Okay, class. It’s been in the high 90s this week, although lovely today. Welcome to summer! So nice to be back online! There are still a few glitches, please bear with us. 1) My kids are home for the summer. Also I’m working on a real estate deal (I have this annoying thing called a [...]
It’s me. Daph. Isn’t it delightful to be back here! I spent the weekend pondering which two new colors to dye my hair, and whether I should buy another yacht, but mostly I yearned, positively yearned for my sweet darlings on the Posse. We seem to have developed an unattractive case of the text glitches, [...]
Do you list? I don’t in any other walk of life except my obsessions hobbies. And these days the listing is not generally of what to try, but what to buy. You see, I attempt to limit myself to one new bottle a season, and summer seems like the season for which I have least. [...]
As I mentioned earlier this week, the two lovely angels that decant for me are on vacation this week, so my youngest son, Harry (20). and I are taking over that task. I had forgotten how many callouses I used to have on my fingers from pushing in those 1 ml stoppers and how many [...]
As I remarked on here not too long ago, we seem to be in the middle of a Big White Flower Moment in perfumery. Two recent favorites of mine – Amaranthine and Nuit de Tubereuse – have been built around white flowers (jasmine and tuberose respectively). Even Kim Kardashian’s gotten into the act, with a [...]