1) I am so excited by early reports from Patty and Chandler Burr (see Patty’s post yesterday) about the new Dianne Brill fragrance!  I remember Brill from the bad ol’ 80s, that’s her up there on the right with Andy Warhol, when she was the NY club queen with the ginormous rack who looked like [...]

Lee already did a great review on Serge Lutens El Attarine, but I got some different mojo from it, so I just have to comment on my, um, experience.  Am I the only person getting a healthy dose of MKK on the open under the ethereal boisees series?  Yes?  It’s a heady mix, like hot, sweaty [...]

I got two things in the mail recently that made the topic of today’s post glaringly obvious. Not to drag up anything from the past, but one of the interesting pieces of fallout about Perfumes: The Guide was the frequent complaint that it’s just the writers’ opinions!   To which I would respond: well, yeah.  Any [...]

Down below is Anita/Musette’s Eleventy-Million Brownie recipe (she made a bunch o’ batches with different additives).   She made every single kind, and then set them out on this ginormous platter at the Scentsation afterparty (if you look carefully you can see them in the photos).  They were also magic because even though we each [...]

I really like Parfums d’Empire. Cuir Ottoman was lovely, Fougere Bengale interesting, and Ambre Russe the largest amber I know (and unwearable for me, but ymmv). I haven’t sniffed Yuzu Fou, their other latest release, but I’ve now tried Aziyade. The richness of Ottoman Turkey turns out to be this – supermarket brand cola spilled [...]