• Who We Are
  • Drop us a Note!
  • Best Perfumes – Comprehensive Guide by Perfume Note
Perfume Posse
Menu Close

Homebodies

What Next?

April 11, 2022March 32 Comments

Hey, everyone.  I was hoping this was going to be a post on a couple more fragrances – that was the plan! – but it didn’t pan out.  I’m going to have to figure out some higher-grade tree pollen defense… Continue Reading →

Perfume Love for Everyone!

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
  • Print
Cranky Old Bat, Homebodies, Not Perfume, travel

Basil, Biscuits and Biding My Time

January 17, 2022March 16 Comments

Each morning when the sun rises high enough over the mountains to hit the front of my house, I set my pots of rosemary and basil on the sill of my bedroom window.  Each evening I pull those sun-drenched pots… Continue Reading →

Perfume Love for Everyone!

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
  • Print
Art, Book review, CB I Hate Perfume, Food and Drink, Home, Homebodies, Not Perfume, Ramblings

New Year, New Snow

January 3, 2022March 24 Comments

January – greatest month of the year, amirite?!?!?  No?  Me neither.  Now starts the slog to spring, which … is even longer here in Santa Fe.  In Washington DC (which just had a big snowstorm), spring starts busting out its… Continue Reading →

Perfume Love for Everyone!

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
  • Print
Home, Home Fragrances & Candles, Homebodies, Not Perfume, Ramblings

Ooooooops!

December 21, 2021March 5 Comments

Hey everyone, there’s a LOT going on right now and I … just didn’t pull a post together.  I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday / winter break if that’s what you are doing … tonight is the longest night… Continue Reading →

Perfume Love for Everyone!

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
  • Print
Homebodies

Crafty Folks

December 6, 2021March 33 Comments

I’m not super-crafty and I’m always interested in / amazed by folks who can make things, including really complex things, and how they wound up there.  Did they watch a show about glass-blowing on TV and decide to heed an… Continue Reading →

Perfume Love for Everyone!

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
  • Print
Home, Homebodies, Knitting, Not Perfume, Ramblings

Small Blessings

November 22, 2021March 22 Comments

Years ago, after my split from he-who-shall-not-be-named, the kids and I got busy and established some new holiday traditions.  The kids (not unreasonably) hated our fancy, formal Thanksgiving, so I chucked it.  We had a sit-down family meeting – there… Continue Reading →

Perfume Love for Everyone!

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
  • Print
Home, Homebodies, Not Perfume

An Unexpected Gift

October 11, 2021March 39 Comments

So, this happened.  Her name is Coco and she’s nine years old and she’s a seven-pound bundle of fluff and enthusiasm. I didn’t want a dog.  More precisely, I didn’t want to want a dog.  I’m still mourning Lila, and… Continue Reading →

Perfume Love for Everyone!

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
  • Print
dogs, Homebodies

Post navigation

← Older Articles

We’re more than perfume and less than serious.

Surrender to Chance – Niche, Retro, Vintage, perfumes and cologne samples

Surrenderto Chance - perfume samples and decants

This is helpful too!


Where to Get Perfume Samples | Perfume 101 | Perfume 201 | Perfume Sample Decanting 101 |

E-mail me new Posts!

Join 2,922 other subscribers

Popular Posts

  • Off to Camp Patty!
    Off to Camp Patty!
  • Too hot for much
    Too hot for much
  • Best Lily of the Valley Perfume - Muguet Guide
    Best Lily of the Valley Perfume - Muguet Guide
  • Ebene Fume by Tom Ford
    Ebene Fume by Tom Ford
  • Where to get Perfume Samples
    Where to get Perfume Samples
  • Hermès Terre d’Hermès, Eau d’Hermès, and “The One In the Green Bottle”

    Well my inbox and facebook feed were bombarded over this past week with the notice that there was a new mens Hermès fragrance, available at Nordstrom, called H24. Despite the fact that there is a Norstrom right down the street… Continue Reading →...

  • Frederic Malle Promise

    Frederic Malle Promise is the latest release from the line.  Inspired by the Middle East market, like Night, but without that high of a price tag, it has notes of rose, apple, rose, pink pepper, rose, clove, rose, patchouli, rose,… Continue Reading →...

  • Iris Perfumes – Atelier des Ors Iris Fauve, Coolife Le Sixième and Armani/Prive Iris Celadon

    It’s iris day!  Three new iris releases or releasing soon – Atelier des Ors Iris Fauve, Coolife Le Sixième and Armani/Prive Iris Celadon.  Can there be any better day on the face of the earth than when three great iris perfumes… Continue Reading →...

  • Grab Bag of Samples Giveaway!

    Hey, it’s February!  That thing on the left, Cora, has had me a little busy the last week.  Yes, that is a bee sweater. She just had a bath and needed to be warmed! I had planned to review that… Continue Reading →...

  • Frederic Malle Perfume Comprehensive Guide

    Frederic Malle perfume has been around since slightly before 2000.  Founded on a philosophy of giving the perfumer a very broad idea of what they wanted, then letting the perfume create it.  Then, the almost always unseen, unknown perfumer got… Continue Reading →...

  • Serge Lutens Perfume Comprehensive Review

    Serge Lutens perfume has long been one of my favorite niche house perfumes.  Since they are one of the few that have been around a long time not yet sold to LVMH or Estee Lauder (yeah, I know Shiseido owns them,… Continue Reading →...

  • 10 Best Niche Perfume Lines (small) 2016 Nobody Knows About

    Finding the best niche perfume lines is tough if you aren’t following all the perfume blogs or Facebook fragrance groups.  The mainstream perfume industry has no problem making sure you know about their newest flanker – they spend millions (billions?)… Continue Reading →...

  • Frederic Malle Cologne Indelebile – orange blossom perfume

    Frederic Malle Cologne Indelebile and its soaring sunshiny scent reminds me of some other orange blossom perfume, but which one?  I scurried over to my oversized Orange Blossom Perfume post to get some ideas.  L’Artisan Seville is gorgeous and a little naughty,… Continue Reading →...

  • Iris Perfume – Comprehensive Guide to the Best Iris Perfumes

    We happily arrive at my favorite – iris perfume.   Now, the thing you have to understand about Iris Perfume or What the Underpants are Hiding, they can’t capture the bloom’s smell except through headspace technology, and even that is pretty… Continue Reading →...

  • Best Lily of the Valley Perfume – Muguet Guide

    Many, many years ago, when I first was paying attention to notes in perfume and had some awareness of lily of the valley as a note, my immediate hatred cemented.  I used to call it Satan’s Flower.  My, how things… Continue Reading →...

Browse reviews by topic

The Vault

Comments

  • Dina C. on Off to Camp Patty!
  • Dina C. on Off to Camp Patty!
  • alityke on Too hot for much
  • alityke on Off to Camp Patty!
  • cinnamon on Too hot for much

Multilingual Website

EnglishFrenchGermanItalianPortugueseRussianSpanish
© 2022 Perfume Posse. All rights reserved.
Fashionista by aThemes
>
 

Loading Comments...