Bah, power outage!  I had most of this post written, and then the power went out, and I lost it. Many of you who have read here for a while know that there is a note or two that my nose won’t read, it just translates to me as alcohol.  I believe it’s a musk [...]

Somewhere after the last stage of perfume obsession I talked about recently – resignation?  ennui? – comes another stage, apparently.  And the new stage is a funny one, because it seems to be: perfumes that smell beautiful. Smelling beautiful (or attractive, or, at minimum, non-repellant) might seem to be kind of self-obvious when selecting perfume, [...]

I know it´s only the beginning of June, but you´re all going to have to indulge me for a bit. My aunt´s air conditioning has been busted for the past week, and I´ve been schvitzing like a pudding at a picnic. Not that I wish I was buried under 5 feet of snow right now, [...]

Hey, we can just never have too much chatter about a new L’Artisan from Bertrand Duchafour.  I know March has talked about it twice, the most recently yesterday.  I could just shut up about it and say LOVELOVELOVELOVELOVEIT and have done with it, but I feel the need to talk about it just a little [...]

I had a different post contemplated for today, but since Patty announced a drawing yesterday for samples of the new, hotly-anticipated L’Artisan Nuit de Tubereuse, I thought I’d revisit it.  As you may remember, I got to try a dab from a private pre-release sample – a couple of drops on the skin – in [...]