Perfume Posse

So, this post is in three parts and I’ve labeled them clearly so you can skip ahead.  Part Three is perfume. 1) The no-buy week – I really enjoyed reading everyone’s comments on Patty’s post yesterday.  I invited participation in a one-week no-buy last week, having imposed it on myself The rest, please…

March issued her challenge last week – take the consumer cure, stop buying anything that was not an essential for one week.  I’m thinking, how hard can that be?  It’s seven days. I just write the stuff down I want to buy that come up during that seven days, then The rest, please…

Today’s post is a bit of a grab-bag. Angie bought The new Etat Libre d’Orange Tilda Swinton Like This in Paris and wore it beautifully, and Patty reviewed it last Thursday.  (Notes: mandarin, ginger, winter squash, jungle essence, everlasting flower, Moroccan neroli, Grasse rose, vetiver, heliotrope and musk.)  I thought The rest, please…

It’s my turn, but my tennis elbow is such that typing is very painful. I did ask one of my servants to do it for me, but they’re busy with all the other labours I’ve ascribed them – full body waxing, shiatsu massage, cold compress preparation, pedicure etc. And they The rest, please…

Tilda Swinton and the people who brought you sperm perfume – together at long last. Exactly. Tilda Swinton is everying I’d like to be – (insert picture of odd-looking woman who is strangely hot and approachable in her weirdness if our picture-uploading capabilities were working – crap, need to contact The rest, please…

This isn’t the post I’d planned, but it’s the one you’re getting. After Louise left Paris, Angie and I spent a fair amount of time on our long walks those last few days talking about what we were bringing home from the trip.  And by “bringing home,” we meant ideas, The rest, please…

Winner of the bottle of Andy Tauer’s new Orange star is – Janell.  Please hit the contact us link on the left, let me know your name, address, and I’ll send that on to Luckyscent, who will send you your bottle. Congrats!!! Because Carter gave the best case for why The rest, please…

Paris was full of surprises for me – things I’d not seen or done or noticed on previous trips.  One day Angie and I took the Metro up to the canals which are I think in the northeast part of the city.   We walked along them for awhile, enjoying the The rest, please…

Yeah, I know; I should be tied to a tree and pelted mercilessly with rotten eggs. Haven´t we already established that SJP NYC is just another addition to the vast pile of fruity floral bombs that doesn´t need any more editorializing? Well, I just can´t help myself. When Sarah Jessica The rest, please…

Some of you may remember a couple of years ago, I decided to do eyelash extensions.  I have plenty of eyelashes, they’re long enough and thick enough, but they are blond and fine. If I don’t throw on some kind of liner or mascara, I have no eyes. That first The rest, please…

I take it all back – the French are hateful.  They made me eat all sorts of things in Paris.  I was walking ten hours a day and I still managed to gain four pounds.  It was outrageous – when I wasn’t downing duck pate and crepes and wine by The rest, please…

The absolutely lovely, generous, sweet, talented Andy Tauer, in conjunction with Franco at Luckyscent wants one of you to have a bottle of his newest perfume creation, Orange Star.  Just one of you, don’t hyperventilate yet. Let’s go to the marketing materials: A rich citrus fragrance with a clean orange The rest, please…

This was, I think, my fifth trip to Paris.  I was in eighth grade the first time I went, one of the many kids from our middle school’s French and Spanish classes (I was taking Spanish) slogging through those two countries over spring break.  What I remember of that trip: The rest, please…

On still days the garden, until recently, was near overwhelmed by the beautifully clean white floral aroma of Daphne bholua ‘Jacqueline Postill’. Defoliated in our unusually cold winter, its flowers arrived later than usual, but with their always unsettling purity and sweetness. This scent has now been replaced by the The rest, please…

Because of course you guys get tired of perfume, right?  Well, yeah, I know, you don’t, but every now and then you run across a that is perfect and you need to share. Trying to get lipstick shades to show up as the color they are is terrible work.  I The rest, please…

Sorry this is late – I’m still getting the hang of things. <sigh>  Lord, I love a fruit.  I do.    I have run through nearly every lemon, lemon/lime concoction out there  and  I was Jo´s  Grapefruit gal back when you could only get it in London and her husband would The rest, please…

Sometimes life just hands you out these wonderful surprises when you least expect it.  Something lost that you gave up on and then reappears. Is it too much to hope that my lost Chanel earring would emerge from the  mists of lost jewelry?  Ah, perhaps, but I remain optimistic that The rest, please…

Evil Auntie Musette started this, and I´m continuing it. This is not about weight, size, or how many times I haven´t been to the gym in the past couple of years. Light is a metaphor for a sense of being. Night owl that I am, I love it when the The rest, please…

It is officially official; I spend way too much time on the Internets. I started off the year thinking that my introspective meanderings would shed some light on my mercurial fragrance collection, but no such luck. If anything, I find myself even more confused than I normally am about why The rest, please…

Just don’t work out like you want.  Yesterday was a long day, and somehow, when I found myself curled up in my bed last night, it didn’t occur to me it was Wednesday and y’all might like a new post today.  Sorry about that! Winners of the Byredo La Tulipe The rest, please…