Patty White launched Perfume Posse in 2005, and we've been yapping on and on about perfume endlessly since.
I am going out of town Monday morning to lend a hand in the packing-up of the Big Cheese´s family vacation home, which has been sold. This promises to be a bittersweet project, given that the house is my own personal Tara and has served as the backdrop for all The rest, please…
Today´s Festival of Weirdness includes: a scent sleuth story; my new odd perfume love; and a little weird music. Pick and choose. I was leaving the house, early and a little hung over, for training at an outdoor environmental research center. As I poured my coffee I caught a whiff The rest, please…
Bad week for me. I thought I could manage to jet off a post today, but I’ve been doing training all week, having the flu on top of it, can’t slough this off since we flew these people in from all over to do this class, no one can fill The rest, please…
April Showers bring Perfume Flowers, and here are my latest Candy mini-reviews. Or just pretend you read this and skip to the end for this week´s Candy Sample Giveaway. Cumming à¢â‚¬” What a great gift this was on a cold, crappy day recently. It doesn´t smell weird to me, although The rest, please…
I stop watches. Always have. They are on me for sometimes a week, sometimes a year, but they will stop. I can leave them sit for a while and shake them, then put them back on, but they will stop within a day after that. Once the watch is given to The rest, please…
I opened up a package from The Unnamed Friend (but you know who you are - hugs!) and there were small tastes of not one but TWO things that are too special to drop in the Candy Samples: Guerlain Djedi and Guerlain Plus Que Jamais. For a dedicated Guerlain Love The rest, please…
A feature you can all “look forward to” (wink-wink) on the weeks when I post on Fridays is my penchant for goofy reality shows and celebrity gossip, but since I’ll also be giving things away, this seems like a good time to indulge my classless idiocy. I was talking to a friend, who The rest, please…
Spring´s bustin´ out all over, and here are March´s Top 10 Spring Perfumes (yeah, okay, I cheated a little and slipped a few more in there). These are things I´m loving now that I won´t necessarily be wearing in a couple of months when it´s Sultry Summer in my humid climate: The rest, please…
Top 10 Perfumes for Spring and Summer, in no particular order. And I have to say this was so hard. There are a bazillion great spring and summer perfumes, and I wish I could have a top 50! So because I can’t, I’m going to cheat like crazy to make it The rest, please…
Last week I shared my thoughts on acquiring samples. This post covers a different kind of acquisition, the Scent Bender. Does that sound like fun? Well, then, just hop in my car and ride along with me. Our destination is the Tysons Galleria in suburban Washington, D.C., the kind of The rest, please…
Mona di Orio Carnation – Notes of bergamot, giroflee (Wha?!), geranium bourbon, ylang ylang, violet, jasmin, precious woods, musk, amber, styrax. I am trying to give this some time because there are some nice notes floating around in it, but it must be the musk or syrax that is ruining The rest, please…
Got a request in comments to jot off a couple of notes about Frederic Malle’s En Passant. The best way I can describe it, for me, is it is like lying on a pile of freshly harvested wheat holding a little bouquet of lilacs. Or my mother in the kitchen baking The rest, please…
March and I have discussed, and we think that doing a giveaway of samples each week will be fun for us and anyone who is reading. Since we both accumulate so many samples, it’s a way of passing along the fun. March will have one of her daughters draw when The rest, please…
There was some discussion in the comments section regarding Where to get Perfume Samples. Here´s my Two Cents, which you can skip if it´s not a topic that interests you: When I was a nascent scent slut, I started lurking the fragrance blogs, reading about the different lines, trying to The rest, please…
This has been such a fun thing for us to do. If anyone else would like to join in next time we do it, just holla! 100% Eau de Slut (Marina) I 100% hate this. Bright pink girly concoction with a raspberry and /or strawberry note. Givenchy Hot Couture? No, The rest, please…
Hello, hellooooo? (tap tap) Is this thing on? Lurkers of the blog, unite! What, is everyone on Spring Break in Cozumel? I can’t stand it — you need to feed our fragile egos! Scroll to the bottom for instructions on getting your free Serge Lutens Sample Pack! But first, my The rest, please…
After March’s wonderful post, you all know that the three of us have been torturing each other by sending out Mystery Sample Packs to blind-test and comment upon. I sent eight samples both to March and to Patty, five of them were different, three identical. Let me start with the The rest, please…
I WAS FRAMED!!!!! March clearly was looking for perfumes to trip us up in our little experiment from yesterday. You just wait until i get to post mine, I shall have my revenge. The next installment in this series will be up on Monday morning. The final installment will be The rest, please…
Patty came up with the genius idea that she, Marina (of Perfume-Smellin Things) and I do a blind fragrance swap. We’d each send the others 6 to 8 sample vials of fragrances we’d selected from our collections, and then gather up their impressions and comments and post them. I’m going The rest, please…
I LOVE these, love them, love them. So comfortable and so much bling. I live in flip-flops from April until November, and I hunt out the most comfortable flip-flops I can find, and if I can find some that are ultra-cool looking, I’m ecstatic. You can get these at Kelly’s The rest, please…
I’m just in the mood to review something different for a change, so Paris Hilton perfume it is. Notes of frozen apple, peach nectar, wet ozone, sparkling muguet, freesia, mimosa, jasmine, tuberose, skin musk, sandalwood, ylang ylang, oakmoss, pheromone. This goes on as a sweet mess that brings to mind The rest, please…
The cherry blossoms are at their peak; we got up shortly after dawn on Saturday to see them. They are spectacular this year, owing to the warm weather and lack of rain recently. I love standing underneath them while the petals drift down. My younger children call it flower snowing, The rest, please…
