Today will have some highlights and some lowlights.  First the highlights.  Winners of the Vero Profumo samples (and I decided to give away two): HikerChickNH and Minette. Just click on the Contact Us link over on the left and send me your address.  This is a Super Bowl commercial from Pepsi that I think is [...]

Nobody´s gotten the smell of gardenia quite right, in my opinion. Sniffing them yesterday on the bushes in the National Gallery of Art rotunda, I had a chance to ponder. Gardenia is a little … fetid. There´s definitely that bleu cheese note of JAR´s Jardenia, but you´d have to cut it maybe 50% with a [...]

29 January 1992. Another dreary winter day struggled to dawn; he did too, for an early tutorial about his research project. By mid-afternoon, he was sitting in the English common room, pretending to read. Interests and concerns at this point in time: 1) Literary theory, particularly fancypants poststructuralist stuff with at least one set of [...]

Miller Harris’s Rose en Noir is responsible for today’s visit into Roses of the Night – Rose en Noir, Caron Or et Noir and Serge Lutens Rose de Nuit.  There are no notes for Miller Harris’ Rose en Noir.  It was created exclusively by Lyn Harris for Liberty in England. It starts off a little jammy, [...]

It´s January. It´s cold. You need to get your blood flowing; let´s have an argument. Louise and I get together at the mall periodically and sniff fragrances, sometimes things we´ve brought with us to swap. If that´s the case we end up sitting at a table at the mall café outside Nordstrom, in the semi-open [...]