited to create for the YSL show in Denver? It was for me as if I were given the opportunity to design for the great man himself. I took on the project as if I had just been appointed the “in house perfumer’; a fantasy, I know, yet I feel that it brought out an even deeper understanding of YSL’s work and that of translating his aesthetic into perfume.
The Collection consists of six perfumes that start at YSL’s beginning at Dior and his first triumph, the “Ligne Trapeze”, a cool and sophisticated violet-aldehydic perfume with a warm, animalic drydown; Next to “The Beat Look”, referencing the Americanization of French culture during the late ‘50’s and taking inspiration from YSL’s first perfume launch “Y”. The Beat Look is an aldehydic-fruity-floral-chypre; “Le Smoking”, speaks to the start of an ongoing theme in YSL’s work (the women’s tuxedo) and the women’s liberation movement of the 1970’s. Of course, Le Smoking is a green-chypre-tabac fragrance with incense and hints of marijuana cigarette. We next move to “Euphorisme d’Opium” which takes many of it’s cues from the now discontinued original design of YSL’s landmark fragrance “Opium”, a spicy-narcotic-oriental perfume; and into the 1980’s with “La Vie en Rose”, a sparkling rose-violet perfume modeled on YSL’s 1983 launch of “Paris” perfume and his unmistakable “Paris Bow” gown. Lastly, a floral-floral, linden blossom and wisteria creation befitting the icon that YSL became called “Ma Plus Belle Histoire d’Amour” was inspired by a radiant floral motif, silk evening coat found in the retrospective show.
With this collection I not only wished to express a sense of YSL’s career history but a sense of the interplay between fashion and perfume history within the perfume designs themselves. I hope that by experiencing the collection as a whole it will tell the story of this man’s creative life through the senses.
A brand new design collaboration with Carrie Meredith from “eyeliner on a cat” blog is an abstraction of texture and synesthetic color (and a slight play on words: guimauve) which translates to “Silk Marshmallow”.
There’s a kind of dada-esque quality to the name, which I love, that speaks to the silky ‘texture’ of the fragrance and it’s overall “grey-blue-violet” tonality (connoted by the main orris note and is the ‘mauve’ reference). The odd (but wonderful) balance of orris – violet – animalic nuances counterbalanced with gourmand notes of anise and cocoa beans is quite unexpected. The gourmand aspects bring the idea of “marshmallow” into a new focus.
Guimauve de Soie is unlike anything else in my collections to date; I am very excited by this design and it’s such a pleasure to present it as my first original creation of 2012.
Happy Spring to all! The violets are out en force today!
oxox,
Dawn
Happy Spring! This is one of my favorite days of the year… the Spring Equinox. Just writing those words brings a smile to my face… warmer weather and more sunshine is on the way. Winter is going to sleep for another year; how delicious!
Spring brings renewed energy and a sense of rebirth, so it seemed fitting to launch our re-designed concepts for Sweet Dreams and Pretty & Pink today! I hope you are as excited to try these as we are to bring them to you!
oxox,
Dawn, Mary and Amber
Pretty & Pink: A modern fruity floral that balances youthful folly with rich sophistication. Our re-launched version puts the emphasis on a rosewater, true Bulgarian rose and fresh Spring floral bouquet heart mixed with a new plummy nuance in the top note. There’s still the ultra-modern vibe of the crystalline musk drydown and a soft sandalwood note finish. This is our prettiest pink (rose) scent yet!
Sweet Dreams: Aromatic. Sensual. Transcendent. A place of comfort and delight. The sweet scent of home (and maybe a piece of heaven). Green and refreshing herbal notes and calming lavender are intricately layered with exotic wood and grounding incense notes. (Unisex)