I had every intention of getting out there this week to do a sniff…but by the time I thought I had time to do it, it’s now. And I got nothin’. I was even right across the street from Holt Renfrew on Monday, but I was heading to a meeting and didn’t have time to [...]
March the Maleficent decrees… Today let’s talk about perfumista etiquette. By this, I do not mean “perfume etiquette” – e.g., whether it’s polite to offgas Dior Poison at the opera, although frankly I find people slowly unwrapping cough drops and hard candies far more annoying in that situation (crinkle crinkle criiinklle). No, I’m talking about [...]
I took one perfume with me on my trip. It’s one I’ve been yapping about off and on for months, and that I keep putting on. Most of you can probably guess it, but I’ll give the person who guesses first what it is a sample of something else I’ll talk about – the Ann [...]
Hey, everyone, welcome to the Results of the Signature Scent Challenge – your chance to report on how wearing the same scent for a week worked out for you, or just to laugh and mock the rest of us. Let’s begin with a warm welcome for Tom (aka tmp00), a sweet, slyly funny guy who [...]
Also known as the not-used-often-enough “Let Patty buy it so you don’t have to” post. When we were at Barney’s in New York, sticking our noses deep in the Malle candles – Wait, can I just say that as much as I love the Santal Cardamome candle, it’s almost too rich for me. Not quite, [...]