today i bought myself an entire bottle of miller harris l'air de rien. to paraphrase luca turin's review of it: "it smells like the 60s--boozy kisses and tobacco and unwashed panties. i love it."

it was a splurge. here's my to-buy list, although i should probably wait a while before i buy anything more. although, why?

-en passant body cream
-child perfume oil
-donna karan black cashmere
-white linen
-bandit
-cuir de russie
-some light cologne; not sure which one
-more mille et une roses

i haven't been wearing perfume lately. my nose is kind of all dried up, and i haven't been doing much grooming so i figure the smells will get lost. and what do i want to smell like in the summer? salt water. or lake water. maybe i'll try the different company's sel de vetiver or whatever it's called.

should i spend $75 on samples from the perfumed court? or $85 on black cashmere, bandit, and sisley's eau du soir soap?

anywhere you wish to be kissed

a few weeks ago a perfume neophyte asked me where she should wear perfume once she got it. I gave her the usual answer, chest, back, neck, wrists, knees. I left out the fact that I usually spray my armpits and my cooch. cause I'm like that. also when we were talking I was thinking of this old quote. I can't remember where I read it or who said it, but their answer was, "anywhere you wish to be kissed."

that would be too corny to actually say out loud... but seriously.

so I started wearing perfume on my butt.

love,
mp

I'm wearing dzing!

I put it on when I got to work. sometimes I do that and it helps me get through the night...

it smells like leather and vanilla powder to me, in fact, it smells a lot like bulgari black... cut with cuir de russie. it's yummy, but not something I would expect the "A" crowd to appreciate.

i sprayed on a couple of perfumes at the mall that are riffs on other perfumes; one of them i think is better than its predecessor, the other isn't. the new estee lauder sensuous has that black jammy think that tom ford black orchid has. overripe, dusty fruit. i didn't like it too much from tom ford, but his was undeniable and great in a disgusting way. meaty. it's what i imagine one of those insect eating flowers would smell like. but this one doesn't have any of the woodiness of the other one. too sweet. enough of this sweet bullshit!

rumeur by lanvin i like. it smells like sjp lovely drydown--that dry, warm, scalpy smell--but with some lily of the valley blended in. more buttery. oooohhh, it's good.

the power of scent

no really. fuck perfume. I'm gonna start doing this.

right now

I'm wearing SJP Lovely lotion topped with Hermessence Poivre Samarcande. I know this is an outrage for purists everywhere, but I am not a purist. What happened was at first the white florals of SJPL combined with the pepper of HPS to create a funky carnation, and I kinda dug it. but now that damn musk bullshit of SJPL is raging all over my skin like some kind of oily greek with herpes. I hate SJPL from now on, just for the record. I love HPS. Maybe I will wear the hell out of this non-stop until I run out even if it's too warm for it. I don't care. I don't. I have this idea of wearing seasonally inappropriate perfumes just to cause trouble. Sinus trouble.

Next up YSL's nu. The word means "nude" my friends. it's an oriental (floriental) incense thing. one of the perfume reviews I read called it churchy due to the incense which made me laugh because it's supposedly based on the incense used in old french whorehouses. (how did Tom Ford know, I wonder?) I guess there's always been that weird relationship between the church (the big one, the catholic one) and you know... sex. but whatever. It should be fun at the next barbecue.