The Unexpected Pleasure

The Unexpected Pleasure

Well, Patty has punted is too busy shopping doing a lot of macaron and wine fragrance research in Paris right now and will be back soon with lots of interesting perfume-age, so today you’re stuck with me. Awhile back* I blogged on this Annick Goutal candle I love, Le Sac de Ma Mere (my mother’s [...]

Off again!

Where in the world did today go? I was going to write a nice, thoughtful post for y’all, but between finally noticing that I only have 30 minutes to change planes in D.C. to make our flight for Paris and finding out some but — as — notveryniceword creepy agency decided to put some other [...]

Bond No. 9 Brooklyn

Bond No. 9 Brooklyn

I love the new, controversial Bond No. 9 Booklyn bottle – I think it´s total eye candy.  Apparently some folks object to the idea of Brooklyn being represented by graffiti, but I’m under the impression that at least parts of Brooklyn are now so lousy with Bugaboo-pushing trustafarians that a little graffiti symbolism would be [...]

Random Sunday: Travel

A side benefit of having a blog is that I can use it to gather advice from you, our fearless readers, right?  Hence today’s topic. It has become screamingly obvious to me and the people who have to live with me that I need to take a trip or three in 2009.  In the past [...]