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Can you put a price on beauty? When it comes to fragrance, skin care and makeup, three Twin Cities beauty boutiques are betting that you can.
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Three local beauty boutiques can offer you customer service and products different from those at the average beauty counter. We sniffed and sampled our way through all of them — for the sake of your good looks.
Cherie Boutique
750 E. Lake St., Wayzata, 952-475-2212
Open since: February 2003.
What you’ll find: A charming (and huge!) European-style perfumery with an incredible collection of fragrances, as well as skin care, candles and makeup. Sniff a fresh spritz (in a shot glass with netting) of La Chasse aux Papillons by L’Artisan Parfumer, which picks up on the flowers that butterflies frequent (linden, lemon, pink pepper berries, tuberose and jasmine). Then cleanse your nasal palate with a whiff of coffee beans and inhale Creed’s Spring Flower, originally blended for Audrey Hepburn.
Other notables: Caudelie, Oprah’s favorite Kai body butter ($55, they’re expecting a shipment Jan. 15; call to be on the waiting list), Longchamp bags ($132 for a Le Pliage foldable tote and $825 for Kate Moss’ favorite Legend bag) and Tarina Tarantino jewelry.
Signature product: Bond No. 9’s Scent of Peace ($195 for 3.4 ounces, $125 for 1.7 ounces and $40 for a purse spray) with grapefruit, black currant and lily of the valley.
Aesthetic: Old-school European. Antique cases and fixtures, such as a shelf from an old apothecary in Paris.
Who: Diane Wissink owns the store along with her daughters Jennifer Carpenter and Sally Clayburn.
Size: 4,000 square feet.
Top seller: Fresh’s Sugar Lip Treatment, $22.50. An upgrade from Chapstick.
Sample policy: If you’re seriously sniffing out a perfume, they’ll give you some to take home.
Men: A men’s section includes the Art of Shaving, Kiehl’s, Molton Brown and Bumble & Bumble.
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