This last week saw several very interesting articles throughout the fragrant blogging world. Take a cup of coffee, sit back and join me for a little afternoon stroll through the blogosphere…

First, we’ll have a peek at the excellent tips Katie Puckrik has for all your holiday christmas needs. I love Katies sunny disposition and her flair, watching her always lifts my mood (and she is extremely knowledgeable too!) Katie Puckrik Smells – Holiday Gift Picks.

My Perfume Life had me in a frenzy of “must have this”, when she posted about the Parfumerie Generale sample set, sadly it is quite expensive (very good value though!). Check it out here.

Krista from Scent of the Day lets us in on her personal olfactory memories in a sensory questionnaire devised by Glass Petal Smoke. Her answers are beautiful. Read them here.

Perfume Shrine posted a video of an interview (in french) with the eminent Serge Lutens. I wish my french was not quite so rusty 🙂 See it here!

And finally Grain de Musc writes an excellent article about the rising trend to put perfumers into the limelight, not only in niche perfumery but more and more in mainstream releases too. Her thoughts about “The Perfumer As Star” are a very interesting read.

Here in Austria the first snow has fallen last night, so I´m going out with my sons to roll around in it as much as possible before it´s gone again (I´ll let them do the actual rolling though). And I´ll try to fit a little relaxing and reading into the weekend (yeah, right…).

How about you? Any exiting or interesting weekend plans? Let me know in the comments!

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