Cuir Intense by Guerlain Absolus Allegoria 2024

Heya Posse. Cuir Intense! Everything with cuir in it right now sounds like a coming of age gay sports series. Queer Intense: the story of two top performing college boys from opposing Universities that find love amongst the climbing/rowing/football/athletics gear.… Continue Reading

Stressbusters: Arpège

Well it’s been a few weeks. We have had a few things at work go wrong in ways that have had me seriously getting my inner Miranda Priestly on and one that made me almost get my Lucy Harbin on.… Continue Reading

Winter Blues

Posse!  Like pretty much everyone else in the Northern Hemisphere I am suffering from the Winter Blues.  Trying (and not doing too badly) to practice Gratitude – the weekend brought a fresh hit of snow, which I always find demoralizing … Continue Reading

Phantom Zone: Le Labo Violette 30

So, part of my StC order from last time included a le labo that I have never heard of (well, I never said I had encyclopedic knowledge of these.) Looking on the interwebs I found came out at the end… Continue Reading

Rouge Smoking EdP by BDK Parfums

Hiya Posse. Maybe you remember the bro-ha-ha when this perfume was released? The scentbloggosphere went ape shit crazy for it.  It’s been eight years since Rouge Smoking was released, there’s even an extrait version since then. The original EdPs heft… Continue Reading

Dearly Departed: SL De Profundis

Well I guess I will keep the Serge thing going here since one of my Surrender to Chance hauls contained a sample of this 2011 release. I wrote at the time that it gave me the same feeling as Serge… Continue Reading

A Walk

My darlings!  I’d planned to write a long, thoughtful post on Arpege – and I will – just not this week.   It’s been an… odd.. week, fraught with anxiety, which is bizarre because NOTHING ‘bad’ happened.  I think it just… Continue Reading