Chilly Spring

Hello darlings!  You’re stuck with ol’ Musette again, as Mistress March wings her way to GayP.  I promise she’ll be back soon.  I promise. Spring, where is thy sting?  I was going to complain about still  being caught in winter,… Continue Reading

Byredo Tulipe – Spring, brides, all there inside the bottle

Byredo La Tulipe – the nice person at Barney’s sent me a sample of Byredo Tulipe after I ordered a bottle unsniffed ( I know, I know, I never learn, but it worked out okay, as you’ll see!).   From the… Continue Reading

Eau Yes!

I’m off to Paris on Tuesday, but I wanted to do one more post before I left, on and cologne-ish scents. Several separate ideas came together and prompted this.  First off, there was Mr. Lutens’ declaration that he hates cologne,… Continue Reading

Thick and Thin

(Okay, peeps — for the next couple of weeks we may be messing with the usual posting order.   Today is Musette.) I got a visit from the Life Police a little while ago.  They gave me a ticket!!! and… Continue Reading

Hermes Voyage d’Hermes

There are many moments in a Perfumista’s life that are fraught with peril.  I had three of them in one day.  A couple of glasses of champagne are helping now. The vintage Mitsouko parfum arrived, and it was perfect and… Continue Reading

The Journey

This is not a perfume review. So, I guess le chat is out of le sac, oui?  (Ma French, it is merde, non?  Oui?)  It’s true – I’m leaving for Paris next week with Angela of Now Smell This, along… Continue Reading

A Serge I missed deliberately? and a sad Palate cleanser

Normally I’m reviewing new Serge scents as soon as I can squirt some up my nostrils, but Fille en Anguilles last fall almost knocked me over in disbelief when I smelled it. Then I read the almost unanimously great reviews… Continue Reading