Aromascope

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• 1. dinazad  |  May 8th, 2007 at 2:29 am

  Hi Ina! For me personally the statement is false. As a perfume consumer (oh, save me, what an expression!), what I search for in a perfume is an expression of myself - sometimes just an expression of the mood of the moment, or something complementing my clothes or jewelry (which again express the mood of the day), sometimes something to express the way I feel about a certain season or event, sometimes something to express my innermost self. So, as a consumer, I too am on a quest for beauty, truth, love, happiness - as they are to ME. In other words: I look for myself in a perfume. Even if it doesn’t necessarily smell good to other people (Aromatics Elixir and Madness haters, I’m talking to you!).

• 2. Divina  |  May 8th, 2007 at 2:40 am

  Very sad that Ms. Grayson has so little insight in the minds of fragrance consumers. Funnily enough I spoke about some of the ways I use perfume and what I look for in my perfume choices in my own blog yesterday. This quote comes as a direct contradiction. The lack of insight is not only slightly shocking, I believe this quote can also be taken as rather offensive.

• 3. carmencanada  |  May 8th, 2007 at 3:50 am

  What would you expect from a marketing analyst?
  Could be true for a lot of consumers, who knows? Not true for perfumistas, of course - not all of which are here on the blogs and forums… I’m sometimes surprised, when I discuss with students (I teach English one-to-one in companies), at the way they’re receptive to the subtleties of the art, even though they might not spend so much time analyzing it.
  I love the way Luca Turin describes perfumes in his book, as “chemical poems”: to me, they are many things. A quest for “portable” beauty, little bubbles of poetry to carry on my skin like an aura. A reflection of my mood or a mood enhancer. A work of art to be studied and marvelled at as it evolves. A burst of pure pleasure, both strange (created by another person) and wholly mine.

• 4. Judith  |  May 8th, 2007 at 6:08 am

  I saw that discussion on MUA, after the fact– and had no idea what was going on (the smell of troll, perhaps). You mean Chanel HASN’T offered you pots of money to say that No. 5 smells good???

  As for the quotation, I agree with the other posters. While it may be true of some casual perfume consumers (although even there I hope not of all–many are very attached to their “signature scents”), it is certainly not true of us obsessives, um, connoisseurs:)

• 5. Elle  |  May 8th, 2007 at 6:52 am

  My first reaction to that quote was to roll my eyes and think how typical that was for a marketing analyst. However, upon further thought, although she said that in ‘72, I think it’s actually all the more true today w/ the near obscene number of perfumes being pumped out each year - all nearly identical fruity florals. The only thing that could possibly distinguish them would be an intense marketing campaign. As Judith said, perfume obsessives aren’t going to care. I’m looking for magic and personal connections w/ a scent and am actually annoyed w/ most marketing strategies. I like the Armani Prives *despite* the asinine marketing. And if a scent isn’t actually truly excellent on its own, marketing can’t save it and turn it into a classic.

• 6. winterwheat  |  May 8th, 2007 at 7:33 am

  I saw that post too, and ysatis (the poster) isn’t a troll. I thought the question was excellent, actually. Even if a blogger isn’t paid, let’s say she is in the fortunate position to have access to perfumers and feature interviews with them on her blog. In the future, she may feel pressured to review their scents favorably if she wishes to interview them again. I know at least one such blogger who changed her MUA review of a particular scent from damning to favorable. Was it because she interviewed that scent’s creator, or because she simply changed her mind over the years? It’s impossible to know, and NO ONE admits to venality. I certainly have changed my mind about scents, especially with such chemistry-changing events as pregnancy! So of course that’s possible, and everything could be on the up-and-up. Ysatis’ question was really asking about conflicts of interest, I think, and the opacity of advertising in a day and age when you cannot tell what’s honest consumer opinion and what’s driven by conflict of interest, if not outright pocket-padding.

  This is the main reason I love the negative reviews on MUA; they are the only proof we’ve got that the place is truly a consumer forum. As for blogs, we have to rely on our trust and experience with certain bloggers to convince us that they’re truly independent. (Which of course is why I keep coming back here.)

• 7. Robin  |  May 8th, 2007 at 9:37 am

  K, I think the conflict of interest issue matters, whether or not that particular poster was a troll (and afterwards, I started to suspect s/he was).

  And have to disagree respectfully with you Ina when you say blogs have a limited influence — on many popular niche fragrances, the first thing you see when you google the scent name is a blog, and often, blogs make up half or more of the top 10 search results for the phrase. I think companies care very, very much. This is true, actually, even for some very popular mainstream scents. For people who depend on the internet for information, blogs may end up being their *main* source of information about fragrances.

  When I started blogging, I saw my site as a “personal blog”, and didn’t give these issues much thought. Now I think very differently.

• 8. carmencanada  |  May 8th, 2007 at 9:44 am

  I’ve gone to MUA to read the thread you and Winterwheat refer to, Ina. As a former journalist, two comments: it does indeed happen that you change your mind about a work (be it a movie, an album or perfume) after meeting the artist, partly because of a very human sympathy (it’s much harder to say something that’s potentially wounding about the work of someone you’ve actually met), partly because you have a new insight on their process.
  Secondly, having worked in a magazine, I can garantee that beauty editors are swamped daily by tons of products. They don’t review them positively because they want more candy: they do it because the cosmetics companies are huge advertisers.
  Now, smaller niche houses, who don’t have the big companies’ budgets, can’t buy ads and don’t necessarily stand as good a chance of getting reviewed in the glossies. I, for one, would find it entirely legitimate for them to send samples or bottles to bloggers, who aren’t constrained by the necessity of coddling to advertisers, and might be more receptive to more obscure productions. That doesn’t impugn their honesty in the least. If some bloggers have contacts within the perfume industry, it’s just part of the normal process: it’s how information circulates.

• 9. tmp00  |  May 8th, 2007 at 10:48 am

  I think the quote is a Marketer marketing her marketing. Mot of marketing is convincing people that you need marketing in the fist place. Does a great ad campaign help a perfume? Sure. But the perfume better deliver as well. CKone had a great marketing campaign, but also had a (for the time) great juice. I’ll be curious to see how well the new one (that I don’t think is very good) will do in the marketplace, even with it’s trendy viral marketing and expensive ad blitz.

  No-one has ever approached my to try to bribe. They could, but it would definatley be on a sliding scale. Mssr Lutens could get by with a bell jar. The makers of Blue Sugar better get a Vuitton Carryall stuffed with hundred dollar bills.

• 10. Marina  |  May 8th, 2007 at 10:54 am

  I am glad to hear that blogs are becoming influential and that companies care what we say (this was to Robin’s comment). I can honestly say, however, that none of that has ever manifested itself in the form of money offered by any company, big or small, for a positive review. I receive samples (and some, big, companies, often very touchingly call full size bottles “samples”, but most often the samples are exactly the kind one would get in a store), about some I write, about others I don’t. If I like, it’s positive, if I don’t, it’s not. And if the scent doesn’t touch me in any way, I won’t write about it at all. That’s how it works. In his new article at NZZ Folio, Luca Turin tells us about the amount of packages he receives daily, containing scents companies hope to see included in his upcoming guide. I am not comparing myself to Turin, but the principle of how this operates is the same. They send samples, we review. Or we don’t review.

  I didn’t quite understand the point about interviews made by commenter No 6. Should a blogger purposefully put oneself in a sort of a vacuum, like a member of jury, so as not to by any chance be influenced by anything in any way? I wonder why we are considered to be unable to put personal sympathies aside for the sake of an objective review. I wonder who would find a time in the day to keep track on other people’s reviews and how they change.

  I also wonder why we are considered to be so cheap as to be bought by a sample or even a bottle. I wonder why most of us, bloggers, are perfectly capable to co-exist happily, I’d even dare to say-to be friends, whilst some are unable to feel good about themselves without throwing dirt at others, spreading vicious rumors, and generally stirring trouble.

  Inochka, sorry for a long comment

• 11. violetnoir  |  May 8th, 2007 at 11:21 am

  I love K’s and R’s insights. And, I have to admit that there have been times when I have wondered if a couple of the perfume bloggers (of course not you or R or K!) were being feted or paid or whatever by the perfumers or perfume companies because these fragrances were not that good. And I noticed that it didn’t happen just once or twice, but several times. I had to wonder…

  That said, I think it is incumbent upon perfume bloggers to avoid even a hint of impropriety. This means not accepting free bottles of perfume from the creators, because this hints at a certain quid pro quo, know what I mean? Of course, accepting money would be absolutely unethical.

  I briefly glanced at the boards yesterday and did not see the MUA thread. However, I agree with K that what the poster asked is perfectly fair, though arguably provocative on such a public forum. Like I said, I have wondered about it myself.

  I have also wondered how I would conduct myself as a perfume blogger. It must be difficult to realize that boundaries and ethics come into play even when we are discussing something as beautiful and enjoyable as wearing perfume. Maybe that’s why I am just a reader and admirer of all of you who toil most every day to bring me the latest perfume news and joy! Yes, joy!

  Hugs!

• 12. eaumy  |  May 8th, 2007 at 12:20 pm

  I’m finding this thread, as well as the one on MUA yesterday, totally facinating. I’ve often wondered if perfume bloggers received complementary samples. But did it every occur to me that it would influence a review? Not for a second! At least not with regard to the trusted bloggers I read regularly, who are just as apt to post a negative review as they are a positive. Their honest opinions are their stock-in-trade and I can’t imagine they would put their veracity and trustworthiness on the line for a price of a few samples.

  As I mentioned on MUA, there are beauty blogs that post mostly puff pieces, and I don’t read them regularly for that very reason.

  I’ll make an analogy to movie reviewers. They attend industry-hosted screenings. Does that influence most reviewers? I wouldn’t think so. There are of course reviewers that rave about every movie. Do we trust their judgement? No.

• 13. winterwheat  |  May 8th, 2007 at 1:25 pm

  My name is Kris, although I rather like the sci-fi connotation of “commenter #6.”

  I did not mean to imply that bloggers shouldn’t interview perfumers. It’s nice to visit a scent blog that has more to offer than just the blogger’s opinion. But in the process of expanding, of accruing more influence and importance–that is to say, in the process of acquiring a bigger audience, including industry folks–a blogger is forced to become cognizant of potential conflicts of interest, and deal with them accordingly. Acknowledging a potential conflict of interest is the cornerstone of ethical conduct. Then you allow people to make judgments accordingly. For instance, I own stock in an engineering consulting firm that does business with the university I work for; therefore, I am required every year to acknowledge this ownership on a conflict of interest form submitted to my university. No one tells me I should sell that stock; I just need to acknowledge that I own it. With consumer-goods blogs, readers appreciate the same kind of openness. Ina, for instance, has publicly acknowledged her connection with l’Artisan. So when she posts reviews of l’Artisan scents, it’s useful to know of her connection, if only because it makes her seem that much more credible when the reviews aren’t uniformly glowing.

• 14. Marina  |  May 8th, 2007 at 2:35 pm

  Kris,
  Thank you for the explanation and very nice to meet you. Interesting comparison with stocks. I do hope that, should the potential conflict arise, I will be able to conduct myself ethically. As I am sure would other bloggers whom I respect and love. Meanwhile, when no connections are acknowledged, I simply assume there are none. Positive reviews written about scents I personally did not like don’t make me think that the authors were bribed. Otherwise I would have suspected that the whole Makeupalley and many blogs are on the take from People of the Labyrinths.

• 15. violetnoir  |  May 8th, 2007 at 3:15 pm

  I absolutely agree with Kris.

  I don’t mind if a blogger receives a free bottle of perfume. Heck that Luca Turin is always writing about the packages he receives from perfume creators and companies.

  And, I don’t care if a blogger works for one of the perfume outfits. Right on, Ina! She will no doubt deepen her knowledge of fragrance and become that much better as a perfume blogger.

  But in the interest of full disclosure and honesty, readers should be informed of these things. As Kris stated, it then allows us as the readers to make our own judgments.

  It’s like a safety zone, a trust issue if you will. If the facts are not disclosed to me, and I later find out that there was a conflict of interest, I don’t think I will take that blogger seriously or even visit that blog again, because my trust in that blogger has been eroded.

  To be honest, a bunch of positive reviews from a variety of people about a single fragrance does not make me think that anything inappropriate has occurred. However, if I read a blog where the blogger repeatedly lavishes praise on fragrances that, in my opinion, are not noteworthy, I do begin to wonder, and I do tend to not put much trust in their opinion anymore.

  Okay enough of my semi-senile palavering. I hope that all of you are having a fragrant day!

  Hugs!

• 16. carmencanada  |  May 8th, 2007 at 3:52 pm

  Just chiming in again on the matter of trust. I realize this is an important factor in the feeling of community engendered by a blog, and this is a community I assiduously frequent and cherish (In the interest of full disclosure, I’m a sometimes guest on Legerdenez and Perfume-Smellin’ Things).
  love reading many perfume blogs almost daily, for the content, style and personnality of the authors and of the people who respond. But the only thing I trust, as far as parting with my money, is my nose.
  If a post inspires me to sample a perfume, or if, owning a perfume, I enjoy reading other, literate and knowledgeable points of view on it, discovering notes, anecdotes, perspectives I wouldn’t have come up with, that’s what I’m after. It’s not as though we’re paying our favorite bloggers for their opinion; they’re not selling any merchandise to us… We’re here to share our common passion: blogs are like salons where we can meet to discuss them, discover new things, meet our online pals.
  I realize we go to blogs and forums to find honest consumer opinions, but given how wildly variable tastes are, who’s to say which scent is noteworthy to one person, unworthy to the other, from a purely objective point of view?
  This is why I find this talk of ethics and conflicts of interest a bit excessive. If a blogger gets a sample or a flacon ahead of time, I’m glad I get the info. It’s not causing me to buy LVMH stock: at most, I’ll buy a sample and build up my own perfume culture at a rather low cost.

  Clearly, Ina, you’ve struck a chord here! Looking forward to reading your own reaction to all these responses.

• 17. Elle  |  May 8th, 2007 at 4:35 pm

  My feelings on this matter pretty much match Carmencanada’s. I enjoy blogs and I also feel that if a person reads a blog regularly, it’s fairly clear who can be trusted. I don’t really worry about it too much. Nobody is forcing me to buy a scent. And if I’m foolish enough to buy unsniffed based on a good review, that’s my problem. The bottom line is that perfume is fun. The blogs aren’t Pfizer Pharmaceuticals trying to sell me a dangerous new drug. Well, perfumes are my drug of choice, but that’s another topic altogether.

• 18. Patty  |  May 8th, 2007 at 7:11 pm

  I think it’s true for the casual perfume purchase made by a lot of people, but not for us.

  Wow, how did I miss the “bloggers on the take” brouhaha? That darn tax audit, looking for all my scads of cash from perfume companies, of course! In case anyone tkaes that seriously, I’m totally NOT serious.

  I’ve had bottles sent to me when I thought I was being offered samples, but normally I’ve given those away.

  I know we always try and disclose if we are reviewing something that we got free samples on, like the Demeters or that Hampton Court thing.

  Now, could I be bought? Yeah! But not for a bottle of perfume. It would take into at least the high six digits!

• 19. Ina  |  May 8th, 2007 at 10:08 pm

  Thank you all for your comments! I was at work all day and didn’t realize what was going on here.

  Dina, I totally second your sentiments! Perhaps the quote is a bit outdated as in this day and age, a consumer is quite educated.

  Divina, methinks the author might have had an average consumer in mind. That is to say, a person who wears perfume but not necessarily a perfume aficionado. Good marketing does indeed have a huge effect on an average consumer.

  Carmencanada, yes, not true for perfumistas. “Chemical poems” - love that! Somehow I missed that quote.

  Judith, I wish Chanel would get a clue.

  Elle, we all often crack up at absurd marketing stories, don’t we. There’re decent marketing stories out there, thank goodness. I’m thinking of Chanel Exclusifs again - love the background info.

  Kris, the person who raised the question seemed to have a hidden agenda, I’m afraid. But I completely see what you’re saying. For a true perfumista, a blog is an outlet of sorts. In my world, no true perfumista would choose to lie to the public about fragrances.

  Robin, perhaps I should have made myself more clear. What I actually meant was that compared to other mediums like a magazine, for instance, perfume blogs do not reach that many people (although a lot depends on your readership numbers, of course). You’re absolutely right when it comes to niche fragrances.

  Carmencanada, I completely agree with you.

  Tom, you crack me up, as always. The ideal situation is a good marketing story that supports a good juice. I’m all for it, as long as it’s not full of crap (both the story and the juice).

  Marina, I stand by everything you said about us, bloggers. Like you, I only review if I have something to say, be it good or bad. In fact, I practically trashed Caramel Sunset by CSP a few weeks ago, and methinks an actual CSP person commented basically threatening me. Still cracks me up.

  Robin, you know how it goes, skin chemistry is so unpredictable, what smells great on some, can smell vile on me. What I’m saying is just because some bloggers rave about certain scents you find mediocre, doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve been bribed. I guess it all comes down to drawing your own conclusions about credibility of certain bloggers.

  Nancy, love your movie reviewers analogy.

  Kris, yes, it’s essential to acknowledge a conflict of interest, absolutely! I’m all for integrity.

  Marina, the more I read and respond to the comments, the more convinced I become that certain people went after certain perfume bloggers to basically undermine their credibility. That’s the agenda, methinks. Truly pathetic.

  Robin, yes, you’re right. It’s always good to question things and figure it out for yourself. As perfumistas, we do indeed care a lot about scents we read about.

  Carmencanada, once again, I completely share your views. Perhaps I should have just kept the whole thing to myself but I’m known for being rather blunt and typically can’t keep my mouth shut if something bothers me. It’s really all about figuring it all out for yourself when it comes to blogs - if you like it, read it, if you suspect something, don’t read it.

  Elle, we should do a post on that last sentiment of yours.

  Patty, well, maybe if it was six digits, I’d think about it. LOL!

• 20. Christen  |  May 8th, 2007 at 11:35 pm

  Please, oh please, perfume boggers, don’t change a thing! I adore these blogs exactly as they are: smart, witty, and full of genuine love of fragrance. Good strong opinions, too…across the entire spectrum. I get not a hint of artifice from any of the blogs I frequent, so I don’t give a fig how a fragrance sample is acquired. I’m confident noone is retiring to the Bahamas by writing perfume blogs

  Of the blogs I read faithfully, I’ve come to learn what the writers adore and abhor, but I know what I like, too. For example, Columbina at Perfume Smellin’ Things adored Tom Ford’s Velvet Gardenia. Even after her great review, I can’t bring myself to crack the vial open. White flowers and I share no love, and reading a post on a blog won’t change that for me.

  One of the greatest qualities of perfume is its very subjective nature. I want to hear what others think - the good, the bad, the ugly. So keep ‘em coming, bloggers!

  I suppose it’s like a book club discussion to me.

• 21. Judith  |  May 9th, 2007 at 7:19 am

  Just adding again my completely uninformed, outsider’s 2 (s)cents (full disclosure–I like some of the bloggers a lot, and I have actually met Ina,:). Kris, I take your word for it that the person posing the question on MUA was not a troll, but, as Ina said, she did appear to have some hidden agenda. The question itself, as you and others have presented it, is a reasonable (and, indeed, an interesting) one. But the tone of the questioner was quite different from yours. Perhaps she simply needs to work on self-presentation, but it did seem (from an outside perspective) as if there were other issues.

• 22. greeneyes  |  May 9th, 2007 at 9:04 pm

  Holy cow! I have been waaaay out of the loop. I’d be happy to send a copy of my bank and credit card statements to said MUA commenter, so she could see that I am more likely to bankrupt myself for the love of perfume than to accept favors. I don’t even accept advertising, and have turned down several offers. My blog is a hobby (which is also why I rarely even say where to buy perfumes). Even if I end up gushing over a not-so-great perfume, it’s because I feel the need to gush (I guess out of my own bad/inexperienced taste)–never to please someone who’s tried to curry favor.

• 23. zeram1  |  May 9th, 2007 at 9:14 pm

  I was concerned about a half a year ago, when on another fragrance talk website, I pointed out that in the directory listing that there was a frequent (and supposedly highly praised by others) reviewer who had made a positive review of a fragrance, that was the exact wording as the advertisement for said fragrance on a commercial website. Being that said reviewer in question had so many previous reviews on the website, s/he complained to the board’s operators, who followed up by editing out my “expose”.

  So it goes on . . . .

• 24. Nicole  |  May 10th, 2007 at 3:17 am

  CSP people visiting your blog? You’re giving yourself too much credit! LOL!

  I wrote this post because you didn’t sound like a perfume lover. I wrote it because you sounded like a rather clueless perfume snob. And I used to love your blog.

  People trying to ‘undermine’ your credibility? Again, how exciting! LOL!

  Your readers are smart people you know, and we’re certainly entitled to question the credibility of perfume blogs.

• 25. Marina  |  May 10th, 2007 at 7:44 am

  Funny how touchy some people are about their favorite lines and scents. Say bad things about their favorites and you are labeled clueless and a snob.

• 26. Ina  |  May 10th, 2007 at 8:49 am

  Nicole, LOL indeed. It always cracks me up when people use the “LOL” when they’re actually making snide or rude remarks. I’m glad you at least find my blog amusing! I must be doing something right.

  You’re welcome to not read Aromascope, by the way. But you seem to be coming back. LOL!

• 27. Jamie  |  May 10th, 2007 at 9:37 am

  I’m a lurker, but I’m going to venture out from my self-imposed “lurkerdom”, to offer my 2 cents. I absolutely love this perfume blog “Aromascope”, together with Now Smell this, Boise d Jasmin, Perfume Posse, and Victoria’s Own . I consider myself very fortunate to have tripped over Now Smell This last summer, and I have been hooked to the aforementioned blogs ever since.

  I have loved fragrance since I was a young girl (a loooong time ago), and had no idea that there was a whole community out there of others with the same interest. I have learned so much, and I have discovered the most wonderful, beautiful fragrances through the reviews. I’ve also discovered that I love vintage fragrances. My “black and blue” credit card can attest to that! The reviews are beautifully written, and very informative, as are the responsive comments. If I’m interested in a particular fragrance after a review, for the most part, I’ll get a small sample or a decant, to see if it’s full bottle worthy. I’ve got to say, however, that I’ve purchased one or two bottles, unsniffed, and the reviews were so “spot on”, that I was very happy with the purchases.

  A conflict of interest never occurred to me, and it still does not. How are we to discover other fragrances, unless the Bloggers obtain them, sample and review them? I had never even heard of a “niche house” fragrance - I just knew I liked different, and not something everybody else was wearing.

  No one’s twisting our arms to purchase a fragrance because it received a good review, or not to purchase due to a negative review - part of the fun are the samples and the decants anyway.

  Keep up the good work - you all brighten my day!

  J

• 28. Jamie  |  May 10th, 2007 at 9:41 am

  Ooops - Add Perfume Smellin Things to my list of favorite blogs!

• 29. Elle  |  May 10th, 2007 at 11:05 am

  Wow, the milk of human kindness doesn’t appear to be flowing in great abundance recently. Nicole, I really don’t understand the hostility. There have been several CSPs I truly love (the original The remains one of my favorite tea scents ever) and I’m not in the least troubled if other people don’t like them. I don’t for a second assume they’re uninformed snobs. I assume they have different associations and maybe different skin chemistry. I also am a huge fan of many CdGs and CB scents and some of the people I love most in the perfume community don’t care for them at all. And that’s fine. It’s part of what makes this community so interesting and discussions of perfume so fascinating.

• 30. Jayne  |  May 10th, 2007 at 1:40 pm

  As a novice and as someone who has been influenced enormously by blogs, I’d like to add a comment or two.

  I’ve loved perfume all my life, in a fairly ignorant, uninformed but impassioned way. I stumbled across blogs, just as Robin suggested, by typing in the name of a perfume I was hesitating over. I very soon discovered, to my delight (and particular thanks to Patty and March), that I didn’t have to go out and buy that very expensive bottle, but I could get a sample or a decant for a fraction of the price. Responsible bloggers constantly warn about buying unsniffed. They are decidely not urging us to rush out and buy the latest hot product - the ones who seem to break the rule most consistently are other bloggers. What I got from blogs was incredibly useful, pro-consumer and anti-commercial.

  I’m very new to this world, this community - but I like it. I think it is full of lovely, genuine people and only the occasional village idiot. There must be many like me who appreciate you for your wit, warmth, honesty and (on occasion) completely justifiable and understandable bias. We’re talking subjective love, not objective science, here.

  As communities grow, guidelines about acceptable behaviour are bound to change and develop. Without official police, communities need to base their developing codes on consensus and self-regulation. Any accusation needs a calm and reasoned response but witch-hunts are never a good way forward. Robin is a case in point - she has learned from experience and has adapted her practice and is not afraid to explain herself. She emerges even more fragrant than before. (Smelling, I think, of Passage L’Enfer or Avignon - sanctity rather than roses.)

  With love

• 31. Ina  |  May 10th, 2007 at 10:45 pm

  Christen, Judith, Greeneyes, Jamie, and Jayne - thank you all for your kind words and input! I’m truly honored to have readers like you.

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