Perfume Posse

Once upon a time Patty and March were perfume virgins. We just didn’t know how to do it. Where to start, you know? The ladies tried to fix us up with mainstream perfumes like Lancome, and they tried to set us up with Estee, but it didn’t work out. March’s The rest, please…

I´ve been sniffing my samples of Guerlain Sous Le Vent and Guerlain Plus Que Jamais, from Patty (thanks, P!) As I expected, I loved one and thought the other was just okay. In one of life’s little surprises, I got the order wrong, however. Guerlain Sous le Vent has been The rest, please…

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On our way to the orthodontist’s today, my 16-year-old son, Harry, and I stopped in at the grocery store to get some lunch and pick up some sandwich fixins.  Quick visit to the deodorant since we were both out, meandered around the end, and stumbled into the Axe display, and it The rest, please…

I decided to sniff something March gave me that I’m trying to figure out why she didn’t wrap in hazardous waste wrappings inside of an airtight tube.  Annick Goutal Eau de Fier.  During the summer in Kansas, there’s a lot of construction work on the roads and a lot of oil wells, The rest, please…

En Passant triggered my thinking about Perfume Genius.  For the purposes of my list, I defined Perfume Genius as a combination of notes, or a scent effect, that makes me stop in my tracks and go:  whoa!  That right there is pure fricking genius.  So here you have – it The rest, please…

I met the Big Cheese right out of college, shortly after my mother had died. I was definitely not In The Mood for Love but he wooed me and all these years later we are still together, and parents of four, a fact that makes me quake with laughter. Anyway, The rest, please…

I finally had to get the roses and other things in the ground this weekend while I was under the weather from some unknown something or the other that seems to require a healthy dose of sleep to get past.  That was fun. Me and my husband (both in the The rest, please…

I had to take Number Two daughter to the doctor this morning for a sinus infection (what is the problem this year?) In the waiting room I was perusing Ladies’ Home Journal (I think) and there was an article about fragrance: finding your signature scent, EDT versus EDP, etc. Anyway, The rest, please…

I´ve been fighting allergies since February, trying various cures. Then a nasty head cold that morphed into one of those sinus infections that make my molars feel like they´re being squeezed by the roots, which I guess they are, followed by a 10-day course of antibiotics, and through much of The rest, please…

From the Italian fashion house of Gucci comes Gucci Eau de Parfum, a 2002 floral Oriental fragrance. In the development of this fragrance, the perfumer reinterpreted classic perfumes of years gone by. Sensually sweet, expansive essences are threaded through the fragrant tapestry.” Notes of tuberose, heliotrope, orange blossom, orris, vanilla, The rest, please…

There’s a smell, and I’ve always thought it was timothy hay, but never really knew for sure.  We would be driving down the country roads with the windows down in the old beater pickup at one certain time of the year, and it was just this sweet smell, not floral exactly The rest, please…

The Big Cheese’s mother passed away last night. Being me, I already had a post pre-loaded for today. But my heart isn’t in it. Of course my failure to post would annoy her (I am laughing and crying as I write that.) She was not long on sentiment. At any The rest, please…

March´s Top Five Best Perfume for Mom This post makes me feel a bit wistful.  My mother died when I was fresh out of college, and I would love to be giving her some new fragrance.  But I´m also happy to be taking a broader view for all Those Wonderful The rest, please…

REMINDER: As you’ve seen all over the perfume blogs, we have joined in this Mother’s Day Benevolent Blogging effort. We are giving $1.00 for every comment you leave today and tomorrow. Our chosen charity is the Orphan Foundation of America. We figured, as we close in on Mother’s Day, who The rest, please…

This is my wonderful, adorable, feisty niece, Samantha, who shares my love of perfume, as does her mother.  My sister named her Samantha because my dad tried to name both her and me Samantha, which my mom vetoed, yelling something about “I already have three boys named Tom, Dick and The rest, please…

I would like to start today´s Candy Samples post by thanking Christopher Brosius of CB I Hate Perfume for creating a new scent, Black March, in recognition of my extraordinary work on Perfume Posse. Okay, that´s a lie. But had I hired Mr. Brosius to do a custom fragrance for The rest, please…

What next, cat blogging? If you guys remember and are nice, I’ll post the family’s Honey Cream Peach Pie recipe when the peaches are in season (for those of you in warm states when peaches are in season a lot more than the four weeks we have them, just hush The rest, please…

Brandy — I’ve been meaning to try this one forever, I think I’ve had the sample for about four months. Notes of apple, peach and herbs, with the claim that horses are enticed by the scent. You know, it’s not terrible, kind of a mess of fruit and something else that The rest, please…

Now that we have all selected our Queen of the F&*ing World Perfumes, now we must do our first three royal decrees. You all must pick yours as well. 1. All Serge Lutens scents will be available outside of Europe twice per year. 2.  Ormonde Jayne must start putting scents The rest, please…

I’m baaaaaack! I have now had the sort of rigorous training that would allow me to win a medal in house-packing Olympics, earning higher marks for the Degree of Difficulty in executing packing maneuvers with two preschoolers (not mine) and a standard poodle underfoot, and hay fever. There was much The rest, please…

Ms. Mimi’s comment yesterday about the tale of Marie-Antoinette going to the guillotine with a bottle of perfume clutched in her hand got me thinking about what bottle of perfume I would take the to the guillotine, what is the best perfume to describe my life? But before I talk about The rest, please…

PPPP will be donating $1 for every comment you leave for posts on May 13 and May 14 to Orphan Foundation Of America.  This is Scentzilla’s wonderful idea to have bloggers and those who read them make a difference on Mother’s Day.  Please go to Benevolent Blogging to read more.  If you are The rest, please…

Hung over from a long night in a Juarez bar back in 1979, staring into my bottle of tequila, (not tequila perfume), contemplating how I would get back across the border without the passport I’d lose in a card game, I looked up and spotted this tiny spy-looking little woman across the The rest, please…