June 1, 2010
One of the only items I felt moved enough to purchase during my trip to Paris was perfumer Olivia Giacobetti’s L’Ether from her off-again on-again perfume line IUNX (pronounced “Yoonks”, which is an ancient Greek word allegedly meaning “seduction through perfume”, though Denyse at Grain de Musc writes that there’s no hard evidence to support [...]
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June 18, 2009
This is not my beautiful life: Here’s where we get to the “Do we really need this?” part of the packing extravaganza. Fortunately, we leave tomorrow morning, otherwise we’d probably just toss the entire contents of the condo down the garbage chute and feel like we accomplished something very wise and definitive. Definitive, yes, but [...]
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