Chanel Coco Noir didn’t have to be a great perfume. It didn’t even have to be a particularly good perfume. This could have been a totally average perfume, and I still would have bought it for that gorgeous black-and-gold bottle. But… Continue Reading
It happens to all of us sometime. We smell a fragrance we’ve been eagerly awaiting and then we’re bummed because it was nowhere near what we were expecting after reading the description, the notes, the hype, etc. So we walk… Continue Reading
Annick Goutal Heure Exquise is one of the perfumes that induced complete perfume mania in me, after years of dabbling. I’d read ecstatic comments about it on various blogs and forums, so I bought samples of both the EDT and EDP,… Continue Reading
oh, getcher mind out of the gutter! It wasn’t like that. I don’t smoke. And I don’t wear stripes. But I do walk the mean streets of Boul Mich every now and then… last week was the first… Continue Reading
My apologies to the 176 of you that did not win. The 10 of you that did, as a reminder, are getting a 2.5 ml sample of the Bottega Veneta and Balenciaga L’Essence, then smaller samples of Chanel Jersey, Prada… Continue Reading
OK, admit it: you got up at some ungodly hour last Friday morning to watch the royal wedding. I did, and I was glad. I watched Lady Diana Spencer marry Prince Charles 30 years ago, broken wrist and all (I’d… Continue Reading
After last week’s incense discussion veered off into oud territory, I remembered I had samples of the new Dior scents, and went straight for Leather Oud. I’ve always been partial to leather (Chanel Cuir de Russie, Fifi Chachnil, Parfum d’Empire… Continue Reading