Let’s Take a Trip to Olfactory NYC

The brand Olfactory NYC reached out to me recently to see if they could send me some of their stuff.  Mostly I say a polite no thanks to these offers, because mostly the offers don’t appeal to me. I’m not… Continue Reading

Fragrant Oddities

I promise, there’s a fragrance angle to this, so please read on…. In addition to fragrance and makeup I love nail polish, and I know some of you do, too.  There’s nothing like a pale, shimmery pink in the dead… Continue Reading

Three Nice Things

I have tried to write today’s post in multiple ways, on varying topics, over the course of several hours, and it’s not happening. Things are just… I give up.  Setting the bar low for tonight, I gave myself a goal… Continue Reading

Happy Hour Zoom Workshop June 5

Hi, March again.  Yesterday was fun, wasn’t it? While we stumble along, trying to figure out what the new normal is, or really any kind of normal at all, this invitation in this morning’s email caught my eye – a… Continue Reading

Love, Don’t Be Shy By Kilian

Okay, this is a bit of a meander. I was on some beauty website recently– nobody could accuse me of neglecting my trashy reading during the pandemic– when I discovered word had gotten out last summer about which fragrance Rihanna… Continue Reading

Perfumes in the Pink

Everything’s a mess right now, I know.  But it’s May, dammit, and even though we’ve had one of our coldest, wettest springs on record I was in the mood to think pink and pretty.  Let’s do this.  Fragrance-wise, what would… Continue Reading

Another Chance

Hi, everyone.  Thanks for joining me on today’s Another Chance post I announced a couple of weeks ago, wherein I (and, I hope, some of you) took a few days to try out a fragrance we’ve not given much attention… Continue Reading