Wintery: Frederic Malle L’Eau d’Hiver

The other day on these pages l’Eau d’Hiver was mentioned and I was brutally forced to retrieve the small bottle I purchased at Barneys eons ago (when there was still a Barneys.) It was a 2003 release created by Jean-Claude… Continue Reading

Copycat: Liquides Imaginaire Abyssis, Ile Poupre, and Blanche Bete

Every once in a while I do actually come up with something on my very own to write about. This isn’t one of those times. Portia wrote about one of these a week or so ago and reading that review… Continue Reading

Uncut Gem

Possedarlings!!! No… I promise I’m not two (now three years behind).  I’ve actually tried Uncut Gem on and off since it was launched in 2022 – but it’s not until now that I’ve felt I could give it the attention… Continue Reading

Christmas Crazy: Serge Lutens Borneo 1834

I feel that everyone, after a period of virtue, has the right if not the duty to indulge in something silly. Not ruinously silly, like buying a boat, or even just super-silly, like that Keepall 55 Bandouliere I have been… Continue Reading

Winter Scents – Citrus

Possedarlings!  We’re (and by ‘we’re’ I mean I) in the midst of Bleak Midwinter – except it’s been a wild couple of days – I’m writing this on Friday (because tomorrow and Sunday are Plumbing Day!!!  Wheee!) and today, in… Continue Reading

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

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