Little Miss Colombina's Perfume Collection

 

Perfume Review: Lostmarch Lann-Ael

Another Nor’easter have been raging over us, and it looks like we will have a very rainy Christmas and a sleety New Year. This is the kind of weather that makes my organism scream for a day off work, a comfy sofa, a warm blankie, a good book and a glass of red wine …but as none of these is an option this gloomy Monday, a comfort scent will have to suffice. My latest discovery in this category

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National Cinnamon Bun Day

Sometimes reading newsletters is highly educational. According to Demeter’s, since 1999, October 4th in Sweden has been celebrated as National Cinnamon Bun Day. I find that symbolic, as October 4th is also the birthday of Little Miss Colombina, who has once been, as they say, my bun in the oven. With that in mind, I think I will mark the occasion by buying Demeter Cinnamon Bun, which, I bet, the

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Mr Colombina and Little Miss Colombina Have a Sniffathon

Evening at Chez Colombina. Little Miss Colombina and Mr Colombina are emotionally blackmailed bribed into volunteer to test a random selection of perfumes.

Cadjmere by Parfumerie Generale

Little Miss Colombina: It’s fruity!
Mr Colombina: Not too strong. It’s a bit…fruity. We think it’s fruity.
Little Miss C: It’s goooorgeous!
Mr C: It’s pleasant.

Aoud Damascus by Montale

Little Miss C: I

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Little Miss Colomina’s Perfume Collection. Le Labo Ambrette 9

Ever since having discovered the luminous beauty of ambrette seed in Chanel No 18, I have been looking for other perfumes that feature a generous dose of this delicately-musky, vaguely fruity, slightly boozy note. Ambrette 9, created for Le Labo by Michel Almairac, is, as the name suggests, precisely that, a fragrance centered around ambrette seed. It is Le Labo’s offering for babies and their

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