Patty White launched Perfume Posse in 2005, and we've been yapping on and on about perfume endlessly since.
As you probably already know if you read Monday´s post, I dug up my bottle of Van Cleef & Arpels First when I was rooting around looking for fragrances that reminded me in some way of the new Estee Lauder Jasmine White Moss. I enjoyed my revisit of First so The rest, please…
Okay, I finally have the little devils in my hands. I’m not sure why I always rush for the Guerlain new releases so quickly. Hope maybe? Hope that they’ll hit something magical again like Double Vanille or Bois d’Armenie or even – Yes, I know, I’m crazy – another Jicky The rest, please…
I´m not sure exactly what I was expecting when I sniffed the new Estee Lauder Private Collection Jasmine White Moss, but it wasn´t what came out of the bottle and landed on my arm. I scuttled home and did some online research, which made things clearer – the scent is The rest, please…
We´ve done our part to promote Red Lipstick Love on this blog. I think a post on the fabulousness of pink lipstick is overdue. Pink can be harder to pull off than red lipstick; the wrong pink is aging, or juvenile. I’m old enough I avoid pink frosts and glitter The rest, please…
Finally; words typed on a keyboard into a PC on soil north of the 49th parallel. They look the same, they sound the same, but they are different. I am different. I am Canadian. I know I´m making much more out of this than I probably should, but I cannot The rest, please…
First, the winner of the shimmer Chapstick is: Kathryn Winner of the Q-tips is: Kathy T. both of you should just click on Contact Us on the left, remind me what you’ve won and send me your address. I do have another giveaway today courtesy of Perricone MD, they offer The rest, please…
Everybody loves Knize Ten. You. Your grandma. Your neighbor down the street with the annoying dog that barks late at night. Luca Turin loves it. I´d read Marina’s review of the Knize line right before my trip to Vienna, and I was ready to join the choir and sing out The rest, please…
This is the view coming up first set of steps to my house. My roses are just ridiculous, especially the one on the right, which is about 7 feet tall and 4-5 feet wide and deep. The one next to the house is about 6 feet, and that’s after I The rest, please…
This morning I wore a sweater to walk over to the market in the rain, which – hello?!? A sweater in June in Washington, D.C.? What´s next, frogs raining from the sky? A plague of locusts? Seriously, I´m waiting for further signs of the coming apocalypse. I think some of The rest, please…
Memories, like the corners of my mind. Misty water-coloured meeeemorrrriiiiiiiies, of the way we were. Ahem. I’ll begin again. The act of remembering is less a willed experience, and more a reminder of the deus ex machina nature of our minds. Like an ever-spinning Rolodex whose cards jump out at The rest, please…
I have some free samples of new products that came in the mail, and I really like both of them, and I have extra of each to give away. ChapStick has a True Shimmer lip balm in several flavors. I’ve tried a couple of the flavors, and they remind me The rest, please…
The nice thing about being a sample fiend is, if I root around long enough, chances are I´ll find either the perfume I´m looking for or I will be surprised and excited about something I´d overlooked or dismissed. This time I dug up a decant of Chanel Eau de Cologne, The rest, please…
I’ve become a big fan of the Amouage fragrances, though I’ll never be happy with their price tag. Though given the way other perfumes are coming up, they are looking more reasonable than they used to. Ubar had been off the market for a while, recently reissued. I have no The rest, please…
Today was the annual screen porch clean-off day, finally. It’s a three-hour job involving children, brooms, garden hoses, scrub brushes, bleach, and lots and lots of squealing over icky dead bugs. This year’s wet spring led to a particularly generous deployment of bleach on my part to combat the heedious The rest, please…
Every once in a while, the cynical perfumista must put her cynicism on a shelf and acknowledge the good in the world. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, it is worth mentioning. Carol’s Daughter is a company founded by a fellow Brooklynite, Lisa Price. After spending time as The rest, please…
The Heeley line is a sleeper for me. I keep finding a lot to love there at a reasonable price point – or they were reasonable, but I never put them at the top of my list, despite my admiration for many of their scents. I remembered them being under The rest, please…
As I type this I am reeking of Absorbine Jr., which my equestrienne sister-in-law assures me is in fact horse liniment, repackaged into a dab-on bottle for humans at 50 times the price of the per-gallon stuff you get for the pony. I don’t care. The sultry arms of The rest, please…
Climbing School was this last weekend. I wasn’t even sure I’d make it to the two-day outing, but I did, and I even rappelled down, which was something I thought I’d never be able to do. I wasn’t mindlessly afraid, just apprehensive. The rock was really sharp, and I slipped The rest, please…
First, let me announce the winner of the Benefit sample set - Pattie! Contact Us with your address, thanks. Well – the weather is warm, sort of, and I think we’re really ready – in spirit if not in body – for a roundup of your favorite cologne and cologne-type The rest, please…
First things first: an apology. It turns out that the vials I though I had in the place I had them in, are not in that place or any other place for that matter. This therefore means that sending out the samples of Eau Turquoise as promised, to the recipients The rest, please…
Estee Lauder has their latest flanker to White Linen, Pure White Linen Pink Coral, or is that a flanker to Pure White Linen? I lose track of flankers If it’s Pure White Linen, which is a flanker to White Linen, would that make this a flanker once removed? Huh. The The rest, please…
If you’re an American consumer interested in makeup, you’ve probably run across San Francisco-based Benefit Cosmetics at some point. I assume their backstory of twin sisters who launched the company in 1976 and first concocted their now iconic Benetint as nipple tint for strippers is true (hey, why not?) Even The rest, please…
Pastry chefs and perfume. Let’s just think about that for a minute. Really great pastry chef makes perfumes. Well, they hired Calice Becker to make their perfume. Everyone ready to go with that for a bit? Gourmands have the capability to be the absolute worst perfumes in the world and The rest, please…
