Perfume Sample Swap – Perfumista Etiquette

March the Maleficent decrees… Today let’s talk about perfumista etiquette.  By this, I do not mean “perfume etiquette” – e.g., whether it’s polite to offgas Dior Poison at the opera, although frankly I find people slowly unwrapping cough drops and hard… Continue Reading

As Faithful as I’ll Ever be? (Patty)

I took one perfume with me on my trip. It’s one I’ve been yapping about off and on for months, and that I keep putting on. Most of you can probably guess it, but I’ll give the person who guesses… Continue Reading

Signature Scent Challenge Results!

Hey, everyone, welcome to the Results of the Signature Scent Challenge – your chance to report on how wearing the same scent for a week worked out for you, or just to laugh and mock the rest of us.  Let’s… Continue Reading

Frederic Malle Red box thingie (Patty)

Also known as the not-used-often-enough “Let Patty buy it so you don’t have to” post. When we were at Barney’s in New York, sticking our noses deep in the Malle candles — Wait, can I just say that as much… Continue Reading

The Reformulation

By March It must be tedious to read a perfume review that winds up saying, well, of course, if you want the good stuff you need to have smelled it back in The Day.  You know — back before they… Continue Reading

Perfume Holiday!

Happy Labor Day Weekend, for those of you who, uh, partake.  No, I don’t actually know why it’s a holiday today, which amuses me because I feel that’s so typically American of me.  But I’m enjoying it in the customary… Continue Reading

Don’t Leave the House

by Nava Please consider yourselves warned: This is not a perfume post. It is the Friday before Labour Day weekend, so maybe many of you are not paying close attention anyway. If you are, please accept my apologies. (The names… Continue Reading