Patty White launched Perfume Posse in 2005, and we've been yapping on and on about perfume endlessly since.
The picture above is from our too short time in the Sahara. I’d like to say I’m a good photographer, but there’s no way the sun rising over golden sand dunes can produce anything but a beautiful picture. Okay, wow, deep breath. First, let’s get the winner for last week’s The rest, please…
By March I ate all the pumpkin pie. It’s time to get into the candy, isn’t it? After reading Joe’s beguiling review of L’Occitane’s new Immortelle de Corse EDP, I took a trip to the mall to smell it. Immortelle and honey are two of my fave fragrance notes. And The rest, please…
by Who Loves a Good Blade, Baby! ….I never liked the story of Madame Butterfly. It’s a beautiful opera and I understand the elemental idea and emotion but, given what type of emotion usually grips me, while everyone else is sniffling I’m sitting there, ruining my dental work The rest, please…
No, that’s not some kind of official-speak, as in “Hey, Joe, what’s your ETA to the next delivery stop?” It stands for Emergency Backup Perfume, and was coined by lovely Posse reader AnnieA on a post awhile back. I thought it a clever idea, and something a lot of us probably do The rest, please…
Hey, there are prizes to be picked up here, peeeepul! Come on down~ I’m still waiting to hear from Lilly on the New Girls. You have until 15 Dec, then I have to draw another name, darlin (winner originally announced 25 October) Mrs Honey? You won Cuir Fetiche! The rest, please…
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you, even those of you who don’t live in the U.S. and celebrate. So over the next few days, drop a comment, and I’ll do a drawing next week for a great sampler pack. I’ll do samples of all the things we found in The rest, please…
By March Neil Morris has a lot of fans in perfumista-ville. He tends to make big-boned scents with good lasting power and a certain retro vibe to them, and I mean that as a compliment. He also knows his way around a rose. While I’ve enjoyed several of his fragrances The rest, please…
Winner Alert: Cuir Fetich sample winner is……..Mrs Honey!!! drop a line at ‘contact us’ with your deets (and please remind us what you won). thanks! Unless you live on Jupiter and only get intermittent internet signal, you know that I am still having some issues with living at The rest, please…
I’m going to turn the tables a little on you today, dear Posse peeps, and put the ball in your court, so to speak. If you’ve won a sample or samples from us in the past year or so, would love to hear if you liked it (them) enough to get The rest, please…
I love several scents from the (I think) rather under-appreciated Parfumerie Generale. Indochine promises to rocket to the top of the list. Which is strange, since reading the description of “spicy, powdery woods” I would normally think either snooze or scrub. It opens with a perfect balance of pepper and The rest, please…
While I was doing last-minute research for the Cuir Fetiche post, I learned of the passing of Jean-Francois Laporte, the visionary behind Sisley, L’Artisan and Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier (MP&G) among others. His contribution to the perfume world is extensive and he will be sorely missed. I The rest, please…
By March First off, everyone – thanks for the many comments on last week’s mope-post of mine, on scents for mourning. I read them all, and there are some great stories and images there. My dad’s doing well, all things considered – he wound up with an incision from just The rest, please…
by Musette-with-a-Whip I adore leather. leather gloves. I have a glove collection to rival Imelda’s shoes, in all colors and types. Leather dresses. I wore a Harley-Davidson black leather evening gown with red leather opera gloves to a conservative charity event. It was weird The rest, please…
I’m having retro moments lately (notice I didn’t say “senior” moments), although I must confess to having had another birthday earlier this month which puts me that much closer to that designation. But I’m not going to complain, as it certainly beats the alternative. Anyway, I was getting ready for work one The rest, please…
On This Day – and Every Day: A Profound Thank You to all our Veterans and standing (and reserve) Service Men and Women. “Anita, you know how I feel about Diorling. However I don’t expect miracles anymore. The old house of Dior is part of the The rest, please…
Moroccan crud followed me to Spain or allergies or both. I’m still in bed this morning afte 11, having completely forgotten I had a post to write. Just woke up and feel better? My lungs were getting coughed up last night so I think if that’s not happening now, there The rest, please…
By March Last year Angela from Now Smell This and I visited the Cimetière du Montparnasse near the apartment where we were staying in Paris. Baudelaire’s one of the famous residents (not Jim Morrison) and we walked around awhile, studying the interesting sculptural markers, including deliriously wack ones done by Niki The rest, please…
This one’s going to be kind of brief, since I’m in the middle of volunteering on a School Board race that goes the vote as this post airs. I met with Brent Leonesio, the creator and nose for Smell Bent, and he showed me the scents that were coming up The rest, please…
by Musette the Anxious Since the ‘publish’ thingydoodle boogered up the schedule, we are going to continue this chat through Monday! I have been in a state of high anxiety for a LONG time – and most of it is my fault (well, being in a business-challenged state isn’t – The rest, please…
Hey!!! I miss you all. We are in Morrocco still. Spent three days in Marrakech, after one night in Casablanca. All of it was amazing and wonderful and magical. We had planned on staying in and around Marrakech all week, but changed plans and headed southish to whereever the hell The rest, please…
By March You know what’s cool? When you get an unexpected care package from a perfumista in a foreign country, full of great (and strange) chocolate thingies labeled in languages you don’t speak, including a box of what looks like chestnut dessert vermicelli. I’d put up a photo of the The rest, please…
