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 Facebook asking for my top [...]
Flankers and Phttt!
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 like the High Priestess of [...]
Made for a Man
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 for men!?” Uh … yeah, [...]
Malle-ku, redux
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. Well! And that’s just great. [...]
The Reformulation
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 musk in the base, back [...]




