Wintery: Frederic Malle L’Eau d’Hiver

The other day on these pages l’Eau d’Hiver was mentioned and I was brutally forced to retrieve the small bottle I purchased at Barneys eons ago (when there was still a Barneys.) It was a 2003 release created by Jean-Claude… Continue Reading

Copycat: Liquides Imaginaire Abyssis, Ile Poupre, and Blanche Bete

Every once in a while I do actually come up with something on my very own to write about. This isn’t one of those times. Portia wrote about one of these a week or so ago and reading that review… Continue Reading

Samples, I got Samples..

Well, my purchase at Uncle Serge didn’t qualify me for one of the nifty travel sprayers (and there was nothing at the site like SL-branded $20 nail files I could toss in to qualify) so I had to content myself… Continue Reading

Christmas Crazy: Serge Lutens Borneo 1834

I feel that everyone, after a period of virtue, has the right if not the duty to indulge in something silly. Not ruinously silly, like buying a boat, or even just super-silly, like that Keepall 55 Bandouliere I have been… Continue Reading

Oribe Cote d’Azur, Desertland and Valley of Flowers

  I am going to jump in here and briefly hijack this review to give you an update on the situation here in Los Angeles. The fires are not out yet, but the situation is far better than it was… Continue Reading

Quiet Good Taste: Caswell Massey Number Six, Newport, and Gardenia

Caswell Massey is one of those venerable purveyors that somehow always manage to fly under my radar. Of course I’ve heard of them and have even run across them in other people’s bathrooms but my shaving needs are rather prosaic-… Continue Reading