“Are you finding everything you need?” The grocery clerk asked me with a look of concern.  I had my nose pressed up against a bag of cat litter.   “Oh yes, I’m fine” I replied. “Thank you.” I guess it did look a little weird, but anymore a person has to smell almost everything before buying [...]

By Ann A while back my son and I were watching “Gulliver’s Travels” on DVD. I know it’s been out for ages, but if you ever saw the trailer that ran for it, you may recall the scene where Jack Black’s character is a doll to a (giant) little girl and she sets him down [...]

This post is about the seemingly selfless tradition of buying a young girl her first perfume, but I must admit that my motivations for writing it were purely selfish: I don’t want to smell Pink Sugar anymore. I have been silently suffering at the hands of Pink Sugar-wearing tweens since its release in 2003, and [...]

Many people feel a compulsion to slow down and look as they drive by a car accident or fire. I do something similar with fragrance. I am addicted to indoles. Wow… I feel better now. I have a strange relationship with musky and indolic scents. I actually like the smell of skunk (have half of [...]

Caron Montaigne is not by any means, a teen or tween  scent. It is rich,heady and complex in the classic Caron tradition. The notes list as coriander, bitter orange, mimosa, jasmine, narcissus, Mysore sandalwood, vanilla and amber. All players, to my nose, are present and accounted for.  Though Caron lists this as a floriental, I [...]