Patty White launched Perfume Posse in 2005, and we've been yapping on and on about perfume endlessly since.
This really is going to be one of those posts, and I do apologize, but I just have a bunch of stuff to talk about, some only a little bit about perfume. First, I am going to just squeeze March to pieces for turning me on to these Not Your The rest, please…
It´s peak allergy season, and I´ve responded by wearing tried and true fragrances for a few days, because bad allergies put me at the razor edge of migraine. I´ve got tons of samples calling out to me (thanks Kelly and Maria!), but we´re going to be a little random The rest, please…
No this is not another post on tuberose, although Shakespeare’s character perhaps got it wrong with the rest of that line. (I do adore rose, though). Spring has sprung and now I am forced to bite my tongue regarding the chill in the air. I try not to complain, but The rest, please…
Once the temperatures start rising just a little, as I’m rolling through my decanting early in the morning, before my day job starts, there are always a few perfumes in certain seasons that I can’t pass by without spritzing. If it’s spring, it is Guerlain’s Apres L’ondee. Violets in rain. The rest, please…
Random visits, revisits and surprises. Kenzo Amour Indian Holi – Rice Steam, Cherry Blossom, Incense, Rose, Red Berries, Frangipani Blossom, Peony, White Musk, Sandalwood, Vanilla Infusion. Those of you who think Kenzo Amour is total dullsville and find my love for it baffling can skip down to the next review. The rest, please…
I’m having a busy week. We have very close friends staying with us, it’s seed planting time, and there’s work. So today I’m recycling on the blog. Climate change and all that. In January, a journalist contacted perfumeposse wanting some copy for an article to be published in the Spring The rest, please…
Other than some continuing laryngitis – may I say that I really love the huskiness of my voice right now as long as I stay in the low registers, don’t try to raise my voice and squeak, which really spoils the sex kitten voice vibe I’d like to have - I´m The rest, please…
When I read on Now Smell This about Australian niche house Tommi Sooni´s fragrance debut – a chypre called Tarantella, targeted at women age 25+ and inspired by a walled garden in Avignon full of native plants from Sicily – I was thrilled. It sounded like a far cry from The rest, please…
As promised, y’all get to participate in my eyelash extension session from Thursday. Background — I am fair complected, blonde hair, and my eyelashes are almost blonde as well. Not blonde enough that they stand out a little, but just enough that they fade right into my eyeline, so nothing The rest, please…
Today´s post evolved from my most recent fragrance acquisition, a swap on MUA that (small world) turned out to be with a Gail, a blog regular. Gail shares my fondness for comfort scents and included several interesting things in her package, which got me headed in a new direction. Yves The rest, please…
Okay, I’m dashing in today. Training teachers, writing curriculum material, implementing improvement plans – I have no room left for work folks! I’m all about the smells and the plants, people. Wish my bank would understand. So work it is, and hence the brief(ish) post today. I’m a positive person. The rest, please…
This winter has been brutal as far as this flu/cold thing. I’ve been flirting with having it several times, sick a little bit for a few days, but not in the same over the top, horrible way everyone else in my family has wound up with it. The damn thing The rest, please…
On its website Strange Invisible Perfumes describes itself as purveying “botanical fragrances and artisanal products” developed by Alexandra Balahoutis. The site doesn´t go on and on about SIP’s mission, at least that I could see, a fact that pleases me. So far as I´m concerned, their mission is to make The rest, please…
Chandler Burr has trashed the new release Chloe in his reviews – in writing and in person - so when it showed up as a sample in a Sak’s order, I thought… well, let’s give it a whirl and see if I agree or not. The little sniff I had before was on The rest, please…
Warning: today is a really long post. Get your coffee first. This post was supposed to be an experiment, a rapid-fire sequence of impressions of a much-admired line I hadn’t tried yet, and will now remain nameless, a small perfumer. The scents are not me, and we´ll leave it at The rest, please…
In As You Like It (one of my favourites, just for the pure gender play frolics of Rosalind as Ganymede), Jacques famously talks of the seven ages of man, in his standard less-than-chirpy terms, the great big sulky drawers. 400 years ago, people’s lives were a lot shorter, and Jacques The rest, please…
Lee gave a great review on this last week, and I did a short blurb as well, but I am so much in love with this stuff, I have to write a little more about it – mostly because I’ve put it on every day since I got it. This goes The rest, please…
Posse readers – I bring you glad tidings! I, your devoted perfume cowgirl, am quoted in the current Time magazine in an article about perfume! Me! in Time! Not that I’m tooting my own horn or anything! (Now Smell This, Sniffapalooza and Vetivresse are in there too.) That’s me over The rest, please…
OK, I apologize for my absence, but I seriously am now just recovering from the nastiness that is Winter’s last dig. She got me, people, but good. I should have gone to the doctor much earlier than I did, but alas, I pick my battles unwisely. I am often mocked The rest, please…
Painting – Caravaggio’s Narcissus Figuring out what to write about in a post is a bit like planning meals – I don’t mind the actual writing, but coming up with the what-to-write-about bit sometimes puts me in a whirling mental kerfuffle. It’s relatively easy to pick the most interesting scents, The rest, please…
Two scents today. First, Lee blogged on Serge Lutens´ new ginger scent, Five O´Clock au Gingembre, yesterday. It occurred to me that this would be a fine time to plug Roger & Gallet´s Gingembre. I love ginger – ginger tea, gingersnaps, ginger beer. Is R&G Gingembre a replacement for Serge, The rest, please…
Summer time? All the time? Even more all the time? Part-time? Closing time? Are you sure it isn’t closing time? Trippy time? Hammer time? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme? Just Rosemary and Thyme? No, silly! It’s none of those. It’s time to announce the winners, that’s what time it is… The rest, please…
My obsession with Strange Invisible Perfumes continues. I swear, I will one day move past it, but I’m having too great of a time exploring them to stop yet, so indulge me for a while longer. After March and Elle kept making reference to Lady Day - which is now just called The rest, please…
Best Gardenia Perfumes – what is a good gardenia perfume? Saturday morning was the best kind of morning – rainy. The general routine is, the twins wake me up, I stagger downstairs and pour them two bowls of cereal, let the dog out, get the coffee going, and go back The rest, please…
