Musings, Winners, Giveaway, oh, my!

Hi, Posse!  It’s Musings Time, I’ve got winners, I’mo do a Giveaway!  Can you tell it’s SPRING?! So.  I. Haz. Questions. I work out.  Daily.  Strength Training. Flex Training.  All the Training.  Yet… One day in the garden and I… Continue Reading

Musings-adjacent. Ish.

Well, howdy!  It’s that time of Time, where I don’t have anything particularly pithy to say – and I certainly DO NOT have a perfume review.  I don’t really even have … musings… right now… though I guess these natterings… Continue Reading

Cold Spring

A few years ago we had a heat wave in April, just as the early Spring bulbs were coming up.  Within 2 days narcissus and tulips broke, bloomed and died.  Lilacs and magnolias budded out, bloomed and browned, almost in… Continue Reading

Luck running my way: Annick Goutal Heure Exquise, and a review of reviews

Annick Goutal Heure Exquise is one of the perfumes that induced complete perfume mania in  me, after years of dabbling. I’d read ecstatic comments about it on various blogs and forums, so I bought samples of both the EDT and EDP,… Continue Reading

New Iris Gris thingie?

Anyone else have this item come up in their eBay permanent searches for Iris Gris?  Oh, don’t be coy and try and tell me you don’t have eBay searches you get e-mailed every day for Djedi, Iris gris, vintage guerlain,… Continue Reading

Van Cleef & Arpels Collection Extraordinaire – Part 2

I got my hands on another sampler pack of the Van Cleef & Arpels Collection Extraordinaire perfumes, so we will have a draw today for two sets of samples of all six of the Van Cleef & Arpels Collection Extraordinare… Continue Reading

Prada Exclusives pure parfums

This is my last area of major lovage this week. Considering the huge price hike in perfumes in the last two years, the Prada exclusive parfums start to look almost reasonable at under 200 U.S. for 30 mls of parfum.… Continue Reading