Very friendly place, I visited here around 4 times. the manager is very friendly, chats and the…read moreenvironment is nice. There are quite alot of perfumes for sale and certainly great if your into that. Certainly not a no frills beauty salon rather offering both perfumes and beauty side by side equally. Highly recommend especially as its probably the cheapest beauty salon on bedford place.

as a mother of 4 I don't normally find the time to write reviews however I feel obliged to do so in…read morethis case. I have just fallen into the hands of THE ESSENCE STORE, an online perfume shop, CRIMINALS!! After the experience I took the risk and ordered online again instead of buying my perfume in the shop. To be honest it wasn't really the money, but the fact that I just didn't want to believe that all online shops are Fraudsters. And I must say I am very glad I placed my order with you! Super price, original product, prompt service and delivery. I only wished you had more reviewsbecause criminals like THE ESSENCE STORE may make it harder for people to trust online companies. I will def buy again and also recommend to my friends.

London Perfume Shop is a scam. They did not deliver my perfume and would not respond to emails. I…read moretried to phone them but note that they do not publish a phone number on their website. I obtained a number from Directory Enquiries but that was an obsolete number. Fortunately, I managed to recover my money from Nochex. My advice is to avoid. The perfume is advertised much cheaper than elsewhere, but, be warned, it is a very clever scam

Fantastic store, I love boots because you can get such great value if you use the offers and buy…read morewhen they have their triple points weekends. Always worth checking out these offers as the points really do add up! This store has everything including a huge amount of makeup (a personal weakness). Check out the jemma kid range! The store is well arranged and their is a seperate area for the queue so it doesn't interrupt the rest of the store, there is usually a large queue in here but it never seems to take long to clear, they always have a lot of people on the tills in busy times.

A great size Boots store and pharmacy. Set partially over two floors, with gifts upstairs…read more Downstairs you have pharmacy and seasonal gifts on the left side of the store. All the essentials and toiletries through the middle section and perfumes and aftershaves on the right side. Great selection of almost everything in the store, the pharmacy has plenty of staff to serve you, the gifts are plentiful and this store is very good for sales after christmas etc. I've never not been able to find anything I've wanted in this Boots!

The purfume shop is located on the main ramp into west quay shopping centre located in the centre…read moreof southampton. We always get our fragrances from here as it is so much cheaper than a lot of the department stores out on the high street, often tens of pounds cheaper for exactly the same item! Nearer xmas they have lots of gift sets which are great value too, and sometimes the same price as a single bottle of perfume, but with a moisturiser or something too. There are always enough staff in here to help, and they will offer you spray sticks with samples as you want to try things out.

This is a 'cheap' shop in Woolston and the only one of its kind in the area really. It sells…read moreeverything you can imagine from ornaments to cleaning products, gloves to greetings cards, garden impliments to plastic boxes and much much more! If you are after something random for your house at a very cheap price then this is the shop for you. I recently was looking for a sink plunger, found one in Woolworths for £4.99, walked over to Beamans who had on offer a bigger and better one for £1 so that was quite a saving. Saying that, you do have to be careful what you pick up because some stuff just 'looks' cheap, if you know what I mean and its for that reason I am very fussy about why I buy in there.

Quite a good shop, has a wide variety of stock, brilliant for birthday and occasion cards and quite…read morecheap, also has a £1 aisle, where everythings a quid, always love a bargain.

Another place appealing to my inner hippy! Sadly, the only place locally that also sells Yankee…read moreCandles :( Good for them though, as it seems to bring them lots of business! An amazing range of differnt sized and scented candles, and for a fairly reasonable price. The staff there are awesome, and know what they are on about too. However they are not pushy and are very helpful. I usually fail to come away from this place with nothing! Great range, well priced and good staff. What more could you want from a candle shop? :D

Only Yankee Candle outlet in Southampton…read more Yankee Candle is an American company which specializes is candles. What is different about these candles is that unlike other fragranced candles the fragrance is all the way through the candle not just in the top layer meaning you get the small smell all the way through. The candles are not cheap however they are the nicest smelling candles I have ever smelt. The range is huge and is slit into categories Fresh and Fruit Floral and World Food and Spice and Festives. Smells include Baby Powder, Vanilla Cupcake, Egg Nog, Vanilla Lime, Country Linen, Cherry Lemonade and Granny Smith to name a few. Baby Powder is one of my favorites; it has that lovely baby smell. They also do candle parties which you can book through their website, when they will come to your house with the range. They also do car airfreshners, reeds and a variety of other 'smelly' items! Worth going in even if just to smell all the lovely candles.

If find this pharmacy is quite good for general shopping. They sell hair and bath products, baby…read moreproducts, cosmetics and perfumes and most things you would expect to find in a shop like this. They also sell a small selection of cards and oddly, they have a glass case of watches, etc, next to the counter. The staff are always polite and helpful. I recently dropped a pound coin under one the display units and one lady kindly helped me get it out. It's a shame the same can't be said for the pharmacy at the back of the shop. I have always found the counter staff and pharmacy assistants to be uninterested, unhelpful and at worst, rude. When I have asked a question they've rarely known the answer and when I've requested they check with the pharmacist it's been made quite clear that I'm expecting far too much from them. The pharmacists themselves have always been pleasant but the reaction from counter staff and the 40 minute wait for a prescription means that I no longer use this pharmacy.

I popped into Lloyds a couple of weeks ago to pick up some medicine and some advice for my mother…read more They were quite busy as usual and the waiting time for a prescription was nearly an hour. I asked the young lad behind the counter for some advice and explained what I had been asked to asked. He said he couldn't asnwer and would get a Pharmacist. To his credit he came straight out, listened to my query, asked a good couple of questions and gave some really spot on advice. The Pharmacy team themselves seem to be very good from this transaction but the queue time and length of time to wait for a prescription was a bit off. If they really are this busy then how about taking on some more staff, I only saw two including the Pharmacist behind the counter and the next Pharmacy I went to to get the prescription (wasn't going to wait for nearly an hour), was half the size and had double the staff. I waited 15 minutes there.