Patty White launched Perfume Posse in 2005, and we've been yapping on and on about perfume endlessly since.
I decided today (Sunday) was close enough to December to haul my Christmas decorations out and get my holiday mojo working. We went to church first for some prayers and a dose of Christmas carols, then ransacked the attic for the balance of the day, with Rudolph in the background The rest, please…
The Big Cheese is stuck in Yangon, Burma (unless he’s still in Mandalay) because all the flights home involve – whoops! – Bangkok, and it doesn´t look like that´s resolving itself immediately. There´s a lot of political posturing going on there, but it´s getting harder to imagine an outcome other The rest, please…
Happy almost-Thanksgiving, everyone! Safe travels if you´re heading off somewhere. We´re going to leave this post up through the weekend. Continuing our efforts to overcome the massive estrogenic overload on the blog due to my recent lipstick/nail polish posts, I´ve found two tasty men´s scents I want to blog about. The rest, please…
Today we have two perfumes that couldn’t be more different. Let’s start with Beauty – Parfums de Rosine’s newsest release, Rose Praline. Notes of cardamom, bergamot, rose essences, Geranium, Rosen, grated chocolat, Lapsang Suchang Tea, Ambra, sandalwood, musk, cocoa make up this scent. It’s a little bit of a departure The rest, please…
As regular readers know, I am an unaplogetic fan of the original KenzoAmour. I think you either like it or you find it completely boring. As Robin (a fellow fan) notes in her thoughtful review on Now Smell This: “Amour is, if anything, an extraordinarily tame fragrance: there is The rest, please…
I’m going to try to write about perfume, but I’m fuming at the moment. The kitchen looks like it’s been set up for a toddler group’s first experience of paddling – puddles everywhere. There’s a leak under the sink I can’t seem to fix cuz the u-bend join keeps fu The rest, please…
Rummaging in the sample draw, I was hoping to come up with the new Felanilla, but Luckyscent just sent me Drama Nuui, another new introduction from PG. I’ve not really kept up with PG recently - it all got so confusing on their website with private scents having only numbers, and it The rest, please…
Blogging off topic today on lips – particularly red lips. If you like lipstick and/or working a red lip, please read on and give me advice, I have questions in here. If not – sorry! – pretend the blog is down today. Hey, I just freed up 20 minutes The rest, please…
I’ve been putzing around with By Kilian’s newest release, By Kilian Prelude to Love, for a while now - on the fence entirely on whether I like it, love it or despise it. Notes of Seville orange, bergamot, Amalfi lemon, ginger, pepper, orange blossom, and Florence iris would seem to be completely The rest, please…
While waiting impatiently for KenzoAmour Le Parfum to show up at our local Sephora, I got bored and ordered up a reasonably-priced bottle of Kenzo 7:15 AM in Bali, which I’ve seen random nice things said about on Basenotes, MUA and elsewhere. I didn’t really even look at the The rest, please…
Being a nail polish newbie, I missed all the NARS Zulu drama last December. My understanding is NARS had already discontinued the color and had it in their clearance stock, and then Sephora featured it on the cover of their Beauty Insider holiday issue – where it immediately sold out The rest, please…
By Musette Please welcome frequent commenter, motorcycle queen, Chicago Scent-sation goddess and today’s guest blogger — Musette! Jane Russell. Voluptuous, earthy beauty. She was never the delicate princess, never the waif, never rescued by the prince. Jane wasn´t flitting across the moors like a woodsprite, she was rolling around in The rest, please…
Having been blessed all of my life with the most irrationally hopeful, joyous and optmistic outlook possible, there are some mornings, just in that instant when my eyes open from sleep, the world tilts slightly, and I feel sad somewhere down where you never look, like something that I cannot express is missing The rest, please…
I´ve been noodling around with various posts but they haven´t quite coalesced (congealed?) yet so today we´re going to play a game, and you have to play too. Remember all the gotta-try, must-have fragrances — the darlings of the blogosphere/MUAers/POLsters, etc., two weeks or months or years ago? The rest, please…
Has it been over a year now since the Tom Ford Private Blends first showed up? Well, they keep adding scents, the newest is Champaca Absolute. Now, right off the bat, I am predisposed to loving this as I love Champaca, but Tom Ford does annoy me beyond belief. First The rest, please…
I admire Estee Lauder (the woman and the brand) for producing some scents I really like and then not discontinuing them, thank you very much. My favorites tend to be from their back catalog – the original Azuree, Private Collection, Youth Dew, Cinnabar. Even if the Lauder department store areas The rest, please…
Having spent this past week wearing a taupe shade of nail polish called You Don’t Know Jacques (from the OPI French collection), I wanted to do a quick np post on my interest in the quirkier colors out there — a trend I don’t recall from my last go-round with The rest, please…
Do you put off buying things for no good reason other than you can? Or do you just buy on impulse? I used to be the total buy on impulse type, but slowly I´ve been a-changing and now, well, now, I procrastinate. Let me tell you what I´m procrastinating The rest, please…
Well, as we wait for the new Le Labo L.A. scent to land (later this month?), I’ve got nothing big showing up, so I just reached into the sample grabbag to find some things that might be interesting. Farmacia SS Annunziata Cara – This line has been getting some comments The rest, please…
Scentzilla describes CB I Hate Perfume Musk Reinvention (which I keep erroneously referring to as Musk Absolute) thusly: “If pumpkin pie had body odor, this is what that pie´s armpits would smell like. I can´t decide if that sounds inviting or appalling, so I´m just gonna leave that mental The rest, please…
I’m looking at my big, beautiful coffee table book from Roja Dove, Essence of Perfume is $44 from Amazon. Roja’s love of perfume comes through, along with a wealth of anecdotes and history. Well-written and not snobbish, though a few of the quotes in the back had me rolling my The rest, please…
Generally I wear scent to bed. Sometimes it´s whatever I had on that day. More likely, though, it´s something I´ve selected particularly to sleep in. Note the word “sleep” – these are quiet scents, not scents designed to be worn to bed for other, more exciting activities. In general The rest, please…
I keep getting tagged, which is when another blogger “tags” you and you´re supposed to write six things about yourself nobody knows and tag six other people and then do your laundry and invent a moon rocket, and … I forget. Seriously, I talk about personal stuff on here The rest, please…
