Perfume Posse

I’m sorry to tell you, I’m sick. A sinus infection that had me drive three hours home today in a state of semi-delirium/dubnium/Deuteronomy. You see my problem? So, to save my throbbing grey matter, I’m going to list ten things I love the smell of – or that I’m longing The rest, please…

Sorry this is late today, I forgot to set it to Publish!  I had planned on talking about DKNY Men today, but, bleah.  Typical men’s cologne, and I don’t really have anything bad to say about it, but I don’t have anything good either.  It just smells like everything else. The rest, please…

You know what we need?  We need a break from March´s ponderous explorations of 80s big-hair scents and her other navel-gazing posts, complete with lint.  Well, thanks to a mercy box from someone (not naming any names) March can pull her head out of her Poison and report on the The rest, please…

  One of my favorite new websites, This is Why You’re Fat.  Ponder the Turbaconucken, which is chicken inside a duck inside a turkey, covered in bacon.  Seems maringally more healthy than the deep fried s’more on a stick. Evody Parfums  is a perfume shop in Paris near the Odeon The rest, please…

One of the hallmarks of a fragrance obsessive is to obsess, right?  Which I´ve been doing, weaving several threads together in my mind. Nancy generously gave me a bottle of the original Estee Lauder Azuree, and I was thrilled.  (Aldehydes, bergamot, gardenia, jasmine, cyclamen, ylang, orris, patchouli, oakmoss, amber, leather, The rest, please…

Here are links to two interesting articles in today’s New York Times spring fashion magazine supplement: Message in a Bottle, regarding the iconic Chanel No. 5 flacon; and Chandler Burr’s article on the Reg Vardy Gallery’s recent show, If There Ever Was: An Exhibition of Extinct and Impossible Smells,  — The rest, please…

Indulge me in a bit of whining here: I am so tired of mainstream fragrance flankers that I want to take them all and…and…and… Honestly, what could I possibly do with them? Fragrances containing alcohol are highly flammable, so starting a giant bonfire is out of the question. Having a The rest, please…

Y’all tuned in here this week to read about perfume, didn’t you?  No Joy in Perfumeville again today on that count.  I’m about three weeks into a End of Winter Malaise. I’m not depressed or unhappy, just seem to have arrived at one of those Brightly Beaconed Turning Points in life where The rest, please…

    This is Buckethead, who I figure deserves equal time on the blog.  Buckethead is a nester.  When he´s sad, or sick, or otherwise feeling low, he collects all the soft blankety things (coats etc.) in the vicinity and piles them up on a chair or sofa.  Then he The rest, please…

I finally scored one of those cute vintage bottles of Shocking Schiaparelli on eBay. You know the one, in the glass case, the woman’s partial figure with flowers at the neck.  Notes on one site list hyacinth, bergamot, narcissus, and ylang-ylang; a middle note of rose, lily of the valley, The rest, please…

Happy Valentine´s day, everyone!   I got Feminite du Bois in the parfum concentration.  It is outstanding – the focus more on the plum than on the woods, although I find it layers beautifully with the original FdB eau de parfum.  It´s also exceedingly rich, and a little dab´ll do ya.  The rest, please…

My memory dances and shimmies – I can’t trust its movements. In childhood, winter was a time of snow, outdoor adventures and breathing out ghosts over my face. On the walk to school, we’d shiver and stay warm by pulling lengthy icicles from gates and signposts, playing first Musketeers and The rest, please…

Somehow my day just completely got away from me, and now I have to go to yoga class, won’t get back until late, and no time to do any sort of proper review to anything.  I am so sorry! First, the winners of the last drawing I had for the The rest, please…

Thanks to all of you for participating last week in the Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Q&A post, she was thrilled with the feedback.  In the meantime we´re in our annual House of Ill (I´ve had sick kids home since last Tuesday) so here´s a quickie on my new DSH favorite comfort The rest, please…

      “Excuse me while I kiss the sky.”  So! A random thread at Basenotes got me thinking – does anyone really need a 1 liter bottle of perfume for 8-9k U.S.? I thought I’d come here and ask a few thousand of my closest friends. It is parfum concentration and has notes The rest, please…

Parfums MDCI Un Coeur en Mai In The Guide review of Patricia de Nicolai´s glorious fragrance New York, Luca Turin makes a comment that Guerlain ought to “buy Parfums de Nicolai, add PdN´s range to theirs, trash fifteen or so of their own laggard fragrances” and hire de Nicolai, a The rest, please…

Wander onto any discount fragrance website and you will find myriad choices of scents named Perry Ellis “something-or-other”. The one I´m writing about is the most recent simply titled release, and as far as I can tell, the only Perry Ellis scent available in the department stores. Don´t take my The rest, please…

Bond’s newest release hits the streets in March of 2009.  Brooklyn is based on that “now-is&becoming-hip” neighborhood in NYC and will retail for $220 for 100 ml and $145 for 50 ml at the Bond store and Saks Fifth Avenue.  Notes are cardamom, geranium leaves, cedarwood. graperfruit, juniper leaves. South The rest, please…

  I know many of you are fans of Dawn Spencer Hurwitz, as I am.  I love her comfort scents in particular, and I have reviewed a number of her fragrances on here.  Dawn emailed me recently and we got to chatting back and forth and one thing led to The rest, please…

 Parfums MDCI Un Coeur en Mai   Okay, give it a minute for the page to load, LOTS of pictures! You knew this day was coming – it’s Patty’s Pets Day!!! Well, I will have a couple of review and a draw as well.  Hey, I won’t inflict pain without giving back.  The rest, please…

I love saffron in perfume, but often it´s combined with my personal nemesis – rose.  I am quite fond of live roses; I have several wonderful, old fashioned scented ramblers and climbers.  There are even a few rose fragrances I like and have samples of, just to take out and The rest, please…