Portia’s 2020 Noted Things
Hey Crew, 2020 has been so unexpected. Here in Australia it started with bushfires, then we got floods. The world got C19 and we watched the USA plunge into anarchy. Brexit has been exactly the shit...
View ArticleSaturday Question: Are There Mere-exposure Effect Perfumes in Your Collection?
If you are not familiar with a psychological phenomenon called the mere-exposure effect or familiarity principle, you can read more about it in this Wikipedia article. I am using it rather jokingly, as...
View ArticleNarth’s Musings: Whom do you love? And what do they smell like?
No, I am not talking about a personal lover – rather which celebrity, musician, scientist or astronaut do you admire, and what do they smell like? My favourite musician is John Grant, an American...
View ArticleRusty the Cat: 12 Years Young (And Merry Christmas!)
I’m positive that even smartest of our feline companions (or even canine, for that matter) do not have a notion of birthdays and celebrations. So, I realize that Rusty is blissfully unaware of his age...
View ArticleSaturday Question: What Perfume did You Wear on Christmas Eve?
It’s the last Saturday of 2020. Some of the winter celebrations are already behind us, but we still have some to look forward to, so let’s keep the spirit of the holidays high and talk about them a...
View Article2020: What Went Well
For the last probably 5 years, as the next new year celebration was approaching, I kept reading/hearing from people that they were glad “this year” was ending and looking with hope for the next one....
View ArticleSaturday Question: Do You Have Any Perfume-related New Year Resolutions?
So, it’s 2021. Hello New Year! Are you going to behave? ‘Coz we all saw your predecessor, and I gotta tell you: most of us wasn’t that enamored with it. Saturday Question #45: Do You Have Any...
View ArticleSaturday Question: Perfume or Fragrance?
The first week back to work (even though not “back in the office”) happened to be more taxing than I expected, and because of that I haven’t finished my statistics post in time to publish it mid-week....
View ArticleEntertaining Statistics: 2020 Year Round-up
We all said probably everything that could be said about the year we just saw out of the door. So, I’ll go straight to the perfume-related numbers. Since I haven’t done a statistics post in a long...
View ArticleCentenary Perfumes
Hi there UGL, It’s Portia and I am looking at four things released in 1921 that are still widely available. Yep, Centenary Perfumes! My search goes only as far as Fragrantica so it’s probably not a...
View ArticleSaturday Question: Have You Ever Had a Significant Perfume Break?
Undina: Today your host is Narth. Saturday Question #47: Have You Ever Had a Significant Perfume Break? Is your relationship with fragrance different now? Narth’s Answer I once had a long perfume...
View ArticleMy Long Road to Houbigant
We all have some brands that for whatever reason stay out of our realm of interest despite appearing on our radar one way or the other. And then one day… * * * Almost half a lifetime ago, my father who...
View ArticleSaturday Question: Which Perfumer Would You Like to Meet In Person?
Undina: Today your host is Narth again, and the question was suggested by Brigitte. Saturday Question #48: Which Perfumer Would You Like to Meet In Person? When in 2000 Frederic Malle started...
View ArticleMy Blog’s 10th Anniversary: Interview with the Creator of My White Rabbit
If not to count job or user interviews I conducted as a part of my job, this is my first ever interview with someone in the perfume industry. And if 10 years ago, when I started this blog, anybody...
View ArticleOmnia Profumi. Three Samples.
Hi gang. Omnia Profumi is not a house I’ve taken any notice of. Their perfumes have been around since 2004 but the brand seems to have properly launched in 2009. An Italian jewellery family...
View ArticleSaturday Question: Who/What Sent You Down the Rabbit Hole?
Today’s post is slightly unusual: there will be no “My Answer” since a week ago, in the post for this blog’s 10th anniversary, not only I answered it (and, for those who missed it, even managed do do...
View ArticleEvening Water
Sisley Paris isn’t one of the brands I’m closely familiar with: their skincare prices were always outside of my budget, and their makeup has never been considered anything to aspire to (at least, I...
View ArticleSaturday Question: Do You Like Skin Scents?
Tara (A Bottled Rose) has recently published a post about a newish perfume she tried Diptyque Fleur de Peau – a skin scent with an iris twist. And that prompted my thinking about that category of...
View ArticleMuguet Fleuri by Oriza L. Legrand
Hey there ULG, I know a lot of you are caught in the depths of winter so I thought we could look forward to spring through fragrance today. Muguet Fleuri is Lily of the Valley. That glorious harbinger...
View ArticleSaturday Question: What Is Your Favorite Rose Perfume?
Regardless of how you feel about the upcoming Hallmark holiday, you’d agree that traditionally it is associated with roses more than with any other flower. So, I thought it was a good enough reason for...
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