By March Okay – unfinished biz first: 1) Please check in on your swaps from Swapmania, okay? Did you mail everything? If you are expecting a package you haven’t gotten, or still need to go mail something, please follow up. I did six (seven?) swaps plus some sample mailing and even I got confused. Let’s [...]
I was sure – so very sure – that I would love Eau Duelle. It had everything going for it, including Diptyque and the notes listed. And yet I didn’t love it. I wasn’t going to bother with L’Artisan Coeur de Vétiver Sacré because it’s … vetiver, right? Then I found out it wasn’t really [...]
By Anita Summer. Summersummersummer. You know what’s weird about summer? It’s a horse of a totally different color, depending upon where you are and who you are (or used to be). I spent the last 50o years of my life in an Urban environment and my summer fragrances reflected that. When I think about Agraria [...]
I had a different post contemplated for today, but since Patty announced a drawing yesterday for samples of the new, hotly-anticipated L’Artisan Nuit de Tubereuse, I thought I’d revisit it. As you may remember, I got to try a dab from a private pre-release sample – a couple of drops on the skin – in [...]
Today’s post is a bit of a grab-bag. Angie bought The new Etat Libre d’Orange Tilda Swinton Like This in Paris and wore it beautifully, and Patty reviewed it last Thursday. (Notes: mandarin, ginger, winter squash, jungle essence, everlasting flower, Moroccan neroli, Grasse rose, vetiver, heliotrope and musk.) I thought I’d put my two cents [...]