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

Winter is here?

Well, it is for the rest of the USA if not the world (above the equator, naturally.) Were I still in NY or the Midwest this would entail pulling out winter clothes and winter scents, and on holidays like Thanksgiving… 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