The Genie’s Split-Second Blogoversary! (with a giveaway!)
Two years ago today, I was in a rather sorry state. For almost nine consecutive months, I had my head and imagination submerged in a story that seemed to come out of nowhere and everywhere, a story I...
View ArticleClarimonde Revisited
– At the crossroads of narrative, perfume and prose One of the greatest joys and highest privileges in my time as a perfume blogger has been the opportunity to participate in what I can only describe...
View ArticleThe Road to Redemption
– Confessions of a perfume writer Once upon a time so very long ago, a girl of fourteen – that awkward age poised between childhood and womanhood, yearning to become yet hesitant to evolve – walked...
View ArticleThe Best of 2012 – Phrases, Friends and Facilitators
(Note: The following information may be disturbing to some readers) True Confessions: I don’t consider myself a perfume blogger. While I have nothing but the utmost respect for those who are, I’ll tell...
View ArticleAn Otherworldly Shortcut
– a fragrant Halloween tale inspired by the Clarimonde and Devilscent Projects If not for the extra bottle of wine he drank at his mother’s birthday party, he would have done the sensible thing like a...
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