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
Surrender to Chance
Quiet Good Taste: Caswell Massey Number Six, Newport, and Gardenia
Caswell Massey is one of those venerable purveyors that somehow always manage to fly under my radar. Of course I’ve heard of them and have even run across them in other people’s bathrooms but my shaving needs are rather prosaic-… 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
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
Copycat: Frederic Malle Un Fleur de Cassie
Just recently Cinnamon wrote about this one, as it happens to be Ina Garten’s signature scent, Now I love Ina and I love reading Cinnamon and it occurred to me that if I had smelled this one it was a… Continue Reading
Holiday Treats: Liz Zorn Blood Orange & Vetiver and Gardenia 63
Well we seem to be on a bit of roll here with some of the more hyper-niche perfumers being featured at the Posse and that’s a good thing. Liz Zorn is one that I was meaning to write about for… Continue Reading
I smell
Posse! How YOU doin’? Just so you know, this is a further riff on the ‘You Smell Good’ theme. I’m in the midst of the midway point of that bathroom renovation; Drywall Guy comes to sand tomorrow night!! I wish… Continue Reading