By March I had fun doing random candy samples the other day. Here are some more, in order of personal dislike (worst to best), which I selected mostly by rummaging in my handbag, just for fun, to see what would turn up … Jimmy Choo – my most common perfume change-of-heart is when something I [...]
Housekeeping details – in the move to the new blog host on May 1-ish, we lost about 30 hours of blog posting, including Patty’s Winners post with all the great haircolor comments on there (which bums me out), and the tail end of the Dune comments and my responses. I haven’t given up entirely, but [...]
I’ve gotten several packages over the last week or two. Some of them … honestly, you people. Some of them put me to shame. I’ll mention in particular the two Patricia de Nicolai decants from Anonymous, who has never looked anything other than wildly chic in her entire life, as far as I know. So [...]
Let’s cruise some of the mainstream releases that I just haven’t gotten around to, since it seems like I’ve done mostly the niche releases recently. Yves Saint Laurent Elle has notes of cedar, litchi, peony, rose, freesia, vetiver, patchouli and pepper. I just have no words for the open except, well, yuck. It’s like bad bathroom spray [...]
Chandler Burr has trashed the new release Chloe in his reviews – in writing and in person - so when it showed up as a sample in a Sak’s order, I thought… well, let’s give it a whirl and see if I agree or not. The little sniff I had before was on paper, and that tells me [...]