Hi Posse! Last month in London I went out to Leighton Buzzard to see the Olfaction crew, Nick Gilbert and Pia Long. They very thoughtfully gave me some decants to go away and explore. When they released the Boujee Bougies candle range… Continue Reading
Well it was sort of a wasted weekend here at the Okay Corral- I kind of had to work and it was threatening rain so I ended up staying in and doing things that didn’t involve testing out the perfume… Continue Reading
My darling Posse, You know… for such a beautiful fruit (and gorgeous tree) lemons get a shockingly bad rap. ‘When life hands you lemons’ ‘_____ is a lemon’, etc, etc . I thought about the fruit/the rap/the smell when I… Continue Reading
… and something of a week. I’m writing this on the day. I almost never do that, but it’s been something of a week and I’ve chopped and changed what I wanted to write about several times. It’s been hot… Continue Reading
Hi there Perfumed Posse Peeps. You might remember not long ago I told you of buying some Maria Candida Gentile testers for a song in a run out sale. They were my January New Idea reward. Cinabre was one of… Continue Reading
So this weekend was Pride here in Los Angeles, and for the first time since Covid it was back in (almost) full force. Pride is celebrated (mostly) in West Hollywood, where they shut down a stretch of the boulevard for… Continue Reading
Everything seems to have burst into bloom here recently. I got to thinking about it – flower season is more condensed here, 6 – 8 weeks later in arriving than it was in D.C., so maybe that’s why it feels… Continue Reading