When life gives you lemons you put them in perfume, of course. What could be more delicious than a lemon in fragrance? Sadly, many of them end up smelling more like Lemon Pledge, or that goofy Love Fresh Lemon I wore as a kid. Actually, I just googled images of the original Love Fresh Lemon [...]
Quick perfume review — Hermes new Terre D’Hermes. If Vetiver Tonka is my crack, this one is like Crack In the Morning. Jean Claude has somehow combined the most addictive elements of Vetiver Tonka and Un Jardin Sur le Nil. It has that velvety smoothness of VT that I adore and then that subtle tang [...]
“Top notes of gardenia, Italian bergamot, and narcisse mingle with the heart notes of tuberose, ylang ylang and jasmine on a redolent base of orange blossom and musk, approaching the fragrance of the deity. Our Beyond Forever perfume vessel is rendered in 10K gold overlay formed in the image of the goddess Hathor. She rests [...]
It was time for an overhaul, so March and I stressed and plotted and planned and then had Lisa at E. Webscapes, who also did my last blog design) put it together, and she made it better than we saw in our heads. We’ll just twirl around a bit so you can see our pretty [...]
Today’s musings were triggered by Aquolina Chocolovers, which I sampled at Sephora. Nobody loves chocolate more than I do. I consider chocolate one of my major food sources. Chocolovers is a gourmand fragrance, with a sweet cocoa opening and a long-lasting chocolate-dust follow up. It’s redeemed for me by significant red-pepper-type heat in the drydown, [...]