As you may remember from my earlier post on Carbone de Balmain, I chose it as my “travel to Texas” scent. We packed all our worldly goods… Read more “Retrospective: On the road with Carbone de Balmain”
Tag: Musk
New Release: Sonoma Scent Studio Fig Tree
Perfumer’s Comments: “Many fig scents have strong coconut notes from the creamy lactones that are often used in fig accords. In Fig Tree, I chose to minimize… Read more “New Release: Sonoma Scent Studio Fig Tree”
Guerlain Bois d’Arménie
Bois d’Arménie, by Annick Menardo for the L’Art et la Matiere collection, feels less a classic Guerlain, and more an Hermessence; sharing closer kinship to the transparent… Read more “Guerlain Bois d’Arménie”
SOTD: Tokyo Milk, Bittersweet (and some musings on the “big move”)
More “Favorite Things” posts coming your way soon; in the meantime… Texas feels much the same as Oregon, since I rarely leave my house— however, it’s really… Read more “SOTD: Tokyo Milk, Bittersweet (and some musings on the “big move”)”
Amouage Library Collection: Opus IV
There’s a bike path that my husband and I love to ride on—the only one in this part of the Gorge—that ends at The Columbia Gorge Discovery… Read more “Amouage Library Collection: Opus IV”
beauty on the outside 