Fragrances

New York — IF Tom Ford's much-anticipated sequel had been the movie he said it would be instead of a menswear collection, it might well have been titled "Ford Almighty." Three years after his high-profile departure as creative director of Gucci and...

Makeup at no cost!!! Big retailers nationwide are giving away $175 million worth of cosmetics and it started today! "So far I have three [free products], but I think you're suppose to have just one," said Angela Castillo, a customer who was...

It's lawsuit settlement time for some huge retailers--which means you will be able to grab some cosmetic swag for free.... $175 million worth of products will be handed out today (January 20th)...get in line at these California stores if you've made...

The deals were there and, by most accounts, so were the shoppers. But at the close of the final holiday shopping weekend, consumers confessed they were still nervous about buying. "This is going to be a poor Christmas," said Dee Dobbins, a 31-year-old...

Sunset Strip is an oddball mix of glitz and grit, but even where it seems most uptown, near Sunset Plaza, it's not all flash. Tucked in among the high-end boutiques, latest clubs and restaurant terraces is the occasional hidden hangout for the rich and...

All I ever want for Christmas is a flash of that intense openhearted joy that sometimes comes during the holidays. But the Christmas spirit is elusive. To catch it, you have to be in the right place at the right time. So this year I went river cruising in...

"You're going to love this," my friend Joy called out. After we had checked into the hotel, she'd gone ahead to look at our room. Well, not so much the room as what lay beyond its sliding glass door: a private deck with an ocean view and a large patio...

Cargo, the new, disturbingly pungent and possibly quixotic shopping magazine for men, has a right to exist. Free-speech laws, the perpetual search for the next big magazine thing, and the vast resources of the Conde Nast publishing empire give it that...

Southern California divides into two places: the irrigated and the dry. For those of us who inhabit the irrigated place, which is most of us, our worlds are green. Our parks, lawns, hedges and flower beds are made up almost entirely of imported plants,...

If your idea of a good vacation involves nice beaches, upscale resort hotels and gambling casinos, you'll probably like Nassau. On the other hand, South Floridians can drive a few miles to a hometown beach and find the same thing, except for the gambling....

I paid $105 to spend the night in Lemp Mansion. The ghost of Charles Lemp stayed for free. Not that I saw him, you understand. It's just that there could be a lot of reasons he didn't visit me that Saturday night in this famously haunted house, in the...

Ted Weiant speaks with the unabashed pride of someone who has found the holy grail of domestic winter comfort: He and his wife, Joan Stein, he says, are "fireplace freaks." And there are three holy grails in the home of Weiant and Stein. The couple...