hortus conclusus

Time to get a present for Dad, and if yours is anything like mine, that is a serious challenge. Most dads don’t want anything you can afford to get them (cars, computers, trips to exotic locales) so you usually flake out and go for the easy options (ties, food, drink, fragrance, books, gift certificates, etc.) Well, this is a fragrance blog, so I can help you with one of those categories. Here are my top ten picks for smells for Dad for this year. Some are pricey, some are cheap, some are in the middle. These are not only some of my favorite masculines, they are also all a little more unique than the ubiquitous Ralph Lauren Polo or Hugo Boss. You can also check out my guidelines for picking out perfumes for mom , but sometimes dads are a little harder to read, and give you less to work with. These are in no particularly significant order, by the way. These are not necessarily my favorite masculines of all time; they are just ones I think most men would not push away in disgust, and ...

It’s funny, but after I posted my rose drawing and giveaway in honor of my 90th post, I noticed that a lot of the other fragrance blogs I follow were also posting articles about rose fragrances. Isn’t it funny how something is just in the air like that, and a bunch of people are thinking about something simultaneously? Because so many bloggers have been writing cool things about roses this week, I figured I would link you, dear readers, to their lovely posts. Because there is no such thing as too many roses, right? First, Donna at PST narrating the battle of two epic rose fragrances here.   Signature Scent musing about the ubiquity of roses via Stella McCartney’s Nude here . At WAFT, a review of Frederic Malle’s Lipstick rose here . the non-blonde about her preferment of Stella’s peony scent Stella in II to her first rosy creation here . The Scented Salamander’s exhaustive review of Bond no.9’s new rose here . Enjoy, and I’ll post a review of some fruity rose sm...