"House of Kimbie" - Ellis, really?

[Ostrichkeeper]

The carved rose quartz flower is described as being filled. I didn’t know that they filled quartz. The pink is overkill on her, ridiculous. She’s just described Ambergris as being one of the base notes. Ambergris doesn’t smell does it? Isn’t it used as a perfume fixative? What is she going on about calling it a fragrance?

 

[AndyW]

She’s just described Ambergris as being one of the base notes. Ambergris doesn’t smell does it? Isn’t it used as a perfume fixative? What is she going on about calling it a fragrance?

I thought same - just a fixative. Apparently not.

The Perfume Society says "Chemist Gunther Ohloff once described ambergris as 'humid, earthy, faecal, marine, algoid, tobacco-like, sandalwood-like, sweet, animal, musky and radiant'. Others comment that it can smell a bit like the wood in old churches, or Brazil nuts." So perhaps it could be a base note (not sure that "faecal" is all that alluring though!)

India has made it illegal outright but the CITES says it's ok as long as it's been collected as sperm whale refuse, for example from the shoreline, and not as a result of the killing of a sperm whale for it.

 

[AndyW]

The carved rose quartz flower is described as being filled. I didn’t know that they filled quartz. The pink is overkill on her, ridiculous.

Not surprised with that shape, especially if from China, but very odd. Rose quartz isn't rare. Perhaps Kimbie 'objets' aren't created with minerals sourced by our intrepid explorers.

At £199 for a crudely cut chunk of cloudy, filled (and probably dyed, then), I've just got two words for you...

Buy ten

 

[TheManWithNoName]

Jewellery Maker have been known to fill stones that aren't usually filled - Kyanite, Quartz, etc.

Even cheap and common stones seem to be routinely treated on Gemporia these days - filled Rose Quartz, irradiated Smokey Quartz, etc.

They're clearly buying cheaper, inferior quality stones - but aren't passing those savings onto customers (quite the opposite it seems).

 

[Battiola73]

Glad to see Ellis is into recycling. Her blouse is made from net curtains.

 

[Ant7t]

Glad to see Ellis is into recycling. Her blouse is made from net curtains.

Have to say this. Carol Burnett as 'Scarlet O'Hara' with the curtain dress. Nothing alike, but same principle

 

[Ant7t]

Hold on to your hats. Kimbie is has ventured into Perfumes now.

 

[Wanderer]

Hold on to your hats. Kimbie is has ventured into Perfumes now.

Wonder if they bought up the equipment to make it from Gammon?

 

[Ant7t]

Wonder if they bought up the equipment to make it from Gammon?

Maybe it's been rebranded

 

[Wanderer]

Maybe it's been rebranded

Well House of Kimbie does sound more up market than House of Gammon.

 

[Ant7t]

Well House of Kimbie does sound more up market than House of Gammon.

By rights, shouldn't House of Gammon be called The Butchers (or The Farm)

 

[TheManWithNoName]

Hold on to your hats. Kimbie is has ventured into Perfumes now.

It's quite affordable and actually smells OK if the sample a family member got is anything to go by.

Unlike Kati Elliotts latest perfume - which was something like £40 a bottle - and smelt vile! Kati has had two perfumes now - and both had a horrible chemical smell to them. I'm not exaggerating when I say the first one smelt like bathroom cleaner. I can't even describe the second one - just a really overpowering vile smell.

The Kimbie one smells far nicer - and is about 1/5th - and is only something like £6 a bottle.

If I did a blindfold test, I'd say the Kimbie one was the £40 one - and Kati's being the £6 one (and even £6 would be overpriced, its that pungent).