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

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

Cartier Les Heures

Seems like I should leave a warning before I spiral off into something more personal, which I usually just avoid doing, but the part below isn’t a comfortable subject for lots of people, so feel free to skip down to… Continue Reading

Sweet, sweet musk

A bottle of Annick Goutal’s Musc Nomade just landed in my hands… and! Perfect.  Created by Isabelle Doyen with Camille Goutal, it has notes of white musks (muscone, angelica, ambrette), tonka bean, almond accents, labdanum, and Bombay wood (a papyrus… Continue Reading

Annick Goutal Les Orientalistes

French house Annick Goutal makes charming scents in charming bottles, the sorts of bottles you want to wrap up and give as gifts.Among the hardcore perfume fans, Hadrian, Duel and Sables are among the most popular, and even the hardest… Continue Reading