Back to school blues (or bliss)?

(Author’s note: This post has run off and on around this time of year for a few years, and this time around, it’s as crazy as ever: back to school shopping, son’s first day as a high- school junior today… Continue Reading

Summer Rerun: Acqua di Parma Colonia

Sorry I have been so bad about posting; it’s still been crazy at work and this week I have a fiend visiting who’s dad had a stroke. So taking him out to dinner has taken precedence. I will be attending… Continue Reading

Areej Le Dore Siberian Musk Review

Areej Le Dore Siberian Musk

Listen, Perfume Skank and Smut lovers, this is for you!  Areej Le Dore Siberian Musk is a small brand with unusual distillation techniques using rare materials. They have gotten legal Siberian deer musk and put it into an amazing perfume.… Continue Reading

By Kilian Black Phantom

By Kilian Black Phantom Memento Mori

By Kilian Black Phantom (Memento Mori) is the most recent release from Kilian.  And it’s a fun one.  Notes of rum, sugar cane, dark chocolate, coffee, caramel, almond, heliotrope and sandalwood. Notes from the release “A ghostly pirate treasure-ship which… Continue Reading

Frederic Malle Superstitious Perfume Review

Frederic malle superstitious

Frederic Malle Superstitious was launched in 2017.  Created by Dominique Ropion with notes of jasmine, rose, peach, amber, incense, vetiver and patchouli.  Frederic Malle Superstitious was a collaboration with fashion designer Alber Elbaz (formerly of Lanvin).  I had been pretty antsy… Continue Reading

Goofing Off

Okay, so you are likely thinking that I am the laziest perfume reviewer in the West these days and your likely right. Work, and the work at work has been pretty ongoing, and most days lately I’ve been just hitting… Continue Reading

Iris Perfumes – Atelier des Ors Iris Fauve, Coolife Le Sixième and Armani/Prive Iris Celadon

Iris Perfumes

It’s iris day!  Three new iris releases or releasing soon – Atelier des Ors Iris Fauve, Coolife Le Sixième and Armani/Prive Iris Celadon.  Can there be any better day on the face of the earth than when three great iris perfumes… Continue Reading