The Book of Scented Things – a book of perfume poetry

The Book of Scented Things is one of those books that as soon as I read about it somewhere or another, I put it on pre-order at Amazon.  Jehanne Dubrow and Lindsay Lusby edited the poetry collection. First, they sent… Continue Reading →

Tom Ford Shanghai Lily Review

Tom Ford introduced his new Atelier d’Orient series recently, and I’d like to talk about all of them, but I can’t get past Tom Ford Shanghai Lily. I am such a big old Lily ‘Ho, it’s not funny. You’d think… Continue Reading →

Neela Vermeire Ashoka – Perfume Review

Neela Vermeire Ashoka is coming this fall.  Neela graciously sent me a preview sample, and I’m pretty damn happy about it.  Bertrand Duchafour created this perfume for her, the inspiration is one of India’s greatest emperors.  Ashoka was on the… Continue Reading →

Amouage Fate Perfume Review

amouage fate perfume review

We will get to the Amouage Fate perfume review – Butfirst!  (practicing for Big Brother season)  We have winners from the last two posts. Winners of the Le Labo sample set – Violetesse, Ncmyers, Caroline and helical gnome. Winners of… Continue Reading →

Le Labo Perfume Review – Lys 41 and Le Labo Ylang 49

white floral perfume - le labo lys and le labo ylang

If it’s summer, the sun is bright, you are sweltering in the shade with your fresh-squeezed lemonade and vodka.  That means it’s big freaking white floral perfume season! Le Labo Lys 41 has notes of lily, jasmine, tuberose absolute, woods, Madagascar… Continue Reading →

L’Artisan Caligna, Diptyque eau Moheli and Olivier Durbano Heliotrope

I’ve got a weird conglomeration of scents this week, but I often struggle to find more than a paragraph to say about scents I really love, so I’m going to move back more to random testing.  Especially today – it’s… Continue Reading →

Smell Bent Latest Release + GIVEAWAY!!

Hey Hey POSSEEEEEE! Portia Turbo from AustralianPerfumeJunkies and super excited to be here today. Only a week away from leaving Sydney for LA to meet the POSSE in person for our SCENTSACTION Bus Tour of fragrant sniffing and mental madness.… Continue Reading →