A young ladypal of El O’s cub , visiting our bathroom, came out exclaiming “OMG! YOU WEAR FRACAS! My AUNT WEARS FRACAS!!!” (caps all hers, I swear). She shrieked on to tell me how much she liked it, etc….so my Inner Nerd went on Red Alert….and I opened up the Perfume Armoire. Stunned. We’d [...]
by Tom Serge Lutens Fleurs De Citronnier I’m most likely the last person in the world to review this scent, but when I was at Barneys the worlds nicest SA gave me a sample so here we are. Created in 2004 and done by Chris Sheldrake, Fleurs De Citronnier is likely the most wearable, least assaultive [...]
by March It’s been awhile since I annoyed readers with a quote from Perfumes: The Guide, so here’s one for today, regarding Serge Lutens, taken (and condensed) from Luca Turin’s review of El Attarine: I detect in many of the recent Lutens fragrances a growing impatience, a rising tone of voice, as if he felt [...]
by Musette When we were in our 20s (back in the Jefferson administration) my galpals and I fantasized about our married coworkers’ lives -a permanent partner for Chinese food and Friday Movies, sex every night, total validation on Valentine’s Day…and the cessation of the ignominy of the Blind Date. One by one, we entered [...]
Seriously? Bread, apricot and immortelle? Did Serge wake up one morning and think – “What notes could I put together to make Patty deliriously happy?” Well, I already have deliriously happy because my big, stinky double-bloom daffodils are opening in my indoor pots. When I was in Paris in January, a flower shop had pots [...]