About

The Urban Muse offers skin care, bath and body products, jewelry, candles, music, handbags, books, cards and more. We have shopped the world to bring our customers gifts from Australia, England, Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Brazil and Japan. All of our products are carefully chosen and life tested.

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Home Accessories

Seda France Our hand-poured candles are presented in a variety of fresh colors that make elegantly presented gifts so beautiful that they don’t need to be wrapped. We use only the finest candle grade fragrance oils in each of our offerings that are especially notable for their long-lasting strength.

Alora Ambiance The Alora Ambiance products are produced by the sister team of Annie and Therese Gibbons and were inspired by their 15 years spent living and laughing in the picturesque mountain region of Lake Como, Italy.

As effective as a centerpiece as it is an air freshener, the Alora Ambiance diffuser truly is a one-of-a-kind product and makes a perfect gift. Its exquisite design and attention to detail attest to its Italian origins while its wicking device - a deceptively simple and elegant grouping of sticks - is both attractive and unusually effective. The liquid travels up through the sticks and fills the room. It is inviting and offers each space its own signature fragrance.

Yixing Teapots Yixing-ware teapots come from the Yixing region located 120 miles northwest of Shanghai. They possess an astonishing history dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Yixing ware was initially shipped to the West by the British and Dutch through the East India Trading Company. The Yixing ware teapot has maintained its unique reputation both in China and abroad.

Artisans making Yixing teapots must have served a long apprenticeship under the guidance of established masters. They receive rigorous training in all aspects of their craft before mastering their techniques. Artisans utilize purple clay which contains natural minerals to create beautiful products of various colors.

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Personal Accessories

Baggallini was founded by two veteran flight attendants who recognized a need for more fashionable and functional tote bags, handbags and travel accessories. Since their modest start, baggallini has grown to be recognized as a worldwide leader in creating products that are incredibly organized and look as good as they perform. They are well known for their distinctive color pallets, fun fabrics and lightweight durability.

Maruca Design offers glorious fabric handbags for the style conscious woman! Many different styles, fabrics, textures and colors to choose from. All of the fabrics used are woven in the U.S. Which insures our quality and creative input.

Tokyo Bay Our fashion-forward products which include watches, mini-clocks, handbags and accessories, appeal to design-conscious individuals across a broad age spectrum. With a vision to take the best watch designs of the classic eras and give them a modern edge. Tokyo bay has quickly become a staple of trend-wise consumers looking for just the right thing to wear.

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Bath & Body

Decleor Based on Eastern holistic philosophies, Decleor approach to beauty is indeed unique in its combination of the purest, most potent and natural ingredients. Decleor has devoted years of intensive research to creating Europe's most comprehensive and effective range of beauty treatments and today is recognized as a leading authority in Aromatherapy skincare. You will discover that Decleor is a way of life, providing the very Essence of Contemporary Beauty.

Filled with active agents, essential oils are made up of hundreds of molecules that act in synergy. These very powerful concentrates require a specialist's know-how in order to guarantee permanent quality control, ranging from the choice of the botanical species to ensuring the absolute purity of the essential oil, with all its molecules preserved.

Dani Natural body care products to enhance your body, bath and home. We use only high quality, natural ingredients in simple, yet beautiful packages that are earth friendly.

All of the product bases contain 100% vegetable oils with NO petroleum or animal oils. The packaging is easily recyclable and made with recycled materials when possible. We do not test our products on animals. All of our products are made in the USA. Natural body care products to enhance your body, bath and home. We use only high quality, natural ingredients in simple, yet beautiful packages that are earth friendly.

All of the product bases contain 100% vegetable oils with NO petroleum or animal oils. The packaging is easily recyclable and made with recycled materials when possible. We do not test our products on animals. All of our products are made in the USA.

Elizabeth W was founded by Albert Wightman in honor of his great-grandmother who lived on a ranch in the Sierra Nevada’s in the 1800’s. Albert’s strongest memories are the scents of summer as a child on Elizabeth's ranch. Violets, roses, lilacs, and magnolias surrounded the house, while inside, the kitchen was filled with freshly picked lavender, rosemary and sage. Before launching into the perfume world, he worked as an architect. In 1995, he devoted himself to his true passion and created a perfumery. His fragrances are clean, simple, sophisticated, elegant and original. They reflect an emphasis on quality and beauty, valuable lessons passed down through the generations from Elizabeth W.

Zents products are ultra-therapeutic to soothe and heal from within. Using many natural ingredients, including herbal extracts, essential oils, and shea butter, our products are designed to improve the texture and look of skin, leaving it soft, and smooth, and lovely.

Zents was ahead of its time with the latest trend in fragrance - custom blends! Like a signature, scent is a way people recognize you. Zents has created special signature scents for celebrities and awards events, but we also wanted to make personal fragrance available to everyone, so we designed all of our fragrances to be blended and layered. Experiment with all of the scents to find the perfect combination for you... exquisite alone, decadent combined, for the ultimate in individuality! With amazing ingredients and luxurious formulations, Zents products are ultra-therapeutic to soothe and heal from within. Using many natural ingredients, including herbal extracts, essential oils, and shea butter, our products are designed to improve the texture and look of skin, leaving it soft, and smooth, and lovely. Zents fragrances use 60-120 carefully chosen fragrance and essential oils for a beauty unmatched by most modern fragrances.

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Jewelry

Suzanne Garofalo Design In 2002 a favorite necklace broke . . . who knew that figuring out how to repair it would be the start of Suzanne Garofalo Design?

After many years in the corporate world Suzanne realized that her true calling and happiness was found in working with her hands designing and creating wearable accessories. Demand for Suzanne’s designs took her from a small part time venture to a growing full time company in 2004.

Suzanne finds much of her inspiration in the rural countryside surrounding her Northern New Jersey studio. Her love of nature in all of its aspects is often translated into her original and limited edition designs.

Suzanne’s creates her jewelry with the hope that they may empower and make manifest the beauty in all women who wear them.

Kathy Bransfield She hopes she can share History’s most brilliant visionaries with you through her sterling silver work. Most pieces open to reveal hand-stamped quotes or images that capture her trust in human faith, life’s complex beauty and all its diversity. Each item embodies an essence of her quirkiness and unfalteringly cheerful spirit. All are cherished by their wearers and many hold them as a sacred personal amulet. Kathy’s distinctively meaningful jewelry continues to evoke passionate responses from long time collectors and new fans alike. They can be found in the finest galleries, catalogs and exhibitions across the country.

Kathy began her jewelry career while following the band, The Grateful Dead. She made and sold beaded jewelry to support her gypsy-like existence. She began working more and more with silver, which has ultimately led to her uniquely imaginative designs.

Metal Pointu's Metal Pointu's is a line of fashion jewelry designed and made in Paris. Every piece in this unique collection, ranging from elegant and modern to just plain fun, is the creation of artist Bernard Bouhnik.

Bernard, a family man and a father of seven, began making jewelry in 1988. He finds his inspiration from his world travels, which explains the ethnic touch in each of his fashion collections.

Bernard's avant garde approach ensures that Metal Pointu's is always fresh and distinct, leading rather than following current fashion trends.

Publication in magazines like Elle, Vogue, Marie Claire, Cosmos, Madame Figaro and others, have brought Metal Pointu's to the forefront of French fashion design and to the attention of professional designers. The appearance of Metal Pointu's jewelry on French television, and in French films, has also created recognition for the line.

Royal Designs Royal Designs products are hand crafted, unique pieces of art by artist Jennifer Peña.

Specializing in collage and beadwork, Jennifer recycles varied materials that catch her eye, from candy wrappers to tissue paper, old books and maps, to mulberry paper and washi. The result is a unique and beautiful blend of colors and textures that are meticulously applied to recycled jars, bottles, dolls and more. Ms. Peña's love of beads creates yet another medium for her art. Often added with wire or fibers, beads are the perfect finishing detail of color and sparkle.

Jennifer applies the same intuition for color combinations to her beaded jewelry. Her unique designs are hand created with crystal, glass, and precious metal beads. She brings her love of numbers and background in Mathematics into the designs of her work using patterns of numerology or sacred numbers. These energies blend with the natural vibration of the stones and colors in the piece to make a truly mystical work of art. Each piece is one of a kind and resonates with its own special energy.

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Aromatherapy

Oshadi Dr. Malte Hozzel, a naturalist and the founder of Oshadhi, selects aromatic plants in their natural habitat that are strong, healthy, and thriving. He has developed personal relationships with over 1,000 farmers and distillers from 50 different countries to insure pure, high quality production. He avidly supports organic growers and ecological farming.

Impeccable care is taken in the growing, extracting, filling, and packing of these essential oils. All Oshadhi products are completely hand crafted, from farm to bottling, without the use of electromagnetic machinery to avoid disruption of their exquisite subtle properties. Oshadhi sets the standard for therapeutic-quality, pure essential oils. It is the most meticulously produced and respected aromatherapy line in the world.

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Books & CD's

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Edibles

Tea Forte Our unique Silken-Tea-Infusers are individually hand crafted, and provide the world's finest method to brew a cup of tea. The open weave of the fabric allows the water to flow freely around the teas, allowing the tea leaves to unfurl and the flavors to mingle in the large open form of the infuser. We use only exquisite whole-leaf teas and rough cut herbs and our unique design allows the subtle flavors of these fine teas to infuse into the water. It's like brewing a pot of tea in your cup!

Unwrap the protective cover and stand the infuser in your cup. Pour boiling water in and exquisite tea starts to brew, the infuser maintains its elegant form, and the upward lifted leaf and cotton stem creates a handle. A feast for all the senses, Tea Forte is quite possibly the finest, most elegant cup of tea of all time.

Our teas are the highest quality, all natural, whole leaf teas. With our herbal blend, we use fresh harvested rough-cut herbs. Our infusers are filled at the tea gardens in Asia, and sealed for freshness. We are confident that the flavors you experience with Tea Forte will surpass all other teas you have tasted.

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