Perfume Posse

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 The rest, please…

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 in vanilla perfume is: no thanks. Vanilla people are different from you and me (well, me, anyway). The rest, please…

Perfume sample and perfume decant, other people make them for swapping and travel, and you want to do the same.  Here’s all of the information on how to make a perfume sample and perfume decant, what decant supplies you need and where to get those decant supplies!  Those of you The rest, please…

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 The rest, please…

$232 for a 50 ml bottle of By Kilian perfume. No, this is not the same perfume snipe hunt that Lee took you on last week. That price is for one bottle of By Kilian perfume.  But!  Once you buy a bottle, you can get it refilled for $95, which is a The rest, please…

Fall continues to unroll in my neighborhood like an endless, crimson magic carpet. We are fully into our October leaf display — a month late. I can never remember what alchemy of temperature and moisture is supposed to produce the best fall color on our maples, oaks and walnuts, but The rest, please…

… is the name of the new fragrance by little known Portuguese house Para errar e humano, and I was lucky enough to score a sample by first pimping my body to the highest bidder, then abseiling from the Houses of Parliament, and finally parading naked from John O’Groats to The rest, please…

I’m always hesitant to post and I don’t know why. Everyone in the blogosphere, with the odd exception…ahem, is unbelievably kind, overlooking the occasional misspelled word, or stupid rant. And yet I hesitate. I hereby commend my latest few rants/reviews to all who would feign interest. I have titled this, The rest, please…

Every now and again, browsing websites like LuckyScent and BeautyHabit, I play a game in my head: if I were to choose a signature scent based solely on the image a fragrance projects via the bottle, marketing, name, perfumer, what have you – anything except the notes – what would The rest, please…

FU#*$&@* Gourmand perfume.  Word of advice — never go out of town when there is a Posse Scent Club coming up that you have to write for, and at least one of the scents on the list is something you detest that has some fierce fans, because your “friends” will The rest, please…

Gourmand perfume – if you´d like to watch the fur fly, just stick a bunch of fragrance nuts in a room and describe something as “foody.” Descriptions of a particular fragrance as “gourmand” or “edible” can provoke heavy disagreement. If I smell Serge Lutens Santal Blanc and get a note The rest, please…

It seems to me that when it’s truly hot, summer is best defined by visuals that are almost abstract. When it swelters, cars can lift off the ground, people’s heads separate from their bodies, their shoulders widening, then wobbling, before returning to true. Trees quiver as though root-rocked by a The rest, please…

  Where’s all the ice in Paris?  Every glass of water or Coke I had, whether in a cafe or at my family’s house, came without ice. Is that a cultural thing? I’m so used to dispensing my mondo-size water container up to the top with ice, then squeezing in The rest, please…

We got together for our informal D.C. sniff-together on Saturday; it was cold and damp but at least it had stopped raining. Thanks again to Nancy and Louise for organizing this! It was great to reconnect with old friends and make new ones. The group numbered 20ish, with folks there The rest, please…

Paris is pretty much all that I thought it would be… and more… and less. We arrived on Monday morning in the rain. After waiting for an hour in a gorgeous cool, not cold, rain, the driver who was to have my name on a card – nowhere to be The rest, please…

Initially, all I had up here was the following:Hey, thanks for checking in. You’ve probably noticed there’s not much here right now. That’s because I’ll be typing this whilst most of you are still asleep in bed. Please check back later. Love you. Hence the first comments below. Just clarifying. The rest, please…

I know just how Rat feels, don’t you? (And I wonder if she’s any relationship to Patty’s Voracia Tata?) Hey, all you good-smelling folks in the D.C. area — don’t forget the D.C. Sniffa is this weekend! Meet at the north entrance of the Chevy Chase Saks on Wisconsin Avenue The rest, please…

A brief post, with a brief overview, of things I’m briefly, or lengthily, loving. Matt bought me some filing boxes – lovely little faux suede beauties – for my decants and samples. It’s a delight to have things organised alphabetically by house. Next, I’ll be wanting all those little bitty The rest, please…

Angela at Now Smell This did a great post recently about the stages of fragrance obsession. I think I´m firmly in Stage Four – connoisseurship – although I admit using that word about myself makes me giggle. There was a period of time not so long ago when I sucked The rest, please…

I was pulling an even smaller sample off an already-small sample vial of Ormonde Jayne Orris Noir to send to someone (perfume loaves and fishes, people!) when it struck me: this is beautiful, and how could I not have appreciated it before? The notes are davana, pink pepper, cardamom, iris, The rest, please…