{"id":1124036,"date":"2025-12-17T17:13:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1124036"},"modified":"2025-12-17T17:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:13:25","slug":"flamingo-estate-review-and-pop-up-visit-forget-red-the-holidays-are-verdant-green-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1124036","title":{"rendered":"Flamingo Estate Review and Pop-Up Visit: Forget Red, the Holidays Are Verdant Green This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forget Red\u2014the Holidays Are Flamingo Estate Green This Year<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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At the brand\u2019s Los Angeles pop-up, we discovered bricks of peppermint soap, tomato candles, and rosemary hand wash for gifting with a green thumb.<\/div>\n
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Ever wonder what it\u2019s like shopping with a beauty editor? Welcome to Counter Service, a series where we visit our favorite beauty boutiques IRL. We\u2019re visiting the curated spaces and places that make shopping in person oh-so fun\u2014and you\u2019re coming with. On a balmy winter day in Los Angeles, Shanna Shipin, Allure\u2019s senior shopping director, visited Flamingo Estate\u2019s Los Angeles pop-up shop to get into the sensorial holiday spirit.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As enticing as the entrance: Free two-hour parking in the back.<\/p>\n

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About a quarter block down, you can smell it. Damask rose, peppermint, and rosemary\u2014the scent wafts along Figueroa, the busy Highland Park street where Flamingo Estate\u2019s holiday pop-up is perched in Northeast Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

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  • Bushels to Beauty, and Back Again<\/li>\n
  • The Holiday Harvest Shop<\/li>\n
  • Wrapping Up<\/li>\n
  • Shop Flamingo Estate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    Bushels to Beauty, and Back Again<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

    Long before it launched an experiential arm, Flamingo Estate was a farm box company founded by Richard Christiansen, formerly of Chandelier Creative, a legendary New York-based creative agency with a roster including Herm\u00e8s, Cartier, and, more recently, Rhode. While that last client was post-Christiansen\u2019s departure, his background as a creative director is as crucial as his upbringing on a rural Australian farm; who else could turn humble produce shipments into lusted-after luxury deliveries? I relocated from New York City to my hometown of Los Angeles during the pandemic, and without entirely joking, I would tell people I moved because the hustle was a lot\u2014that, and the lack of good citrus. A real homecoming was had, then, when I returned in 2021 and immediately signed up for the locally famous farm boxes.<\/p>\n

    A few years later, Flamingo Estate has emerged as a globally recognized lifestyle brand that doesn\u2019t just curate high-quality produce and pantry essentials, but has also launched bath and body products, candles, books, and, oh, just a few<\/em> cultural moments. The Heirloom Tomato Candle arguably sparked the entire tomato girl movement of painting our fragrance wardrobes a bright, juicy red. (As Christiansen notes, \u201cIt has always been our number-one selling product, and much copied by other brands (but never perfected),\u201d a potential Loewe dig that adds to lore). Then there are the various celebrity collaborations, my favorite of which has to be the limited-run Pamela\u2019s Pickles, inspired by a recipe handed down to Pamela Anderson by her great aunt.<\/p>\n

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    Hand cream secured.<\/p>\n

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    A+ tablescaping.<\/p>\n

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    As a beauty editor, I\u2019ve found the most fascinating growth to be in Flamingo Estate\u2019s beauty assortment. Take the Manuka Rich Cream\u2014which felt entirely organic to the brand, considering Christiansen\u2019s parents are beekeepers. And just this year, the Exfoliating Peppermint Soap Brick earned an Allure<\/em> Best of Beauty Award in the body category. I tested the latter for our awards, and there\u2019s always something exciting about seeing a red-seal product in the wild, watching customers discover its magic, too.<\/p>\n

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    The Holiday Harvest Shop<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

    The corner store shares a wall with the company\u2019s LA headquarters and workshop. When I arrived at the mossy green building, I almost walked in through the back door where its soap bars are produced (one hundred at a time). I didn\u2019t miss out on any sort of sensorial or tactile experience, though\u2014the smelling, the touching, the feeling, the tasting! I got it all when I swung around to the front entrance.<\/p>\n

    The first thing that hits you is the sight of rosemary and sage bunches hanging from the ceiling. Peeking out from above them is a hand-painted mural of pink flowers, a gentle juxtaposition to the green-drenched interior. The space itself is a small footprint, and although it’s filled with candles, soap bricks, and jars of honey everywhere you look, it doesn\u2019t feel crowded. There\u2019s one worker set behind a wooden apothecary-like counter, and Flamingo Estate\u2019s office manager, Alex, who is on olive oil-tasting duty in one corner of the store. Above them, dried peppers serve as an edible crown molding.<\/p>\n

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    I wish you had smell-o-vision right now.<\/p>\n

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    Dream kitchen alert!<\/p>\n

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    Each wall is flanked by a checkerboard of products and the brand\u2019s holiday gift boxes\u2014each with a cross-stitch design that feels all at once new and nostalgic. The beauty products are on one side; the pantry essentials are on the other, and the center counter is home to a show-stopping floral arrangement. True to the brand\u2019s ethos of respecting the lifecycles of the natural world, the centerpiece isn\u2019t replaced with a new bouquet each week; instead, stems are swapped out organically until it’s transformed into a new arrangement entirely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    There are persimmons dotting the base of the vase, which are found all over Los Angeles (including my mom\u2019s backyard), and not coincidentally, in my favorite vinegar from Flamingo Estate. Next to them is an array of treats, including the seasonal (and viral) Spicy Strawberry Fruit Snacks made from Harry\u2019s Berries morsels, which were noted as having \u201cjuice-dribbling texture\u201d in The<\/em>New York Times<\/em>. It\u2019s just the kind of if-you-know-you-know touch the brand is so adept at bringing to each product. The last thing I notice is a woven basket on the checkerboard floor with dog toys shaped like various Flamingo Estate items, an ode to Christiansen\u2019s two beloved Cocker Spaniels.<\/p>\n

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    Wrapping Up<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

    The shop is curated with precision, yet the effect is one of ease, making it just the sort of space you want to find yourself in when shopping for thoughtful home items or gifts for anyone in your life. No pressure to check out; you feel rich whether you walk out with the $90 fig oil or not. That\u2019s the trick with Flamingo Estate, and indeed anything done well: It\u2019s deceptively simple. There\u2019s a depth you can only capture in person\u2014holding the weight of decadent soap bars, the look on your loved one\u2019s face when they unwrap a candle inspired by their favorite dessert, the warmth of sharing really good olive oil and bread with strangers.<\/p>\n

    As I\u2019m leaving, my Prinsesst\u00e5rta Set beautifully packaged in hand, I\u2019m wistful in the way you sometimes get during Christmas. I\u2019m sad it\u2019s over before I\u2019m out of the door. But not to worry: The shop will be open through the end of the year, and the brand has a few more pop-ups planned. There\u2019s one for Valentine\u2019s Day, another for Mother\u2019s Day, and Flamingo Estate\u2019s first permanent location will open in 2026 in Los Angeles. Emerald City, here we come.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    I’ll take one of everything, thanks!<\/p>\n

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    And we’re off\u2014time to wrap these gifts.<\/p>\n

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    Shop Flamingo Estate<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

    You can shop Flamingo Estate directly on its website, at Nordstrom, Bloomingdale\u2019s, and surely at a chic boutique near you. Here are some picks I love for the holiday season.<\/em><\/p>\n

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    Holiday shopping isn’t complete without a gift for yourself, right?<\/p>\n

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    The Prinsesst\u00e5rta Candle is perhaps my favorite item from Flamingo Estate. I\u2019m a gourmand girl, especially during the holidays, and while you could absolutely gift the candle, let them eat, or wear, cake. This newest iteration of the brand\u2019s Prinsesst\u00e5rta theme is a lovely oil with marzipan and vanilla notes, along with amber, Oakmoss, and lemon to ground the scent and keep it from becoming cloying. In the store, I went back to roll this fragrance on my wrists no less than three times.<\/p>\n

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    My kind of Jenga tower.<\/p>\n

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    Yes, Flamingo Estate started in the garden with edible goods, but gifting soap\u2014one of the brand\u2019s signature bricks\u2014is a can\u2019t-miss situation. Accompanying the Allure<\/em> 2025 Best of Beauty Award-winning Peppermint Soap Brick is the opportunity to help your loved ones laugh in the face of precipitation by lighting up the popular tomato candle in the dead of winter.<\/p>\n

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    Once you go nice-hand-cream, you never go back.<\/p>\n

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    The mini Jasmine & Rose hand cream is the perfect stocking stuffer your giftee will not want to leave the house without. This is a fabulous scent as a candle, but the sheen the cream leaves on your hands is sublime. (I prefer it over the Manuka version, which is a bit too rich for me as an everyday product.) You’ll also be gifting them the ritual of cupping their just-moisturized hands over their nose and taking a deep inhale with every application.<\/p>\n

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    I\u2019m one of three sisters, and I hope my siblings don\u2019t read this story too soon, because otherwise their Christmas gift will be spoiled. This gift set completely surprised me in the store\u2014it was so fun to pop open a box and find these petite candles. I love the idea of me and my sisters lighting these candles at the same time in our three different homes.<\/p>\n

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    When you’re tired of that other hand soap, try this one.<\/p>\n

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    The one product I keep stocked in my bathrooms? Rosemary Clary Sage Hand Soap. It\u2019s what you want your hands to smell like after washing. Plus, Flamingo Estate updated its packaging just eight weeks ago, and while I initially missed the tall jewel-toned bottles the soap and body washes used to be housed in, seeing the new vessels in their glory\u2014meticulously aligned on shelves\u2014was so beautiful. You can get the soap and body wash, along with other garden essentials, in this beautiful gift set to stock their home (and promptly visit).<\/p>\n

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    The title says it all.<\/p>\n

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    While the brand\u2019s first book, Fridays From the Garden<\/em>, is filled with gorgeous recipes and is an ode to its roots, this latest work is all about food for the soul. You\u2019ll find words, thoughts, and advice from the likes of Jane Goodall, Martha Stewart, Jane Fonda, and so many more inspiring people with unique perspectives on, well, getting your hands in the dirt (literal or proverbial). It\u2019s a lovely kind of sentiment to gift the person looking for renewal in the coming year\u2014and aren\u2019t we all, always?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Buying the wrong gift? In this economy? Couldn’t be us.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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