Mlleghoul

  I don't know if it's because in my late 40's, everything that felt recent and not so long ago now feels very far off, and everything that once looked 100 years away, now feels like it could happen tomorrow. I'm sad about this, and I'm sad about everything all the time. Very in my feelings,...

I recently shared the following on Reddit in (probably unhelpfully) answering someone’s question about a process for writing perfume reviews, and it occurred to me that it’s something I should share here as well. In case you ever wondered about my perfume...

I’m afraid these reviews will be a bit shorter and to the point, much more so than my typical long-winded rambles. I am suffering from some wrist and thumb pain, and I don’t know if it is carpal tunnel badness or something to do with being a million years old,...

Gooped Familiar (black musk, golden amber, cedarwood, catnip, and hay absolute with a shock of carnation, clove, and cinnamon bark) I love this scent from BPAL's Witches, Sorceresses, and Sorceries in Art History collection for several reasons. One, because it is inspired by an element...

My mother was a complicated piece of business. That reads more harsh than what I meant to write, and I am feeling kindly disposed this morning, so perhaps I will amend that to say that my feelings about my mother are the real complications here. When I was eleven years old, I couldn’t fathom...

A friend assured me recently that the chaos in my perfume cabinet was not, in fact, a hot mess and a poor reflection of my character–but instead that it was pretty cool and it reminded her of a witch’s workbench. Actually… she only voiced the latter half of that thought, and so I’m choosing...