Bonkersaboutperfume

It is ages since I last wrote a post in the Frantic Antics series - namely this sorry tale about my brush with the arcane postal service in Slovenia, back when swapping and RAOKs were a big part of the international perfume scene. I was moved to take up the theme of fumehead favours again following an elaborate operation to transport a package of perfume samples from Wales to ...

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 the ...

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, and a...