My book The Rooster House was selected as “Book of the Week” by BBC Radio 4. In anticipation, my book is featured twice in their latest issue ? in their ?On Our Bookshelf? section and also in their weekly highlights section. I’m...
We\'re marking the last weekend in July with our usual open thread poll.
Talk about anything you like ? the fragrance you?re wearing today, the fragrance you\'d be wearing if it weren\'t so hot out, whatever.
Or, ask a question about... -
Spend a day in Catania, a baroque jewel on the east coast of Sicily, and you will understand why Boudoir 36, an artisanal perfume boutique, is such a great fit for this exuberant city. Every scent, taste and color seems more intense?jasmine draping... -
Jo Malone will launch English Pear & Sweet Pea, a "youthful, pastel-soft counterpart" to 2010\'s English Pear & Freesia. Like English Pear & Freesia, English Pear & Sweet Pea was inspired by the John Keats poem Ode to... -
Britney Spears will launch Jungle Fantasy, a new fragrance for women, in August. Jungle Fantasy is a limited edition flanker to 2005?s Britney Spears Fantasy... -
Coach has launched Coach Love, a new fragrance for women. (Coach Love 2023 appears to be unrelated to the discontinued 2012 version of Coach Love...) -
Givenchy has launched L\'Interdit Rouge Ultime, a new limited edition fragrance for women. L\'Interdit Rouge Ultime is a flanker to 2021\'s L\'Interdit Rouge, which was a flanker to the 2018 version of L\'Interdit... -
Our ?Recommend Me a Perfume? thread is open this week. You can use this space to find perfume recommendations, to share your discoveries and favorite scents, and to ask any questions about scents, aromas and flavors. Or you can just tell us what... -
It\'s already late July (where has the summer gone") so it\'s time for our annual shower census....do tell us about the scented products in your bath or shower! How many scented shower gels and/or bar soaps are in your shower right... -
I was enchanted by the premise of ?Grandmas Project? as soon as I read about it in the New York Times. It is a web series in which film directors document their grandmothers as they cook. The women also share their stories, dreams, aspirations and... -
It\'s full-on summer in my part of the world, and this Friday\'s community project is "wear something beachy, or anything you think of as \'a vacation in a bottle,\'" so here I am with two reviews of fragrances that fit this... -