Ice, ice baby: Cool tea to beat the heat

I’ve had this post ready for a while now, but where I live, it’s been an unusually rainy and overcast summer and so we haven’t had the scorching temps that we usually have (my apologies to those of you who… Continue Reading

Red Roses EdC by Jo Malone 2001

Hey All You POSSE Peeps, Portia with you again from AustralianPerfumeJunkies. I know I know!! Many of you’ve probably tried it and own it or have moved on by now, well, I thought that seeing 2012-3 are quite a lot… Continue Reading

RAOK – tea style

  Okay.  This has nothing to do with the post but I have to share because we all need a giggle every now and then.  Probably everyone in the Western World has heard Carl Orff’s ‘O Fortuna’ from Carmina Burana. … Continue Reading

Jo Malone Wild Bluebell & changes in MDCI Promesse

I give up.  I was told that MDCI Promess de l’aube was reformulated, but I’m smelling the old version and the new one and can only pick up minor differences on the open and maybe a little less powderiness in… Continue Reading

May Candy

By March I rooted around in the collection of vials and decants sitting near my computer, I haven’t done a random candy samples review in forever! Also:  I’m thinking we should do another Swapmania, in June, maybe?  I promise not… Continue Reading

London Calling

It’s our last day in London, and we go home tomorrow, and I am sad and happy. At the end of every trip is the time when it is almost over and you think of all the things you have… Continue Reading

Apples and Oranges

Sorry this is late – I’m still getting the hang of things. <sigh>  Lord, I love a fruit.  I do.    I have run through nearly every lemon, lemon/lime concoction out there  and  I was Jo´s  Grapefruit gal back when you… Continue Reading