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
Woo Hoo! Let’s see how my month went for June New Idea 2023. Gosh, I’m powering g through these samples and decants. It’s starting to really look like it’s making a difference. Extra space is a very good thing. It… Continue Reading
My darling Posse, You know… for such a beautiful fruit (and gorgeous tree) lemons get a shockingly bad rap. ‘When life hands you lemons’ ‘_____ is a lemon’, etc, etc . I thought about the fruit/the rap/the smell when I… Continue Reading
So this weekend was Pride here in Los Angeles, and for the first time since Covid it was back in (almost) full force. Pride is celebrated (mostly) in West Hollywood, where they shut down a stretch of the boulevard for… Continue Reading
Woo Hoo! Let’s see how my month went for May New Idea 2023. It’s amazing how many of these samples/decants became full bottles in the wardrobe. May was hard. I really couldn’t keep my focus and trying to empty some… Continue Reading
Well, I am going to steal from Musette (if you’re going to steal, steal from the best right?) so it’s a Holiday Yikes for me as well. I did have a box of samples show up from StC on Friday… Continue Reading
Looking through my stash the other day I happened across a couple of Miller Harris frags- a bottle of Fleurs de Sel I had secreted and one of L’Air du Rien I bought at a ridiculous markdown at, I think,… Continue Reading