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A Postcard from Rusty: Happy Valentine’s Day!
Meow meow mew meow meow mrrr aow aow meow mew meow meow aow meow mew meow aow mrrr! Mrrrrrr meow, Rusty * * (loosely translated from feline) Happy Valentine’s Day to all the kind Undina’s friends...
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Unveiling the Identity of my Birthday’s Guerlain Perfume
In the post for my Birthday Girls Just Want to Have Fun I’ve mentioned that I treated myself to the bottle of a perfume from Guerlain (I wonder if it’ll become a yearly tradition) and asked you to...
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What perfume makes you feel [insert an adjective here]?
In the last several days I came across three bloggers asking questions about perfumes influencing how we feel: Normand (The Perfume Chronicles): When something unpredictable is ahead of me, I find...
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Encens Mythique d’Orient sample draw winner
Portia! Please contact me with your shipping address. Filed under: Random Stuff
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Orange Cats in My Life – Part II: A Grin without a Cat
For how it all started read Part I: Found and Lost For years after moving to the US owning a cat was out of question for various reasons. But it was always somewhere in plans for future because both...
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Does the size… (strike that) bottle matter? Yep!
A while ago Monday Question on Olfactoria’s Travels was: How Important Is The Perfume Bottle To You? Out of 38 respondents 25 (66%) said bottles were very important for the enjoyment of a perfume; 7...
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Entertaining Statistics: February, 2013
February was a short month. I don’t mean just a number of days: it ran away from me before I noticed. Probably because there were many pleasant occasions - my birthday, Valentine’s Day and just in...
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Laughs, Lemmings, Loves – Episode 30
Last week we finally got some rain – which was good. What was not so good, the absence of heating in the office. There was a gas leak in the building next to ours and the gas company shut off...
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In the Search for the Perfect Iris
Favorite flowers Playing with numbers for the Entertaining Statistics post about favorite flowers of Birgit’s (Olfactoria’s Travels) readers reminded me that I planned to write this post for a long...
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A Postcard from Undina: From Point Reyes with Love
It was a wonderful almost summer weekend in Point Reyes, Northern California: it’s so strange that right now there are still places covered with snow. That heart-shaped patch of shrubs that I saw from...
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When enough is enough?
A while ago Kafka (Kafkaesque) wrote in one of her letters: Question: just how much must one torment oneself with a perfume that one really dislikes (but doesn’t rise to the level of TOTAL revulsion)...
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Entertaining Statistics: March, 2013
Our March was good though a bit dry. Luckily it started raining right before the end of the month and we’re still looking at a couple of showers before the end of the raining season. Recently Steve...
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Olfactif: Yay or Nay?
I’m constantly on a lookout for new perfume-related … everything: brands, lines, perfumes, services, media coverage and other events. Naturally I got curious about the new service offering a...
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Laughs, Lemmings, Loves – Episode 31
It was a warm and extremely windy week that I would have enjoyed if it weren’t for my back that acted up and was absorbing all my strength and time. And as soon as my back got slightly better my neck...
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If Johana by Keiko Mecheri were a shoe…
Being parfumistas we accept that most perfumes are unisex and even those that lean towards masculine or feminine designation might be worn by any gender. The same way there are no strict rules as to...
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Laughs, Lemmings, Loves – Episode 32
With temperatures rising into high seventies and absolutely no rain it would have been hard to believe it was still spring if it hadn’t been for nature presenting an undoubted proof of it in form of...
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Bouquets to Art 2013
Last month I visited 29th annual flower exhibition Bouquets to Art 2013 at the San Francisco Fine Art Museum de Young. Compared to the last year’s exhibition I had a feeling there were slightly less...
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Bouquets to Art 2013: Answers to the Riddle
As I promised here are answers to the riddle I posed in my previous post: Bouquet 4 proved to be an easy guess: everybody got it correct: Gottfried Helnwein, Ephiphany II 2012 2013 With the second...
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Entertaining Statistics: April, 2013
April wasn’t my best month: I managed to hurt first my back (many things contributed to that) and then my neck (that happened in a heartbeat – who would have thought that a simple morning stretch in...
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Perfume Layering: Truth or Dare?
I have never had that urge to experiment mixing perfumes. I hadn’t come up with the idea of scents layering on my own but once I had been introduced to it I loved it. The idea. In 2000 Calvin Klein...
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