Perfume Posse

Oops, sorry, my vacation time ran a bit over and left no time to put a post together. To make up for it, I’ll give away to four commenters a sample of the new L’Artisan Nuit de Tuberose that just came out (and that I’m wearing and loving beyond belief). The rest, please…

It’s Memorial Day weekend here and between today’s event at Art With Flowers (familiar and new faces there from the blog, so much fun!) and also Diva’s 16th birthday today, and her party, and All That Entailed, including brunch for her and her friends and a shopping trip… I’m a The rest, please…

First things first – LindaB, Zazie and Daniele are the winners of the Bois Naufrage samples, as selected by random.org. The delightful Andreas of Humiecki and Graef sent me a sample of all the H&G scents to try, including the two latest, Clemency and Bosque. This review’ll be about Bosque, The rest, please…

As I’m sitting here sipping my newfound drink love, Kir Royale, I started thinking about what raspberry perfumes there were out there and came up pretty blank.  Are there any, I wondered?  And I thought I’d ask all of you because I know you guys know everything. Before we go The rest, please…

1) For unknown reasons, the comment notifys that come to my email inbox when you comment are a little spotty, so apologies if I missed you.  While we’re on the subject, I’m slamming through a couple of work-related things right now.  If you’ve emailed me, and you don’t hear back, The rest, please…

Few notes capture spring as brightly and beautifully as lilacs. I have three lilac bushes around the front of my house that I’ve been nurturing for years, and they are surrounded by those monstrously big old-fashioned iris. Lilacs have that sweet scent that borders on candy, but never quite goes The rest, please…

Quite some time ago, Angie did a wonderful post on Now Smell This on becoming a perfumista – from Stage One (strong interest) to Stage Four – connoisseurship.  I think NST’s Robin later added a quasi-joking stage five along the lines of ennui.  Maybe defeat is the final stage for The rest, please…

Parfumerie Générale were kind enough to send me some samples of Bois Naufragé, Pierre Guillaume’s limited edition number for 2010,  released alongside Gardénia Grand Soir, which I haven’t smelled. The perfume was apparently inspired by Lucien Clergue’s Le Nu au Bois Flotté , a photo I can’t say I’m drawn The rest, please…

Anyone else have this item come up in their eBay permanent searches for Iris Gris?  Oh, don’t be coy and try and tell me you don’t have eBay searches you get e-mailed every day for Djedi, Iris gris, vintage guerlain, etc.? Well, if you don’t, you should. So this listing The rest, please…

I dropped by our new Anthropologie, which has conveniently relocated itself from Rockville Pike to the nearby open-area shopping center (with Bloomies, Sephora, MAC) across Wisconsin Ave from the Wall o’ Bling in Chevy Chase.  For the uninitiated, Anthropologie is one of those stores selling everything from clothing to housewares The rest, please…

The worst days for me in writing are when no sample, perfume, idea, season jumps out at me and seems to want to be written about – there’s just this great big empty space where my brain used to be. I uncap and sniff sample after sample, wanting one of The rest, please…

Hello, darlings – it’s me again.  Daphne.  I’m terribly sorry to report that March is out faffing about in an undisclosed location, where she’s being forced to consume a variety of bourbons (for educational purposes, poppets).  Also, I’m … well, I’m a bit shocked by this, but I saw her The rest, please…

When I did the nude makeup post, Carter made a suggestion for a particular look (I think it was a combo of an eyeshadow, eyeliner and lipstick?) that sounded lovely.  I said I’d like to do a post where people could submit their favorite makeup looks, and … here it The rest, please…

Honestly, I´ve never even considered another Givenchy fragrance, save for March´s and my obsession with that “sexy cupcake”, Organza Indecence. Apparently, all it takes is one rather pushy (yet very sweet) SA at the Bay, and all of a sudden, I´m head over heels for not one, but three more The rest, please…

A very dear friend’s daughter is getting married this Saturday in New Orleans, and all she wanted was for me to help her find her Wedding Perfume. One bottle of champagne and several cupcakes later, she picked not one Wedding Perfume but five best perfumes.  Megan is 27, and I The rest, please…

The first day in Europe is always a bit of a fog – the way it works on my East Coast flight is, we leave here around 7pm and get there at 7am – only of course for me it’s 1am or thereabouts, and I’m not good at sleeping on The rest, please…

The mind does show signs of going:   I was prowling through my perfumes, lingering over the Histoires de Parfums Tubereuse 3 Animale and thinking – Did I write a review on this?  And if I didn’t, why didn’t I? Top notes of tuberose, neroli, and kumquat; a heart of The rest, please…

Housekeeping details – in the move to the new blog host on May 1-ish, we lost about 30 hours of blog posting, including Patty’s Winners post with all the great haircolor comments on there (which bums me out), and the tail end of the Dune comments and my responses.  I The rest, please…

Happy Mother’s Day, those of you who partake.  Those of you with mothers.  Those of you who are mothers — in all senses of the word… I’m enjoying the freakishly cold weather here in D.C. again, playing with the sprogs, and going to Diva’s belly dancing concert later. Anyone get The rest, please…

It’s election night and the buffet’s all lined up, even though it’s a love/hate thing for me. My stupid elbow is on a slow recovery route and that means limited extra-curricular typing (can’t do much about my actual workload though, eh?).  I thought I’d share a couple of thoughts with The rest, please…

Smelling Daphnes for the first time in May is the single greatest pleasure I have in my life that comes around reliably every year.  I got my first daphne right after my first son was born, when I was living in the first house I bought with my future ex-husband The rest, please…

The first time I entered a Penhaligon’s store several years ago, it confirmed the vague suspicions in my head – upscale Caswell-Massey-type old fashioned scents, with names like Elisabethan Rose and Victorian Posy.  It wasn’t love at first sniff.  Some of their fragrances are strongly aromatic/fougere, which wasn’t my thing, The rest, please…

It’s one of those technical questions that seem to have no answer. When our website was going down last week, I tried to log onto it from two different computers, and they eventually sent me all sorts of error messages. Since then, I get the same error message. Every other The rest, please…

(FOLKS –  Let’s try again, with comments working this time.) It’s hard to believe, particularly after the winter some of us had, but it’s time (almost past time!) for the Top Ten Scents of Spring.   As usual, our peerless pals in the Perfume Posse (say that three times fast) were The rest, please…

Comments are fixed — YAY!!!  Come back tomorrow, let’s take another crack at the Top Ten of Spring, which I’ll re-post.  In the meantime… In the past two years, we’ve tackled all sorts of makeup/lipstick issues – red lips, YLBB shades (“your lips but better”), pink lips, mascaras, more red The rest, please…

Come back tomorrow and let’s play with makeup!!! Top Ten Scents on Monday!!

Hello, poppets! Well, this blog host transitioning hasn’t gone quite as smoothly as one hoped.  On the upside, apparently I’m back to being able to upload images — that’s Daphne Guinness right there in all her streaky, feathered glory. On the downside, our comments are still broken, and I don’t The rest, please…