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… Continue Reading
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.… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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,… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading