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