TFPB — Bois Rouge and Tuscan Leather

Bois Rouge — this one was a surprise to me. I really didn’t expect to like it, though I’m not sure why.  Notes of citrus, spice, cedarwood, patchouli, jasmine muguet, sandalwood, vetiver, amber, leather, vanilla and tonka bean. Those are… Continue Reading

Packing My Umbrella!

Last Thursday was Take Your Child to Work Day. I let Diva and Enigma skip school and experience the joy that is my typical work day. We started the morning off with garden cleanup, filling four of those huge leaf… Continue Reading

Tom Ford Velvet Gardenia & Purple Patchouli

Tom Ford Velvet Gardenia — notes of black gardenia, orange, jasmine, rose muguet, tuberose, dark plum, honey, beeswax, incense, labdanum.  Gardenia and I are not friends, we don’t even nod at each other when we pass. But read that list of… Continue Reading

TFPB — Amber Absolute and Oud Wood

Tired of Tom Ford yet?  No?  Yes?  Doesn’t matter, I shall continue on because I’m still obsessed with them. They have been a lot of fun to go through, and I’ve still got some of the scary ones yet to do. … Continue Reading

Fourplay in a PG kind of way

This week Bryan is going to join us so we can have a foursome involved in fourplay in perfume… PG of course. Not that PG, the Parfumerie Generale PG. We’re going to laud or laugh at Psychotrope (cyclamen, violet, jasmine,… Continue Reading

March Goes Sleuthing

Awhile back someone emailed us here at the blog looking for a fragrance. This happens at various times in various ways (sometimes they´re looking for a particularly shaped bottle, or they have a few memories or visual cues.) Invariably the… Continue Reading

Breaking News

I’m deferring my regular Monday in light of the important information contained in the two posts Patty put up this weekend, both of which relate to eBay (aka The Whorehouse) and one of which deals specifically with fraud. And nope… Continue Reading