Aedes de Venustas Incorporated

After reading many reviews about the helpful customer service, I was worried that the staff would come on too strong. That's not at all the case! Instead someone asked if I needed help when I came in, and then left me on my own to browse at leisure. The second I asked for something, though, he was instantly helpful and lovely. This is my idea of a perfect shopping atmosphere, and as a result I'll go out of my way to purchase my fragrance at Aedes - not that I could find these gems anywhere else!

Aedes de Venustas ("temple of beauty") is a must-stop for fragrance lovers. The atmosphere -- think, Venetian fin-de-siecle apothecary -- perfectly suits scents as outrageous as the surface of the moon; 300-year-old fragrances from Italy and everything in between.

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