True Blood (an HBO series based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris) takes this one step further. Vampires have come “out of the coffin” and for the last four seasons have had many of us rapt in front of our televisions on Sunday summer nights. As I watch the show, I often imagine what scents these intriguing characters would wear.
One of the things that usually irk me about most mass market designer scents is the inevitable wave of innumerable flankers and seasonal releases that follow. This summer, however, I was very pleased to find quite a few very well made ones. Sport and summer epithets do not necessarily mean bad…as you will see
Every year when the winners of the Fragrance Foundation awards (FiFis) are released, I hold my breath. This year I am happy to say that many deserving perfumes received awards. One, in particular, that deserved acclaim was 1922 Lily Sanguine which won for Specialty Brand (women’s) fragrance of the year (Anthropologie).
“They don’t make ‘em like that anymore” When I was younger, I hated that saying. The longer I am around and the more modern perfumes I sniff, the more I wish I had been born twenty, even thirty, years earlier. Join me, if you will, on a stroll down the decades and relive some true classics with me…
When a parfumista reads about a new perfume, there are always “notes” listed in its description or reviews. However, when you buy the perfume and look at the back of the box, very few ingredients (other than “Parfum/Fragrance” and alcohol) are familiar to most of us.
My mom is not your typical mother. Despite her “gender bending” choices for occupations and style of dress, she has always been rather feminine, as you will read by her choices for fragrances.
