Recipe for O’Henrys
This is a wonderfully quick dessert to make, and comes courtesy of the Old Mill Community Service Cookbook from 1984, credited to “Ed Thompson.” I have made made some modifications to the printed recipe, however. If I’m not baking brownies, this is the chocolate goodie I enjoy making in the Chezilla kitchen. […]

One of the things that rarely fail to crack me up is the constant message from beauty magazines that fragrances only have a shelf life of a couple years before they go bad.
I’m sure this advice has nothing to do with the constant marketing drive to get consumers to buy! buy more! and buy again!
I […]

Here are a few of my favorite product discoveries of 2006. Some have been around for quite a while, and most are (shockingly! gasp!) not even perfumes. (I’ll get a seperate best of list up for this year’s releases later on, but I wanted to play with all the other cool kids for the “favorite […]

1. Proposed fragrance: Lancome’s It’s a Christmas Miracle
Reason for rejection: Prohibitive sales opportunity. Christmas miracles only happen on 34th Street.
2. Proposed fragrance: Burberry’s Red-Nosed Reindeer
Reason for rejection: Proved popular with a focus group, but as it turns out, the resource for red-nose reindeer musk is extremely limited.
3. Proposed fragrance: Givenchy’s Mincemeat Pi
Reason for rejection: Everybody […]

While we here in the States wait to get creeped out of our skin by Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, one fragrance-themed horror flick to consider for Halloween rental is 1940’s The Devil Bat. The Devil Bat stars Bela Lugosi as Dr. Carruthers, a rather congenial seeming sociopath, who devises an aftershave that attracts […]

My husband is a generally silly man, prone to the odd verbal tangent. For example -
Me: feeling snacky and rooting around in the refrigerator
Him: “Whatcha looking for?”
Me: “Oh… nothing, I guess…”
Him: “Well, that’s the best place to look for it. I never find anything in there either.”
Since I’ve been sick all week long, and haven’t […]

Scenzilla is temporarily taking some breaks from writing about smelly things during this month, so that I can discuss another fun beauty obsession, mascara. I’ve got some keen faves, and some not-so-keen faves.
My favorite drugstore mascara is Physician’s Formula Retro-Glow. It’s the closest I’ve ever come to looking like I’m wearing false lashes without actually […]