(Dr. Dotson was kind of enough to indulge me with an article — he’s just twisted enough to fit in here nicely) You’re a fragrance freak but you are not really a freak, right? I mean you’re not sick, are you? As your visiting psychiatric consultant I am here to tell you that your little [...]
Today, dear readers, I´m hoping you can help me out on one or more of four issues. First: has anyone used fragrance to scent their car? Patty and I got this question via email recently, and we kicked it around for awhile. I was all ready to put an unlit, scented candle in one of [...]
(Forgive me if this post ends up brief – my computer seems to be dying and has crashed three times, losing everything I’d written. Nyaaargh!) My mother seems to have assumed that the death of my gran meant that she had to fulfil the role of family mystic. My gran was a little bit witchy [...]
(Portrait from Alexander Kosnichev) Now we have to start another campaign, and that is to make Bois Blond, Psychotrope and L’ombre Fauve (haven’t gotten my Lilas yet) part of their permanent line. Many of you are already aware that if there is a hay note in a perfume, I start writhing around on the floor [...]
In the spring of my senior year of high school, when I was a nice, boring, clueless 17-year-old, with good grades but a little vague in terms of focus on the future, my mother stunned me by informing me that, unless I agreed to become a lawyer (her idea of the ultimate career achievement), she [...]