L’Artisan Traversée du Bosphore

I was sure – so very sure – that I would love Eau Duelle.  It had everything going for it, including Diptyque and the notes listed.  And yet I didn’t love it.  I wasn’t going to bother with L’Artisan Coeur… Continue Reading

Top 10 Best Perfumes of Summer

Summer. Summersummersummer. You know what’s weird about summer?  It’s a horse of a totally different color, depending upon where you are and who you are (or used to be).  I spent the last 50o years of my life in an Urban… Continue Reading

L’Artisan Nuit de Tubereuse, Revisited

I had a different post contemplated for today, but since Patty announced a drawing yesterday for samples of the new, hotly-anticipated L’Artisan Nuit de Tubereuse, I thought I’d revisit it.  As you may remember, I got to try a dab… Continue Reading

Tilda, IUNX, Costes 2 and L’A Tubereuse

Today’s post is a bit of a grab-bag. Angie bought The new Etat Libre d’Orange Tilda Swinton Like This in Paris and wore it beautifully, and Patty reviewed it last Thursday.  (Notes: mandarin, ginger, winter squash, jungle essence, everlasting flower,… Continue Reading

Who I Am Apparently Not

I hurt my finger and it’s hard to type (isn’t that pathetic?) so I’m going to just do this and not endlessly redraft obsess over typos.   Mea culpa.  Today is part perfume review and part nattering, please join in.… Continue Reading

L’Artisan Havana Vanille

This is a little bit of a meander through the new L’Artisan Havana Vanille as well as perfumedom´s vanilla fields (although not Vanilla Fields), so if vanilla scents don´t interest you, you might as well move on, nothing to see… Continue Reading

Dithering and Deferral

Do you put off buying things for no good reason other than you can? Or do you just buy on impulse? I used to be the total buy on impulse type, but slowly I´ve been a-changing and now, well, now,… Continue Reading