Perfume Posse

  By March Our mid-Atlantic summer has finally arrived with a vengeance.  It’s 98 degrees and humid, and I … could not be happier, really.  I’m a summer soul.  I don’t want to go run a marathon or anything, but sitting on the screened porch at night with some lemonade, The rest, please…

        Derring-Do by Ineke Sometimes you just want to smell nice.  On a warm day when you’re running around you might even want something fresh and light.  Rifling through the sample ‘ho pile I came across this little number by San Francisco-based perfumer Ineke.  It has bright The rest, please…

              Memorial Day   Have a wonderful weekend.  Take a moment to reflect.  Say ‘thank you’ to a veteran.   Theirs is a tremendous service.   Now a FUN perfume question:   What’s your perfume for the weekend? Mine is that intoxicating concoction of  Eau The rest, please…

  by Musette The notion of degrees of virginity has always mystified me – imo,  you either are or you aren’t although apparently I am Jurassic  on that one.  I get a giggle with olive oil descriptors, too, imagining that the olives in extra virgin olive oil aren’t even touched The rest, please…

Patty’s still swanning around Costa Rica, so today Musette and March are doing a joint “she said/she said” post about D’Orsay Etiquette Bleue. One of the conundrums in perfumista-ville is whether a classic “cologne” which might last 92 seconds on the skin (hey, it’s designed that way) is worth the The rest, please…

by March Greetings, everyone — through the magical powers o’ the internets I am posting today, even though I am not … here.   However I’ll be along this afternoon to read your comments.  So you can either just say random things to me in comments, or you can answer the The rest, please…

  by that barfly, Tom!   I think I’ve finally reached a tipping point.  Not in my desire to try new fragrances but in my acquisition of the samples.  I know I am a sample whore, as I have admitted on this blog and elsewhere.  But I am now running The rest, please…

Boy, that was a fast weekend, wasn’t it? It’s actually a holiday today here in Canada – Victoria Day – in honour of Queen Victoria’s birthday. It’s also a celebration of Queen Elizabeth’s birthday as well. Party on, folks! As promised, here is part 2 of my Esscentual Alchemy review. The rest, please…

Fair warning, Posse faithful, you’re stuck with me today and Monday. The lovely and talented Musette is away on business and I will be pinch hitting. Talk amongst yourselves. A few weeks ago, Amanda Feeley, the perfumer behind Esscentual Alchemy botanical perfumes, was kind enough to send me some samples of The rest, please…

Stepping off the plane today in Costa Rica, it smells like home. Not a home I ever had, but the one I always wanted – green, lush, ripe white florals, and the smell of rain. And more rain. And more rain. It’s the rainy season here, so that shouldn’t be The rest, please…

By March I had fun doing random candy samples the other day.  Here are some more, in order of personal dislike (worst to best), which I selected mostly by rummaging in my handbag, just for fun, to see what would turn up … Jimmy Choo – my most common perfume The rest, please…

by Tom     It rained overnight in LA, but this Sunday was clear, cool and windy.  So I wandered around sniffing things.  These weren’t full-on tests: I didn’t live with them or gave them more than one (moderately) discrete spray or dab so I’m calling these impressions rather than The rest, please…

by Moosette Aiiyy!  We are having That Midwest Weather Thing again.  Hummingbirds and margaritas one minute, Dorothy Gale and heavy socks the next.  (at this rate we will have sweet corn in September).  Dang (stomping back up the attic stairs to pull the hoodies back out).  I was all set The rest, please…

  A young ladypal of El O’s cub , visiting  our bathroom, came out exclaiming “OMG!  YOU WEAR FRACAS!  My AUNT WEARS FRACAS!!!”  (caps all hers, I swear).  She shrieked on to tell me how much she liked it, etc….so my Inner  Nerd went on Red Alert….and I opened up The rest, please…

Is it just me, or does it seem like we aren’t getting a lot of exciting new releases right now?  So I’m looking at a couple of flankers, thinking about reviewing them and just sighing out of boredom. It’s much more exciting to be planning what flowers are going in The rest, please…

By March I rooted around in the collection of vials and decants sitting near my computer, I haven’t done a random candy samples review in forever! Also:  I’m thinking we should do another Swapmania, in June, maybe?  I promise not to do it on a holiday weekend this time.  Would The rest, please…

by the gorgeous, tanned, toned TOM!   I am very happy with the area in which I live.  We have great weather without (mostly) histrionic highs or lows.  The lowest lows I’ve had here brought flurries to Bel-Air which were greeted with a rather childish joy by the city.  The The rest, please…

  Have y’all ever sat down to write something relatively simple, only to find yourself flailing around, with thoughts of lilacs (blooming!  Finally!) , sinus infections (OW!) and Very Fat Cardinals swirling around in your addled mind?  No?  Me neither (snort!).  Yah, sure… Anyhoo, while I was hoeing the vegetable The rest, please…

OK, admit it: you got up at some ungodly hour last Friday morning to watch the royal wedding. I did, and I was glad. I watched Lady Diana Spencer marry Prince Charles 30 years ago, broken wrist and all (I’d fallen off my bicycle 2 weeks earlier), with one of The rest, please…

These are just a couple of things that have been on my mind for years that I ponder over and over, but have never really quite wrapped my head around an explanation.  I’m hoping you  can help me or just add some of your own Perfume Puzzlements. Why do people The rest, please…

March the Maleficent decrees… Today let’s talk about perfumista etiquette.  By this, I do not mean “perfume etiquette” – e.g., whether it’s polite to offgas Dior Poison at the opera, although frankly I find people slowly unwrapping cough drops and hard candies far more annoying in that situation (crinkle crinkle criiinklle).  The rest, please…

Jennifer by Jennifer Aniston Review by  that  Heartless Man-Trap,  Tom Celebrity scents are for the most part, not to put too fine a point on it, crap.  Oh, there are ones that are wonderful: Miller Harris l’Air de Rien and Etat Libre Like This are exceptions but for every one The rest, please…

a big, smoochy HELLO! to our guest poster, Ann!   I live a pretty quiet life these days; there’s not much of a glamour quotient for this unemployed suburban mom. Nothing too exciting happens to me and my celeb sightings are practically nonexistent. (Except for that one time back in the early The rest, please…