What’s it like to be a perfume blogger?  Sometimes it’s like this. Van Cleef & Arpels Cologne Noire.  I wonder sometimes whether a house, having released a line with two or three outstanding scents (Gardenia Petale, Bois d’Iris, and Muguet Blanc, depending) if the rest are guaranteed to be duds, if only by comparison.  Notes [...]

I’ve been tardy with smelling new, and not so new ‘fumes, having stuck to the tried and tested path of the smells I love. However, I’ve recently got hold of a batch of samples. Here’s my quick take on them all. DSH Dirty Rose – I like birch tarry scents, which isn’t quite the same [...]

You’re all going to kill me.   For two reasons. 1. I snapped up a 1/4 ounce SIP bottle of Dimanche from Strange Invisible Perfumes.  Notes of orange, Iris, rose, honey, amber & cocoa.  Limited to like 20 bottles, I’m sure all of which are gone, and I have no idea if they’ll refill my bottle [...]

Patty’s post yesterday was so much fun.  I had a great time reading what people had fallen for after reading about it on the Posse or elsewhere.  Thanks for the smiles. So.  Having spent the last week+ killing everyone around me with Serge, and longing for the snow to melt, I rooted around on my [...]

As much as you all think we enable you, you have to know that you guys are seriously denting my budget with the things you tell me about in comments.  So it’s a mutually budget-busting relationship we have going on. First, thanks to  my fellow Coloradan (maidenbliss?)  who suggested the Malelueca Renew lotion for hands.  [...]