Happy Surprises of 2024

Hey Posse! Welcome to the future. We are now fully in 2025 but let’s please look back at some Happy Surprises of 2024. Most years I try and get to a Best Of but last year found me overwhelmed by… Continue Reading

Decant Demolition 2025

Hey Hey Posse, You may remember in 2023 I tried to use up as many samples and decants as possible in the New Idea series. Though there was remarkable usage I hardly made a dent in the ridiculous amount of… Continue Reading

Happy New Year!

I am actually writing this before Christmas (on the 20th, to be exact) because in an uncharacteristic fit of competence I am not leaving things until the last minute. Not because I am jetting off to someplace for the holidays-… Continue Reading

Merry, Merry: 3 by Sarah Horowitz Parfums

First of all since this is posting on the eve of Christmas and the day before Hanukkah and Kwanzaa I want to wish everyone a happy holiday, however you celebrate it, or don’t. This blog has certainly brightened up my… Continue Reading

Mainstream Designer Sniffing: Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs,

Hey POSSE! Last minute gifts? I know most of us don’t really get to the mainstream designer stuff anymore so I thought it might be good to know a couple that I was asked to buy for people. It makes… Continue Reading

A Random 3

So I am once again stealing from taking inspiration from my cohorts here on the Posse. Cinnamon wrote about the latest Victoria Beckham, which sent me off to Surrender to Chance to order. I also added two others, but for… Continue Reading

The Holidaze

Well, the holidays seem to be coming fast ‘n furious this year. I suppose because this year American Thanksgiving took place later in the month than usual (the last Thursday in November this time was the 28th), so there was… Continue Reading