Dec 202011
 
 Posted by on December 20, 2011 99 Responses »
The Holly and the Ivy

By March This post is, eventually, about perfume.  Also it’s the usual March meander.  Consider yourselves warned. When you’re a kid, whatever your parents do probably seems normal.  I was raised in the Lutheran church, mostly because my mother didn’t drive and that was the closest church to our house, within walking distance.  Somewhere in [...]

Oct 192011
 
 Posted by on October 19, 2011 17 Responses »

First, winners of the de Profundis samples – MaureenC and Homura-chan.  Just click on the Contact Us over on the left, send me your address, remind me of what you’ve won. Make sure I give you a quick response so you know you didn’t drop into my spam filter thingie. I loved the discussion on [...]

Jun 212011
 
 Posted by on June 21, 2011 926 Responses »
Summer Swapmania!!!

Last fall we did Swapmania – our first perfume swap free-for-all on the Posse.  I’d wrung my hands for weeks prior, came up with eleventy-jillion rules, and figured maybe nine people would show up and play.  By the end of that weekend we had more than 1,200 comments, and for awhile people were having trouble [...]

May 242011
 
 Posted by on May 24, 2011 88 Responses »
Random Wednesday

by March Greetings, everyone — through the magical powers o’ the internets I am posting today, even though I am not … here.   However I’ll be along this afternoon to read your comments.  So you can either just say random things to me in comments, or you can answer the question I read elsewhere once [...]

May 032011
 
 Posted by on May 3, 2011 141 Responses »

March the Maleficent decrees… Today let’s talk about perfumista etiquette.  By this, I do not mean “perfume etiquette” – e.g., whether it’s polite to offgas Dior Poison at the opera, although frankly I find people slowly unwrapping cough drops and hard candies far more annoying in that situation (crinkle crinkle criiinklle).  No, I’m talking about [...]