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 actually not bad notes for me most of the time, but I think I kept [...]
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 bags. The weather was perfect, cool and overcast, and I will treasure forever the memories [...]
Giveaway for this week – Drop a comment that you want in the drawing, and the winner will get their choice of two of the Tom Ford Private Blend samples. 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 [...]
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. Tomorrow is “scary perfume” day, with a shower to start and a shower to end, [...]
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, lilac wood, black leather, musk) and Ether de Lilas Blanc muchlongername (passion-flower, orange blossom, bark, [...]