Let’s Go To Bed

  Generally I wear scent to bed.  Sometimes it´s whatever I had on that day.  More likely, though, it´s something I´ve selected particularly to sleep in.  Note the word “sleep” – these are quiet scents, not scents designed to be… Continue Reading

Random Sunday: Tagged

  I keep getting tagged, which is when another blogger “tags” you and you´re supposed to write six things about yourself nobody knows and tag six other people and then do your laundry and invent a moon rocket, and …… Continue Reading

Top Ten of Fall

Yep, it’s that time again — Fall’s Top 10.   As usual we’re going to cheat it.  Here are some of the ways to welcome fall– Skanky – you knew we’d start here, didn’t you?  If you’ve been holding back because… Continue Reading

Tom Ford Italian Cypress & The Ten Party

Tom Ford Italian Cypress is big salty, earthy cypress.  It feels very masculine, but I think women who like strong wood scents will be quite taken with this.  I can’t find a list of notes on it, except it mentions wood resins… Continue Reading

Humiecki & Graef: Four Reviews

A fine perfume friend gifted me with a sample set of the new Humiecki & Graef fragrances, including the original Skarb, which was released last fall with the instant-fame-achieving news that it was a conceptualization of how men cry.  In… Continue Reading

Tom Ford Italian Cypress – not a review

Well, I’d like to say that I’ve done more than cursorily sniff the new Milan store Tom Ford exclusive, Italian Cypress, but I haven’t.  Just on the cursory sniff, it is very, very woody and cypressy, and it leans much… Continue Reading

More biehls

  I had a crushing perfume blow last week that I can´t quite bring myself to talk about yet, mostly because I´m embarrassed by how much it bothers me the way things didn´t quite work out.  So I, your trusty… Continue Reading