If you are a girl, and you are not on top of your game just now – if you have, in fact, misplaced some of the game pieces, and the rules, and maybe even the damn box everything came in – if your game is off, then maybe what you need are some naughty boots.  [...]

Some years ago, after a slow recovery from a debilitating double lung whammy of pneumonia and pleurisy, I was shopping in Liberty for perfume. Not for myself; I wanted to find something just so for a friend of mine who loved, and loves, figgy smells. Brief aside: my rediscovery of the sense of smell actually [...]

So when I am fixated on the new to the extent I can’t see anything else, I cast my eyes to the old – the perfumes that are full of memory and the power that only memory can bring. Memory lives in another place, the room at the top of the stairs that has had [...]

The nice thing about being barely able to single-task is that I stop multi-tasking.  I don’t run through Trader Joe’s like my ass is on fire.  I’m not stuffing my overflowing cart of groceries into my canvas bags in the checkout line as if I were a contestant on a game show.  Instead I watch [...]

There should be a warning at the top of this. New Guerlainperfume  post, insert old New Guerlain perfume post. Let’s do something happy before we move on to the mundane. The winners of the Carter L’Heure sample sets are: Klara and Bursztyn. Just click the Contact Us over on the left, send me your mailing [...]