Sniffage at Tysons Galleria

It all started off with my burning desire to eat just one more slice of mille crepes cake (yep, the same cake Anita put in my birthday post) from New York’s Lady M pop-up boutique before it disappeared from our… Continue Reading →

When Life Gives You Lilies

Walking home I caught the scent of lilies and stopped dead in my tracks.  They were stately Casablancas; I could smell them ten feet away.  I made a hard left, leaned over the iron fence into my neighbor’s garden, and… Continue Reading →

What About Tea?

I was on a trip last week.  My sense of smell was frustratingly wonky (plane travel? allergies? who knows) which I dealt with by ignoring it, mostly.  But I also tried sniffing some new, different things, on the theory that… Continue Reading →

Goutal and Glass Skin

Six months after surgery, my sense of smell continues to come back in fits and starts.  I’ll go through a day or three of quasi-anosmia, especially with perfume, and then suddenly – the scent is back, or at least most… Continue Reading →

The Fragrant Air Around Us

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/does-this-train-station-smell-like-grapefruit-how-the-air-around-us-suddenly-became-so-fragrant/2019/05/14/b70d429e-66d1-11e9-82ba-fcfeff232e8f_story.html?utm_term=.8c815e233b4b

Cloud of Protection

I’ve had a rough couple of weeks.  First there was the health scare involving one of my boys, which isn’t entirely resolved yet.  It was grim enough that my daughter flew home to join us bedside at the hospital, and… Continue Reading →

Smells Like April

Last week a gal who sits near me at work came back to my desk and said, giggling, “Jane’s perfume smells like an old lady.”  (Jane = not her real name.)  I set off immediately to investigate.  I like Jane… Continue Reading →