It is Hottie Friday, and it’s time to remind everyone that Christian Bale is simply the most gorgeous thing intheworldperiod. And speaking of obsessions, and because I’m always thinking about you guys, and my obsession is your obsession, plus we can feed the world with this trifling obsession, just head over to Feed Rice, indulge [...]

In my fragrance journeys I´ve had a chance to consider and reconsider my relationship with all sorts of individual notes in perfume. My carefully constructed belief system regarding vanilla as a dominant note is: no thanks. Vanilla people are different from you and me (well, me, anyway). Vanilla people swoon over the lower circles of [...]

Those of you that already decant wildly for your friends or do bottle splits, etc., you get the day off today, or you can just add your own favorite suppliers and tips in the comments.  Robin alredy has a great How to Decant article, and I’ll wind up repeating some of it, but I hope some [...]

A couple of weeks ago I picked eight people as part of my weird bottle swap – my eight unloved bottles went to more deserving homes, and those folks were free to send me, well, whatever they wanted to, and I´d blog on it. (Each box also contained extra samples from my goody bag.) Here´s [...]

$232 for a 50 ml bottle. No, this is not the same perfume snipe hunt that Lee took you on last week. That price is for one bottle of the By Kilians.  But!  Once you buy a bottle, you can get it refilled for $95, which is a veritable bargain these days.  yes, $200 is the new [...]