Perfume Posse

After reading all your amazing stories here, I’ve reached the realisation that I’m no longer a proper perfume addict. What in some ways might induce melancholia, also brings relief: I no longer worry too much about trying everything, EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING, godammit, and can count on one hand (I think) the The rest, please…

Some of you may know I’ve been doing rolfing the last few month.  We’re getting near the end of the series, which is all the neck, shoulder, back, head work. Every time I go in, I have headaches for the next 3-4 days. This is one of those days.  It’s The rest, please…

Not too long ago, one of our perfumista buddies on here bid on a bottle of something on eBay, only to realize after she won that the price was listed in British pounds rather than dollars.  Oops.   So she wrote me in a welter, and I promptly reassured her.  First The rest, please…

Creed’s newest release is Acqua Fiorentina.  It has notes of plum, roses, carnation, bergamot orange, lemon, cedar, and sandalwood.  Prices are $130 for 1 ounce, $230 for 2.5 ounces and $350 for 8.4 ounces. Did Creed’s prices go up?  A lot? It opens fairly aquatic with a typical Creed base, The rest, please…

It still hasn´t gotten very hot here (upper 80s) which by DC standards is moderate.  In fact I think we´ve broken 90 only four or five days this summer.  We´ll see what August brings. So I´ve gotten to try one of those perfumista cult perfumes – Cher´s Uninhibited, thanks to The rest, please…

Sephora/OPI continues to rock my world.  Thanks to Anita for this tipoff, via their Beauty Insiders newsletter: “Sephora by OPI DARK ROOM is a dangerously deep, gorgeous, green nail color that will make you a scene stealer this autumn. Embrace an air of seductive mystery that will keep your audience The rest, please…

What is a moldy old picture of Clint Eastwood doing here on the Posse? Well, I was thinking about explaining the lure of foody/gourmand fragrances as a “fatal attraction”, but then I remembered I own a DVD copy of Play Misty for Me, the 1971, pre-Dirty Harry Clint Eastwood gem The rest, please…

This is my last area of major lovage this week. Considering the huge price hike in perfumes in the last two years, the Prada exclusive parfums start to look almost reasonable at under 200 U.S. for 30 mls of parfum. Guerlain pure parfums are around $300 per ounce for an The rest, please…

Yes, it´s true – I went into the woods for more than a week, beyond the reach of cell phone or computer, and yet … I took along three perfumes.  What else would one expect? They were simple and unobtrusive and felt right – Origins´ ginger roll-on, Caron´s Eau de The rest, please…

I had smelled Byredo Bal d’Afrique briefly in L.A. back in April or so, but too much sniffage didn’t allow me to get more than a “mmmm, nice” thought formed about it.  In London, I got a longer turn with it.  Notes of Bergamot, Lemon, Neroli, African marigold, Bucchu, Violet, Jasmin The rest, please…

It´s been a weird year, sparking some odd reflection which landed me in Vintage Village.  I started rolling around in the old Cotys from my mother´s day and in doing so I found some incredible gems.   All the extant-vintage favorites are achingly beautiful, with an aura that speaks of years The rest, please…

Lee normally posts today, but he let me know that he’s been diagnosed with Swine Flu!!!!!!  Yikes x3!!!  So send all your best wishes/prayers/karmic love his way that he recovers soon. Since I hadn’t really planned anything for today,  let’s go through some drawing winners that I managed to forget The rest, please…

Let’s don’t mince any words – By Kilian Pure Oud, I love you.  I adore it, need it, must have it.  Yes, yes, this is what oud perfumes should be, so everyone else that isn’t By Kilian Pure Oud should pay attention.  Now, the price has me shuddering - about 400 for The rest, please…

Sometimes, a big city can be welcoming, and sometimes it can wallop you with an urban blight that impacts you so profoundly, it makes you scratch your head and wonder why you love that particular place so much to begin with. When I crossed the border into Ontario for the The rest, please…

Have you ever, on the long road through life, just looked around you and thought:  I really need to edit my life?  I do from time to time, even though I usually don’t let my life get too cluttered.  Sometimes you just notice that you have some things/people in your The rest, please…

How do I know I´m getting old?  I don´t recognize half the celebrity faces on the new Dolce & Gabbana D&G Anthology line of five fragrances. Le Bateleur 1 (Tyson Ballou) – aromatic and aquatic notes, cedar, vetiver, and kill.me.now.   If you menfolken would like to freak out everyone around The rest, please…

Yessirree, it’s time for our annual Top 10 Summer Scents!   The weather’s been a little freaky (too hot?  too cold?) for many of us, but that’s not slowing us down any when it comes to this post.  What are we craving this summer?  Read on. Anita/Musette:   My first selection is The rest, please…

Still a great trip, but we had a surprise!  When we got to Liberty’s on Tuesday, there on the table — I’m getting ahead of myself.  Liberty’s is really an amazing store and my favorite of the department stores we’ve gone to so far.  Gracious, relaxed, interesting selection. They were The rest, please…

Only on the Posse could I do a post about petting bees and have commenters come out of the woodwork and admit to being bee-strokers yourselves.  Y’all are freaky, and you know I love you. In the meantime, all the buzz around MAC´s two new honey scents, Naked Honey and The rest, please…

Greetings from London, y’all! We all arrived on Sunday, which dictated that we fly on the 4th.  Yeah, like that.  Pile little kids on airplanes on top of just the normal European flights, and it was really sleepy by the time my plane got into London at 8:30 in the The rest, please…

I´m guessing a lot of people are still away, so today´s a random holiday thread.  I invite you to post in your comments some of your favorite summer things that arouse your senses OTHER than smell for a change {oh, fine, go ahead and put your smells in, I’m not The rest, please…

My six-year-old daughter is a sensualist, which is my explanation for why she´s always covered in a layer of whatever it is she´s experiencing, whether it´s dirt or dinner.  Her obsession with insects continues, and right now her focus is bees.  I grow a bee-friendly garden so she´s got a The rest, please…

We’re having a heatwave here in eastern England. Whilst torrential rain floods the west, we bask in unending sun, humidity and aphids. I’ve swallowed two today – running, so my fault really – and had a close relative – to those other aphids – crawl up my nose. Meanwhile, elsewhere The rest, please…

Winner of the Guerlain samples: Cheryl Just click on Contact Us over there on the left and remind me what you’ve won so I send you the right thing! Amouage’s latest entries into the perfume new release overload (though I do think it’s slowed down this year, no?) is Reflection The rest, please…