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Patty White launched Perfume Posse in 2005, and we've been yapping on and on about perfume endlessly since.

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Austerity and Peculiarity: Christian Dior Dune

Austerity and Peculiarity: Christian Dior Dune

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…

Tilda, IUNX, Costes 2 and L'A Tubereuse

Tilda, IUNX, Costes 2 and L’A Tubereuse

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…

Post postponed

Post postponed

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…

Etat Libre d'Orange Tilda Swinton LIke This

Etat Libre d’Orange Tilda Swinton LIke This

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…

Consumed

Consumed

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…

More Paris

More Paris

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…

SJP NYC

SJP NYC

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…

Lash me.

Lash me.

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…

Assailed by scent

Assailed by scent

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…

Some Days

Some Days

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…