Sunday, 27 April 2025

La Roche-Posay Effaclar Duo+ Unifiant Tinted Moisturiser review, and an update on papal passings and parallel pustules

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Source: Wikimedia Commons ~ Bekstet (author) Topic advisory : I promise this post is not remotely anti-religious, but it does contain covera...
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Monday, 21 April 2025

Mike O'Shaughnessy's Perfume Stories prison workshops are featured in The Guardian!

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Back in February 2023, I wrote a post about my donation of a 1960s bottle of Madame Rochas to Mike O'Shaughnessy, a senior lecturer in G...
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Thursday, 20 February 2025

Finally meeting Linda Pilkington of Ormonde Jayne, 14 years after "train stopped play"...!

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Linda Pilkington When I first fell down the perfume rabbit hole in 2008, I started sampling designer brands by buying carded samples on eBay...
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Wednesday, 22 January 2025

Scent and the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites: a wafty interactive exhibition at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts

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The Blind Girl by John Everett Millais Back in October, a neighbour kindly tipped me off about an exhibition starting that month at the Barb...
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Wednesday, 15 January 2025

2024: My Bumper Bookish Year

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Two of the many tsundokus fighting for my future attention In 2009 I read five books all year; in 2024 I read 55! The difference being of co...
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Friday, 27 December 2024

Simon sniffs: a pioneering perfume protégé is doused down under in a fragrant Fitzroy foray

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Fraser Island by David Stanley (Nanaimo, Canada) via Wikimedia Commons  It's been over a month since my last post, though there has been...
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Thursday, 21 November 2024

Fleetingly floofy: Color Wow Dream Cocktail Carb-Infused Leave-in Treatment review

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It's been a long time since I last wrote about a hair care product on Bonkers, but my recent quest to find something to give my fine, li...
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