Perfume Posse

Unfinished business — first, for anyone who’s wondered what I look like — here’s a photo of me, as you can see I’m not really a 65-year-old man.  This is my new short hair cut, it was quite long, several of you asked what it looked like.  There’s a slightly The rest, please…

It’s snowing hard while I type this and I’m feeling crabby and housebound, so let’s do a makeup post and cheer me up.  I have info and some questions sprinkled throughout. 1) Eyes. As some of you know, I cut my long hair recently – here’s a photo my daughter The rest, please…

Yes, ladies and gentlemen — it’s that time of the year again, when we all put forth our Top Ten Fragrances of Winter.  These are scents that may be new, or just new to us — or perhaps rediscoveries or simply old favorites that we rely on to get us The rest, please…

It’s tough to write a post when you’re pretty much exhausted and need to get up at a really early hour tomorrow to get on a plane, but let me try! First, I got to Colette and tried the new Martin Margiella that was just released on Monday – Untitled. The rest, please…

Sorry, no post today.  Between sick kids and a migraine, I’m keeping it short, so no hard feelings if you blow this off. I wanted to mention briefly a couple of things I found at Sephora on my mall binge, one of them a reconsideration. Chanel Allure Homme Edition Blanche The rest, please…

Excuse all typos, it’s late, I’ve had dinner/champagne/wine. While not anywhere near circling the intoxication drain, I’m just tired and very relaxed. Probably one of the highlights of any trip to Paris is getting together with Denyse from Grain de Musc and just catching up with her and sniffing all The rest, please…

When I did my post a couple weeks ago on swag, someone commented that it was obvious we weren’t corporate shills because if we were, there’d be a lot more reviews of mass-market celebrity-type fragrances.  Which struck fear into my heart, because what if my handlers at Proctor & Gamble The rest, please…

When is patchouli not patchouli? When Tom Ford puts his name on the bottle. I´ve made no secret of my stormy relationship with patchouli, and I don´t think we’ll ever achieve the sort of détente that will allow me to completely embrace the full-on sweaty, stinking glory of it. But, The rest, please…

Note to anyone expecting a perfume post for today. This will touch on smell, but it’s mostly a Travelogue. Our trip to Costa Rica was wondrous.  You never really believe a place can be that lush and almost untouched, until you drive down the backroads and see this simpler life The rest, please…

Two of the fragrances that came up repeatedly in comments when I mentioned exploring sandalwood as a perfume note were Guerlain Samsara and Chanel Bois des Iles Guerlain Samsara is a fragrance many people love to hate – it’s identified as a big 80′s office-ban-type fragrance (although technically I believe The rest, please…

I’m just going to follow March’s rules on this. I do try, as much as I remember, to note when the manufacturer has sent something, and then I usually try to give away samples of it to run out the amount I got, which is usually small.  The number of The rest, please…

Thanks to everyone who chimed in on the Swag Wank.  I knew it was going to be a controversial topic, and I’d like to say how proud (and unsurprised) I am that we could natter on and people could disagree and even get their dander up a little, and yet The rest, please…

My teenage daughters do all sorts of nail art with pens and fine-tipped brushes.  I think it’s great, but I am a little long in the tooth for that sort of thing.  However, when I saw Louise recently, she’d done a nail-art trick that is so easy and so lovely The rest, please…

It’s raining outside as I type – that fine misty rain that causes aches in all the wrong places. It’s replaced the snow. Roll on spring, baby. I don’t buy many perfumes any more. In fact, I don’t even test that many. Of our shared list of the best of The rest, please…

Guest Post – By Musette Snow  and ice is gorgeous – and if you tell anybody I said that, I will have to kill you. Hahahaha!  Jes´ joshin´.  No killing, I promise.  It´s just that it´s our first heavy snow of the season and I´m a bit overwhelmed by it The rest, please…

As some of you are aware, last fall the FTC made rules requiring that bloggers disclose any freebies, or monetary payments they receive from companies for reviewing their products, all in the name of Blogger Transparency.  (I’ll note here that, as far as I know, no similar rules were passed The rest, please…

I´m staying true to my promise of introspection (and also filling in for Patty whilst she suns herself in warmer climes) by writing about one of my favourite Bond No. 9 concoctions, Andy Warhol Silver Factory. I am not what you would call an art aficionado by any stretch; I The rest, please…

The Big Cheese and I like wine.  We’re volume consumers, buying it by the case and drinking it with lunch and dinner, and our price point is around $10 a bottle ($7 on sale.)  If someone serves me a glass of something better I enjoy it, but my palate isn’t The rest, please…

I´ve decided to steal one of March´s Maxims from earlier this week; she may be self-published, but was there any mention of a trademark or copyright? Seriously, I don´t think she´s going to mind. I, too, have decided to focus on my existing collection, rather than always seeking out the The rest, please…

The trip down to Costa Rica was long, tedious.  Have you heard about the roads?  Some of them are like washboards, but if you ever driver here, don’t expect road signs except right where you have to turn. We only got lost twice going from the airport to the hotel The rest, please…

So on Monday I mentioned sandalwood, and I’ve got some other stuff on the back burner, but the great thing about being a perfume fiend with a large sample collection is that I had several things on hand, so fasten your seatbelt for a ramble, with more to follow eventually. The rest, please…

The post is well-named since I’m traveling this morning!  This is the beginning of our Costa Rica adventure.  I’ll be uploading pictures to my Facebook profile during our Trip with a cute little iPhone app travel journal thingie. While writing this, I’m still trying to finish packing, decide on things The rest, please…

And here for 2010 are a few of March’s Maxims, soon to be self-published and available for $1.99 in a remainder bin in your area: 1) There is a single perfume out there that speaks to each person like no other scent does.  If all other perfumes disappeared from the The rest, please…