A recent article in the Kansas City Star claimed that a company called Epic-Scents has created fragrances for two video game heroes: Mega Man and Proto Man. I’d never heard of the video game characters but I was intrigued by… Continue Reading
I have never had a signature scent. I’m too greedy for that: there’s always something new to sniff-spray-covet-own, and I want it all! But my friend Lea is a serial perfume monogamist. She started off her adult life wearing… Continue Reading
This is not a perfume post. I’m too hot and cranky to think about perfume. (Please understand: I still wear it, I’m just not capable of thinking about it.) Fortunately, there are things I can do to change my cranky… Continue Reading
Back in 2007, on the kind of extremely hot Saturday that makes New York in May feel like the 5 boroughs of Hades, my best friend and I went on a hunt for adventure outside of Manhattan. Several million subway… Continue Reading
Summer struck my particular neck of northern New England this week, and with it came a predictable, corresponding craving for refreshing fragrances. Citrus-based scents are nicely crisp, and green fragrances can cut the heat, along with mint perfumes, if you… Continue Reading
Last week, Ann wrote about childhood memories in a (perfume) bottle, and I commented that CB I Hate Perfume’s 1966 At The Beach and Annick Goutal’s Eau de Camille were perfect distillations of my childhood summers. That wasn’t the… Continue Reading
We all know the story: Jo Malone sold her eponymous perfume company to Estee Lauder in 1999, stayed on as Creative Director till 2006, and then presumably sat out a non-compete clause for a few years before starting a… Continue Reading