Wearing Pasha de Cartier Parfum today, a warm, woody masculine scent with pleasant notes of patchouli and lavender. Perfect for this colder weather. I bought a full bottle immediately after trying a sample and I really enjoy wearing it. Not overly expensive for a Designer Fragrance.

15 frigid degrees in Philadelphia today. Since I wore Aventus on Saturday I decided to keep the vibe going with L’Adventure Intense.

A guest at my studio this morning asked me a very interesting question about fragrances. He wanted to know if I wear fragrances just to smell good or do I wear them to reflect a mood or persona, or do I wear them to evoke a memory. Actually, I responded that it depends on the fragrance but in most cases I like smelling good as part of my persona and the other two choices are probably subconscious. Any thoughts from the community?

Wearing Dua’s homage to Slumberhouse Sova, a discontinued fragrance that’s impossible to acquire. It’s one of Dua’s most expensive fragrances at $100. It is a combination of many unusual ingredients including hay, beeswax, amber, vanilla and Tonka Bean among others. This is definitely an acquired taste which I haven’t acquired yet. I can’t compare it to any other fragrance I’m familiar with and I tend to wear it sparingly.

Getting ready to go to a play at the Walnut Theatre in Philadelphia so I narrowed down my choice of fragrance to these two flipped a coin heads Aventus, tails Baccarat Rouge 540. Came up heads, so Aventus it is.