Going Forward

By March We had a thread on here once about the stages of perfume addiction.  I think I was stuck in the pedal-to-the-floor phase for a looooong time.  I had to smell everything – just as soon as I read… Continue Reading

Simply Beautiful

Musette.  So you know it’s gonna be strange.   Back when I lived in civili uh, Chicago I would walk the 3 blocks to the Francisco Ave Stop on the Brown Line.  In the winter, that walk – just 3… Continue Reading

The skinny on solid perfume

By Ann When e-mailing recently with several perfume pals about a scent in solid perfume form, it got me thinking a bit more about it. Yes, those little pots, compacts, etc., are just so darned cute, and it’s wonderfully portable,… Continue Reading

Hopping Into the Way-Back Machine: Annick Goutal Musc Nomade

I know, I know. We’re supposed to be writing about new stuff. Well, It’s been kind of a busy week here in the hills of Beverly compounded by the return of my minor back problems.  The last time I had… Continue Reading

So.. what’s up with that new website thing, Patty? Surrender to Chance – Deconstructed

Hey, I’ll ask it so you polite friends don’t have to. Of course there is a story, there always is, but the story belongs to the three people who, until recently, comprised TPC, and it’s far more boring than some… Continue Reading

The Box of Possibilities

by March I have a box from a perfumista friend sitting on my desk.  I just checked the label; it’s been there for two months, unopened.  Why?  Because I like the idea of the possibilities that box contains.  It thrills… Continue Reading

Tales from the Crypt

Musette After those really freakish warm days we are back in Spring weather – Spring in the Midwest often carries with it this crackly-skritchy feeling, like you can’t be sure if you should go out without gloves and a hot… Continue Reading