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Posse!  I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season! Whatchubeendoin’? I’ve been hitting the sales!  Not for ‘stuff’ – well… okay… ‘stuff’ but Stuff, Musette-Style!  I lost mah MIND and bought scads of paperwhites because they’re 50% off and we’re… Continue Reading

Let us proceed

Happy, and welcome to the, new year. 2025. It’s been raining – and uncharacteristically cold. However, we had a couple of days of brilliant sunshine and early frost which looked so completely otherworldly and gorgeous. I started this post on… Continue Reading

Decant Demolition 2025

Hey Hey Posse, You may remember in 2023 I tried to use up as many samples and decants as possible in the New Idea series. Though there was remarkable usage I hardly made a dent in the ridiculous amount of… Continue Reading

Happy New Year!

I am actually writing this before Christmas (on the 20th, to be exact) because in an uncharacteristic fit of competence I am not leaving things until the last minute. Not because I am jetting off to someplace for the holidays-… Continue Reading

In-betwixt

It’s that in-between time. My Christmas eve perfume was Caron Bellodgia. Classical and if you’re looking for it ever so slightly naughty. Xmas eve was doing not much bar figuring out how to vaguely organise Xmas day and finishing one… Continue Reading

Initio Oud for Greatness NEO 2024

Heya Posse! Strangely, for a brand that has become so famous and widespread over the last few years remarkably little has been written about it here on the Posse. Initio Parfums Prives is a Dubai based French brand whose first… Continue Reading

Merry, Merry: 3 by Sarah Horowitz Parfums

First of all since this is posting on the eve of Christmas and the day before Hanukkah and Kwanzaa I want to wish everyone a happy holiday, however you celebrate it, or don’t. This blog has certainly brightened up my… Continue Reading