Perfume Posse

French house Annick Goutal makes charming scents in charming bottles, the sorts of bottles you want to wrap up and give as gifts.Among the hardcore perfume fans, Hadrian, Duel and Sables are among the most popular, and even the hardest of hearts might be melted by a spray of Gardenia The rest, please…

It is once again that time of year when we look back over 2007 and put on our magical perfume sorting hats and declare which scents are the best of the 2007 entries. Amouage XXV Men – Lee says: you get those perfumes that you sniff and instantly you know The rest, please…

Here´s an abbreviated post from me today (bet you thought you´d never see the day, huh?)We´re still in the thick of holiday family festivities and the kids are underfoot, which is messing with my powers of concentration. First, welcome to our new look!Which you all saw on Monday before I The rest, please…

(Sung to the tune of ‘Once in Royal David’s City’) Once at Patty’s Perfume Posse arrived a silly chap named Lee, where two women, wise and gifted wrote on perfume, all for free: Patty was the first of these, March joined in, composed with ease. He admired their words and The rest, please…

  Whether you celebrate the religious side of Christmas or just the holiday or do not celebrate it at all, it is my most deepest wish for each of you to always have the hope Christmas represents and all of your fragrant wishes for gifts come true.  “Any one thinking of the Holy The rest, please…

  The presents are wrapped and under the tree, except for what Santa will bring later tonight. I´ll be spending much of today at church putting the final touches on the decorations for Christmas Eve, then home to bake iced sugar cookies (Santa’s favorite). This is a funny, wistful time The rest, please…

  Stegner has a book called The Angle of Repose. I used to misread it all the time as Angel of repose, which really makes no sense.  A friend of mine insisted I read it…  and I did, muttering and cursing her all the way through.  Before I continue on, you The rest, please…

Hey, that candy post was fun. It’s been awhile since I felt the gluttonous urge, and I’m enjoying it. Let´s do it again. Jacques Fath Iris Gris – I know, I just did this Monday, but Teri wrote in the comments that Iris Gris “is the fragrance of a fully The rest, please…

First off, I forgot to tell you who the Menardo winner was from two weeks back. It was you, Joan. Expect an email asking for your address sometime soon. I’ll also throw a sample of Jubilation XXV in there too. I want to write about Jubilation XXV, but I’m holding The rest, please…

Perfumed Antoine Lie created 888, and they intended it to capture the smell of gold. They used Safraline, a molecular derivative of saffron, created by Givaudan.  Other notes are pepperwood, curcuma, coriander, geranium and amber.  It lasts beautifully and long on me, and it is a wonderful fresh, slightly peppery smell, with just a tidge of The rest, please…

It´s been awhile since I dug around in the candy, hasn´t it? Amouage Jublilation XXV for Men – can I pause and say I think Jubilation is the greatest name for a fragrance? I believe this was released in honor of Amouage´s 25th anniversary, and it smells suitably opulent. (BTW The rest, please…

Does Caron’s Nuit de Noel smell like that? Not really, but it captures the smell of contentment. A melange of smells that somehow blend together into what just feels like joy.

As you recall, I gave away some fragrances last month and invited the recipients to send me whatever they felt like in return. I got some wonderful gifts (as reported in Part 1). Here´s Part 2. I gave Cathy/bluechile the bottle of reissued Straw Hat cologne, and I smiled when The rest, please…

She watched the snow fall, large gobbets of flakes clinging together in clumps, settling on the window ledge, only inches from her face. Her sighing breath formed a neat round oh on the glass, slowly shrunk and disappeared, only to be replaced by its successor. She sighed more heavily and The rest, please…

2007 started off with a bang — six new scents from Chanel.  One great, some good, some okay, some that needed to be made into parfum. Tom Ford heated up the fragrance wars with an obscene excess of TWELVE new scents at the same time.  Some good, a couple great, a The rest, please…

In general, I admire Bond No. 9 more for their bottles than their juice. I don´t really have a “favorite” Bond, and if the entire line ceased to exist tomorrow, I wouldn´t go into mourning. Do I like some of them? Well, sure. I went through an Eau de Noho The rest, please…

Okay, you have to go here.  That’s my mom on the far right, then me (going to the left), then my sister, Shirley, and then my niece Samatha.  And then you have to watch this one, which is me, my husband and my two sons. If you Elf yourself, make The rest, please…

Long intro, you can skip ahead to the fragrance review, I swear it´s down there. I got bitten by the humbug a couple months ago. Humbugs are tricky – they´re so small you barely notice them at first. I live in a city where people scrape against each other like The rest, please…

My title says it all, and it’s no secret cos I mentioned it a month ago. But I have love affairs with many perfumers, and most don’t last four weeks, or sustain that love over more than two perfumes. As a preamble, I’ll list one or two of them who The rest, please…

Many of you already read this post from Perfume Smellin’ Things about the Private Reserve fragrances at The Perfume House in Portland. Always in search of something more obscure and hard to get or otherwise limited, tightly controlled, closely held and usually big bucks, I flew to Portland this last weekend to The rest, please…

I´ve been working diligently, tracking down various fig-related scents (and thanks for the suggestions) after my first Figmania post. Here are some more results. My fig obsession came out of nowhere, and it hasn´t gone away… Demeter Fig Leaf – well … it´s not bad, and the price is insanely The rest, please…