Thursday, 9 July 2026

Paruvea Latte Veil Extrait de Parfum review**, aka The Kraken Wakes (up) and doesn't smell the coffee!

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      ** Eventually. ..feel free to scroll on down past the "missing in action" preamble to the review itself... This must be the ...
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Monday, 19 January 2026

2025: My Even Bumperer Bookish Year

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  More unread books on here! Well, another year has passed, almost to the day of my last post about my reading achievements: 55 books in 202...
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Wednesday, 10 December 2025

Becalmed, bemused, and beset by doubts: a belated Bonkers bulletin

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  I have been blitzing my Christmas cards this week, and while writing them I re-read a handful from last year where the sender had included...
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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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