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“Pretty Hot,” the new perfume by Elizabeth Arden definitely heats things up in the olfactory department.

A sequel to her original 2009 “Pretty” perfume, this part two is signed by Givaudan perfumer Claude Dir.

His muse was the Queen of the Night flower that only comes out on hot summer nights, under a moonlit sky.

An intense and seductive scent, “Pretty Hot” is feminine and sexy, an appealing blend of exotic spices and tropical flowers.

The opening notes are red currant, fresh mandarin, blood orange, red apple and freesia. The dominant lingering note, however, is Queen of the night, which slowly is accompanied by peony, pimento blossom and Petalia and Georgywood (cedar and amber). The final charm are the base notes of amber, white patchouli, tonka bean, sandalwood and Cosmone musk.

Billed as a “fragrance of unmistakable sexy confidence,” “Pretty Hot” has come out this winter to ensure some Summer Heat comes your way.

A definite winner.

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By T. U. Dawood

Lauren Mackler has put her heart and soul into Solemate: Master the Art of Aloneness & Transform Your Life, a Hay House publication that walks readers through the importance of finding completion within oneself.  She believes that first one must be whole because connecting with others.

She shares her own life story and experience as a prelude and support to the exercise and the guidelines she shares to help readers achieve wholeness.

Chapters like “Uncovering Your Unconditioned Self” talk about how you are born full of all emotions and free to express them.  Growing up in a family unit starts affecting how you feel about your emotions and which you start expressing and most particularly repressing.  Unprogramming yourselves from this is a very challenging thing to be but can have immense rewards for through this effort you can discover what your true preferences are and then make decisions that are best for you, not what other people may think is best for you.

Mackler continues this process through her “Living Deliberately Versus by Default” chapter where she suggests:

• Sending loving messages to yourself
• Taking good care of yourself
• Do nice things for yourself
• Set boundaries with other people
• Become your own advocate
• Believe in yourself
• Be compassionate

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She culminates these suggestions with her chapter “Bringing Your Vision to Life,” where she has created exercises to facilitate and expedite a reader’s achievement of the goals of the book. Exercise One identifies the most important attributes of your ideal life, Exercise Two teaches you how to write a Life Vision statement, Exercise Three identifies barriers you may face, Exercise Four helps you narrow an action plan to three specific goals, Exercise Five helps you develop a set of action steps to help you achieve those goals and Exercise Six facilitates the creation of a new life structure.

There is a lot of depth and immense soul in Solemate, and if you are able to read through the over 300 pages of text, you will emerge much more confident and happier about yourself.  The exercises to are useful, but definitely involve work and action on your part.  This is not the passive, lazy guide to loving yourself.  That being said, if you choose to walk through Mackler’s program, you will likely find yourself on the heels of a successful appreciation of yourself and a mastery of the Art of Aloneness. The perfect place to be if you want to fall in love.

T. U. Dawood is a freelance journalist. Check out her self-optimization website Preview Your Life.

This article was originally published in DelectablyChic!

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