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A Postcard From Undina: On Acting and Getting Unintended Consequences
Recently on the way to a dinner at our friends’ house, my vSO and I were surprised by the size of the moon in the sky. We were running late to start looking for the place to stop safely. In the next 10...
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ScentBird, ScentTrunk and Olfactif – Who’s the Fairest of Them All?
On more than one occasion I tried to dissuade my readers from blind buys – be that full bottles based on somebody else’s reviews or sample sets selected by unknown authorities. But then recently I came...
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Creature Comfort(er)s Perfumes
When I was a child, autumn would always make me sad: it meant not only the end of the long summer break and returning to school, but also the beginning of 6-8 weather-wise miserable months. After I...
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A Postcard from Undina: Happy Thanksgiving 2015!
Dear friends, readers and passerby, Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who celebrates and just warm wishes to everybody else! I’m going to thoroughly enjoy this holiday and I hope this day will be...
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Perfume and Colour, Perfume Lovers London – November 26th, 2015
*** Tara, previously of Olfactoria’s Travels, while being on the move to her own new virtual home, decided to visit a couple of friends’ blogs. I have the honor of hosting her first. Here’s one of her...
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In the Search for the Perfect Scented Shower Gel
Have you ever worn a perfume that was so good that you just want to bathe in it? Fortunately, for those of us who answered Yes, there ARE bath & body products to satisfy that desire. My obsession...
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Scented Gift Ideas 2015
I always wanted to do a post about winter holidays gifts (for my family and close friends it’s more about the New Year gifts than those for Christmas). But usually I was doing my shopping in B&M...
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Scented Shower Gels Draw Winner
I’ve just got a word from hajusuuri: we have a winner of the draw announced in her recent post: In the Search for the Perfect Shower Gel. The winner is Juli. Please contact me with your shipping...
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Small Things that Brighten Life: Holiday Ornaments
It’s not a perfume-related story with a lot of the holiday-appropriate pictures, a riddle in the end and a perfume draw (feel free to jump there directly any time) *** The Story Have you ever made your...
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A Postcard from Undina: Happy New Year 2016!
2015 wasn’t bad for me but it was challenging and very… educational. I’m thankful to it but ready to see it off. I hope the next one will be better for all of us. Happy New Year to all my friends and...
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Ornaments Riddle Answers and Perfume Draw Results
Thank you to everybody who tried to guess mediums for the last three years’ holiday ornaments from my story. The medium for 2015 proved to be the easiest to recognize. It was a spoon. Though I threw...
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Entertaining Statistics: 2015 Year Round-up
It has been a while since I did my last statistics post, so I want to report that we finally got some rain. It’s not as strong here, in the Bay Area, as it is in Southern California and it still hasn’t...
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Serge Lutens Boxeuses: Hanging Up My Gloves
Several days ago Tara (A Bottled Rose) linked her great review of Serge Lutens‘ Boxeuses to my post from 2014 (Serge Lutens Boxeuses: Round One – I won). I remembered what I wrote back then in the...
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Undina’s Looking Glass Turns Five
How many times can the same perfume be featured on the same blog? Let’s see… Five years ago I started this blog with the story of my first and life-long perfume love Climat by Lancôme. A year later...
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How Mainstream Are You (In Regard to Niche Perfumes)?
Recently Elena (Perfume Shrine) published a list of fourteen most popular perfumes (as in “samples or bottles bought”) from Luckyscent for 2015. As I was looking through the list, I realized that I...
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[N]SFW Perfumes
Flying on a plane, attending a symphony concert or visiting people in hospital – in all these circumstances we know the space limitations and are trying not to arrive in a nuclear cloud of a killer...
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A Postcard from Rusty: Happy Valentine’s Day 2016!
I’m positive Rusty wasn’t just using this opportunity to sit on the table where he’s allowed only for taking pictures but wanted to send the best wishes for all of you, whose compliments earned him at...
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In the Search for the Perfect… By Kilian Perfume
Ever since I met Killian Hennessy and fell under his spell, I tried to find a perfume in his line that I’d like to add to my collection. Thanks to the brand’s generosity to their FB fans, I got a...
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And the Oscar for Best Oscar Weekend goes to…
For many years we would have Oscars party with friends – watching together while eating, drinking, making predictions or discussing red carpet arrivals. A couple of times we even did an evening attire...
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Dreaded D-word and Back-up Bottles
Discontinuation is a horrifying word for many of us. More than once I caught myself feeling sad when I heard the news about perfumes being disconnected – sometimes even if those weren’t perfumes I...
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