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 as an experimental exercise that [...]

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 buy them later. I have [...]

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 I’d put my two cents [...]

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 know nothing, NOTHING I tell [...]

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 new hosting company). When the [...]