We know how difficult it is to pick gifts out when you try to personalise them for your closer friends or family. If you haven’t gotten thoughtful gifts for your friends and family,we have some Christmas Shopping Made Easy suggestions which we feel will make great gifts.
Escentially Escentials
Step into Escentials at #03-02 Paragon and soak into a sensual experience that exudes fragrance, joy and peace. With so many brands of fragrances, skincare, bodycare, cosmetics and candles, there is something for everyone and also a place to pick up multiple presents for your discerning friends.
Pick out a Diptyque Candle from its Resin, Winter or Spicy range at S$56 for the 70g or S$115 for the 190g. Or simply pick out a Holiday Season Candle set of 3 x 70gm at S$168 or a Winter Candle set of 5 x 35g mini candles for S$130.
My personal favourite at Escentials Paragon would be Le Labo’s Rose 31. First introduced to me when I stayed at the Fairmont Bab Al Bahr in Abu Dhabi in May this year. Fairmont hotels around the world provides guests with Le Labo Rose 31 amenities in guest rooms. While you are at Escentials, you may want to check out Le Labo Rose 31. But hurry, stocks run out pretty quick.
Treat Yourself To June Jacobs
June Jacobs Spa collection is the brand of toiletries used at the Grand Hyatt Singapore.
Pick out a series of products such as the 103.5ml Cooling Cucumber Cleanser or 210ml Pore Purifying Facial Bath for S$72 each. Or pamper your friend or family’s eyes with the 15ml Revitalising Eye Gel at S$155 or the 15ml Cellular Collagen Eye Serum at S$177.
Pamper the hand and foot with the 114ml Peppermint Hand and Foot Therapy or 106.1ml Peppermint Hand and Foot Polish priced at S$66 each. There is also a 200ml Peppermint Moisturising Foot Mist at S$72.
Not forgetting men, there is a 198ml 3-in-1 cleanser priced at S$68.
June Jacobs Spa Collection is available at PTR Centre, #04-02A International Building. Grand Hyatt Singapore also retails some of June Jacobs Spa Collection products at its spa.
Fascinating Body Shop
The Body Shop offers many pre wrapped Christmas sets that are easy to just pick and go. And when you pick one of their specially-selected gifts, you would be helping to provide experiential learning classes to children suffering from cerebral palsy.
Pick out a Glazed Apple Treat Box, Frosted Cranberry Treat Box, Vanilla Brulee Treat Box or The utterly Unique Manicure Kit for just S$19.90 each.
For men, you can pick the Modern Gent’s Shaving Kit which is priced at S$36.90.
Available at all The Body Shop outlets in Singapore.
Crabtree & Evelyn
Crabtree & Evelyn has always been our favourite stop when it comes to getting gifts. Besides Festive Home Fragrances and Gift Collections, Crabtree & Evelyn offers pre packaged Festive Fine Food which you can just pick up and gift to your friends and family. No hassle about wrapping and all.
Reasonably priced at S$65, the gift set of six x 100g biscuits comprises triple chocolate chunk biscuits, traditional shortbread, white chocolate and raspberry biscuits, honey and oat biscuits, strawberries and cream biscuits and lemon and white chocolate biscuits.
You can also pick up a Limited Edition Hand Therapy Trio comprising of three x 25g packaging of Frosted Fruits, Iced Rose and Spiced Ginger hand lotions for S$33. This comes in an impressive box packaging. Or if you really want to impress, there is a Big Top Twelve Hand Therapy Musical Tin costing S$83. That contains 12 x 25g hand lotions including La Source, Rosewater Lavender, Gardeners, Pomegranate, Nantucket Briar, Citron, Summer Hill, Lily, Tarocco Orange, Evelyn Rose and Verbana and Lavender.
The Hollyberry candles and diffusers are too gorgeous not to give a second look when you visit Crabtree & Evelyn. The home fragrance diffuser comes in a nice round box. Within the box, you will get a 180ml diffuser with a bird as a cover. Other gift ideas in this range include a three wick fragranced candle priced at S$74, a home fragrance spray priced at S$30 for 100ml or the 10ml home fragrance oil priced at S$18.
The Crabtree & Evelyn 2014 Christmas Collection is available in all its 12 stores islandwide.
Lush Moments
Everyone has fun at Lush. Pick out the Snowman Fun pack where you can make your own snowman and sing along to the famous theme song of the Walt Disney animation Frozen. These snowmen are also soaps which you can use to lather your skin. Or better yet, bring your friend along to pick out something.
You can also pick out a bath bomb from LUSH’s extensive range of freshly made bath bombs. Perfect for a nice long bath, these bath bombs burst into a myriad of colours depending on the type you pick leaving your skin slightly oiled and smooth after a long bath.
Be treated to an olfactory experience as you pick out something from the array of colourful delights. Lush is located at Wisma Atria, Suntec City and Orchard Gateway
Cute Gifts from Mt. Sapola
Pick out one of Mt. Sapola’s limited edition diffusers or burners. These nostalgic retro designed burners and reed diffusers come in multi-coloured designs. Porcelain burners start from S$29.90 and come with lemongrass, yuzu grapefruit or ginger peppermint diffuser oils. Just too cute to even use it as a display in your room. Diffusers start from S$79.90 while the cute Owl Diffusers are priced at S$89.90
Mt. Sapola’s Cheerfulness in a Box priced at S$29.90. The gift set features a natural hand-made soap, a pair of nail shiners and a rose potpourri. Harmony and Jubilee bath sets are priced at S$65.90 per set and comes with body wash, body lotion and a travel size body lotion.
Mt. Sapola boutqiues are at Bugis Junction, Centrepoint, Changi Airport Terminal 1 Departure/Transit Lounge East, Great World City, ION Orchard, Jurong East Mall, Marina Bay Sands, Marina Square, NEX, Orchard Mandarin Gallery, Parkway Parade, Raffles City Shopping Centre, Tampines 1, Tanglin Mall and Vivocity.
Fragrances for Men
Vetiver Essence by Ferrari is the latest fragrance in the Ferrari Essence Collection which includes Essence Oud, Essence Musk, Leather Essence and Cedar Essence. If your guy likes a warm, spicy and woody fragrance, then get him the Vetiver Essence. 100ml retails at S$142 from Robinsons Orchard, Ferrari Boutique at Marina Bay Sands, Takashimaya, OG Albert/Orchard, BHG Bugis, Changi Airport and Sephora.
Atkinsons 24 Old Bond Street Triple Extract is a concentration which favours potency over the whimsy of the bouquet or the cologne which is a step beyond the extract or even a handy double extract. The 50ml Eau de Cologne retails at S$168 while the 100ml retails at S$218 at Robinsons The Heeren and Escentials Paragon.
BOSS Christmas Sets are available from Takashimaya, BHG Bugis Junction and Century Square. The Hugo Red EDT 125ml, Deodorant Stick 75ml and Shower Gel 50ml have been packaged and is available at S$127. For the ladies, the BOSS Ma Vie EDP 75ml is packaged together with a bottle of 200ml Body Lotion and is available at S$151.
