I Smell Therefore I Am

I work in an office with four other people. My nearest co-worker wears vanilla-centric florals: Burberry, Chanel Allure edp. She leaves to...

You can tell a lot about a gay guy's ex boyfriends by the colognes he wears. They get passed along, or stolen. A guy smells something...

I was wearing this last night while reading another Inspector Maigret novel by Georges Simenon. I'm wearing it again today, doing a...

When Addie's mother dies, Moses Pray, a former suitor slash john shows up at the funeral. The funeral is decidedly middle of nowhere,...

(Or: Why I Seem to Have Stopped Writing "Reviews") For a long time now (let's throw a number out and say five months) I...

Cristalle is nice, and I prefer the edp to the edt, which is nice too, for the all of five minutes it lasts on me. Cristalle in that big ...

There are some key differences between eau de toilette and eau de parfum, the primary difference being skank. Honeyed skank, really. The ...

A little one ounce bottle of Poison, because apparently I can never have enough. Let me tally. At this point, I own I think five - now...

Amber, Vetiver, Orange Blossom. Like Teo Cabanel's Alahine, Sublime is a strange, diffusive toasted amber. I was telling someone ...

I was in Berlin recently with Barbara Herman and Miguel Matos, and at some point, trading the smells we'd all brought, Miguel pulled o...