Happy new year, everyone!  Thanks for making the Perfume Posse so much fun in 2010.  I’m out of town and we’re taking the weekend off.  I’ll see you Monday in 2011! image: wikimedia commons

Diorrissimo and J’Adore l’Absolu met, had a two-week fling in Tahiti on a bed of tuberose and nine months later Dior New Look 1947 sprung into the world as the fruit of their lusty floral loins.  The End. Octavian has a great history of 1947 fashion and perfumery.  In the book “Cutting for Stone” that [...]

by the Shivering Musette Is it true?  Is 2010 almost over?  I don’t even remember it starting!   But I do remember my favorite new fragrances from the past 12 months or so, that counts for something, right?  Alas, most of them were vintage finds, which misses the point of this kind of post…..but! there were [...]

Happy holidays, everybody – hope you’re well.  It’s snowing here as I type this, with the weather service predicting anything from one to ten inches, so … who knows.  We’re ready. I thought I’d steal borrow an idea from Now Smell This and have a holiday open thread – anything perfume-y you want to talk [...]

On this Christmas Eve, we’re sure everyone is running around like those proverbial chickens with their heads cut off, and the last thing on your mind is reading a perfume review. So, all the elves at the Posse decided to give you, dear readers, a Christmas present: some holiday memories from the vault. We hope [...]