Showing posts with label tijon fragrance lab boutique. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tijon fragrance lab boutique. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Tijon Heartlink Scented Necklace in The Scented Letter Magazine

You know that our sponsor here at PerfumeShrine, the ever gracious and brave Jovan Van Drielle, is a formidable woman.

It is with great joy that I discovered Tijon Fragrance Lab and Boutique was featured in The Scented Letter Magazine during the holiday season. The story of the Tijon Heartlink Necklace is as moving as it is poignant.



Please consider visiting www.tijon.com to discover more.

Friday, July 29, 2016

Summer Giveaway: Win a Goodies-filled Tijon Beach Bag

The time is finally here. Vacations and I'm going away. But fret not. The PerfumeShrine has prepared a fabulous giveaway for our fabulous readers thanks to our resident sponsor the fabulous Jovan of Tijon Fragrance Lab and Boutique.


The contest:
Tell us about your favorite beach scent memory. It can be a story about your favorite beach fragrance, your favorite beach vacation or anything involving the beach and a vivid scent memory.

Contest is open to any Perfume Shrine member in the world! Contest ends August 14th. Winner will be announced on August 15th.

The prize:
The winner will receive a Tijon beach bag filled with all kinds of wonderful gifts from our Tijon boutique. Grand Prize Value: $500.00

Please note: this is NOT an ordinary beach tote bag. The Tijon beach tote folds out to become a beach blanket for two and includes 4 sand stakes so that the blanket stays put!

Kαλό καλοκαίρι! Have a great summer!

Monday, May 11, 2015

The winners of the Mother's Day draw...

I hope everyone had a lovely Mother's Day...There were 21 entries to the Tijon Mother's Day Contest, and each story was better than the next, as Jovan van Drielle told me in her email. However, there was one story that stood out amongst all the essays. The Grand Prize Winner of a $250.00 gift certificate to Tijon.com goes to: 
Rhonda Davis (Congratulations Rhonda!!)

Jovan also has other surprises up her sleeve: 
"In honor of Mother's Day and the birth of our new grandchild on May 9, 2015 - my partner and I are sending EVERYONE who entered our contest a surprise gift!

The winner and the following runners-up please contact Jovan via email (Jovan at Tijon dot com) providing the following information:

1) email address
2) full name
3) mailing address (no PO boxes please!)
4) phone number

The runner up winners are: 
Aaron Butler
All girl Mafia
Zzibbyz
Phyllis Iervello
Flowergirlbee
Lorna Holliday-McGee
Diane Kehoe
Cynthia
Joan Mansbach
KellyRed
Tiffanie
Linda Sliwowski
Richard Rendon
Sandy Vasalos
Ann Smith
Schreckredcat
Merlin
Gil
ThePowerofPlay
Richard 

Thanks to everyone for sharing their wonderful stories with us and Perfume Shrine!

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

A Special Mother's Day Celebration: Lucky Draw

As usual with special commemorative days we host a lucky draw on Perfume Shrine today.
Courtesy of the ever gracious Jovan van Drielle of Tijon Fragrance Lab and Boutique, the draw involves Mothers inspired by the upcoming Mother's Day celebration this Sunday May 10th.

So, here's what you should do to enter the draw:

Tell us a story about your favorite Mother's Day Surprise!
Contest is open to everyone and winners will be drawn on May 10th.
Grand prize winner will receive a gift certificate worth $250 in products that can be used for ordering anything on the Tijon.com website. Since Jovan is very generous indeed, there may be more than one winner, so check it out!

Just to give you a taste I'm featuring below the Macaron Trinket Boxes (for whatever you may think of that fits in, from pills to hairpins) which come in assorted pastel colors.

And the Vintage-inspired Crystal Perfume Bottle Pendant Necklaces! Even better than looking like a true perfumephile, you can actually unscrew the top of the bottle and put a bit of perfume or essential oil in there for touch ups. Cool, huh?

Friday, December 19, 2014

What's the Best Holiday Surprise You Ever Received? (Contest with Special Prize)

There have been several giveaways in the last month of the year here on Perfume Shrine, but this one is a bit different. Our sponsor, Tijon Fragrance Lab & Boutique and the lovely Jovan Van Drielle have a very special gift for a lucky reader: a gorgeous handbag in the shape of a classic perfume bottle; with a leather braided chain and beautiful black lacquer finish (depicted below).



All you have to do to enter is tell us WHAT IS THE BEST HOLIDAY SURPRISE YOU EVER RECEIVED in the comments below and you're eligible (anyone already having posted can add a story sharing their best surprise). Draw is open internationally till 24th December midnight and winner will be announced on Christmas Day, on the 25th. Best of luck to all!

And ms.Santa Claus (Jovan) even generously suggested she might have several runner prizes for the second best stories, as it is the season of giving, after all. So keep them coming please!!

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Having a Custom Made Fragrance: an Experience to Savor

Years ago bespoke perfumery used to be a service reserved for the rich and famous and if you were short of either denominator it meant getting a designer fragrance off Macy's was the height of glamour in the perfume shopping stakes. Things are very different today, thanks to the market evolution and the emergence of a new consumer that is highly savvy thanks to the Internet, and the differentiation between lines, niches and customer demand demographics have opened up the horizon to services that do cater to an individual's innermost desires. My personal viewpoint has always been that going for a specially made perfume one lost a part of the mystique that a carefully woven story and an exquisitely designed flacon (and advertising) carried alongside for the ride. Plus what Jean Claude Ellena ~in a zenith of honesty~ quipped as serving an already formulated in the perfumer's mind mod to no one's being the wiser. Yet I can certainly see the appeal; there are lots of things to recommend it, and one thing that isn't brandished enough in the media (so read on, I reveal it along the way).

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One perfume lover describes an experience at La Jolla, California in these terms: "I especially loved our time with Lyssa at Tijon. This was a sensual experience with tantalizing sight, smell, touch, sound and taste!

- The shop is adore-able offering a european resort feel. They offer fabulous and unique gifty items for yourself and your favorite people.
- The fragrances made by Tijon are memorable. The experience of creating our own personal fragrances in their laboratory is unforgettable. We learned so much and had tremendous hands-on fun - all while dressed to impress in our lab coats!
- The music was classical offering some sophistication and creative inspiration.
- Yummmm. The fragrance class ended with a toast of champagne. Cheers!

Both of us love our custom and personalized fragrances. Mine was named Summer Stroll and my mom's was Santa Cruz Sand."

The mere opportunity to sit one-to-one with a dedicated team of specialists and discuss perfume is a perfumephile's idea of heaven, isn't it? Our resident sponsor, Tijon Fragrance Lab & Boutique has collected a cluster of testimonials showcasing the best elements of such an experience (with an emphasis on "the fragrance lab being incredibly well stocked and the employees/teachers being very knowledgeable", in the words of CoriB from San Diego):

According to Chu530459 from Phoenix: "I proceeded to the perfumery lab and learned how to go about handcrafting my own Fragrance. That was very interesting to say the least. I wished I had known about TIJON when I was planning a bridal shower for my daughter since the theme was "anything Paris". They have a large array of oils, 300 in all, for both men and women, that there's no way one could leave TIJON without having concocted something special!"

"My thirteen year old daughter and I spent a wonderful hour and a half here yesterday. The mix and match class was very informative and relaxing!" says Clsingh.

Interestingly the prices are moderate: 95$ for 1,5 hour of guided instruction and up to 150$ for 3 dedicated hours.

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One of the crucial factors that have me thinking about custom fragrance making is something that only a dedicated and informed perfumephile might think of: bypassing the constant let down of the fragrance industry, i.e. having one's beloved "jus" reformulated to a shadow of its shelf.
Surely having one's personal formula on file and the opportunity to have an endless supply of that particular formula is the surest way of bypassing that vexing situation? I read Bonnie V's testimonial with rapt attention (and salivating at the prospect of making my personal ultra-spicy, ultra-jasmine-y blend): "This is an absolutely, over-the-top experience. Very few people have had the pleasure of not only crafting their own perfume, but also learning about the history of perfume and the fascinating science of scent. Here is something super cool ... you get to name your perfume! Once you've created your perfume, the instructors then label the bottle (a classy glass atomizer.) Great news ~ they will save your personal "formula" in their database so that you can order more anytime."

Of course there are more options available (including Ayala Moriel in Canada, and in Europe too, where smaller fragrance boutiques and the private consultation to go with them are getting increasingly widespread).

I was therefore wondering: Have you ever had this experience of having a custom made fragrance? Do you recommend it? Please share the aspects you enjoyed in the comments.

Friday, September 5, 2014

The 5000th Milestone

On August 30th two people five thousand miles apart simultaneously tied to became the 5,000 person to create their own fragrance at Tijon.  Fabrizia Arriola  from La Jolla made her own perfume at the Tijon fragrance lab in La Jolla while Nile Lee from Washington D.C. created her fragrance at Tijon’s headquarters on the French Caribbean island of St. Martin.

Fabrizia called her lovely perfume Tally 101 which included notes of mango, lime, lemon, papaya, freesia, verbena and amber.


At Tijon one dons a lab coat and then chooses from three unique, interactive and memorable experiences ranging from fifteen minutes to three hours in creating their custom fragrance.  They will choose from over 300 oils in blending their custom formula.  It may sound overwhelming but the pros at Tijon make it easy evidenced by its five star rating on both tripadvisor and yelp.

Fragrances created are kept by Tijon and can easily be reordered online.  “Creating a fragrance is adventurous, interactive, memorable and fun, and we provide as much help as needed in offering the different levels of experiences,” added Jovan Van Drielle, President of Tijon La Jolla.

In addition to offering these perfume creation experiences, Tijon has created and offers in its attached boutique twenty-one signature perfumes and colognes along with lotions, sunscreens, soaps and other niche cosmetics.

Tijon was founded in December 2007 in the village of Grand Case, St. Martin and opened its first USA location in December 2012 in the seaside village of La Jolla, California.  Both villages are recognized internationally for their scenic beauty, gourmet foods, shopping, and now . . . for their fragrances.

FOR MORE INFORMATION on the Tijon Parfumerie contact Jovan Van Drielle or visit  www.tijon.com

info via press release

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Tijon Mother's Day winners & the winning, touching Mother's Day Story

Jovan van Drielle has sent me the announcement of the winners for her grand prize for Tijon Mother's Day Contest and it's my pleasure and honor to share the names of the 3 winners (yes, Jovan is that generous she decided to hand out 3 prizes) as well as the winning story for you to enjoy.

1st prize - $1000. value package - Cynthia Nielsen
2nd prize will receive a $700.00 value package -  Hollan McBride
3rd prize - $500.00 value package - Cindie Roeder Leonard

And below, please read the winning story.
What is YOUR mother's day story/reminiscence/etc?


Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Start 2014 with a Grand Perfume Prize: One to One Consultation Making your Own Perfume (Win 450$ Worth Gift)

Happy New Year to all my readers and may 2014 be fragrant and loving!!
You may have noticed before our banner sponsor above, the Tijon Fragrance Lab Boutique in California, who is offering custom consultations, allowing you to make your own perfume guided by trained professionals that will see you through the steps. If this idea had always appealed to you but thought it prohibitively expensive and out of reach, read on.

For this special day of the year, Tijon is offering a great prize for Perfume Shrine readers:
one winner wins a gift certificate for two for a 2.5 hour fragrance making session at Tijon Fragrance Lab in La Jolla, California, worth 300$. (NOT redeemable for cash). You can select from 300 oils, get a bottle of your very own perfume, an unlimited amount of recipe trials, an education on perfume history and notes composition (top-middle-base notes) and a workbook for taking home.
But that's not all: this ALSO includes a $75.00 gift bag for each person (thus a TOTAL OF 450$!)
(The only requirement is that the winner will need to visit La Jolla sometimes in 2014, so if you're international take this in mind; assuming you can go, you're eligible.)

Here is the quiz question:
WHAT SCENT INCREASES BLOOD FLOW TO THE PENIS by 40%?
The first person to answer correctly wins!

Play along!
(And if you haven't checked our resident giveaway for some free Amouage perfume, join the draw which remains open till Friday midnight)

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