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 No. 2.   I picked it [...]

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, and about Bluebell the less [...]

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 computer in my house will [...]

(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 each asked to contribute their [...]

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 lips, foundations, plenty of, and [...]