Best Perfumes

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… Continue Reading

The Scent Haunting

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?  … Continue Reading

Random Sunday: More Makeup!

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… Continue Reading

Andy Tauer Drawing –

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… Continue Reading

The Must-Try

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… Continue Reading

Drawing Winners

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… Continue Reading

Perfume Holiday!

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… Continue Reading