Good Things in Small Boxes

Who says money can´t buy happiness? As it turns out, a little money — $12 including shipping – buys a surprising amount, in terms of the beautifully-constructed sample 4-pack from Ineke Perfumer. As shown in the photo, the four spray minis come lovingly papered and wrapped in individual miniature matchbook-like boxes, which are then wrapped [...]

Who are you?

JAR Shadow, have I talked about this in depth? I think I haven’t. This goes on sharp and musty. For some reason, it takes me to the root cellar we had when I was a kid – one we would play in and search around in, looking for secret treasure while also being scared out of [...]

Blind Sample — Scentzilla and Perfume Critic

Awhile back, Patty, Marina of Perfume-Smellin´ Things and I did a three-way unlabeled fragrance sample swap, and it was such a hoot we decided to do it again. This time, however, we enlisted the participation of several other scentbloggers. I drew Katie of Scentzilla and Marlen of Perfume Critic as my victims. This presented a [...]

Interesting perfume articles

Couple of interesting articles today on perfume. First, the Detroit Free Press covers celebrity and celebrity-endorsed perfumes, which now make up 23% of the top 100 perfumes.  That figure kind of stunned me.  Offerings coming up are from Derek Jeter, Lindsay Lohan, Hilary Duff, and Mariah Carey.  I see this as just a bad trend since almost [...]