Everyone and their dog is buzzing with news of Chandler Burr’s new NY Times T Style perfume column. You can even see his teevee apperance on the Today Show on your computer, via msnbc.com. (I only got video to work on IE, so other browsers appear to not work for the link.) I can’t help […]

I’ve been a bad, bad blogger. I’ve had too little time to write, and mostly, nothing I’ve tried lately has moved me. Please forgive some of my vitriol, and perhaps chalk it up as a reaction against my general ennui with new releases. It’s like that line in Wayne’s World: I once thought I had […]

Several of us perfume bloggers made an exchange of mystery samples with one another recently, sending out vials of fragrance to two victims with no knowlege of what the vials might contain. You might say it’s a guessing game of sorts. (I received samples from March at Perfume Posse, who will be posting her reveals […]

This is more or less going to be how the place will look now. I have to crack down with some fixes on the site, and I’ve waited to add sidebar and other goodies until later. Hopefully I’ll have it all up and running later this week?
For the CURIOUS about WP Canvas only: I figured […]

Half the fun with some vintage fragrances is trying to figure out the provenance of inspiration behind them. The other half being to play the Name That Tune game with the notes. Gin Fizz is another older (and discontinued) Lubin, released in 1955, credited to perfumer Henri Giboulet (via Now Smell This.) The Lubin I […]

Someone You Tube‘d a “Beauty on a Budget” comedic skit from the BBC show “Touch Me - I’m Karen Taylor.” How to make perfume, heh:

Seriously want.
Don’t need it.
It’d just make us hungry all the time for no good reason.
Still?
I must own this now. And this. Also this. Plus this.
(via Boing Boing)

Lubin introduced Nuit de Longchamp I believe in 1933. (Other sources give release years of ‘34 or ‘35, but ads for it appeared in publications as early as ‘33.) Nuit de Longchamp presumably takes its name from the premiere fête thrown in the evenings for the first races at the famous horse track, Hippodrome de […]

David Ray’s new blog, Makeup Beat, has posted a link to hear the new song Rufus Wainwright wrote for the upcoming Viktor & Rolf perfume release, Antidote. You can find his post by clicking here.

You know what the Givenchy house really needs to shake things up? More spin-offs of fucking Amarige.
Feel the pulse
and vibration
and the
rumbling
force
Somebody
is out there
beating
the dead horse.”
- Bob Dylan “Man in the Long Black Coat”
Amarige Mariage is flipping Diet Nirmala (current), which is itself like a foofy Fat-Free Angel. Fruits, florals, patchouli, vanilla, bleh. Wake me […]