So, the first month of Project Perfume has gone stonkingly well, I’ve sniffed around 20 new perfumes, swapped out some old perfumes (and, some newer ones I didn’t like), and sat with Linda Pilkington of Ormonde Jayne for a “perfume portrait”. Plus, I’ve discovered some new perfumes I absolutely adore. Here are the highlights of my month. On my Project Perfume page, you can see […]
In the book Perfumes: An A-Z guide, they give the perfumes a star-rating, which is * for dreadful and ***** for classics that will stand the test of time. I, however, am not as educated in perfume as I wish to be, and so, can’t really rate perfumes against each other as Luca Turin and Tanya Sanchez do in the book. Also, I tend to […]
The week before last, I announced the start of “Project Perfume“, where I’m going to attempt to sniff about 10 new (to me) perfumes a month in an attempt to educate myself about scents, their composition, and to see if I can finally, once and for all, identify that particular ingredient in certain perfumes that makes me want to vomit. I’m a one-woman perfume machine […]
Accountants need projects like fish need bicycles water. This year, I’ve decided to set myself one, I have around fifty different projects going on at work so, what’s another one for home? Over Christmas, I downloaded Perfumes: The A-Z Guide by Luca Turin onto my Kindle App (Santa ignored my repeated requests for a Kindle this year, I hate him), and spent a glorious day […]