Where were all of you when this happened?!!!?? Officials are searching for three individuals who allegedly stole a truck loaded with 20-thousand dollars in perfume samples yesterday and kidnapped the truck driver and his 11-year-old son. Todd Brunson says he had just loaded his truck with pallets of perfume at a Hollywood warehouse and was [...]

Today´s post is a joint review of sample scents from the line Novaya Zarya, of Moscow, which Marina of Perfume-Smellin´ Things sent us. The only one I´d smelled before is Russian Forest, which is a wonderful woody-balsamy fragrance. Check out this link to their ordering source, cosmeticbag.com à¢â‚¬” these things are cheap, cheap, cheap! They [...]

Marlen at PerfumeCritic just did a review of Montale Jasmin Full earlier this month, but in the comments to one of March’s posts recently, two people chimed in about it being an awesome jasmine. So I -had- to get it. You people (yes, I’m looking at all of you) are responsible for my kids’ college education [...]

I have my guilty pleasures, fragrance-wise. I own and wear some things I probably shouldn´t admit to publicly. Things like Coty Sand & Sable, yours for only $3.99 on the drugstore desperation display rack before the holidays (and locked behind glass in larger $18 bottles the rest of the year. Don’t over-apply or you’ll be [...]

The absolutely wonderful, efficient and amazing Vijay at Suravi Online included lots of great samples in my last order of Montale, and two of them were Dia and Gold from Amouage. This is a line I had heard about for a long time and had wanted to try since I first saw that bottle. To…die…for.  Dia is [...]