Flora by Gucci: Magnolia + Tuberose

Hi there Perfume Posse Peeps. Gucci used to be a fashion house whose frags you’d look out for. They did great things in the 80s and when Tom Ford came along it was as if they could do no wrong.… Continue Reading

Dizzy Blonde

Literally.  Ugh.  I think this was a new med that I took twice that my doctor gave me. Dizzy is one of the side effects. it should be out of my system now, but I’m stiilllll dizzy.  Not majorly like… Continue Reading

Fleshpots. Curtains. Winners. No Toads.

Well…and we’re OFF! Let me start by telling you how much I enjoyed your comments to the Curtains post.  Especially you lunatics who suggested the curtains might be in the basement.  Freddy Krueger is in that basement, along with the toad… Continue Reading

Back- to- school blues (or bliss?)

(Author’s note: This post ran several years around this time, and this year it’s as crazy as ever: son’s first day as a high- school sophomore starting today, his 16th birthday this week, big project due at work, and I’m… Continue Reading

CREED Aventus for Her and a Giveaway

I’m done babbling about Santa Fe except to say the drive down from Denver was GLORIOUS!  I’d never been in that part of the country before, only having seen it from a plane to-ing and fro-ing from either coast.  Omgosh. … Continue Reading

Long Fragrance Names GRRRRR

Hi there Perfume Posse, I’m on a rant. Long Fragrance Names! Don’t they give you the pip? If the fragrance name takes longer to say that the joy in saying it then you can be quite sure I’m not buying it.… Continue Reading

Serge Lutens Veilleur de Nuit

Serge Lutens Veilleur de Nuit

Serge Lutens Veilleur de Nuit is the newest in the very upper end priced Section d’Or collection.  Notes include cacao, vetiver, civet, tuberose, dark chocolate, castoreum and musk.  You know, I sometimes can ignore these things or at least not care… Continue Reading