Perfume Posse

by Nava My very first post here at the Posse was titled “My Serge Drawer”, and last year I wrote about how I’ve started dabbing on my Serges with abandon. The other day, Meggie, one of my dearest buds from my Makeup Alley days, tagged me in a note on The rest, please…

While I drum my fingers waiting for my Boxooooooses and the new Amouage Memoir, I pawed through my sample drawer to look at new releases and flankers that seemed interesting or should be interesting that I’ve ignored the last few months. Estee Lauder Sensuous  Noir – flanker. Estee Lauder is The rest, please…

By March It happened again last week.  There I was, idly perusing the bottles of men’s colognes on the counter in my local Bloomingdale’s, when the sales associate rushed at me with hands outstretched and a look of alarm on her face as she sang out, “You realize those are The rest, please…

Spendies! Scoot! Scurry! Hoi-polloi is in da house! Hope Fred likes the bag by Anita That’s right, punkins! Bradley Made It Happen.  The doors have been flung wide erm… ooched open a sliver to allow your Musette to slither in and sip a glass of something bubbly with M. Malle.  The rest, please…

By March It must be tedious to read a perfume review that winds up saying, well, of course, if you want the good stuff you need to have smelled it back in The Day.  You know — back before they ran out of cheap Mysore sandalwood or banned that particular The rest, please…

Message from a sick Musette: The Haiku winner is OrbWeaver! She came closest with 3 match-ups.   Scents (in order)  En Passant/Angelique/Bigarade (either)/Lys Mediterranee/Carnal Flower/French Lover/Fleur de Cassie. Get in touch. baby. And I’m out of sorts too. Insomnia due to restless legs = lower back nerve problems = whiplash The rest, please…

I am feeling very ambitious at this moment that I’ll get all five of these reviewed.  Ethiopian night (yesterday) at the newly vegetarian YMCA cafeteria has created some delicate problems that manifested all night.  In other words, I wound up skipping half a day of classes to recuperate. I am The rest, please…

By Anita (March sneaking in here — winner of the bottle of Tauer is Melauriga, I’ll email you, congratulations!  On to Anita’s post….) 6 October 2010: God willin’ and the creek don’t rise, Frederic Malle himself will be at the Chicago Barneys. Alas, he will not be available to the The rest, please…

In the survey last week, y’all wanted to hear about the new Monas since they were easier to get ahold of, so we’re going to cover those today, along with the new Diptyque, Eau Duelle. All of these are from Luckyscent, and you can get samples and full bottles there, The rest, please…

The only thing that makes me happier than a surprise package from Andy Tauer with a sample of his new scent is a surprise package with two new scents.  So today we’re having a Tauerfest, because he sent me their five-sample set.  Look at that image at left, it’s adorable, The rest, please…

by Nava I think everybody knows what a sucker I am for Donna Karan Cashmere Mist, so of course I’m going to try every flanker of the scent, including the newest one, Liquid Nude. Big surprise; I love it. I’ve never been a fan of wearing Cashmere Mist in warm The rest, please…

Using a random number generator to pick the comment number to win the Andy Tauer bottle, the winner is – Nancy C! Click on the Contact Us over on the left, send me your address, and tell me which flavor of bottle you would like, and I’ll forward that on The rest, please…

Awhile ago I blogged about how much I like Gucci Envy for Men, which features a lot of ginger, an unexpected (and for me, quite welcome) note in a scent.   Musette, in one of our chatty email exchanges recently, asked me what I actually wear when I’m not test-driving something The rest, please…

It’s right below this one.  It was invisible to some people on Friday — The Must-Have.  I think Patty’s away — if you CAN’T see what he’s written, leave a comment here and I’ll fiddle with it some more.  I might have to delete the image if there’s a problem The rest, please…

Best Perfumes On Wednesday, the Lovely Lady March led us merrily into the world of simulacra – the best perfumes you’d list as must-sniffs in terms of their representations of the real. And what great work you folks did in suggestions, recommendations and thoughts. I had this post planned before The rest, please…

By March It started out innocently enough.  Louise and I were at Bloomingdale’s, playing in makeup and conducting a thoughtful, nonbiased exploration of some of the newer scents.  By which I mean, we were mocking them.  That new Gucci Guilty?   Pffffffffffffffft.   Those four man-scents, the Ralph Lauren Big Pony Collection? The rest, please…

Hey, everyone!  The weather’s fine and fall-ish and you know what that means – it’s time for a Random Sunday makeup post! The fall makeup collections are out, and it’s been fun looking at all the palettes – lots of dramatic colors and burgundy and brown lippies out there, like The rest, please…

It’s always a pleasure when Andy Tauer has a new perfume, and he so generously offers to perfume blogs the chance for one of their readers to win a bottle. Hey, today’s that day!  He has two new perfumes coming out that are debuting in Florence at Pitti Fragranze this The rest, please…

By March When I was test-driving the new-ish Donna Karan Iris last week, I kept thinking about Serge Lutens’ Iris Silver Mist.  According to legend, when Maurice Roucel was creating ISM, Lutens kept nagging him for more iris, more iris until Roucel threw up his hands and put in every The rest, please…

I have a few winners from last week: First, for the manufacturer’s sample of the Le Metier Peau Vierge – maggiecat. The samples of Chantecailles three new fragrances – odonata9 and Junebug. Just click on the contact us over there on the let, send me your address and remind me The rest, please…

Happy Labor Day Weekend, for those of you who, uh, partake.  No, I don’t actually know why it’s a holiday today, which amuses me because I feel that’s so typically American of me.  But I’m enjoying it in the customary style, which means I got all bloated at a barbeque The rest, please…

by Nava Please consider yourselves warned: This is not a perfume post. It is the Friday before Labour Day weekend, so maybe many of you are not paying close attention anyway. If you are, please accept my apologies. (The names in this post have been changed in order to protect The rest, please…

I’ve been a cosmetics/product sucker/whore since my first department store makeover.  I’m trying to remember exactly what that was. Lancome, I think, here in Denver maybe?  I was in my mid-20s.  I’m not sure how I managed to escape the department store makeover for so long. I think they just The rest, please…