New pictures of the snow. And since my TV isn’t working as the Dish is covered in snow, are those stupid TV people acting like we all are dead or something? Criminy, it’s just snow, we’ve always had plenty of it here. This snap just cracks me up. Those lumps are our table and chairs [...]

It´s a truism that not every old formula in the Coty vault would yield a classic. I believe to some degree in the Darwinian laws as applied to fragrance. And, in an age when the first move of a wannabe starlet is to release her own celebrity scent, I comfort myself with the fact that [...]

For me, doing Vintage perfume was not an easy route, it was the proverbial trip down the rabbit hole, without having any idea what was in there and what it was going to cost to get there and back.. It fascinated me, but I was always about stuff I could wear right now and was [...]

I love Monday. You know why? Because Hecate and Buckethead, the 4-year-old twins, are back at preschool. It’s been really warm here. Yesterday they got tired of waiting for snow, so they made their own — two boxes of Kleenex tissue, shredded into tiny bits and tossed around their room. It was pretty mild in [...]

Caron had to have a scent that is an all-out smoldering siren, and Narcisse Noir is the little vixen that fills that slot on the Caron line-up. Created by Ernest Daltroff in 1911, this was the perfume that really started the Caron brand and cache, even though it was not their first perfume. Now, be [...]