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?  Sporty, Seductive, Energizing and … [...]

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 ones in the Lancome [...]

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 weekend.  You know, I tried [...]

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 single iris-smelling thing he could [...]

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 what you won, and I’ll [...]