Perfume Posse

Hey, everyone – thanks for all the wonderful warm anniversary wishes, I really enjoyed reading them upon my return.  We decided not to take the laptop because there we’d be, on our trip, compulsively checking it since we’re both kind of addicted.  Instead we devoted ourselves to eating embarrassing amounts The rest, please…

It´s only fitting that two weeks after begrudgingly parting with my gas-hogging, decidedly environmentally unfriendly SUV, I discovered a really intriguing line of organic fragrances. I must say, this discovery has somehow softened the blow of once again being behind the wheel of a Toyota Corolla – which also happened The rest, please…

Hey, how about a perfume post and a drawing today! Parfums de Nicolai’s newest entry in the perfume market is Vanille Intense.  Notes of Orange, orange blossoms, immortelle, cinnamon, woods, patchouli, amber and musk  make up this perfume. Okay, just love here, love, love, love.  I have a love/hate relationship The rest, please…

Assuming I haven’t been hit by a bus, I’m off to an undisclosed location with the Big Cheese for the rest of the week celebrating our 20th anniversary — which is, in fact, today.   It’s hard to believe we’ve been married 20 years; it feels like three years and 70 The rest, please…

Okay, I indulged in too much planting/painting/drinking this holiday weekend and find myself with no perfume review for today. So it’s been a while since we’ve done one of these, but they never stop being fun.  You have been transferred to a hut in the Congo for two years – The rest, please…

Hey, everyone (anyone?)   I’m enjoying the US holiday weekend and won’t be posting today.  Didn’t want you to think I died in some terrible perfume accident, finally done in by a critical oakmoss sensitivity or from applying John Galliano room spray directly to my skin. The kids are underfoot, the The rest, please…

Before getting onto my shopping trip last Friday, I just want to share some travel advice with you. If you´re longing for oakmoss and miserable at its disappearance from our perfumed lives, look no further than a trip to south west Scotland, at least until the anti-scent brigade bomb the The rest, please…

Guest Post by Musette Does there come a time in every perfume lover’s life when s/he takes a look/sniff at the vast array of scents out there and thinks, at least for a minute “Heck, I could probably do this myself!”?? Hmm… here’s what happened when a computer program and The rest, please…

Hey, hey, it’s spring!!!!  I have 17 rosebushes and a tree in my kitchen while I’m writing this.  Hopefully by the time you read this, most of them will  have taken up a new, dirty abode in my backyard.  I’m still worried about that many rosebushes for the space? Too The rest, please…

On Friday we explored the complicated feelings some of us have for the oh-so-fickle House o’ Guerlain, which has started to resemble Hazel’s House o’ Pancakes in the terminal, cloying sweetness of some of its recent releases. Today hopefully Patty will be waaaay too busy to drop by and discover The rest, please…

Latisse update – I’ve been lining my upper and lower lash line with Latisse for two months now; maximum results expected at 16 weeks.  A week ago, even, I’d have said “not worth it” but my opinion’s changed.  I think people with a lot of short, stubby lashes would get The rest, please…

Look at that picture.  Gaze at it.  Take it all in.  Stare at it, dwell on it, let your eyes roam like wandering slugs from top to bottom.  Then feel free to join me in my initial reaction upon hearing about this new Guerlain, this flanker of my most holy The rest, please…

Okay, for those of you that really hate off-perfume-topic posts, let’s do a sample giveaway so it’s not a complete waste of time for you today.  Drop a comment and you’ll be in the drawing for a sample of the two Guerlains, the Robe thing and the Mitsouko flanker and The rest, please…

Let’s face it – you and I, we’re in the same boat.  When it comes to sampling, I end up trying many things for the same reason you do – I read about it somewhere recently, on our blog or somebody else’s.  Then my greedy little mind says, oooh, I The rest, please…

Guerlain has added a couple of new scents in the past couple of months, but before they roll out their city fragrances, which I’m really anxious to try, I better sniff the last two they released, Mitsouko Fleur de Lotus and La Petite Robe Noir. Mitsouko Fleur de Lotus starts The rest, please…

The first release in the Dior travel fragrance line, Escale à  Portofino, came out last year but was in extremely limited release.  Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the only place you could get it here was Epcot Center at Disney World, and file that under “bizarre distribution The rest, please…

Please welcome back our guest poster, Anita/Musette! Chicago.  Perfume.  Howling winds and rain.  Must be a trend… I slithered down Michigan Avenue into a couple of my regular haunts to dry off and see what’s new. Guerlain had me hyperventilating;  at Neiman-Marcus there is an absolutely exquisite display of some The rest, please…

First, for those who asked for pictures of my hand-applied airbrushed tan, I was at the end of the two-week cycle and ready for a new spray this week, so I’ll wait until after this application and see if I can get some pictures so you can see the color. The rest, please…

A couple months ago Kevin at Now Smell This did a post on a Guerlain fragrance, Mouchoir de Monsieur (gentleman’s handkerchief) and the comments got sidetracked into handkerchiefs themselves, and their various delights and uses. Well. As a mother of young children, my life (and my pocketbook, and my jacket The rest, please…

The nice folks at Avon have done a nice thing and offered a drawing for three lucky winners to get a bottle of their new Avon Christian Lacroix Absynthe perfume.  Just drop a comment, and I’ll draw out three names, and those three people will win a full bottle. Now, The rest, please…

I had a vintage-bottle score a couple months ago and finally got around to the work involved in unstoppering my beautiful little bottle of Raphael Replique, about which I knew absolutely nothing. My bottle is 1/2 ounce parfum, with maybe one-fourth remaining. The bottle is charming, I think crystal with The rest, please…

Thanks to everyone for your kind words last week. I dropped by and couldn’t believe all the comments and well-wishes, especially considering how vague I was.  That meant a lot to me.  One of my kids got sick very quickly with potential diagnosis shifting, fortunately, from meningitis to flu.    The rest, please…