Winners of the Jules samples (thought I´d forgotten, didn´t you?) — Gina, Solander and Kelly! Please Contact Us with your mailing addresses. On MakeupAlley someone was complaining about how the fragrance bloggers were always raving about something and making it sound to-die-for, and next thing you know your MasterCard is levitating itself out of your [...]

Down my way, spring has sprung. We’ve had non-stop sunshine for four weeks now, without a drop of rain. Temperatures in the high 60s or even 70s. The local heifers chase each passer-by with the hope of a quickie but usually end up in headbutting contests or kinky play-mounting in apparent disappointment; swifts, generally expected [...]

(images from W Magazine) Now, I need to say right off the bat that reviewing these Tom Fords is tricky. First, there are 12 of them, which is a lot for the nose to sort through; and second, everyone has an in-built prejudice about Tom Ford… over Black Orchid or just that they think he is [...]

UPDATE MONDAY A.M.: we had the mother of all windstorms last night, 60 mph winds, power down all around D.C., my area (north) is gridlock due to downed trees.  I, your faithful Scent Slut, drove, parked, and hoofed it the rest of the way to my local WiFi hotspot, where I fought for a seat [...]

By now most of you have heard that eBay is or has shut down decant and perhaps sample sales. For those of you wondering where to spend your sample/decant dollars, you can go hit my Surrender to Chance   No one is entirely certain why eBay decided to do this, but it is likely due to some [...]