Comments on: Shoppers Drug Mart – by Nava http://perfumeposse.com/2008/07/10/shoppers-drug-mart-by-nava/ Perfume Reviews from Around the World, as long as the Credit Card Holds out. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:10:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Joy http://perfumeposse.com/2008/07/10/shoppers-drug-mart-by-nava/#comment-97297 Joy Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:05:22 +0000 http://perfumeposse.com/2008/07/10/shoppers-drug-mart-by-nava/#comment-97297 I love Shoppers, and spend a good long time there whenever I am in Canada. Why isn't there Shoppers/Boots-type drugstore in the US? I'd be there daily. I love Shoppers, and spend a good long time there whenever I am in Canada. Why isn’t there Shoppers/Boots-type drugstore in the US? I’d be there daily.

]]> By: clare stella http://perfumeposse.com/2008/07/10/shoppers-drug-mart-by-nava/#comment-94542 clare stella Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:10:13 +0000 http://perfumeposse.com/2008/07/10/shoppers-drug-mart-by-nava/#comment-94542 :x oh boy, this sounds like a store i could love. living near boston it seems we have ordinary drugstores (cvs, walgreens, etc.) and Ulta which is fun because you can try lots of different products but there are really no stores in which you could buy cosmetics (high and low end) and also buy frozen dinners, pedometers, and chocolate! i do fear that if we were to have something like that i would spend my entire paycheck in one fell swoop. every time i travel i always seem to find myself in a drugstore so that i can check out their selection of perfume and cosmetics. oh, to be rich! :x oh boy, this sounds like a store i could love. living near boston it seems we have ordinary drugstores (cvs, walgreens, etc.) and Ulta which is fun because you can try lots of different products but there are really no stores in which you could buy cosmetics (high and low end) and also buy frozen dinners, pedometers, and chocolate! i do fear that if we were to have something like that i would spend my entire paycheck in one fell swoop. every time i travel i always seem to find myself in a drugstore so that i can check out their selection of perfume and cosmetics. oh, to be rich!

]]> By: Vasily http://perfumeposse.com/2008/07/10/shoppers-drug-mart-by-nava/#comment-94296 Vasily Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:01:59 +0000 http://perfumeposse.com/2008/07/10/shoppers-drug-mart-by-nava/#comment-94296 In the late 90s, I finally did a motor tour of the Maritime Provinces, a vacation I'd wanted to take for twenty years. I made it through part of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI during the trip (they were building the bridge to PEI at the time so the only way over was still by ferry). Haven't made it to the Gaspe Peninsula or Newfoundland/Labrador: they'll have to wait for the next trip. My experience was: a land of great physical beauty, filled with some of the most gracious and friendly people I've ever met while on vacation. The Canadians I ran into seemed genuinely pleased that I was visiting. For some reason, I fell in love with the town of Halifax, and was trying to figure out how I could manage to make a living there. So if you're from the USA and haven't done a Canadian vacation, do so. You won't regret it. I know this isn't about perfume, but reading about Canada made me wish I could afford another vacation up there. Maybe next year. In the late 90s, I finally did a motor tour of the Maritime Provinces, a vacation I’d wanted to take for twenty years. I made it through part of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI during the trip (they were building the bridge to PEI at the time so the only way over was still by ferry). Haven’t made it to the Gaspe Peninsula or Newfoundland/Labrador: they’ll have to wait for the next trip.

My experience was: a land of great physical beauty, filled with some of the most gracious and friendly people I’ve ever met while on vacation. The Canadians I ran into seemed genuinely pleased that I was visiting. For some reason, I fell in love with the town of Halifax, and was trying to figure out how I could manage to make a living there.

So if you’re from the USA and haven’t done a Canadian vacation, do so. You won’t regret it. I know this isn’t about perfume, but reading about Canada made me wish I could afford another vacation up there. Maybe next year.

]]> By: Lucy http://perfumeposse.com/2008/07/10/shoppers-drug-mart-by-nava/#comment-94093 Lucy Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:59:35 +0000 http://perfumeposse.com/2008/07/10/shoppers-drug-mart-by-nava/#comment-94093 There are these fancy drugstores in fancy neighborhoods in NYC, Bigelows is one of the last of them, but they still exist all over the Upper East Side, with all the high end cosmetics and perfumes. Some in midtown too, that have more niche-y things, as well as very fancy toothpastes and hair brushes and immported products and stockings, etc. Zitomer's, for one, is nice. But these Canadian places sound like they are big and impersonal enough that you can browse around without attracting the attention of over-zealous Sales Assistants, so it's the best of both worlds. I think drugstores have become something like the new department/hardware stores, if the bomb dropped tomorrow you could recreate Western Civilization from one that survived... There are these fancy drugstores in fancy neighborhoods in NYC, Bigelows is one of the last of them, but they still exist all over the Upper East Side, with all the high end cosmetics and perfumes. Some in midtown too, that have more niche-y things, as well as very fancy toothpastes and hair brushes and immported products and stockings, etc. Zitomer’s, for one, is nice.
But these Canadian places sound like they are big and impersonal enough that you can browse around without attracting the attention of over-zealous Sales Assistants, so it’s the best of both worlds. I think drugstores have become something like the new department/hardware stores, if the bomb dropped tomorrow you could recreate Western Civilization from one that survived…

]]> By: Lara http://perfumeposse.com/2008/07/10/shoppers-drug-mart-by-nava/#comment-94023 Lara Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:51:51 +0000 http://perfumeposse.com/2008/07/10/shoppers-drug-mart-by-nava/#comment-94023 The closest thing to that in the US is Ultra. They have both some higher end products and some traditional drug-store brands (L'Oreal, Neutrogena). They don't carry high-end perfume (Joy, L'Heure Bleu), but do carry department store perfumes (Armani Code, L de Lolita Lempicka)and you can try them on. The closest thing to that in the US is Ultra. They have both some higher end products and some traditional drug-store brands (L’Oreal, Neutrogena). They don’t carry high-end perfume (Joy, L’Heure Bleu), but do carry department store perfumes (Armani Code, L de Lolita Lempicka)and you can try them on.

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