"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).

 

[TheManWithNoName]

My message didn't make much sense. Another reason why I rarely use my phone to reply - sausage fingers and predictive text don't mix.

It should have said that the Kimbie one smells far nicer - and is about a 1/5th of the price at something like £6 a bottle.

 

[Ant7t]

My message didn't make much sense. Another reason why I rarely use my phone to reply - sausage fingers and predictive text don't mix.

It should have said that the Kimbie one smells far nicer - and is about a 1/5th of the price at something like £6 a bottle.

I got that from the original

 

[AndyW]

Must be in a grumpy mood so ignore me but Angeline, over the last two days, is in full patronising mode.

Yesterday it was about "seesaw economics" from an article in Gem Guide. You know, the basics of pricing and how supply and demand are key, all accompanied by exaggerated hand movements you'd be encouraged to use as a nursery school teacher/TA. Today it's a plastic handbag - with charm (image 1). The details online don't say anything about the materials used but I assume, at £29.99, it's full-on plastic and brass or even polymer clay fittings . Cue comparison website BS galore.

First, she compared it to a similar style for ~$300 but quickly muttered that it wasn't the same material (I assume leather, not plastic!). Quick search for similar shows £30 to be about right and hardly competitive, image 2? Then, when the price was still at £49.99 she talked about "validating" that price for the dyed onyx charm alone by pulling up charms at the likes of Astley Clarke at £50 and her lowest comparison was for another at ~£38. Two second Google search attached (image 3) shows realistic price comparisons of ~£2.

End of grumpy rant about the gaslighting, patronising BS.

 

[rubia]

Must be in a grumpy mood so ignore me but Angeline, over the last two days, is in full patronising mode.

Yesterday it was about "seesaw economics" from an article in Gem Guide. You know, the basics of pricing and how supply and demand are key, all accompanied by exaggerated hand movements you'd be encouraged to use as a nursery school teacher/TA. Today it's a plastic handbag - with charm (image 1). The details online don't say anything about the materials used but I assume, at £29.99, it's full-on plastic and brass or even polymer clay fittings . Cue comparison website BS galore.

First, she compared it to a similar style for ~$300 but quickly muttered that it wasn't the same material (I assume leather, not plastic!). Quick search for similar shows £30 to be about right and hardly competitive, image 2? Then, when the price was still at £49.99 she talked about "validating" that price for the dyed onyx charm alone by pulling up charms at the likes of Astley Clarke at £50 and her lowest comparison was for another at ~£38. Two second Google search attached (image 3) shows realistic price comparisons of ~£2.

End of grumpy rant about the gaslighting, patronising BS.

This one of the reasons I can't watch her or Ellis, in fact Gemporia in general.

 

[Solent Warship]

Ellis is comparing their £14.99 candle against Gucci and Joe Malone as usual lol.What is she thinking wearing such a frumpy looking blouse? And pink nail varnish to top it all off.All she’s short is a pink hair band.

Mutton dressed as lamb comes to mind

 

[TheManWithNoName]

Yeah, it'll be "PU Leather" or "Vegan Leather," as companies like to call it these days - so yes, essentially plastic.

I'm sick of all the BS on Gemporia these days.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: if you have to try so hard to convince people that your prices are amazing, by using questionable price comparisons and claims, then they probably aren’t that good at all!

Good buys and bargains sell themselves.

 

[TheManWithNoName]

Ellis is comparing their £14.99 candle against Gucci and Joe Malone as usual lol.

Are you sure it wasn't Bugsy Malone?

 

[Ant7t]

Had a free sample of a tea light from Kimbie in my only purchase since last August, but I digress and it's not really that important. But, It burnt for around 2.5 to 3 hours. Not too bad, but I smelt it only the once and that was coz I was barely 2ft away and above it. The rest of that time didn't even smell it. Granted, I do NOT have an issue with the smell, it's nice, BUT you have to virtually have to have it tied round your neck to get any actual waft. When they say, it fills the room: I don't think it'd even fill the toilet and I think that's the smallest room of the house.