Identical Cousins? Frederic Malle Heaven Can Wait and Guerlain L’Heure Bleue

Cinnamon wrote about this one earlier in the week– on her it was a total scrubber. Actually, being a kind person she wrote us to say that she was going to skip reviewing it because she basically had nothing nice… Continue Reading

Frederic Malle Synthetic Jungle, Le Parfum de Therese and Uncut Gem

Frederic Malle is a house that I do really like, as a matter of fact it is my second favorite of the houses formerly known as “niche” (you can’t be niche and owned by a giant corporation, which seems to… Continue Reading

Notes on hedonism and weil zibeline

Musette’s post yesterday about hedonism (in a double dose! That’s hedonism) was interesting and kind of coincided with the arrival of my latest foray into “Stuff that Tom has Never Sniffed” from Surrender to Chance: this time Zibeline, a 1928… Continue Reading

Wasting Quality Time and Skin Stuff

Well it was sort of a wasted weekend here at the Okay Corral- I kind of had to work and it was threatening rain so I ended up staying in and doing things that didn’t involve testing out the perfume… Continue Reading

Iris Eyes Again, Lutens Iris Silver Mist, Malle Iris Poudre & Jovan Tropical Iris

So, I had earlier written something like iris didn’t agree with me. I should have learned from life that I should never write that about practically anything because in some way I will inevitably run across some version of said… Continue Reading

Geranium Pour Moi

Pssst!  Posse! I haz a secret. I. Like. Men. :: crickets :: sigh.  y’all already knew?  oh.  okay. (LOL! it’s a good thing March is off to Away – this revelation would leave her… unmoved). Here’s the thing:  I like… Continue Reading

Sideman

Sideman: a supporting musician in a jazz band or rock group. Posse, does that sound like the magnificent Miles Davis to you?  I was all set for a cage match on that term (used in conjunction with an article on… Continue Reading