Perfume Posse

BTW: DO NOT PANIC, POSSE! March and Patty have not left us (leaving me to torture you in perpetuity).  I’m just filling in here and there until they get their own stuff back on track.  School, work, LIFE.  You know.  That stuff can really cut into blog-time! They’ll be back The rest, please…

Chantecaille, maker of the seemingly discontinued, but maybe back (at a higher price point and for less fragrance?) Frangipane, has three new scents up for Fall 2010 – Kalimantan, Petales and Vetyver. They are showing as a pre-order at Neiman-Marcus, but no ship date yet. I know that Sylvie Chantecaille The rest, please…

By March Monday is the first day of the rest of my life – school is back in session, woo-hoo!  This afternoon (Sunday) we had the twins’ eighth birthday party.  It was 12 – 14 kids from the neighborhood, forced to stay outdoors in their bathing suits and armed with The rest, please…

So, I was in London on Monday and stopped by my favourite department store. I was daft enough to forget to smell the new l’Artisan vetiver, but I managed to get my schnozz to hover over much of the new stuff I’d been missing out on. And… you know… I’ve The rest, please…

There is definitely a Romance.Gone.Bad vibe to the By Kilians. After their foray into ouds this last year and an aphrodisiac (if you like your aphrodisiacs of the spice variety and not oyster’ish), they’ve returned to the “love” theme with Love and Tears. Calice Becker is the creator of this The rest, please…

By March I saw Inception the other night.  I know there’s been some discussion and confusion.  Well, I know exactly what happened: I lost eleven dollars and three hours of my life that I will never get back.  By the time we were at the interminable snow-fort/falling van scene, my The rest, please…

I know I have turned into a Comments Loser. Not because I don’t wanna, but work/life/commitments just allow so little time on all the things I want to do, and something has to give. But I get e-mails with every comment, and I read them all. My post last week The rest, please…

By Anita (hey there everyone — we’ll be putting our names up here so you know who’s posting) August in these parts – what a mess – even the kids have lost their zest for playing outside.  It’s  as if they are beginning to adjust their internal thermometers to Classroom The rest, please…

I just added a category named “Blame March”. I decided we needed one; this is all her fault. I’d been jonesing a sniff of DKNY Pure, and March beat me to it. So, I took it upon myself to locate some, and the verdict is…BAD. Sorry March, I know you The rest, please…

This is the week for everyone getting buried in life. I hope all of you are buried in your lives in the best ways – vacation, spending a few last lazy days of summer with your kids before school starts, drinking champagne by the pool or on a beach. I The rest, please…

The country cousins are in town and we are off Wednesday, I got us all tickets to the Lego monuments exhibition at the National Building Museum (which is a cool place to visit in its own right.)    I can’t wait to see the Lego St. Louis Arch and the rest The rest, please…

King Tut exhibit is in Denver, has been for a month or two, and Dawn Spencer Hurwitz did a series of perfumes, based on scents that would have been around in that time period for the modern Egyptian man and woman to paste on. If you’re thinking these would be The rest, please…

There’s good news – if you read on a bit, this is an actual perfume review! I signed up for a month of yoga at this studio I’ve been test-driving, after going five times in a ten-day unlimited-class special I purchased on a whim.  I don’t want to jinx it The rest, please…

OK, who else is sick of life being dictated by the freakin’ weather? Am I the only one who is exhausted by the fact that it is so ungodly humid outside that every morning for the past week, I’ve woken up with the most monumental of sinus headaches? I’ve been The rest, please…

BTW, someone asked how to tell who writes what posts just so they can have context, and we do have the little icons at the bottom, but I think it may be much easier to put the name at the top just for ease of knowing who is writing before The rest, please…

Howdy, everybody.  First off, let me just say how touched I was by all the comments on Monday.  (Desperately resisting urge to use humor to fend off emotional honesty/awkwardness.)  I’ve been feeling like I have been letting you down in some way I am not articulating well.  When I told The rest, please…

I don’t swing that way, but I would try for you or I’d find you gorgeous young men to keep you happy  if that’s your preference, I promise, especially if you would keep me in Eau Blanche de Iunx and then put it in my laundry detergent and shampoo, car The rest, please…

This is a post about how this is another post that is not about perfume. I’m laying my cards on the table here.  I’m not going to pretend that maybe you haven’t noticed yet that I’m running a little dry in the perfume department.  But since this is allegedly a The rest, please…

Vanity post, I’m afraid. If I could’ve been writing this on Friday evening, I would’ve had plenty to say, as I’m about to spend the day in London, sniffing all the latest scented whatnots and schlepping around for my other latest obsession – the spectacle of spectacles. I’m terribly tired The rest, please…

This will be short because it’s really late!  Had a fabulous meet-up with Anita and Shelley here in Chicago.  That over there on the left is the bag Anita and I visited at the Hermes store. The picture is crap, unfortunately, but it is the most gorgeous shade of green.  The rest, please…

I’m not ready to leave Santa Fe but that’s a good thing, right?   You should always leave the party before you’ve worn out your welcome.  That’s my motto. The girls came with me this time – Diva and Enigma, age 16 and 14ish.  They were only 6 and 4 when The rest, please…

It’s one of those moments/phases/times when I feel like I’m just waiting for the fabulous to drop in my lap.  I’ve sniffed some really good/great perfumes since the first of the year, but I’m waiting for one to wrap its fingers around my throat and squeeze until I beg for The rest, please…

Before we get this party started – the winner of the T6 and Cordovan Rose samples is Natalie.  Click on ‘contact us’, tell us what you won and where to send it. Mistress March is still eating enchanted burritos.  ‘Tizz I, Musette, come to torture you with a little tale: The rest, please…