First!  The seven winners of the Divine samples:  Goose, 2scents, bellablue, chasa, Fiordiligi, ScentRed and smy.  Just click on Contact Us over on the left and send me your address and remind me what I’m sending you. Thanks to everyone for playing and also for the great Costa Rica ideas.  BTW, my birthday isn’t until [...]

When I popped by Sephora last week to check out their new fall nail colors (see post yesterday), I ran into KenzoAmour Florale, which I am pretty sure was a spring release but has just shown up in our local stores.   I can´t resist pasting in the Sephora online blurbage for this: “In Asia, the [...]

I went by Sephora to check out their new SOPI nail polish colors, particularly the forest-green Dark Room I was lusting after, and … meh.  Don´t bother.  It´s streaky in application, oddly dull on the nail  and, unfortunately, pretty much a fade to black with the necessary two coats.  Total fail.  I know there are [...]

Two weeks ago, I posted a picture of a post-spaghetti western, pre-Dirty Harry Clint Eastwood for an essay in which I compared the allure of foody/gourmand fragrances to a “fatal attraction”. The reason I chose Clint instead of Glenn Close, the notorious bunny-boiler from the 80s classic Fatal Attraction, was because I think Clint´s ill-fated [...]

Divine’s newest fragrance is Eau Divine.  I’m a big fan of all the Divine fragrances, and they’ve always struck me as being underrated. I wish they sold the bigger, cheaper bottles in the U.S.  that they have on their website, I think they would get a lot more of a following. Notes are green mandarin, [...]