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,  — “as eerie, terrifying and enchanting [...]

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 weenie roast in the stadium [...]

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 I’ve sat down in the [...]

    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 goes to sleep on them.  [...]

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, jasmine, and peach; and a [...]