The Attraction of Objects

I’m faffing with a sample but I’m not quite there yet – and I did perfume last week (yes, I know this is Perfume Posse) so we’re going elsewhere today. I am back to the orthodontist today. Early, yes. Next… Continue Reading

Soir dOrient by Sisley

Heya Posse! Soir dOrient by Sisley celebrates its 10th birthday in 2025. Though I never owned a bottle a friend wore it for a while, fabulously. It fit him so beautifully and I’d never dabbled much with Sisley at the… Continue Reading

Falling for Fall (cribbing from Musette)

Reading Musette’s post from yesterday brought it home that Fall is really here. As a matter of fact we are well on the way to winter. So I thought “Tom, you haven’t bored readers rigid with your stories in, like,… Continue Reading

Fall. In Love

Posse!  For as long as I can remember I have had a .. complicated relationship with Autumn (I prefer Autumn to Fall but Autumn. In Love … weird).  It’s always been a time of melancholy, heralding the onset of Winter… Continue Reading

Ormonde Jayne Montabaco Flor

I just have to crow a tiny bit: last night, I dreamt in French! First time. Only very short sentences (eg, ou est l’orange? to a little boy) but still in French. I started my course of study in March,… Continue Reading

Aube Rubis by Atelier des Ors

Hey there Posse Crew. Atelier des Ors is one of my favourite brands that I’m yet to purchase a full bottle of. There have been samples, decants aplenty and I want so many. The problem is choosing. A couple of… Continue Reading

ELdO Like This by Tilda Swinton

Patty reviewed this one back in the day and had perhaps the best opening line in the history of blogging: “Tilda Swinton and the people who brought you sperm perfume – together at long last.” I actually went to the… Continue Reading