Curated

This is a post within a post so hang in there, okay?  It’s going to look a bit like Shameless Self-Promotion but actually it’s not – not really.  It’s more about ‘edutainment’.  Awhile back Patty and I were discussing how cool it would be to provide ‘curated educational sample packs’ on her and Lisa’s new [...]

Curated

Shame – Sex & Perfume

Hello to all of my lovely Posse peeps, lovers of all things smelly from cat pee to crypts through to  schwetty ass. How glad I am to have you! Most especially glad when I have had had close encounters with Those Who Do Not Understand as I did this week. Allow me to set the [...]

Shame – Sex & Perfume

Sweet things: Prada “Candy” and “Serendipitous” by Serendipity 3

“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 [...]

Sweet things: Prada “Candy” and “Serendipitous” by Serendipity 3

Your First Fragrance – A Guide to Raising them With the Right Smell (Ari)

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 [...]

Your First Fragrance – A Guide to Raising them With the Right Smell (Ari)

Serge Lutens Sarrasins (or An Indolic Mother’s Day)

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 [...]

Serge Lutens Sarrasins (or An Indolic Mother’s Day)