Rebelle 6 Review

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Thelong digression, in which I surely repeat things I've said here earlier: My perfume buying habits have changed drastically over the years. In my pre-perfumista days, I generally had a fragrance I wore as a signature; at times, I might have owned two or even as many three fragrances at a time, but that's it, and I usually returned to the same fragrances for periods of years. Over the years, the cast of characters included Diorissimo, Jean Couturier Coriandre, Chanel Cristalle, Yves Saint Laurent Paris, Prescriptives Calyx, Aramis New West (remember that one?), Perfumer's Workshop Tea Rose, the original Halston, and probably others that aren't coming to mind at the moment.

I did get my spending under control, but even then, I started to worry about the sheer number of mls in my cabinet, and at some point, I can't remember when, I decided I would no longer buy any bottles larger than 30 ml, and that I'd go for even smaller sizes when I could. Since small bottles weren't yet as easy to come by as they are now, and since I won't buy rollerballs, that had a big impact, as did the gradual shift to doing more of my general shopping online: like many others in the US, I stopped spending as much time in malls as I used to. That made an obvious dent in spur-of-the-moment buying. In 2013 and 2014, my expenditures were under $150 a year, and then in 2015, I bought nothing at all.

Buying no perfume at all for year was a lot easier than I thought it would be. In 2016, I did buy again, but everything I bought was 15 ml or under, and all of the scents were things I loved. Ditto with my three purchases for 2017: travel sprays of Bruno Fazzolari Lampblack, Narciso by Narciso Rodriguez Eau de Parfum and Dries Van Noten par Frdric Malle.

So why did I kick off 2018 by buying a fragrance I had barely smelled and wasn't at all sure I would love? Well, I was stressed, it was winter, I was in a store, it smelled acceptable, it was iris, the box (below right) was pretty, it was small, it was under $30. That's a deadly combination.

Verdict: It's well done, and if I am not pleased with my purchase, it's only because I already own so many iris fragrances I like far better: for a muted iris, I'd still be more likely to reach for Prada Infusion d'Iris, and when I want carrots, I want Honor des Prs I Love Les Carottes. (If you want turnips, of course you need Serge Lutens Iris Silver Mist, although for all I know they've reformulated the turnips right out.) Still, I'll wear it, and the travel spray is convenient. If you don't yet have a spring / summer weight iris, and you like carrots, do give it a shot.

1. One reviewer on Sephora notes that "Unfortunately I got a baby carrot smell when I smelled this", only to be chastised by a later reviewer: "I don't know why an adult with a nose would say this smells like carrots. It smells like irises." So!

The fact that it only cost you $26.00 should make you feel better. I know that I have to restrict myself. Plus I am up there in age now and even if I were to live to be 120 (which is not going to happen), and never bought another bottle or sample, I could not use up my vast collection.

Well, I went to Notino today and it seems they no longer offer free shipping, regardless of how much you buy! I put a $150 item in my cart and it listed shipping cost. I also noticed the banner about free shipping over $100 is gone.

Nerd Alert!

In terms of price per mL for smaller quantities being more than that of a larger bottle, I came up with a price per mL multiplier to account for anticipated waste or none-use. For example, if you bought a 100 mL bottle because the price per mL is lower than that of a 30 mL bottle, but you know you will only use 85% of the 100 mL bottle, the multiplier = 1 / 0.85 or 1.18. Multiply the 100 mL bottle price per mL and 1.18 and compare the result with the 30 mL price per mL. Use the adjusted numbers to maje your decision. Voila!

I realize I just did a killer job trying to sell this sauce, but if you want to give it a go for yourself, you can find it on the Bayou Gotham website here: -hot-sauces/products/ruby-rebelle-bourbon-cayenne

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It was a whirlwind of a year that we detailed in our latest Q1-Q3 report. A year that was steeped with wins and losses, hard lessons and a 300% revenue growth from the past year. The reason: we realigned focus and made a promise to not lay trap to statistics.

This past October 2018 The Creative Collective produced their second annual CultureCon featuring John Legend, Nick Cannon, Deray Mckesson, Tyler Mitchell and more. We were tasked with handling Talent Escort & Management.

When we worked with Jaimee Ratliff on her Hip Hop Yoga tour she wanted to market the event in a unique way. We came up with these regional playlists for Spotify co-created with wellness influencers. They were a way for attendees to get excited about the event in their city and use for their own personal yoga sessions.

We have another startling number. The SBA also found that 66% of businesses fail within the first ten years. We are rolling into the second half of our first decade with this percentage as a number but not a reality. Make sure to follow along on social at Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter as we roll out new client campaigns and learn more about business this year. If you are interested in working with us or just want to talk email me at tan...@therebelleagency.com. Talk soon!

The Nerf Super Soaker Rebelle Mini Mission Soakers are trigger-based water blasters under the Nerf Rebelle line aimed at females. There are two color-schemes: one Blue and one Purple. Being a small, trigger-based water blaster akin to the Nerf Super Soaker Zip Fire and Nerf Super Soaker Alpha Fire, the Nerf Super Soaker Rebelle Mini Mission does not offer any surprising performance on the water warfare battlefield. As such, only a limited review is being done for this blaster.

As with the Nerf Super Soaker Zip Fire, the Nerf Super Soaker Rebelle Mini Mission Soaker uses a trigger-based pump to generate the force needed to create its streams. Pulling the trigger creates a near-instant stream, but the stream also only lasts while the trigger is moving. The force of the stream completely depends on how hard the user can squeeze the trigger with their finger.

Like the Nerf Super Soaker Zip Fire, the reservoir for the Nerf Super Soaker Rebelle Mini Missions Soaker is its body. The fill port is sealed using a plug/snap-cap that is functional. Unlike the Nerf Super Soaker Zip Fire, the body of the Nerf Super Soaker Rebelle Mini Mission Soaker is transparent, making it easier to tell how much water remains.

As a whole, the Nerf Super Soaker Rebelle Mini Mission is a small, trigger-based water blaster that may be suitable for younger warriors and is targeted towards female users. Older users will liekly find its output and range very limited. Akin to the Nerf Super Soaker Zip Fire, going up against any larger water blaster would be seriously discouraged unless one is looking to be cooled off without being able to reciprocate by any significant means. The Nerf Super Soaker Rebelle Mini Mission has its use in only the most casual or very small scale water fight where any hit would count, but forget about being able to significantly soak your opponents.

The aim of this dissertation is to question the concept of orality as the natural expression of ancestors in African novels and press for a reading of West African writers, which values their fictional creation as autonomous from their cultural origins. The main purpose of this study is to examine, through series of close textual readings, how francophone West African novels distance themselves from oral tradition by fully assuming literacy as a characteristic of the post-colonial Africa. The first chapter attempts a redefinition of orality, as only a critical discourse aimed at translating the complexity and the suspected hybridity of West African novels. Using examples of American southern folklore from Joel Chandler Harris, Alce Fortier and Zora Neale Hurston, this study demonstrates how orality is built from hesitations between an intention of authenticity and its literary inventions as a response to oppressive and dominant cultural influences. In this regard, orality appears therefore like a comfortable concept, but an inaccurate reading for its failure to address the cultural and historical dynamism of the West African sub-continent. Therefore, through a reading of Cheikh Hamidou Kane's l'Aventure ambigue, the second chapter "witnesses" the making of authenticity as the simultaneous denial and the consciousness of universalism. Thereby, the recourse to oral tradition appears, as the third chapter emphasizes through examples from Bernard Dadi's Le Pagne noir and Lopold Sdar Senghor's La Belle Histoire de Leuk-le-Livre, as a pretext for African writers to make contemporary cultural proposals to their respective communities. In spite of the claim that it derives from speech, orality operates more like the negation of literacy and also as a contemporary review of West Africans' relation to their ancient cultures as the fourth chapter demonstrate with Djibril Tamsir Niane's Soundjata ou l'pope Mandingue. Finally, the fifth chapter analyzes orality as a strategic writing practice by reading the conflict between speech and writing, in Ahmadou Kourouma's En attendant le vote des btes sauvages, as a proposal of a creative language which serves as vehicle for the adjustment of Africans in their encounter with western cultures.

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