For those of us who grew up in the 80′s it’s hard to describe the impact that Madonna had on our culture. She sashayed out of the post-punk East Village scene with (according to critics) thin writing skills and a thinner voice but with a pitch-perfect take on what 80′s youth wanted to listen to, [...]

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 them was a little over two years ago: for around two days is took me [...]

Well, I ran across a decant of this and was happy to see it.  I didn’t know why I hadn’t written about it. Then I tried it.  I love vetiver.  This is vetiver.  Why don’t I love it?  It’s a nice rooty vetiver with an interesting coffee note to it, and, well that’s about it. [...]

I think I am one of the six people who actually liked the first L’Eau.  I figured it was his “Oh, yeah” (Eau yeah?) to all those who complained that he was forever navel-gazing, forever giving us yet another variation on the woody-plummy-musky that we’d seen so many times before from him.  It’s a light [...]

As I’ve written before, I am rather resistant to By Kilian.  Kilian Hennessy is young, thin, broodingly handsome, talented and very wealthy.  This makes some of us who are rotund, poor and into the AARP years terribly jealous.  I’m sure that he’s most likely even a very nice person, which makes me even more wretched. [...]