New Iris Gris thingie?

Anyone else have this item come up in their eBay permanent searches for Iris Gris?  Oh, don’t be coy and try and tell me you don’t have eBay searches you get e-mailed every day for Djedi, Iris gris, vintage guerlain,… Continue Reading

Staring in the Sample Drawer

The worst days for me in writing are when no sample, perfume, idea, season jumps out at me and seems to want to be written about – there’s just this great big empty space where my brain used to be.… Continue Reading

Best Perfumes for a Wedding – What did the Bride Choose?

A very dear friend’s daughter is getting married this Saturday in New Orleans, and all she wanted was for me to help her find her Wedding Perfume. One bottle of champagne and several cupcakes later, she picked not one Wedding… Continue Reading

Animale!

The mind does show signs of going:   I was prowling through my perfumes, lingering over the Histoires de Parfums Tubereuse 3 Animale and thinking – Did I write a review on this?  And if I didn’t, why didn’t I?… Continue Reading

Daphnes and contrasts

Smelling Daphnes for the first time in May is the single greatest pleasure I have in my life that comes around reliably every year.  I got my first daphne right after my first son was born, when I was living… Continue Reading

My internets hates me

It’s one of those technical questions that seem to have no answer. When our website was going down last week, I tried to log onto it from two different computers, and they eventually sent me all sorts of error messages.… Continue Reading

Taking the Cure?

March issued her challenge last week – take the consumer cure, stop buying anything that was not an essential for one week.  I’m thinking, how hard can that be?  It’s seven days. I just write the stuff down I want… Continue Reading