Eh?

Eh?

If you are ever up in Vancouver, and I am, you have to stop in at The Perfume Shoppe and visit Nasrin.  Any of you that have spoken to her on the phone, you know what a doll she is, but in person she is even better — warm and funny and a total perfume [...]

I Did My Best

This is a perfume blog, right? So today´s post is about how I worked my fanny off smelling I don´t know how many things over the last week and I cannot find any fricking thing to blog on. (I actually went through and deleted five frustration-related obscenities in this part of the post; feel free [...]

Ménage a Trois:  Querelle and Jules

Ménage a Trois: Querelle and Jules

Today we’re taking a stab at two fragrances with a niche fan base: Parfumerie Generale’s new(ish) Querelle, and Christian Dior’s hard-to-find men’s fragrance, Jules, from 1980. Are they the sexy/raunchy things they’re purported to be? Querelle, part of the PG Private Collection, is named after the novel (Querelle de Brest) by author Jean Genet, and [...]

White Flower Storm

White Flower Storm

It´s that time of year – the birds, the bees, the flowers, and the sneeze – my seasonal allergies are back with a vengeance. It´s also winter-spring (Wing? Sprinter?) where the weather can go from 70 degrees to snow flurries, and nothing seems right, fragrance-wise. I cut way back on the candy sampling, because I´m [...]