As snow covers Red Square in a dusty coat of white, Muscovites head indoors, slinging off fur coats and cashmere scarves to take up seats on wooden benches leaning against cherry trees in full bloom.

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Fast-growing contract manufacturer Parfum d’Image has bought Latitudes International Fragrance in order to become a major presence in the US. Parfum d’Image, which makes perfumes on contract, grew 27.7 percent in 2007 to €25.9m ($38.60m) after securing major contracts with several European retailers and making its first in-roads into the US market.

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Everyone knows that Comme des Garçons does things its own sweet way. And today’s London launch of its latest fragrance, 888, was sugared with a visual feast representing the essence of the scent’s smell, cooked up by legendary art director Michael Howells, in the basement of Soho record store, Phonica Records.

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Now, there are more options than ever for home fragrances. Lauren Glassberg has more. Designers are coming out with home fragrances, from candles to sprays. There are so many options and ways to make each room of your home smell special that they may even end up smelling better than that holiday dinner cooking in the kitchen.

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Amore. Italian for love. A word crooned by Dean Martin and cooed by romantics. “You say amore anywhere in the world and people know what it means,” Robert Amore said. A little more than a year ago, Amore was sitting in Italy considering his surname.

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Hubert de Givenchy expanded into the fragrance business 50 years ago using a famous face as inspiration: his muse, the late Audrey Hepburn. L’Interdit was the first “celebrity” fragrance, created to honor the friendship between the designer and actress.

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Mariah Carey says her own signature scent is the first perfume she has ever worn. The ‘Heartbreaker’ singer insists she found all other fragrances on the market “overwhelming” so she was overjoyed when Elizabeth Arden approached her to create her own bottled essence, ‘M’.

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Gwen Stefani is one of our top five girl crushes. She’s nice, she’s beautiful, she’s a doting mom and she’s never flashed us her lady bits. And she’s talented. Her music career is solid. Her fashion line, L.A.M.B., is well-respected. Her acting career … well, she does a great job in videos.

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You don’t have to bend it like Beckham to smell like the soccer star. David Beckham and his Spice-Girl wife, Victoria, now have their own brand of his-and-hers fragrances - Intimately Beckham.

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A flowery ‘M by Mariah Carey’ advert floated about the web last week, and aghast readers at Perez Hilton screamed bloody murder when deep resemblances to an old Gisele photoshoot were noticed. However, the photoshopped picture turned out to have been engineered by a fan, and peace was restored.

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