Marlen, you know, I’d suspected as much, so I don’t think it’s BS or bad memory. That full-works hair product thing going on is fairly strong at first, and lingers just enough through the middle that I doubt it could be anything else. These seemed to come out with a nice bit of hype, and then just disappeared without anyone noticing, which isn’t terribly surprising.

March - heh. It was a real funny thing to name it - I kind of half wonder if he didn’t just pick two French words at random that he knew Americans would be familiar with?

Anya, GAH! You don’t know who he is and still won’t take this earworm off my hands? He’s a children’s entertainer, and he’s actually a very good songwriter. He makes the most irritatingly catchy tunes. DH is skeered to buy me perfume even with heavy hints. Besides I got three hard to find items I have been longing for forever now - an English translation of a biography of Neel Doff, the Critierion collection version of My Man Godfrey, and Kid Carpet’s CD. So he does very, very well with the gift finding even without perfume.

Jenny, thanks for the birthday wishes, and no, I don’t think this is available anywhere aside from random lucky finds nowadays, Portland included. That is, I haven’t seen it here anyhow, but then I wasn’t really looking for it either.

Victoria, thanks!

I was able to resist clicking on your viral pandemic, sorry, lol. Keep your earworms to yourself, Missy. Who is Raffi, anyway?

The scent sounds like a joke, but his followers probably love it. I did sample one of his products, once, in a Sephora. It was the hair smoothing cream, or some name like that. I was amazing the way it calmed my flyaway curls, but I resisted buying it, too $$. Don’t remember it having a scent.

So, report back on your birthday haul. Does DH know of the perfume house in town? Does he take good hints? ;-)

PS. I had no idea that those fragrance were done as a joint venture with Chanel. Hmm…call me a snob, but I am much more interested in them now :-)