I dedicate this post to my sister-in-law Kate who lurks on the blog, and who just yesterday was telling me the next time she´s at my house she´s going to watch while I make my beef stew, because she wants to figure out what my secret is.   My beef stew is excellent.  It´s not fancy; [...]

The start of the year signals my gardening obsession returning. So, all my seed packets have arrived and at some point I’ll log them onto an Excel spreadsheet (the only opportunity I allow myself for super-nerdy listing – those vegetables and flowers need a schedule dude). And I have a stack of raspberry canes, asparagus [...]

I have a confession.  Natural perfumes tend to not do it for me (hanging head and scuffing feet).  Not because they lack artistry or creativity, but it is the ingredients that tends to not set with  me very well or seem a little muddied.  One exception has been Strange Invisible Perfumes. Now I have another [...]

I´m sure many of you remember when Bois de Jasmin was blogging regularly.  She was my nemesis.  There I´d be, an adult completely in control of my environment and behavior.  And I´d saunter over to her blog, read a beautifully written review of some obscure scent (new, niche, classic) and then, in a trance, head [...]

An Italian company, Omnia Profumo, has four new scents that are now available at Luckyscent.  $135 for 125 ml, which is a better price point than most lines are coming in with recently, so I’m greatly encouraged before I even sniff them.  It occurs to me that the higher the price point on the perfume, [...]