Amouage Sunshine Review

Amouage Sunshine has me perplexed beyond belief.  I keep angling at writing this review for a month and then wind up scratching my head and the review and rethinking it. I don’t know whether it’s love or hate.   Musette… Continue Reading

Birthday Party Break

Hey, the day I’m writing this is my birthday, and I wound up taking a lot of the day off sorta sick and haven’t been quite feeling up to writing about perfume.  So let’s have a bit of a party.  Y’all… Continue Reading

Perfume Sample Fairy Godmother December 2014

    Hey, it is time again for the Perfume Sample Fairy Godmother for December 2014.     So here’s how Fairy Godmother works – this post will be open for the entire month of December 2014.   I’ll start a… Continue Reading

Winter Dry Skin Cure? Korean skin care?

Extremely dry skin in winter has been my horrible reality since I moved to Denver over two decades ago.  High and dry, no matter the increased creams, water, praying and cursing, always about January – sometimes earlier – my face… Continue Reading

The Book of Scented Things – a book of perfume poetry

The Book of Scented Things is one of those books that as soon as I read about it somewhere or another, I put it on pre-order at Amazon.  Jehanne Dubrow and Lindsay Lusby edited the poetry collection. First, they sent… Continue Reading

Bargain Gem – Les Couvent des Minimes Eau de Missions

Couvent des Minimes Eau des Mission Cologne is one of those bargain gems that I expect y’all to tell me about soonest. It was only after a couple of begging e-mails for Surrender to Chance to stock it that I looked… Continue Reading

Narciso Perfume 2014 by Narciso Rodriguez (New Release)

Narciso perfume released in September 2014, an update on the original For Her released in 2003.  Notes of gardenia, rose, musk, vetiver, and cedar.  Narciso said of his new creation “I wanted to create an extremely sexy fragrance that would turn… Continue Reading