What to Wear… when you can wear anything

Posse, my darlings!  Time flies!   This Halloween, it’ll be 4 years since I got bounced from my horrible situation with El O.  FOUR YEARS!  And while there are a few things I miss (all related to business and/or handyman stuff… Continue Reading

So, souvenirs?

Another travel-related post. In one of my first posts about my early September wanderings I mentioned how hard it now is to find items specific to a place that aren’t available online/at home. March noted that she was generally pleased… Continue Reading

Perfume Presents

Heya Posse, March and I were chatting in the comments of my Boucheron Serpent Boheme post in August a little about how special Perfume Presents can be. Some things I would normally not even have tried due to perfume snobbery… Continue Reading

Futurcast: Futur by Robert Piguet

I have a long relationship with Robert Piguet (the house anyway) that dates back to my mother wearing Bandit, his groundbreaking and rather gender bending 1944 leather chypre. Bandit was the flip side of his 1948 Fracas, the most threatening… Continue Reading

Okay, It’s Remarkable

I remember my first encounter with Etat Libre d’Orange at Henri Bendel in New York, with a group of perfumistas, probably at a Sniffa.  Some of the names/scents were provocative, ridiculous, or obscene – Putain de Palaces, Encens et Bubblegum,… Continue Reading

Aspects of travel

Happy October. I’m having a bit of trouble getting my head round this. I love my house (particularly after it was refurbed several years ago). But, the vanity in the bathroom needs replacing. It was purchased during the first wave… Continue Reading

56th Birthday Week was FUN!

Heya Posse! What a splendid week of fun and celebration. Even though most if it was pretty small scale it was super satisfying. Quite a few of the people I care about managed to make the Birthday Lunch at our… Continue Reading