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People who aren’t “into” perfume tend to express surprise when they learn that I am. Sometimes I get the chance to tell them why perfume fascinates me, sometimes I don’t. So I thought I’d gather up my thoughts about it…

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Continue reading → Yes, But Why Do We LOVE Perfume?!

You don’t have to have given birth to know and understand the bond between mothers and their children. The same bond exists between fathers and children, grandparents and grandchildren, adoptive parents and adopted children, godparents and godchildren, and between pet…

Continue reading → Moms and Kids: If You’re Okay, I’m Okay

This may be perfume blasphemy and some may seek to revoke my perfumista license because of it, but I am not a big fan of scent strips in magazines. I rarely pop them open to sniff them. When I do,…

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Continue reading → Magazine Scent Strips: Love ‘Em or Hate ‘Em?

Carven Ma Griffe is the perfume I most closely associate with my mother. She wore it when I was a little girl. I’d sit in my parents’ bedroom while she was getting ready for a party and snuffle it up…

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Continue reading → Carven Ma Griffe: My Mom’s Perfume

Yes, that’s it. Deeper. Deeper. Breathe out. Breathe in. That’s good. Now relax your shoulders. That’s it. Good. Yes, yes, keep looking deeply into my eyes. You’re getting sleepy. Very sleepy. Your eyelids feel very heavy. Soon they will close….

Continue reading → Look Deeply Into My Eyes…

I love men. They are always good for a reaction, especially when it comes to things scented. Take my friend Joe, for example. Joe recently heard Gwyneth Paltrow tell a late-night-show host that she was wearing Youth-Dew. The host had…

Continue reading → A Man Reacts: Estée Lauder Youth-Dew

She is waiting for him. She is ready. She is certain that tonight he will not be able to resist her charms. She knows that tonight she will get from him everything she desires. Her part of the bargain? Negligible,…

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Continue reading → Maroussia Perfume: The Scent of a Woman (Only Real Women Need Apply)

What should you get mom for Mother’s Day? You might think my automatic response would be: perfume! But I’ve been thinking about it. And I think that unless you know which scent(s) your mom loves to wear, you could get…

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Continue reading → Should You Buy Perfume for Mother’s Day?

These may not be “true” jasmine vines (I believe they are Star or Confederate jasmine), but they are in bloom nearly everywhere you look around Houston - at least inside the loop. They look beautiful and smell even better, and…

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Years ago I had the thought that our love of perfume is an unconscious attempt to get ourselves back to The Garden. That the best perfumers can somehow slice open the veil and give us a sideways - now you…

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Continue reading → Une Fleur de Cassie: We’ve Got to Get Ourselves Back to The Garden

The Eastern Orthodox Christian Church not only tends to the soul, it engages the bodily senses - in worship and afterwards, at coffee hour - like no other. The eyes are treated to beautiful iconography, carvings, candlelight, gleaming brass and…

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• The gospel, with stadium seating It isn't the first time a church has held services inside a theater. We had one theater that went out of business that was bought by a church a couple of decades ago. ...we like coming to a place people are already coming to...Rev. Wright (who uses one theater for......

Continue reading → The Scents of Pascha: From Beeswax and Coffee to Chanel No. 22 Perfume

This year Eastern Orthodox Easter or Pascha came more than a month later than Western Easter. Why the difference? Pascha is a moveable feast scheduled according to a lunisolar calendar, and happens on the Sunday after both Passover AND the…

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• For Easter You may not be aware that Bob Dylan has written and performed many beautiful songs about God and salvation that are highly regarded today, years after he wrote them. They have been covered by many artists and performed by gospel choirs, though at one time he was criticized for them.......
• All I need to know I learned from the Easter Bunny I thought this was a cute forward. Karin All I need to know I learned from the Easter Bunny! Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Everyone needs a friend who is all ears. There's no such thing as too much candy. All work and no play can make......

Continue reading → Happy Easter! Yes, Easter!

For women, the answer may be, Yes! Brain research says smells have the strongest effect on women when they come through our left nostrils. This is likely because the left nostril is linked to the more emotional side of our…

Continue reading → When It Comes to Sniffing, Is Our Left Side the Best Side?

Having heard that Luca Turin considered Tommy Girl radiant and was giving it five stars in his new book, I wanted to sniff what all the fuss was about. I sprang for a bottle a few weeks ago, and have…

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Continue reading → “Normal” People Review Tommy Girl Perfume

These are the cells that live in the mucus in the back of your nose where they busily relay odor information to your brain. Any one of them can respond to many different odors. Thing is, these neurons only live…

Continue reading → Did You Know: The Body’s Olfactory Sensory Neurons are Constantly Dying

It seems the push to get dog owners to scoop zee poop is working. This is excellent news for those of us who are tired of stepping in doggie droppings. But it’s creating a new problem: what do cities do…

Continue reading → The Problem with Dog Poop (Other than the Obvious)

He’s not the best-looking Rolling Stone, but I find Keith Richards fascinating. Because he reads a lot, is forthright with his opinions, and has incredible personal style. And, of course, because he’s reputed to wear Guerlain Habit Rouge. The man…

Continue reading → More Reason to Love Keith Richards - He Doesn’t Know If His Clothes Stink

I love obviously perfumey perfumes. A scent like Le Parfum de Sonia Rykiel, which smells like a high-class parfumerie exploded onto a Parisian street, has my name written all over it. I adore all the classic Patous, Guerlains, Diors, and…

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Continue reading → Into the Garden with Perfume

Here is my attempt to capture my feelings about perfume. Hope it strikes a chord with you. mon parfum invisible mask it exalts the woman i am proclaims the woman i want to be lets me play the woman i…

Continue reading → A Perfume Poem for Perfume Lovers and Poetry Month

The Proustian rush of memories set loose by an odor is always unexpected. It can come at you from anywhere at anytime - like in your kitchen, while you’re doing chores. I was caught off-guard by a sudden flood of…

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Continue reading → Proustian Rush: Cheeseburgers, Perfume and Ruthie

I wrote in an earlier piece that perfumes are like lovers. They can also be like spirits. Sometimes even your own. Take Guerlain Jicky, for instance. The first time I smelled Jicky I was shocked. Not by the odor (though…

Continue reading → Guerlain Jicky: C’est Moi

Part Two begins with Yvette. Yvette is a dyed redhead with a drinking problem. One of those women who is well-preserved, well-groomed and permanently pickled. She’s always looking for someone to join her in a drink. She likes dark sweet…

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Continue reading → Michael Storer Perfume: An Individualist’s Impressions, Part Two

The six perfumes of Michael Storer, a veteran of the fashion industry turned perfumer, garner many raves from many scent lovers. Some have even called him a “genius” perfumer and found his scents to be “the most beautiful thing” they’ve…

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Continue reading → Michael Storer Perfume: An Individualist’s Impressions, Part One

If you’re lucky, you will breathe somewhere between 23,000 and 25,000 times today. You’ll take into your body approximately 238 cubic feet of air. What’s in that air depends on where and how you live, but chances are it will…

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Continue reading → The Real Perfume of Your Life

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous. - Aristotle And the stinky. If you’re a pet lover, you know certain pet-related odors can be downright stinky. Here are a few of my favorites. The litter box….

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Continue reading → TGIF: These are a Few of My Favorite Stinks

I love this story from the Washington Post for two reasons. One, these guys sound just like rabid perfume lover-hunters. They cross the globe looking in the most obscure places for their (vintage) holy grails. Seriously, if you substituted the…

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Continue reading → Vintage Ambrosia for Violet Lovers

There is a honky tonk cowboy. A tall, lean honky tonk cowboy who plays a mean honky tonk guitar and an even meaner rock guitar. He’s not exactly handsome. But he can shake and stir many a hormone cocktail. If…

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A woman in Corpus Christi, Texas was able to get away from her knife-wielding attacker by spraying him in the face with Elizabeth Arden Red Door. He had held her hostage in her car for over two hours, threatening to…

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Continue reading → Woman Escapes Attacker by Spraying Him with Perfume!

Found a fascinating article about the use of sniffer dogs and other scent-sensing devices in the security industry in today’s Guardian UK newspaper. What clues do your body’s scent signals give away? As the following quote shows, the latest technology…

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Continue reading → Sniffer Dogs: Keeping You Safe or Invading Your Privacy?

In fact, it’s a whole lot like Patti LaBelle’s amazing sleeves in this video, circa 1975 - frothy, fluffy fun. The Moulin Rouge video is more hard-core bump and grind, and really doesn’t fit the mood of the scent. Some…

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Continue reading → Can Can is More Like This Version of Lady Marmalade Than the One from Moulin Rouge

As a dedicated lover of fine French perfume, I feel I should hate Can Can. After all, it’s the fashion, among those who take their perfume seriously, to write off anything Paris Hilton (”that slutty, no-talent poseur”) does or makes….

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Photo courtesy of Presidential Perfume It seems April Cline, the woman behind Presidential Perfume (that’s her on the left), didn’t like any of my fragrant suggestions for the Presidential Spouses. Because now she’s making her own. Perfumes, that is, not…

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Continue reading → Presidential Spouses Get Perfumes

I don’t think I’ve ever been intimidated by a perfume before Un Lys. It’s not that it’s too strong - it has great presence but doesn’t smother. It’s not that it’s too sexy - it is sexy but in an…

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Continue reading → The Terrible Beauty: Serge Lutens Un Lys

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin: even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. - Matthew 6:28-29 The lily is the flower we most closely…

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Continue reading → Happy Easter, Darling Lily!

A couple of weeks ago, while in the cold, hard grip of a fever, I bought this perfume sample at Walgreens. I was there for a thermometer (Winnie the Pooh), tissues and other sundries to get me through what turned…

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Memory and Desire. A wonderful mix of perfume and poetry. Les Ateliers du Parfum. In French - thoughtful reviews and commentary about perfume and perfume-making materials. Marina’s Perfume Smellin’ Things. Perfume reviews with a unique cultural perspective. Always a satisfying…

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“The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent or the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, Spring would lose its…

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“Her perfume smelled like perfume, like all perfumes, but on her it seemed an almost natural odor.” Simone de Beauvoir The Mandarins Translated from the French by Leonard M. Friedman

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Continue reading → When Our Perfume is Just Right

The azaleas are in bloom here in Houston. I love how they can make even the most humble of abodes look like something out of a story book. Of all the colors, my favorites are the richly hued pinks and…

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Continue reading → The Intoxicating Scent of Azaleas

Peter Cat says, “For a little Luck o’ the Irish, remember to stop and smell the clover.”

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A very basic guide to buying perfume during the holidays - for those who don’t know much at all about perfume.

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Article about a favorite perfume shop shutting its doors. This place had so many hard-to-find and discontinued scents!

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Interview with April Cline, the woman who came up with the idea for Presidential Perfume.

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Continue reading → The Woman Behind the Presidential Perfumes