Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Annick Goutal Entry # 1: Clarisse & Rodolfo

Let's Party Away, My Love! - Clarisse & Rodolfo

About the Annick Goutal Photo Contest:

The most delightful evening wedding photo will receive this prize:  a set composed of a 100ml Annick Goutal Un Matin d’ Orage Eau de Toilette, Annick Goutal Un Matin d’ Orage Candle, and an Annick Goutal Gold Leather Notebook ($150 value).

 Annick Goutal Un Matin d’ Orage 100ml EDT, Candle, and Gold Leather Notebook

Apart from these lovely prizes, the winning photo will also be shared in the Rustan’s Facebook page and featured at the Weddings & Beyond area of Rustan’s.

To join, leave a comment on this post with a link to your photo or email a photo with caption to manilafashionobserver@gmail.com

Photo contest begins today, April 1 and ends on April 15.

The winner will be announced on April 16. 

Note that contest is open only to residents of the Philippines.

Thursday, April 07, 2011

La La Land

Hi Honeys! Sorry for the delay in blog posts! Dear Hubby, Berry & I just arrived in LA, and I am still battling the jetbug. Let me get my bearings straight, and then I'll be posting:

1. The lovely lovely wedding photos of the sweetest couples ever to grace this blog! We had a blast with the BabyMama contest last year, this year, get ready to sigh and awww at the entries for our Annick Goutal Wedding Photo Contest!

2. Summer with Sassa...

3. And the cutest hair clips from Bob Baby Bop

4. Singapore eats: Santouka's Spicy Miso Ramen

5. Plus lots and lots of Los Angeles (In n Out, Melrose Avenue shops, plus Rodarte at MOCA, thanks to Martin's tip, etc.!) and Vancouver stories to regale you with in the coming days!

Ok, now off to bed, otherwise, I'd end up just writing about how well I slept in our hotel room! Hahaha!

Monday, April 04, 2011

APRIL 5: TOMS One Day Without Shoes

Can you imagine life without shoes? I cannot even imagine. Sadly, that's a reality for some people. My Dad used to tell me he only had one pair of shoes growing up, or was it a pair of slippers? So depressing. But I will gladly go one day without shoes (well I always walk around the house barefoot everyday anyway) if it means raising awareness for a worthy cause.


Regular readers of this blog know that I love TOMS. Wore it when I was pregnant, still wear it now when I know I am going to do a lot of walking. TOMS are light, comfortable, and stylish, and it doesn't hurt that when you buy a pair, a kid somewhere who can only dream of wearing shoes, gets a pair of TOMS as well.

Tomorrow, April 5, go one day without shoes and even get the change to Style Your Sole at Trinoma Park, 4F Open Gardens, Trinoma Mall. The program starts at 6 PM.


This event is brought to you by TOMS Philippines and Nothing But H20.

Friday, April 01, 2011

Annick Goutal Wedding Photo Contest Courtesy of Rustan's

The calm before a storm of a fun-filled, hilarious reception! - Tin & Harvey

Today is the start of this fabulous Annick Goutal giveaway, courtesy of Rustan's. If you know who and what Annick Goutal is all about, then you know how big of a deal this cult fragrance, and hence, this contest is.  Simply put, if I could join, I would!

That is why we invite you to join this contest, by sharing your wedding photo. Note that it should not be just any wedding photo, it has to fall into the category "evening". It can be a photo of you and your hubby inside the church, outside the church, before, during or after your reception, as long as it was taken in the evening. Don't forget to include a witty or charming caption that encapsulates the spirit of that glorious, and ok, maybe a tad stressful, moment in your lives.

The most delightful photo will receive this prize:  a set composed of a 100ml Annick Goutal Un Matin d’ Orage Eau de Toilette, Annick Goutal Un Matin d’ Orage Candle, and an Annick Goutal Gold Leather Notebook ($150 value).

 Annick Goutal Un Matin d’ Orage 100ml EDT, Candle, and Gold Leather Notebook

Apart from these lovely prizes, the winning photo will also be shared in the Rustan’s Facebook page and featured at the Weddings & Beyond area of Rustan’s.

To join, leave a comment on this post with a link to your photo or email a photo with caption to manilafashionobserver@gmail.com

Photo contest begins today, April 1 and ends on April 15.

The winner will be announced on April 16. 

Note that contest is open only to residents of the Philippines.

ABOUT ANNICK GOUTAL:

Annick Goutal blossomed late, coming to perfume making after a career as a prizewinning pianist and model. She then met a man, separated from him, found herself alone with a baby (her daughter Camille), was diagnosed with breast cancer and married her childhood sweetheart. She went into the skin cream business with a friend and instinctively felt they were missing two things, fragrance and packaging.

Then, in 1977, she met perfumer Henri Sorsana and spent the next seven years memorising ingredients and honing her talent as an extraordinary nose. The words were the same: note, harmony, key... "I was back with music again, with that part of myself I had been sadly cut off from". Her first three fragrances, Folavril, Passion (her own personal perfume) and Eau d'Hadrien set her apart, and she opened her first salon on Rue de Bellechasse in Saint Germain. And the rest, as they say, was history. - Vogue Australia

ABOUT ANNICK GOUTAL MATIN D'ORAGE:

Matin D'Orage quite literally translates into ‘Stormy Morning', with notes of Sicilian lemon, shiso leaves, ginger, magnolia, Indoneasian champaca and gardenia. It is a light but complex fragrance that is subtle on dry-down, yet long-lasting. 

In an interview with Lifestyle Asia Hongkong, Camille Goutal, the daughter of famed upscale perfumer Annick Goutal told this story: 

“Imagine yourself in a Japanese garden – a family garden, surrounded by dozens of delicate trees, grapefruit and hundreds of bushes of gardenias.It's early morning, the day after a thunderstorm. Imagine the drops of the rain on the leaves with the sun breaking through the cloud. The scent of the white gardenia is strong. With the humidity and heat, the scent emanates from the ground.”

This is what Matin D'Orage is all about.

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