Go On, Inhale: L’Aromatica Fragrance Collection

The next time you’re nosing around for a new fragrance, treat your olfactory senses to L’aromatica, a locally-made collection of perfumes, eau de toilettes and colognes by Loreto Remsing.

From her San Francisco home, Remsing blends solid and liquid fragrances and sprays for men and women in aromas ranging from the dessert-inspired Sugar Blossom and Kulfi scents to powdery, exotic Moroccan Musk and single floral blends in cherry blossom, honeysuckle and yellow rose. Along with pre-blended fragrances, Remsing concocts custom scents using a personality profile she creates from clients’ preferences, interests and astrological signs.

“That’s my specialty. I love working with people and making a custom blend,” says the perfumer, a professional graphic designer who turned a decade of mixing and blending favorite scents as a pastime into a part-time pursuit two years ago.

Available in both all-natural varieties that rely on essential oils and traditional scents that incorporate some synthetic materials, L’aromatica stands out not only for offering a wide variety of unique and hard-to-find aromas (wine-glazed pear, anyone?), but also for its surprisingly affordable price points. Custom perfumes, for example, are available for $30 and arrive in about two weeks. And for those who’d prefer to sniff before they commit, Remsing offers $1 sample vials of her most popular fragrances.

Get a whiff of L’aromatica in person at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art Store, keep up with Loreto’s latest news via her blog or shop all of L’aromatica’s latest offerings on etsy.

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Sponsor Love: YesStyle Beauty Sale

SF Indie Fashion sponsor YesStyle.com is putting beauty on sale through the end of September. Check out the site for deals on cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products and accessories from Smashbox, Shiseido, Clinique, Kose, Anna Sui, SK-II, Clarins and other top beauty brands.

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SF Indie Fashion News Roundup: Hambone Designs, Oxenrose Blow Out Class, Marie Denee Launch and more…

Sun+late August+Friday=we don’t wanna work no more. In other news….

Streetsblog San Francisco alerts us to local bike bag maker Hambone Designs, and we like what we see (and not just because they named one of the stylish bike utility bags The Balzac, pictured).

The Renegade Craft Fair is now taking applications from designers for its San Francisco holiday event.

Marie Denee of The Curvy Fashionista fame will launch an online boutique for plus-size style-seekers this fall. We applaud this. There is a serious drought of great plus size fashion in this world and what is out there is often hard for shoppers to find. And besides, style has nothing to do with size. Like you needed us to tell you that. The launch is currently slated for Sept. 9.

New York, we hate you. Sniff.*

Dude, it’s time you learned how to blow yourself.** For that, go to Oxenrose in Hayes Valley on Sept. 24 for the salon’s first blow-dry class. It’s $75, but you can use half of that towards the purchase of products to help you keep you reproduce the ‘do at home. Email ashley (at) oxenrose (dot) come to sign up.

Local jewelry designer John S. Brana gets a show at Bloomies.

Crafty people, hear this: You can now obtain the entire box set of Craft Magazine for $75 (reg. $150) when you use the coupon code CRAFTSUB at checkout.

Project TransAction has launched a line of handmade leather dog collars (available at Jeffrey’s Natural Pet Foods) and is currently have a 20 percent off online sale on all leather goods.

Crossroads Trading Company got in touch to remind us that a back-to-school wardrobe doesn’t have to cost your schoolbooks’ weight in gold. Buy, sell, trade. You know the deal.

We are quite intrigued by the Noe Valley blog’s news that Green 11 may be opening up another shop in San Francisco. We love the idea behind the company, which allows you to bring your own containers to fill up on eco-friendly cleaning supplies and beauty products.

If you love Moxsie as much as we do, you’ll want to sign up for the site’s newsletter. It means an additional 10 percent off your next purchase of $50 or more.

Acrimony has a new look.

*Really, we are just sickened with jealousy. Someone please record this and send us a vid. We’ll do something nice for you.

**Typically on Fridays, we momentarily regress into 12-year-olds.

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Do Good While You Indulge: I-Spa + Dress for Success

We’re not sure about you, but we’ve certainly been having more trouble skipping off to the spa with carefree abandon lately. Despite the protests from our skin and workout-besieged muscles, we haven’t indulged in a facial, massage or posh mani-pedi in months. But I-Spa at the InterContinental Hotel in SoMa may very well convince us to reconsider our indulgence-averse ways, thanks to a recent partnership with non-profit Dress for Success.

Right now, the spa is offering $50 off weekday spa treatments when you donate a gently-used handbag to Dress for Success, a national organization that provides professional clothing and career development tools to empower and promote economic independence among women in need. Each month, the spa will accept a different accessory on behalf of Dress for Success, so stay tuned for future opportunities to donate.

To book, contact the spa at 415-616-6597 and mention the I-Ccessorize Program.

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Tuesday: Shop For Breast Cancer

For more event details, check out Lorraine’s 7×7 Glamwatch blog post Fashion Alert: Shop, Beautify for a Good Cause.

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