Hooray for LA Scentsation!

  I am running around like a madwoman, trying to get the last-minute stuff done so I can hie off to LA!   I can’t wait to meet everybody!  We have such a fun day planned.  And it will be wonderful… Continue Reading

Parfums Retro Grand Cuir – debut at the LA Scentsation!

My darlings!  Can you believe it?  In just a few days I’ll be in LA for the (drum roll, please) I’m just TOO excited!  I’m sending all our unneeded rain out to the West Coast so we don’t get smoked… Continue Reading

Inner Strength by Aromatherapy Associates

The Posse is one of those wonderful places where a lot of people, myself included, feel comfortable baring some of our most personal challenges and sharing in a lot of our more personal joys.   This year started out in particularly… Continue Reading

POP! Best Aldehyde perfumes you might not know that well

We are having the weirdest Spring!  Yesterday it was warm enough to let our little baby chicks out for a minute (aren’t they cute?) ..today we’re all snugged inside, as it dips into the low 40s and needle-like rain lashes the… Continue Reading

Smelling of April and May – Scent Colors for Spring

It’s actually Spring in Central IL.  ‘Real’ Spring – rainy-cool, with some freakishly warm days in between for feverish planting and weeding and digging.  I’ve been doing a LOT of garden work lately – the unsexy kind, alas – repairing… Continue Reading

Laboratorio Olfattivo – a journey and a giveaway

Italian perfumery and I have a complicated relationship.  When it’s good it’s extremely fabulous (i Profumi di Firenze Ambra Grisea comes to mind) and when it’s not so good (for me) it gives me nightmares (Tuberosa d’Autunno).   There always seems… Continue Reading

I Won! I Won! I WON!

Well, I didn’t win.  But a couple of YOU did! Musette’s Musing’s :  Catherine the OOky Post :  Jennifer Counts Amouage Opus VII:  Feral Jasmine contact me at posseATperfumepossedotcom with your deets and I will get your stuff out to… Continue Reading