It’s not Spring Yet! Malaise

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… Continue Reading

Random Wednesday

    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… Continue Reading

Shocking Schiaparelli

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… Continue Reading

We’ll Always Have Paris

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. … Continue Reading

Winter and winners

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… Continue Reading

I am so embarrassed

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,… Continue Reading

More DSH Comfort

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)… Continue Reading