| Athletes promoting products includes Leavenworth’s Koos (The Wenatchee World) VANCOUVER, B.C. — Shannon Bahrke roasts coffee. Michelle Roark blends perfume. Noelle Pikus-Pace sews hats. Torin Koos promotes pears. Megan Sweeney tends bar. America’s Winter Olympians work just as hard off the snow and ice as on it. They have no choice. Tough economic times are battering them like a blizzard, so they have opened businesses or taken part-time jobs to pay the bills. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Sniff! Things Get Tense at Parsons' Big Perfume Powwow (The New York Observer) New York Times perfume critic and provocateur Chandler Burr shook up an esoteric symposium at the New School's Tishman Auditorium on Friday, March 26, with a quick flex of his critical muscles. "I don't like it. I want a different scent," he told international fragrance-maker Pascal Gaurin, the man behind Arden Beauty and Tom Ford Black Violet. The audience gasped. M. Gaurin blanched. The two ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
Gaharu tree planting COMPUGATES Holdings Bhd, a distributor of prepaid cards and other IT and office equipment, plans to plant gaharu trees on 54 acres (21.87ha) of land in Kuala Kangsar, Perak. It has hired JS Tractor and Engineering Works Sdn Bhd to clear the land for the planting, at a cost of RM197,600. Gaharu or agarwood, is used to make incense or perfume. btimes.com.my |
Cops: Woman, teen stole perfume, fled MIDDLETOWN A 43-year-old woman and a 15-year-old girl were charged with stealing a $36 bottle of perfume, and police said the woman hit a Sears employee with a car while trying to flee. app.com |
Bricklayer stole £30 of perfume from town centre shop A bricklayer hid more than £30 worth of perfume under his clothes. (07/10/2010 15:28:00) hastingstoday.co.uk |