In my earliest memory she is pulling me on a wooden sled through the soft, wet snow. I watch her black leather boots trudge before me, her long brown velour coat dusted with white along the bottom. It is still snowing, and as she walks the wet flakes drift down from the gray sky and [...]

My Very Own Darkly Gothic Poem Untitled Slender beams of accusation enter this darkened church as I kneel, always alone, always supplicating, frozen here, waiting. Accusing forms wrought in panes of glass loom as dust dances in the air, forming an image in my mind, sparing not my darkened soul. Tears on humanity’s face. I [...]

Fifi first came into my life back in October. As I spritzed her out of the little decant I’d bought on The B*y, I was in love. Sweet, but not too sweet — tobacco, amber, coriander, powdered rose, mandarin, lily of the valley — sweet elixir. As I Googled my way to the Fifi Chachnil [...]

This is how I hoped Sand & Sables would make me feel, young, thin, glamorous… smelling of coconuts and hopefully my coconuts closer to my neck — like they were 20 years ago. March’s pick of Sand & Sables was pretty good. It was my runner-up and almost the winner until I spied Antonio languishing [...]

If you´ve been following our posts you know all about the drugstore losers Patty and I selected, and the general sorry state of affairs at the drugstore perfume counter. Here are the bright spots: 1) The “winner” I picked to send to Patty: Coty´s Sand & Sable. Notes: gardenia, tuberose, rose, jasmine, musk. This one [...]