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 →

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 →