Sinfonia di Note: Music To My Ears

One of my guilty pleasures is fragrance. I say guilty because I am often drawn to scents that are expensive or hard to find so I go to ridiculous lengths to acquire them.

Fortunately, Lucky Scent makes it a smidge less so.

Their latest exclusive offer Sinfonia de Note bring together some of my most favorite things: Italy, drama, passion, and complexity.

Intrigued?


Score a sample pack of the line for only $26 - but hurry, like all things good, quantities are limited.

Meow Meow

I stumbled upon this perfume while trolling the web. And no, I wasn't looking for porn -- I was trying to hunt down a shower gel that I wanted to share with you all and then I came across this:

This oh-so-charming-ly titled fragrance is described as follows:

A dash of spring enriched with a touch of summer, blended with a suggestion of autmun and a whiff of winter

Seriously, could I make this up?

I'm too much of a lady to actually reprint the words, but take a close look at the pic. I can't imagine ever dousing myself with something called:

If you are familiar with this scent, please do tell...does it smell like each season, and if so what in the h-e-double hockey sticks does that mean?!

Perfumes: The Guide

If you read the previous post about my unremarkable quirks you’ll remember I have a penchant for instruction manuals. It’s a strange fascination I know but I’m funny like that. I’m also a die-hard fragrance junkie. Florals, woods, citrus – you name it, if it’s appealingly smelly then I’m all over it.

The latest tome to land on my desk is Perfumes: The Guide by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez. Touted as the “definitive guide to perfume,” it’s actually little more than a few tidbits of perfume history and FAQs served up with a healthy dose of snark in the form of expert reviews. My main beef with the book is that the reviews, although often amusing, leave me feeling gypped.

Case in point:

p. 199 Individuel (Mont Blanc)

A laundry-soap formula, apparently for individuals who can’t yet afford the Mont Blanc pens.

Um...cute.

I’m not familiar with this scent, and after reading this I’m still not. What I would like to know, however, is stuff like what its notes are, dry-down, history, etc.

Truth be told I’ve gotten more valuable information on the blogs, most notably Now Smell This or Blogdorf Goodman.

Another minus: define “definitive” – some of my fave scents are nowhere to be found:

Kai,
Ineke After My Own Heart,or
Profumum Ichnusa.

Granted, these aren’t blockbuster scents, but they’re not exactly rare either.

Having said that I do think it’s a fun read, maybe in small doses, and taken with a grain of salt.

Buy it on Amazon.