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from Lee @ Perfume PosseThere I was, waxing lyrical somewhere or the other about how much I love the autumn, and here I am now, nursing a cold, watching the teeming rain through the sash window as it makes the giant oat grass bow down under its weight. Hello, weather gods! I meant autumn …
Read the rest here: Best of BritishPosse Scent Club - October, Part I
from Patty @ Perfume PosseWelcome to the newly minted Perfume Posse Scent Club. We hope you’ve gotten your samples and are ready to play along at home with all or part of these.
Part II will be on 10/15.
Our theme for this month was Gramma’s house or reality scents. These are scents that are …
Read the rest here: Posse Scent Club - October, Part IPanning for Gold
from March @ Perfume PosseI took a stumble through our local mega-mall recently, looking for something that didn’t bore me to tears, and buried in the dross were some gems. Join me.
First stop — Bloomingdale’s, where I was assisted by an SA who was informed but laughably unfriendly. Fortunately I keep …
Read the rest here: Panning for GoldAutumn Blues
from Bryan @ Perfume PosseI confess that I detest Fall. I mean come on…the trees are turning beautiful hues of red (my favorite color) only because they are starving themselves in preparation for frigid Winter. Lovely. The chill in the air that so many of my neighbors praise is only a …
Read the rest here: Autumn BluesTauer Perfumes Incense Duo
from March @ Perfume PosseI’ve been toying with Andy Tauer’s incense mods, Incense Extreme and Incense Rosé. I wrote him months ago, after Orris stole my heart, that I wished he’d do an incense fragrance. He said to me via email recently: “I remembered your earlier mail, about the frankincense, and basically you, …
Read the rest here: Tauer Perfumes Incense DuoFourplay: Lutens’ Bois Series
from March @ Perfume PosseAutumn approaches, and in celebration we’re inhaling two of the scents from the Serge Lutens oeuvre — Bois et Musc and Bois et Fruits, both scents from his Bois series, which also includes Orientale, Violette, Santal de Mysore, Chene and Sepia, all part of the Palais Royal non-export line. (March …
Read the rest here: Fourplay: Lutens’ Bois SeriesPerfume 201 DRAFT
from Patty @ Perfume Posse
Perfume 201
(This is a little bit of an unusual post. This is our DRAFT of Perfume 201. We wanted to post it out here for a day or two, let you experienced perfumistas see if you think a few more “must-sniffs” should go in these categories. We may not take …
Perfume 201
from Patty @ Perfume PossePerfume 201
Welcome to Perfume 201 - the intermediate/advanced list of suggestions for fragrances to smell, with input from our panel of experts (aka our blog commenters). You can tackle the fragrances on this list if you’ve done your basic course of Perfume 101, where we covered some perfume …
Read the rest here: Perfume 201Nancy’s Candy
from March @ Perfume PosseWinners of the Barbara Bui Le Parfum samples, drawn by Enigma’s hand: Divalino, Kuri and Sweetlife! Email me your address under Contact Us. I’ll also throw some random leftovers in your package, having decanted part into vials. Note: I am going to switch to glass atomizers, but …
Read the rest here: Nancy’s CandyGuerlain Spiritueuse & Pluie
from Patty @ Perfume Posse
There comes a day (or more than one) in your life where you realize what a fickle bitch you are, and my day came this week. There was a time that I admired the house of Guerlain, but many of their scents just weren’t me. Caron girl here through and through. Hey, …
Read the rest here: Guerlain Spiritueuse & PluieJoining the Cult
from March @ Perfume PosseWhither the cult fragrances? You know what I’m talking about. No? Let me refresh your memory. Not so long ago – when the Earth’s crust was still cooling and before the fragrance-industrial complex started releasing something like 800 scents a year – a new fragrance like Luctor …
Read the rest here: Joining the CultEmpirical Investigation
from Lee @ Perfume PosseOne of my aims in life is to keep Patty happy with smell pleasures, and my samples up for review today will be winging their way across the Atlantic as you read this - if I can dare to part with them, that is. Because, for these past five days, …
Read the rest here: Empirical InvestigationIntroducing the Posse Scent Club!
from Patty @ Perfume PosseReaders have the best ideas! Thanks to Anne, who suggested a Monthly Scent Club, we are going to start one, beginning in October.
Here’s how we hope to have it work. We will select 3-6 scents the month before and let you know what they are. If you have all of …
Read the rest here: Introducing the Posse Scent Club!Barbara Bui Le Parfum
from March @ Perfume PosseLouise and I went sniffing at Nancy/Fishbone’s (from the Perfumed Court, and thanks again, Nancy!). It turns out she lives really close to me. Sniffing around a great collection with a couple of perfume pals is pretty much my idea of a perfect afternoon. Actually, …
Read the rest here: Barbara Bui Le ParfumParfumerie Generale Night Bird
from Patty @ Perfume PosseParfumerie Generale L’Oiseau de Nuit (Night Bird) is one of those irritating little treasures Pierre cooks up in his basement because he’s bored one night or because some overly enriched Eurotrash wants their own perfume, then it either doesn’t release outside of Paris or hides under all those numbers in the …
Read the rest here: Parfumerie Generale Night BirdChanel Les Exclusifs, Reconsidered
from March @ Perfume PosseMy post last week on Chanel No. 5 Eau Premiere got me meditating on Chanel’s Les Exclusifs, released earlier this year. I need to make a confession, because it’s something I do all the time with fragrances, and it drives me nuts. Remember when Les Exclusifs came out? …
Read the rest here: Chanel Les Exclusifs, ReconsideredFourplay: Perfect Night
from March @ Perfume PosseIn the spirit of, uh, obscene goofiness, we’re doing something a little different this week. Today’s featured fragrance is Bella Bellissima’s Perfect Night, which Lee and Louise discovered on their London sniffage. Here’s the blurb on the back of the fragrance box:
“Dancing in the moonlight under an endless sea of …
Guess Who’s Going to Paris
from Patty @ Perfume Posse
That’s right…. ME!!!! I am so jacked, I can’t even concentrate enough to do a review. A friend and I are going late October into early November. Not the best time for weather, but I far prefer bundling up and walking than wanting to walk naked, which with my aged, menopausal …
Read the rest here: Guess Who’s Going to ParisHermes Caleche Fleurs de Mediterranee
from March @ Perfume Posse
Here’s a more or less verbatim exchange I had with an SA at Neiman Marcus on Saturday as I approached the fragrance area during one of their chaotic sales.
SA: “Hello, would you like to try the new Cartier Delices?” (sprays strip, smiles, waves it at me).
Me: “No, thanks, …
Winner from Last Week
from Patty @ Perfume PosseJenniferR is the winner of last week’s drawing for the JAR sample set. Just hit the Contact Us Button over there on the left, and I’ll send you off your sample set! You can hate me later if you wind up loving some of them.
I had high hopes for NEW …
Read the rest here: Winner from Last WeekChanel No. 5 Eau Premiere
from March @ Perfume PosseWhen I took my thirteen-year-old into Saks with me to explore the Chanels, the first thing she said when she smelled Chanel No. 5 was, “it smells like rich people.” I thought that remark was apt in two ways – No. 5 instantly conjures the old-guard moneyed classes. …
Read the rest here: Chanel No. 5 Eau PremiereUndercover perfumisto
from Lee @ Perfume PosseI’ve gendered that silly word above, but feel somehow it’s still not right. Oh well.
I started a new job last week. For thirteen years, I’ve been at the chalkface / whiteboard / interactive digital medium, facing pupils / students / a learning focused (ha!) client base. Now, instead, I’m working …
Read the rest here: Undercover perfumistoSniffing in Kansas
from Patty @ Perfume PosseWe’re in Kansas sniffing with Kelly, Shirley, Rhonda (who came in late) and Alana (the foreign exchange student from the Ukraine staying with Kelly, and I’m guessing at the spelling of her name, mayb Ellena?), and this is always a riot, so off we go!
Worth Courtesan — Let’s come back to …
Read the rest here: Sniffing in KansasHappy Labor Day!
from March @ Perfume PosseFive years ago I was pregnant with twins. It was August in Washington. How big was I? I’d been so big for so long I scarcely noticed anymore when people gasped and stepped back from me like they were worried I was going to give birth (or …
Read the rest here: Happy Labor Day!Have a Great Weekend and a winner
from Patty @ Perfume PosseWe are off to Kansas to play with the prairie dogs and rattlesnakes in the wheatfields while the tornadoes, wicked witches and cowboys gallivant past.
I’ve had the request to pack up a suitcase of perfumes for my sister and Kelly to sniff, and I have. It’s so difficult to know what to …
Read the rest here: Have a Great Weekend and a winnerLabor Day Roundup
from March @ Perfume PosseThis is going to be a brief post, because we’re heading into Labor Day Weekend, and yesterday I got my XXL September Vogue in the mail (squeeeee!!!) and I’ll be busy propping that up in my lap for perusal for the next few days. I read online that it …
Read the rest here: Labor Day RoundupFourplay: Montale
from March @ Perfume PosseFor today’s group experience we’re reviewing two scents from Montale, a company with a pretty extensive inventory — Basenotes lists 36 fragrances, a lot for a company that’s been in business since 2001. Montale’s fragrances are considered unisex by the company. How did your Posse pals feel about Montale Aoud …
Read the rest here: Fourplay: MontaleParfums de Nicolai
from Patty @ Perfume PosseAs promised, I’m reviewing a couple of Parfums de Nicolai today, a perfume house truly deserving of more love. I’m getting a little distracted by the Montale Cuir d’Arabie thing sitting over on a corner of my hand, but I’ll just keep ignoring that bit of… well, more on Wednesday …
Read the rest here: Parfums de NicolaiIncensed
from March @ Perfume PosseI’m supposed to be reviewing Elternhaus’ Moslbuddjewthing today, the scent which according to their website is “directed against limited partisan political and religious thinking, which always produces violence. For this reason, the Elternhaus perfume object may be understood politically, but if it had to be categorized, it would be, …
Read the rest here: IncensedWhere Have I Gone Wrong Lately and a Winner or two!!
from Patty @ Perfume PosseIt is good from time to time to take stock of perfumes that I have trashed with glee in the past that I now love or at least like a lot — excellent tonic for humility, that.
Chief among them this month is Annick Goutal Eau du Fier, with notes of bitter orange, …
Fuzzy Candy
from March @ Perfume PosseI had my eyes dilated today and I can’t see anything. Let’s test my touch typing skills! In keeping with my semi-blindness, here are blurry impressions of some of the fragrances I have sniffed recently, most of which did not leave me breathless.
The new Fendi Palazzo – the …
Generous with the Samples
from Lee @ Perfume PosseBefore I get onto today’s topic, please tell me why I am so suddenly craving a sniff of the new Parfum d’Empire scents? - especially the horsey one and the Bengal Fougere… Oh yeah, baby! They’re not out yet (September sometime I think), yet I GODDAM NEED ‘EM TO BE, …
Read the rest here: Generous with the SamplesTwo Chanel No. 5s
from Patty @ Perfume PosseChanel recently released an updated version of Chanel No. 5 — Chanel No. 5 Eau Premiere. Wow, who thought they’d do that? Some classics should not be messed with, so I approached this one with much skepticism. So let’s compare and see how they did.
Chanel No. 5 has notes of …
Read the rest here: Two Chanel No. 5sHow Sweet!
from March @ Perfume PosseToday I was all set to do a biased, judgmental screed on Elternhaus’ InsertAllReligionsHere (MoslBuddJewChristetc.), having prayed to all the appropriate deities that I would hate it. Because if I loved it, I’d have to throw myself in front of a bus. That’s how I feel about their …
Read the rest here: How Sweet!Family snaps and a couple of reviews
from Patty @ Perfume PosseHere’s the family! Photo on the right — Alex is on the left, then Warren (wonderful husband, in his Tilly hat, which he always has) me, then my youngest son, Harry.
The photo on the left — That’s Harry on the left and Alex on the right. Love the disparity in height. Harry’s …