Orange You Glad it’s Thanksgiving?

Well, I am glad and not just because of the four-day weekend (well not PRIMARILLY because of it. I do like getting four days off mind you. What I kind of don’t like are thanksgiving food. I don’t really like… Continue Reading →

Four More Etat Libre: Frustration, Experimentum Crucis, Yes I Do, & Attaquer le Soleil Marquis de Sade

Well I guess I am not immune to marketing after all. In my FacePlace feed the other day an ad for a new Etat Libre scent popped up. A woman’s high heel crushing a white bloom. Very Brian DePalma circa… Continue Reading →

Falling for Fall (cribbing from Musette)

Reading Musette’s post from yesterday brought it home that Fall is really here. As a matter of fact we are well on the way to winter. So I thought “Tom, you haven’t bored readers rigid with your stories in, like,… Continue Reading →

ELdO Like This by Tilda Swinton

Patty reviewed this one back in the day and had perhaps the best opening line in the history of blogging: “Tilda Swinton and the people who brought you sperm perfume – together at long last.” I actually went to the… Continue Reading →

Taming the Beast: Etat Libre d’Orange The Ghost in the Shell, You or Someone Like You, and Secretions Magnifiques

We recently had a discussion about Etat Libre d’Orange here and that sent me to Surrender to Chance to get a few samples. Etat Libre popped up around 2006 if I remember correctly and back in the day Patty sent… Continue Reading →

India and Nepal 2025 (Travel Perfumes)

Heya Crew, Jin and I are off again this week. I’ll be reading all your comments but might take a moment to reply in spotty Indian WiFi. This year Jin wanted to get back to India to see Ghats and… Continue Reading →

Hermès Twilly and an experiment

Well since both Portia and Cinnamon recently wrote about this who am I to break a pattern? Especially since I had some Nordy points and Nordstrom helpfully sells the small bottle. I’ve been hankering for it for a while and… Continue Reading →