This time round, we’re hitting you with a a couple of Frederic Malles.  March is traveling, and Bryan got called away, so it’s just us two!  Noir Epices – notes of notes of orange, rose,  geranium, nutmeg, cinnamon, clove, pepper, patchouli, cedar and sandalwood. Vetiver Extraordinaire – notes of bergamot, bigarade orange, pink pepper, nutmeg, floralozone, [...]

Time to round up all my new samples I’ve gotten to sniff! Bond Saks for Her — Notes of Jasmine, tuberose, gardenia, vetiver and vanilla.  I’m totally underwhelmed. It’s kinda nice, soft, nothing offensive here, and the drydown just fades… to a softish gardenia.   Okay, take that back, should have been more patient — as the drydown [...]

I actually figured out how to upload this image from my camera onto the laptop and into the Posse without reading the instructions. I’m thinking about writing a letter to Canon suggesting a new slogan for their PowerShot A540: “Technology for Morons.” The only problem is the individual .jpg files are so big they take [...]

My arm/hands are feeling much better, thanks everyone, but I’m still taking it easy since if I do anything too long, the pain kicks back up. I highly recommend that 3M joystick-looking mouse, and I am going to look into acupuncture. So thanks very much for the recommendations! I have a drawing winner from a [...]

UPDATE: I’ve inserted Noy’s commentary on ladyboys at the bottom. Today´s candy didn´t start off very promisingly. I put on two Miya Shinmas – Kaze and Feuillage Vert (green leaves), both samples of which I got awhile back from Luckyscent which, interestingly, doesn´t seem to sell them. They both were really soapy on me, before [...]