http://perfumeposse.com Perfume Reviews from Around the World, as long as the Credit Card Holds out. Mon, 12 May 2008 03:40:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Okay, your assignment for next Monday – hey, why should I do all the work?!? No, seriously, I like to read your responses. So – the assignment, suggested by Maria last week (and with a nod to Now Smell This, who just did something similar on Friday): ... http://perfumeposse.com/2008/05/11/eye-candy/ I was unable to make it to the Sniffapalooza 2008 Spring Fling, but I did go on a sniffing expedition last week in New York City with a couple of lovely friends from makeupalley.com. One of the fragrances I was determined to sample was Guerlain’s Mitsouko, after reading and listening ... http://perfumeposse.com/2008/05/08/perfumes-some-suggestions-by-nava/     Join us in Chicago this fall for an incredible, decadent day of fragrance and the Universe’s favorite food: CHOCOLATE! Patty and March from Perfume Posse will be with us as we spritz, sniff and sample our way through some of Chicago’s finest fragrance departments and boutiques, with many stops to sample ... http://perfumeposse.com/2008/05/07/chi-cocoa-scentsation/   I dropped the Big Cheese off at the airport yesterday for his trip to Thailand, China -- and Burma. The devastation from Sunday’s cyclone (15,000 dead was the last count I read) changes his plans, but he’s not sure how yet. He has friends in Yangon, and the ... http://perfumeposse.com/2008/05/06/monsoon-season/ First, winners for the sample of Musc Nomade from Annick Goutal:  Vida, Dusan and Marina!  Just hit the contact us over on the left, get me your snail mail address, and the sample shall be yours!  You guys are always so super-helpful to me and everyone who reads us, so here ... http://perfumeposse.com/2008/05/05/perfumes-for-graduation-and-travel/   I think I have remarkably few bottles for a fragrance obsessive. I’m not going to name a number because (like sexual partners) no matter what I say, some of you would be horrified at the sheer wanton profligacy of my spending, while others of you would think, is ... http://perfumeposse.com/2008/05/04/more-things-to-dust/ (hi, folks -- here's a guest post by Nava, a regular reader and contributor at Perfume Critic and Makeupalley, and a commenter at the Posse as well as other scented and unscented blogs. She lives in New York with her husband and cat, and loves to be a ... http://perfumeposse.com/2008/05/01/my-serge-drawer-friday-guest-post/ A bottle of Annick Goutal's Musc Nomade just landed in my hands... and! Perfect.  Created by Isabelle Doyen with Camille Goutal, it has notes of white musks (muscone, angelica, ambrette), tonka bean, almond accents, labdanum, and Bombay wood (a papyrus derivative) *taken from Now Smell This. Some musks, like Frederic Malle Musc Ravageur, ... http://perfumeposse.com/2008/04/30/sweet-sweet-musk/ Anyone keeping an eye out for alarming signs indicating the coming of the End Times need look no further than my recent infatuation with some Jo Malone scents. I gave up on Jo Malone quite awhile ago, not too far into my fragrance addiction – somewhere after French Nectarine, ... http://perfumeposse.com/2008/04/29/jo-malone-wins-me-over/   First, I have a new photoblog, and you can find it here.    I took the photo above when we were in NYC, and Judith and I were resting our feet outside of Bendel's, sniffing the changes in Tom of Finland on our skin.  When we go to Europe the end ... http://perfumeposse.com/2008/04/28/yohji-pour-homme/