Now is the perfect time to become a B’s designer! Our Spring 2010 line launched on February 15th! I have attached a sneak peek of our spring line on the bottom of this email. To join just go to my website: CLICK HERE and enter my sponsor id: 2185. There will be a special PROMO area to join us for free. I will help you get started with a great leader in your area!

It is normally $99 to sign up to become a designer and with the $99 sign up fee you get a free small tote in our signature fabric ($130 value), a notebook of guidelines, a FREE website and some supplies. With the FREE sign up you will NOT receive the free tote and binder, but you WILL receive the FREE website and most supplies you can print off the back office website! (If you want the small tote and the free supplies you can still join for our regular low price of $99) With the website you can start taking orders on your website and hosting online parties! Your website is a great way to start your business by getting the word out to all your friends and relatives around the country.

As a Designer, you also get 4 bags a year at half price. Two per season. We have a Spring/Summer line and a Fall/Winter line.

There are no minimums, no quotas, and no renewal fees.

Don’t worry if you have never sold before. The bags sell themselves and we will help you every step of the way.

The income is limitless. It all depends on how many parties you want to do a week/month and how often you spread the word about your involvement in Bs Purses. Just carrying around a Bs Purse gives me endless leads and sales daily!

Now is a great time to join B’s and get in on the ground floor. We have approx. 3,000 reps across the US. Ladies love the idea of designing a custom bag all their own.

The commissions start at 20%, as you build your team, the percentage increases up to 31%. Plus you earn a commission on your team’s sales. There are many ways to earn money and incentives. It is really easy to get started.

As a new representative for our company you have 2 options to show sample products. The first option is that you can purchase the entire line at cost once a season. We offer a sample trunk that includes the shape and size bags that we sell. The spring trunk (all 15 spring items we sell) for $450. What our reps do is use the samples all season long at their parties and then the last couple parties of the season they sell them off at retail when you paid cost. You can make your investment back and more.
The second option is our corporate sample trunk program. A sample purse trunk includes every bag we sell and fabrics swatches. The picture below is an example of a Sample Purse Trunk. The corporate trunk program works by emailing in and requesting a date for your party and then we send you the sample purse trunk for your party or parties and the only cost to you is to ship it on to the next person.

To get started now CLICK HERE

Thanks again for contacting B’s!

Blessings,
Tula Rainwater

PS. If you need help signing up, please feel free to call me at 847.629.0084 and I’ll walk you through the process!! Don’t delay! Free sign up ends on March 31st. CLICK HERE TO GET STARTED TODAY!

Bs Purses Spring 2010

By: Joanna McLaughlin

The fragrance industry does the bulk of its business around Christmas, mainly because that is one of the few times a year than unwilling shoppers are forced down the perfume aisles of department stores around the world in an attempt to somehow find the right fragrance gift for a loved one. Even people who love perfume and can nose their way around a perfume department blindfolded can feel your pain. Buying perfume is not easy and there are actually several factors you don’t even know yet that are conspiring to make it even more difficult.

Perfume seems very complicated.

That’s why I, like other denizens of the perfume world, can help you make a good choice. Here are my 11 Rules for Holiday Perfume Shopping.

Rule Number One is this: perfume is not cheap. If you hoped it would be cheap, wanted it to be cheap, need it to be cheap, or just would feel more comfortable if it were cheap, get over it. Perfume has not gone on sale in the last eighteen centuries.

Rule Number Two is a corollary of Rule Number One. While perfume may not be cheap, you may find yourself being wooed a bit by eager perfume merchants with package “deals.” They will take several of their products, put them together in a festive holiday box and knock a little off the price of the individual items and assure you it’s the deal of the season. Don’t laugh, it is.

Rule Number Three is to have an idea of what you’re going to buy before you go in. Perfume is an amazing industry, and if you don’t know anything about it, you will be amazed to the point of asphyxia to learn that there are literally of hundreds, if not thousands, of fragrance products in even an ordinary shopping mall.

Rule Number Four is not to smell the perfume out of the bottle. Of course, you can’t help that. You will break this rule. But please do not think that the way a perfume smells straight out of the bottle is anything like the way it will smell after a while on your skin. Here’s why: perfume manufacturers work hard at creating what perfume insiders call the “top notes.” These are the first few molecules that come buzzing out of the bottle whenever a human approaches and they practically scream, “Smell me! Smell me!” They can be zippy, flowery, enchanting, dreamy, light, or all of those other things, but one thing is certain. They are short-lived. Top notes die out in about one to four minutes, which, coincidentally is about the time you can survive cardiac arrest.

The real body of the fragrance emerges after the period known as the “dry down.” The dry down is the time the perfume spends on your skin while the perfume dries and the top notes disappear. Now you’ve got “heart notes” and that is much more like what the perfume is going to smell like.

So how do you manage testing perfume? If you really want to smell a bunch of perfume (it will get very confusing; the phenomenon is called nose fatigue) you can get the salesperson to spray it on little slips of paper. Don’t be a novice and just smell the paper. Fan it in the air while you look about the store with a bored, yet superior look on your face. If the salesperson tries to hurry you along, just shrug and say, “Dry down.” At this point, the salesperson will realize you are not to be trifled with. This will not change anything, but it’s nice to get unmerited respect.

Rule Five is smell the coffee. Most perfume counters have little net bags of coffee beans hidden away. Ask for one if you want. It’s to clear the nostrils during episodes of nose fatigue. The idea is that you take a whiff of coffee and you can go on to the next scent.

This really does work, plus it shows you know what you’re doing. But see Rule Six.

Rule Six is that you don’t have to smell everything. Most perfumes have been practically studied by lots of people who have way better noses than you do. Smelling a lot of perfumes not only creates a huge olfactory blur, you’re not even smelling perfumes as they really are. Perfumes will interact with a person’s individual skin chemicals plus the top notes fade. Why not avoid most of the torture and find out the general type of fragrance you are shopping for.

If you know the brand perfume, skip this step. But if you don’t, think of whether the person would want a floral scent (or something very modern right now, the fruity floral, which are for the trendy, the young, and those burdened by their own tragic hipness), a fresh scent (which is kind of like soap, very mild, and popular with people who are or imagine they are under 18), an Oriental or spicy scent (these are heavier and for mature women; I would even say they are old lady scents except I wear them. Let’s just say they are much more complicated, denser perfumes that are very sophisticated. Here’s a way to look at it. I am certain that Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton wear fruity florals and fresh scents exclusively. Meryl Streep probably wears Orientals.)

There are also green fragrances (woodsy, fresh, plant-like) and chypres, which nobody can pronounce, and is generally marketed here as woodsy or green.

Florals are the easiest and hardest to buy. Most of the world’s great scents are florals. That is a historical fact and is likely to continue. However, many people find florals a bit ordinary. That is to say, if you’re buying for a perfume snob, shy away from florals because she probably knows the terrain better than you do. In fact, don’t buy perfume for a perfume snob, just give her money.

Rule Seven is that the number one best-selling perfume in France is Angel. It’s an unusual scent made by French perfumer Thierry Mugler and it’s very popular in the U.S. This is one of the great “secrets” of the perfume industry, known by perfumistas and men and women of fragrance, but not widely known to newcomers to the fragrance department. If you’re buying perfume for somebody only marginally more knowledgeable than you are (or less knowledgeable), go for Angel and tell that person that this perfume is the best-seller in the country that is most famous for savvy perfume consumption.

Rule Eight is that fragrance products differ. Perfume is the strongest stuff and not that commonly sold. You are likely to be offered eau-de-parfum or eau-de-toilet (which also goes by the unfortunate name of toilet water), of which eau-de-parfum is the stronger and the more suitable for gifting. Sprays, colognes, and eau-de-toilet are lighter fare, best for people who don’t mind touching up their fragrance often and also suitable for younger people. People who know perfume want eau-de-parfum or perfume.

Rule Nine is don’t be impressed when your sales person speaks French. It’s the language of perfume. Eau-de-parfum is pronounced oh-duh-par-fahm where the m sound on the last syllable is only suggested. Perfume is actually correctly called both parfum and perfume in America, so your salesperson may say par-fahm. Many scents have French names. Givenchy (which by the way makes an extraordinary floral scent that just about everybody likes called Very Iressistable) is pronounced jhee-vun-shee. Say it, it’s fun.

Rule Ten is that everybody can survive a bad perfume. Let’s say you pick the world’s worst scent on earth or the one fragrance your recipient loathes. It’s unlikely to kill her. She won’t have to check into rehab, see a therapist, or be hauled off in an ambulance. She may grow to like it, she may give it away, or she may take you off her holiday gift list altogether. Where’s the down side?

Rule Number Eleven is the big finale. There are some great scents. Besides Very Irresistable, consider these classics: Chanel No. 5 (perfume lovers and novices all adore this scent), Tresor by Lancome, and Beautiful by Estee Lauder. If you want something hipper and newer, try Stella by Stella McCartney, Incanto Charms by Ferragamo, Angel by Thierry Mugler, or anything by Philosophy (the fresh scent people). Oh, and another “little known” delightGroove by Carol’s Daughter. You may have to go to their website to get this stuff, but it’s not that expensive and it’s very wonderful (fruity floral stuff).

One more rarity you can’t lose with: Chinatown by Bond No. 9. Get the fancy bottle.

About the Author

Scared to shop for perfume? Worried you’ll look like an idiot or make a poor choice? Have you been frightened by the Clinique ladies before? Get all you need to know at http://www.theperfume-reporter.com and even a free Perfume Profile besides. This article was written by Joanna McLaughlin, who actually enjoys the mortal combat known as perfume shopping. She contributes regularly to ThePerfume-Reporter. Her favorite scent today is Cristobal Balenciaga.

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1. Perfume
2. Eau de Parfum
3. Eau deToilette
4. Eau de Cologne
5. Compound
6. Cologne (Men’s)
7. Pheromones

Perfume (Extract)
Most highly concentrated form of fragrance, containing a high percentage of perfume compounds (about 20-50%), it is considered the strongest.  This means that not only do you need to use less, but also that the fragrance lasts longer.

EAU DE PARFUM (EDP)
This is lighter than Perfume, with an 8-15% concentration of perfume, and so is less expensive but still has long lasting characteristics.

EAU DE TOILETTE (EDT)
This is a lighter more delicate fragrance, with a 4-8% concentration of perfume, and is therefore most suited to everyday use.  It is normally less expensive than Eau de Parfum.

EAU DE COLOGNE (EDC) or Perfume (Women’s)
This is often referred to as Cologne with A light form of specific fragrance with a relatively low concentration of perfume compound (about 3%) in an alcohol water base. The term is derived from Eau de Cologne, one of the original fragrance compositions

Compound
Term used in the industry for the concentrated perfume or flavor mixture before it is diluted or used in products.

Cologne (Men’s)
More concentrated than the women’s cologne (about 5-8%). It is similar to the strength of a women’s Eau de Toilette.  Men’s After Shave by comparison will be somewhat lighter (about 3-5%).

Pheromones
Chemicals produced by living organisms and are used to transmit messages to other member of the same species. Nature has provided them so that we can communicate rapidly and efficiently by means of scents. The secret to pheromones lies in their discreet strength and the way they affect our personal environment.