No Joy in Mudville: Jean Patou Joy

Okay, so I said I would write about 4711 since some people on FacePlace asked (one of whom is one of my oldest friends who has the most dirt on me..) but none of the online retailers I checked could… Continue Reading →

Whatever happened to? … Jean Patou’s reissue of Vacances

Do any of you lovely Posse folks remember that sometime in the past several years they were to re-issue Jean Patou’s Vacances? I was thrilled to pieces to hear that when the news first broke, and tried to keep my… Continue Reading →

Happy for hyacinth Monday

First off, I hope all of you who celebrate it had a very happy Easter. I had a lovely holiday weekend, surrounded by spring favorites, and even better, springlike weather. The past few days have seen me up to my… Continue Reading →

Time-travel Monday: What would you wear? (and a birthday shout out)

This weekend, the Starz network launched its miniseries of Diana Gabaldon’s time-travel series “Outlander,” about a World War II nurse who falls through a circle of standing stones in Scotland and finds herself in the Highlands of the 1700s. Thus… Continue Reading →

Jean Patou Cocktail

Years ago, I bought on eBay a bunch of teensy little bottles of various Jean Patou scents. In my review at PST I wrote “this chypre apertif opens with a sparkle of citrus and lavender, every bit as crisp and… Continue Reading →

Layer?

by Musette, who is craving some chocolate layer cake.   I remember the first time.  I was in Saks, back in the Joy/Paris/Poison days….  Diane was helping me, as I considered a purchase of Joy (remember when it was The… Continue Reading →