Black Friday

Black Friday

Hey, it’s not Trashy Friday, it’s Black Friday! How many of you have been out shopping today? I haven’t gone shopping on the Friday after Thanksgiving for 20 years, at least. And why? Because of the crowds, the fighting, the trampling on small children… This woman looks happy, but she’s not! She’s just decked that [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!! Today we are grateful for our families and for all of the friends we have made through this blog. The perfume community is truly one of the most generous, kind groups of people. Thank you for reading, for commenting, for your kindness and humor.

Little Beauties

We´re all heading off to various destinations for Thanksgiving, and I hope if you are too, your trip is a safe one. Everyone´s busy, so I thought today I´d blog slightly off-topic. I´m not a big beauty-product gal, and most of the testimonial fluff I read in, say, the Bliss catalog makes me snicker. But [...]

Leatherfest!

My oldest daughter sniffed my sample of Russisch Leder and said, “it smells like some nasty thing the dog would roll in.” She´s always looking for a more poetic way to say my perfume is disgusting. But it never stops her from smelling something; in fact, there´s a certain Fear-Factor thrill to sniffing mom´s perfume [...]