Bonkersaboutperfume

    ** Eventually...feel free to scroll on down past the "missing in action" preamble to the review itself...This must be the all-time longest hiatus in the history of Bonkers about Perfume. To be honest, over the last six months I really thought I had shot my blogging bolt: not so much in terms of my personal relationship with perfume, which is ongoing, albeit in...

 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 2024, which was a lifetime record, now topped by 2025's total of 66! I promise that none of them were pamphlets, though one was a novella. And no, I am not aiming for 77 this year in case you were wondering, even though that would seem to be...

 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 a long message on the card or in a separate letter. Two of these friends - neither of them perfume lovers, or even wearers for all I know - urged me to carry on with the blog: one said they enjoyed the French travelogues in particular, ...