Kilian, Kilian, Kilian. I try so hard to love you. I should love you. After all, I adore your fine-ass founder, Kilian Hennessy, and his insistence that “perfume is an art”. Yet you push me away with your perilous prices and your baffling naming scheme. (Literally four By Kilian perfumes contain the word “love” in [...]
Amber. We have such a complex, masochistic relationship. I love amber; I want to love amber more than I do, but the idea of smelling like a head shop is incredibly off-putting to me. Amber can be such a refined, decadent scent. It can just as easily, however, take on the smell of what I [...]
Okay, I was in Sephora in the Beverly Center. For some reason it was hitting the 80′s in LA this week and I was needing heavy AC and an Ice-Blended the size of a Buick. I decided to peruse the Mens aisle. I revisited one of my all-time favorites, Eau Sauvage. I think it’s been [...]
Eaudemoiselle de Givenchy is the kind of scent that makes me want to slap a bumper sticker on myself: My other perfume is a chypre!
by the ailin’ Musette This is going to be a quickie post becauuuuse….well, I have a Really Bad Toothache and all I want to do is go to bed and wait for the ibuprophen to kick in. Who knew one could hurt bad enough to actually look forward to going to the dentist??? Thursday [...]