One Born Every Minute (Patty)

I’ve been a cosmetics/product sucker/whore since my first department store makeover.  I’m trying to remember exactly what that was. Lancome, I think, here in Denver maybe?  I was in my mid-20s.  I’m not sure how I managed to escape the… Continue Reading

Chantecaille – three new ones (Patty)

Chantecaille, maker of the seemingly discontinued, but maybe back (at a higher price point and for less fragrance?) Frangipane, has three new scents up for Fall 2010 – Kalimantan, Petales and Vetyver. They are showing as a pre-order at Neiman-Marcus,… Continue Reading

By Kilian Love and Tears (Patty)

There is definitely a Romance.Gone.Bad vibe to the By Kilians. After their foray into ouds this last year and an aphrodisiac (if you like your aphrodisiacs of the spice variety and not oyster’ish), they’ve returned to the “love” theme with… Continue Reading

Sex Pistols and India

I know I have turned into a Comments Loser. Not because I don’t wanna, but work/life/commitments just allow so little time on all the things I want to do, and something has to give. But I get e-mails with every… Continue Reading

Life’s Pincushion (Patty)

This is the week for everyone getting buried in life. I hope all of you are buried in your lives in the best ways – vacation, spending a few last lazy days of summer with your kids before school starts,… Continue Reading

King Tut – DSH perfumes (Patty)

King Tut exhibit is in Denver, has been for a month or two, and Dawn Spencer Hurwitz did a series of perfumes, based on scents that would have been around in that time period for the modern Egyptian man and… Continue Reading

The Different Company de Bachmakov (Patty)

BTW, someone asked how to tell who writes what posts just so they can have context, and we do have the little icons at the bottom, but I think it may be much easier to put the name at the… Continue Reading