After reading some of the early reports on this new collection from Van Cleef & Arpels collection Extraordinaire, I wasn’t expecting much. Nieman-Marcus was offering a set of samples as a freebie when you buy something else, so I was happy to get them and see for myself. The price point doesn’t make me happy, [...]

I ripped open a package from UPS thinking it was a book I’d been waiting for, and it turned out to be a promo bag for the clothing store Bebe’s new fragrance, which is called … wait for it … Bebe.   This is apparently the third iteration of their Bebe scent.  On some other [...]

First, I am in need of someone in Greece to help me with a small project.   Click on contact us over on the left if you are a someone who could/would help or know someone that can help!  I just need someone that could get a package that they’ll only ship within Greece, and [...]

I was malled. Marc Jacobs Daisy is a little nothing of a fragrance that I happen to like.  I don’t even think I need to go look at my original review to quote myself: it’s a fragrance entirely devoid of sex appeal.  In this case I mean that as a compliment; Daisy is the perfect [...]

I get sent the wax sample updates. I immediately rejected Serge Lutens’ latest Paris only (well, maybe not…) offering, Fourreau Noir, as dreck. A standard, run-of-the-mill masculine with obvious fougere overtones and an overdose of synthetics to suggest freshness and manliness. No thanks. Then I get to try a real sample. It’s not a Damascene [...]