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, but I’m sure there’s medication available for that. We’re working on it. Speaking of medication, naughty March was out rather late last night watching the Fourth of July fireworks in her neighborhood …. yes, it’s true. They gain their independence and what then? Why, they move their Independence Day fireworks to 29 June, that’s what they do! Because it’s more convenient. How deliciously …. American.
At any rate, March is now locked in her laundry room, sniffing her attars (sounds dirty when I say it, doesn’t it?) and resisting the temptation to duct-tape her children to the roof of a passing mail truck. In the meantime, our lovely blogmistress Patty is once again unable (!) to access her own blog! I’d love to hear from any of you around the country …. can you see me? Hear me? (You can’t touch me. Sorry.) I have … I think … 26 or 27 emails sitting here between Patty and the blog-fixers, teasing me with their silly little techno-speak. CPU and cms and propagation and so forth. I think I’ll go paint my nails and have the Bentley washed. Hopefully we’ll have a post up tomorrow. Until then …. cheers!
Nice work, March. Glad someone let you out of the laundry room. :d
Yay! You’re back!
Ok, new game. Everyone post, and it’s March’s job to immediately post the appropriate emoticon for the preceding post.
Can we get someone to swing by and let her out of the laundry room so she can pee, get a cup of coffee, and settle in with her laptop?? You know, so she can be at her emoticon-granting station all day?
Let’s see — Oh!!! I LOVE YOUR GRAVATAR! She’s hawt! What do we have here …. (rustles in drawer) …
😡 #-o #:-s <:-p
That’s wiping the sweat off the brow from the heat, btw.
Hi March! I can see you great. Daphne too. I applied my little sample of Daphne one night during this camping trip, and have to say, that was the one night I had no new mosquito bites. There you have it. Powerful stuff. Here’s hoping Patty ois back with emoticons and all, soon!!\:d/:x:-?
CdG Daphne would kill every insect, crawling or flying, in a five-mile radius. I have no doubt of it. :)>-
Hi March, Do Organza Indecence original in falling over bottle and Organza Indecence Les Parfums Mythiques smell the same? Some people are saying not much difference, others say huge difference. Please help! Adrianna
I mentioned this in my Paris post! To my nose, the Mythiques smelled a bit more sandalwoody (in a VERY nice way, not too sweet) for the first 45 mins or so, then they smelled essentially the same, including the longevity and sillage.
Someone else pointed out in a separate discussion (Something seems Different, from a few days ago) and I think it’s true — our bottles age and macerate. Maybe older OI smells different because it’s been sitting around for 7 years fermenting, ya know? The new one smelled *just* as delicious to me. Hope that helps.
Thank you for such a fast reply, you are amazing! People are saying the same thing about the new Chaos, not the same, not the same. I don’t know what to think. My husband says it’s in thei heads. I can’t smell the perfume because not sold here, but will get a friend to buy me a bottle of each from Harrods anyway on the way home and I will see for myself.
The problem I have with the old Chaos is the top notes are starting to go seriously off. Very nail varnish. Kind of a bummer if you’ve paid $300 for a bottle.
Here, let me drive you crazy: if you LIKE Chaos, and you want to try a really excellent dupe (I mean seriously, I think it’s more equivalent than new Chaos) the Long Lost Perfumes’ Anarchy is great … dammit, I can’t find it on their site! Did they D/C Anarchy?!?
Hi March, Have you tried Donna Karan Essence Wenge and Labdanum?? If I am to buy them, it will have to be without sampling them first and there is very little feedback about them on the net. Also, I have never tried Choas, but really want a bottle. Is it much different from Black Cashmere? I really like BC.
Let’s see. I think they’re lovely, I have a small set of four (?) – wenge, labdanum, jasmine (which is nice and ripe) and the other one.
I *think* if you go back and look at reviews — people like them but when they first came out the bottles were quite expensive? Aspirational pricing. I’m winging it here, but for some reason I’m thinking they were reissued/bottles smaller or whatever at a more reasonable price point. If you can get them at a price that doesn’t make you gag, and you like wenge and labdanum as notes, go for it. Chaos is lighter, sweeter and more floral than Black Cashmere, and it’s difficult for me to resist recommending it, since Chaos is one of my earliest holy-cow commitments to niche perfumery, if that makes sense.
http://boisdejasmin.typepad.com/_/2005/12/fragrance_revie_9.html
Oh I missed you so much! :(( I don’t need no stinkin’ emoticons but I hope they work. :d
And so glad that my gravatar isn’t a zombie alligator thingy!
see, if we make them awful enough, everyone will go get a gravatar!
So glad the Posse is back!!!!
I considered the possibility of duct-taping the boys to one of the tractors (my teenager has been out of the house, and out of my hair, all day at her PE-class-camp thingy). However, my mother came to the rescue, and this week the boys are at Camp Nana. I may be certifiably insane by the end of the summer, trying to come up with things for them to do…
OH. And glad to see the Posse again. I did wonder… I mean, “FORBIDDEN” had me wanting to see behind the curtain.
doesn’t it always? : O
Pay NO attention to that man behind the curtain…
Daphne, darling,
Duct tape is really very vulgar, and never seen in superior sorts of places these days. The monde has moved on to painter’s tape. I shall send Dobby over with some post haste (House elves are so much less fuss, wouldn’t you say, than human help?)
Anyway, I found Palome Picasso EdT today in TJ Maxx. I was simply too thrilled. I see your post loud and clear, and hope all is well soon.
Madea, Countess Nonesuch.=))
Daphers darling so pleased to hear through you that all is not lost in Posse land. Along with about 5 thousand others I was feeling bereft. Fireworks are wonderful anytime – oooh that smell!
Oh fab and I’ve got my portrait back (ahem. I wish.) OK my gravatar.
Ok I’m back from checkin out the antique mall,
I thought I’d share what I found.
If anybody wants to jump in and comment about them feel free.
BTW I’m 34 and didn’t know my grandmothers and my own mama hates perfume so none of these are familier at all to my nose , not to mention , different eras in these fragrances, I have no idea but they smelled legit to me.
Strong, heady and used to grace someones’s dresser long ago..
Here’s what I came across –
Lucien Lelong Indiscret Cologne (in a huge bottle)
Chypre Ivel perfume
Versace Blonde Cologne
Paris Girl Narcissus
Rue de L’amour by Vivian
Janene eau de parfum
Radio Girl
1870 Borsari
Le No.1 Rallet
and I found a cute Chanel mini set with No.5,Coco, No.19,Allure,and No.22 I think?
Very nice but I’m not really a Chanel girl though I do like No.19.
ok my comp. is acting up but there you go, I wished somebody was there to search with me.. that was only one antique mall. There are alot of shops in my town. Be well everyone<3
Radio Girl sounds sort of cool. Indiscret is great if you don’t mind balsamic notes (veeeerrry iffy on me) – a real Woman Perfume.
And I’d bet somebody would take that Chanel set off your hands if you don’t have any use for it. Your antique shops are way better than mine.
Oh my gosh , thank you for saying something Mals. I was beginning to think – did I come across god awful fum or what ?
Nobody can say anything about these?
It had me wondering…
Radio Girl is in a tiny mini with a lil’ pic of what looks like a ol’ time flight attendent and yes Indiscret was hhhmmmm for lack of a better word – UHOH!
And I think that’s where all the rum went.
It smelled like Amaratto to me or worse.
Woman perfume indeed! I am woman , hear me rooooooooooooar!
I haven’t even gone all up and down my street yet so we’ll see tomorrow what will turn up, it’s supposed to rain AGAIN.
:P
And I couldn’t get the Chanel, it was 72 bucks and I want my Une Rose Chypree remember?
“As God as my witness, I’ll never smell anything again!”
until I have it.
Hurrah! This has positively warmed the cockles of my heart. And not just my cockles, it appears. I think I gotta go play with my attars… :”>
P.S. on a less smutty note, I’ve been having problems loading the page on my cell. It seems the Posse’s still forbidden403 in the mobile webs. :-s
hateful emoticons :-w
also am I really the only person who can emoticon any more?
=((
You are the Emoticon Mistress.
DUSAN THE ONE-EYED. You and Patty — forbidden. What is up with that?
Sorted!
<:-p
Well HelLO Daph, darling. SO nice to see you back. If you have a moment, could you please tell March that I have been sniffing my attars, too, and that I would like to give her a huge thank you for leading me to the Saffron (Oh. My. God.) but that she can have my Majmua, or Mejmua or whatever it is. And that I can’t tell her what it smells like to me or she won’t like it anymore…
Kisses!
poopy? And not in a good way? 3:-o
No, no. It begins with an R.
Retched? Runts? … roiboos? 8-| Didja dilute it 9 to 1 with some kind of oil, like jojoba? Because straight up it is some strong funk. I spilled some on myself and the kids refused to get in the car with me. 🙂
I very seldom comment, but I read this blog EVERY day. And, I missed it!!! I missed the review and the comments that followed.
So glad that you’re back!!
We’re thrilled to BE back! Seriously, our host blognapped us. [-(
I had visions of hair-tearing, which is what I do when confronted with glitches and geeks.
Welcome back!
Dang, that is one hair-tairing gravatar you have there!
Wot the he-yull iz that thang up there??? You have the most disturbing gravatar yet. I think you should win a sample or something…
Ha-ha, March! You and I both were stunned right back into our Old Verginnie accents at the same time on that one! I must have been typing just as you were posting.
In fact, I’m so stunned I plumb fergot how to spell Virginnie. I’m so stunned I’m misspelling words that don’t even exist.
I can’t believe I wrote “hair-tairing”
I SEE you! (Channeling the Lord of the Rings voice….)
:x
uh, that gravatar you’ve been stuck with makes me laugh so hard! What IS that? It’s like an alligator wearing a bag costume, with a brain on top?
That’s the hat she wears when driving with the top down.
Like, her blouse-top? Or her car-top?
Oh, nooo, not the emoticons!!!
I have retained my peculiar power over the emoticons.
**==
Look, I’m the emoticon whisperer.
I can see you here in Soho, too :x
BTW, speaking of July 4th, our fireworks are on Saturday, July 3. So if we played our cards right, we could see fireworks every night from June 29 to July 5!!
Yeah, we should coordinate. We could have a week of the fourth of july. **==
Hooray, the Posse’s back in the saddle!! Was having pretty severe withdrawal symptoms there for a while. Hope all is going well, March -er … Daphne. Everybody play nice (yes, even with the kids, too — remember, they’ll be picking your nursing home)… :)
Ah, life is getting back to, um normal :x
What did I do this time?
Welcome back, Daph-will March be available to play soon \:d/
Oh, I don’t know. Nothing much. I tend to assume it’s your fault. :*
If I’m still sane next week let’s get together. :o)
Sounds good-though not sure about that “sane” part.
Kin I please have some emos? I’m feeling quite dull w/out them.
(little clown face inserted here)
Daphne – I’m so glad that your were able to pick the lock and let us all in! Now, please free March and quit being mean to Patty and let her back in as well. Play nice… [-x
Ello’ Govahnah!
Yes we see you and we miss you.
God I realize how much I love PP and when I can’t see the page, it makes me feel lonely for you all.
I’m off to go check out the antigue malls and shops in my small town to see if I can score any lovely vintage jus <3
Come back to us full on soon!
In the meantime "Where has all the rum gone???????????"
Love, T
Well, the rum’s not in the Vamp. Just the rootbeer.
The rum is probably all in the Havana Vanille… which I have “hidden” sortanotreally in the Off Season Perfume Cabinet. Which smells really heavenly, which means something’s probably not capped tightly.
But I don’t care. Finding/fixing would mean the cabinet wouldn’t smell as nice.
persactly. If it’s leaking and you’re enjoying it, the perfume is performing as desired, yes?
hey, you guys. the posse site was totally down for two days, with a scary message that said something like “if you’re owner of this blog, please contact… ”
i’m an optimist, so i checked again today, and voila, here you are. hope the cyber-gremlins take a spaceship off the planet.
Well, then the site said “FORBIDDEN” which sounded sorta exotic.
Yep I thought I’d been phished by a p**n site or something….
I know summer can be stressful, Daphne, but listen to me…put down the duct tape! Big no-no.
Have the chauffeur wash the Bentley and tell him/her the children must be allowed to help!
Perhaps our independence is so awesome we need to spread out the celebrations–our 4th of July fireworks are on July 5th.
Srsly, nice to see a blog entry again vs. FORBIDDEN!
Hmmm-interesting gravatar…wonder what happened to my personal one! This one looks like some sort of high tech voodoo doll. Which might explain my knee pain today…..
And the emoticons? I have them but nobody else. Weird.
Or have the chauffeur duct tape the children to the roof of the Bentley
o-+o->o=>:o):(|)
Seriously, sweetie, watch the mani! That’s what the help is for~o)
Ruh-roh! Trouble in emoticon paradise…
Makes no sense at all, Carter.
I can see you too, both of your heads!
Umm…Daph – you need to let March out of the laundry room. Lord Geek is concerned. :d
Yes, ma’am, I can see you. Welcome back
I feel you, Darch, darling. Welcome back and step away from the duct tape.
WELCOME BAAAACCK PP!!! We missed you much!!! XOXO
Sweet to hear from you Daphne! How is your pretty little self? I was having terrible Posse Withdrawal Symptoms so thanks for coming to the rescue. :x
Hurray you are back!!
SOTD: Michael by Michael Kors…I knew it was going to be a helluva day at work…so I wore a helluva a fragrance…..
You know how it is Daphne, the day before you go on vacation you have to finish your old work and new work and leave everything in order so people can find things in your absence…but then again Daphne, Do you work? I mean really work, like the stressful, I need the money to pay my bills work? Oh, I forgot you’re an heiress. I want to be one of those!!!!
Coming through loud-n-clear in NH! Breathed a mighty sigh of relief once I saw that I was no longer forbidden to access the Posse!
Am pulling weeds today, a chore which naturally lends itself to CB I Am A Dandelion. Maybe we should all switch to a kick-a** sillage monster to fight off the terrible Glitch Monster. I’m thinking a flourishing overspritzing of Femme might do the trick…
DO IT! Femme is totally perfect for the job.
xo >-)
nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! No alien?!?! 😮
okay … now, I can see MY emoticons. I just did SHOCKED Guy. But your message is the typed characters.
Is that the way it appears on your screen?
If that makes any sense. In other words, to your eyes, are the only visible emoticons in my comments?
😕
We can see yours but we can’t see ours. You are the One and Only Mighty Quing at this point.
I’ll have to do a parfum.
I will call it I AM QUING.
Joe said he’d buy it.
It should have … tuberose. Black pepper…
Oakmoss, baybee.
Tuberose, black pepper, oakmoss, civet … ?
Halleluja! The Posse is *back*! Glad to se the site up and running again. . . Hope all the evil computer glitches get smoothed out, so the community can come back together. I’ve missed the posts and the commenters.
SOTD: FM Iris Poudre, my mom’s new purchase. . .I led her down the rabbit hole, and we split FM Parfum de Therese and Iris Poudre, each keeping 2 of our favorite, and trading the third. Be well.
and now I apparently can’t spell see :o
That’s okay I still can’t see what you spelled wrong.
I can see you, March .. umm .. Daphne! Hooray! Now if we can just Patty back on her own blog, life will be divine.
Okay, can I just say? Bless the guy’s heart who is fixing the blog, he called Nava and said, WHO IS THIS DAPHNE?!? He thought we’d been hacked.
Okay …. emoticon test. Three … two … one …
:d
HAHAHAH!!!!!! I AM STILL QUING!!!
<:-p @};- ^:)^ srsly, tho, why should I be able to make them and not youse guys? 😕
Well, that IS the question.