All That Green
Most guests who come to my Summer garden are gobsmacked by the ridiculous profusion of lilies, peonies and roses – and for good reason: I haz a LOT of them and the sight and smell is outrageous. But a select… Continue Reading
Timothy Han
This is the new-to-me house I mentioned last week. I had done one of these (bought all the samples from a new-to-me house) a month or so ago and the results were so meh and pedestrian that I didn’t bother… Continue Reading
Tilleul by Le Galion
Hey posse, Le Galion doesn’t get the love it deserves. Beautifully crafted, elegant, seamless fragrances that are so refined and balanced. It’s easy to miss how gorgeous they are in the rush for new and weird. I’m seriously surprised that… Continue Reading
Playing Dress-up For My New Life
The toughest part of packing for my upcoming move to Santa Fe, the part I kept putting off for weeks because of the enormity of it, the sheer complexity, was – nope, not my perfume. That was easy. I bought… Continue Reading
The ‘want’ monster
I’ve got a set of samples coming from a new-to-me house but they don’t arrive till Monday. So, we’re going down this rabbit hole today. I don’t need things. I whisper this to myself with some regularity. But the want… Continue Reading
Eau de Narcisse Bleu by Hermès
Hey Posse. Yes, this is another arrival in the same package as Kenzo Jungle and Guerlain Ginger Piccante. It seems I decided to buy some super summer spritzes as we head into winter down here in Oz. Well, it was… Continue Reading
Slumberhouse Sova
Are there ever brands that you must sort of miss, even though there is so much buzz around them? Yeah, me here with Slumberhouse. They seem to have disappeared maybe during the pandemic or for a while before that? Not… Continue Reading