Cartier L’Heure VIII Diaphane (Patty)

Let’s all settle in to unpack the new L’Heures, shall we?  Anita is going to be reviewing one soon, Fougueuse (horse and tea according to Denyse), so I picked the one that I liked the name the best.  Did I… 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

Top 10 Best Perfumes of Summer

Summer. Summersummersummer. You know what’s weird about summer?  It’s a horse of a totally different color, depending upon where you are and who you are (or used to be).  I spent the last 50o years of my life in an Urban… Continue Reading

Cartier L’Heure Promise

It wasn’t until Monday afternoon that I realized it was the first of March.  March always sneaks up on me.  This year January and February lasted approximately nine years.  But that FAIL post on Monday was fun, eh?    I think… Continue Reading

Candy FAIL

What’s it like to be a perfume blogger?  Sometimes it’s like this. Van Cleef & Arpels Cologne Noire.  I wonder sometimes whether a house, having released a line with two or three outstanding scents (Gardenia Petale, Bois d’Iris, and Muguet… Continue Reading

The Thirteenth Hour

If you are a girl, and you are not on top of your game just now – if you have, in fact, misplaced some of the game pieces, and the rules, and maybe even the damn box everything came in… Continue Reading

Cartier Les Heures – final three

Okay, I promise, no more deeply personal and downer posts for a while. Let’s finish up with the Cartier Les Heures.  I am very much relishing these as an artistic theme.  It allows me to overlay my own interpretation within… Continue Reading